Make Do Studios, Providence

Please join me Friday May 29th from 6-8PM at the Gallery at Make Do Studios @make_do_studios for a pop-up show of prints, fabric work, and enamel work I've created over the last 9 months in Pittsburgh, Berkeley, and here in Providence. If you can't make it to the opening, come by during open hours! Open Hours: Friday May 29th 4-8 PM Saturday May 30th noon-4 PM Sunday May 31st noon-4 PM This project was made possible in part through support from the Interlace Grant Fund, a regranting partner of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. @interlacefund @dirtpalace @weddingcakehouse_residencies @warholfoundation Poster by Cindy Li (cindyli.website)

“Temporary Forever,” work by @lingyihu_glass , opens tonight from 6-8. So much to explore in this wonderful solo show by RISD Glass MFA candidate Lingyi Hu. #glassartist #sculpture #installationart #risd

𝑻𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 by Lingyi (Ada) Hu May 7-13, 2026 May 7, 6:00–8:00 pm Additional Viewings by appointment 𝘛𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 explores the tension between permanence and ephemerality. Treating glass as a site where time is both held and interrupted, she develops arrangements of fragments, images, ands structures that resist fixed interpretation. Drawing from imaging, systems of creating context, and archival forms, her work examines how knowledge is translated and stabilized, and what is lost in that process.

𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝟒/𝟑𝟎 𝐚𝐭 𝟔𝐩𝐦 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐧 (they/she) is a mother, bookseller, writer, and collage artist. They’ve been featured in Rue Morgue, Business Insider, The Olivetree Review, I Like to Dabble, and others. Rachel loves horror movies, musicals, weird books, cats, John Waters, and their family. monstorachel.substack.com

April 30 at 6pm 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐲𝐢 (𝐀𝐝𝐚) 𝐇𝐮 @lingyihu_glass Lingyi (Ada) Hu is a glass artist from Nanjing, China, currently based in Providence, Rhode Island. Her work considers glass not as a stable object, but as a condition of suspension where perception and material are continuously in negotiation. Moving between object, image, and installation, she constructs situations that ask viewers to look at glass rather than through it. Her coming up solo show, 𝓣𝓮𝓶𝓹𝓸𝓻𝓪𝓻𝔂 𝓕𝓸𝓻𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻, explores the tension between permanence and ephemerality. Treating glass as a site where time is both held and interrupted, she develops arrangements of fragments, images, and structures that resist fixed interpretation. Drawing from imaging, systems of creating context, and archival forms, her work examines how knowledge is translated and stabilized, and what is lost in that process. lingyihu.com

𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝟒/𝟑𝟎 𝐚𝐭 𝟔𝐩𝐦 𝐀𝐛𝐛𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞 @abby_sunde Abby Sunde is a multi-media visual artist whose work explores our relationships with nature through glass, drawing, sound, and installation. Raised on Anishinaabe ceded territory in north-central Wisconsin and now based in Rhode Island, she is a 1st generation, direct descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and is also of Scandinavian and European American descent. Her practice considers how we might reconnect with ancestral, embodied knowledge of the natural world that modern life often obscures. Attuned to the ways society has become distanced from the land, Sunde engages this rupture as a site of inquiry and undoing. Informed by decolonial theory, Indigenous epistemologies of relationality and belonging, and land-based pedagogies, she looks to the cycles of the earth as tethering points to history, memory, and surrounding natural phenomena. Sunde earned her BA in Biology and Environmental Sciences from the University of Minnesota Morris in 2013, an AFA in Studio Art from Normandale Community College in 2022, and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2024. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Glass at the Rhode Island School of Design as a Society of Presidential Fellow and LoveFrom Scholar.

Looking in All Directions MFA Glass Solo Exhibition April 29-May 5 Opening Reception April 30 7:00-9:00 pm MakeDo Studios 72 Tingley St, Providence, RI So excited to share what I’ve been working on during my time here at RISD. I hope you’ll join me on April 30th!

Super excited to be opening our doors as part of Open Valley!! 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟏𝟐-𝟓𝐩𝐦 Our gallery will be open and members Haley MacKeil, Ian Cozzens, Sam Toler, Lois Harada, Mia Rollins, Henry Brown, Tabia Lewis, and David Karoff will be around! Free to attend but a reply is requested. → 50sims.com/open-valley Thanks to our friends @50simsri for organizing and poster design and printing by @juleskangsharpe @binch.press #openvalley

Events in the Gallery @make_do_studios this weekend! 𝗦𝗔𝗧 𝗔𝗣𝗥 𝟭𝟭 · 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝘄 · 𝟮 𝘁𝗼 𝟰 𝗽𝗺 Prompts and basic supplies provided. Led by Elise Dietrich of @pvddrinkndraw  All skill levels welcome. 𝗦𝗨𝗡, 𝗔𝗣𝗥 𝟭𝟮 · 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 · 𝟭 𝘁𝗼 𝟮 𝗽𝗺 A guided session among the work of four exhibiting artists. Led by Helena Safran @dragonfly_yoga_and_wellness Both events are free and open to the public. Hosted by @propelgallery Make Do Studios, 72 Tingley St, Providence, RI 02903 Gallery installation photographs by studio member Rena! @very_enthused

NEW EYES opens this Saturday! 4/4! Work by Grace Taşel, Michael Murphy, Tammy Bottner and John Trainor, curated by Propel Gallery. SAT APR 4 · Opening Reception · 4 to 7 pm Kick off the exhibition with food, cocktails by @littlebitte , beer, and wine. SAT APR 11 · Drink and Draw · 2 to 4 pm Draw, drink, and make art with Elise Dietrich. SUN APR 12 · Mindfulness Session · 1 to 2 pm Guided yoga in the gallery with Helena Safran. THU APR 16 · Gallery Night Providence · 5:30 to 8:30 pm We’re part of the citywide art night. SAT APR 18 · RISD Alumni and Student Event · 3 to 5 pm Open to all RISD alumni and current students. SAT APR 25 · Film Screening · 6 to 8 pm An evening screening in the gallery. SUN APR 26 · Closing Reception · 2 to 4 pm One final afternoon to celebrate the show. Gallery hours: Thu to Sun, 11 am to 8 pm All events are free and open to the public.

ArtSpeaks • Thursday, March 26 at 6:30pm! Alex Gonzalez is an artist whose work is largely informed by his background in ecology and urban landscape design. Working across mediums and degrees of abstraction, he explores the ambiguity of perception and the interface between land, water, and culture.

ArtSpeaks • Thursday, March 26 at 6:30pm! Cybele Collins possesses gods-eye view into parallel worlds full of creation, destruction, structure and disarray, with a grace that refuses to be reduced to recognizable items from our own world. Her pinhole camera into these parallel cosmogonies preserves the writhing, bubbling mass of what we can try to describe as organic, or life-like constructions, without becoming a face, a body, a known organism, or a nameable thing. In fact, Cybele draws from the stuff that stuff is made of, and renders them into forms both alien and deeply recognizable as true. One can easily get lost following the contours of her artworks, discovering small features and movements that tickle our brain, all the while absorbing the whole construction, like focusing on the vein of a fallen leaf until a whole forest appears around it. To be induced beyond beauty into awe by these works is an appropriate reaction. In her current work, one can see an intersection between a fierce talent for illustration, a dedicated curiosity towards empirical phenomena, and a greater transcendent sense of wonder that comes form examining life and possible-life for both information and immersion.