Upcoming Events at Imago
ONGOING: Imago Portrait Group
Tuesdays: September 24, October 1, 15, 22, 29 | 6 – 9 PM | Donations
Interested in practicing painting and life drawing with a model? Join our weekly drawing group at Imago Gallery, 36 Market Street, Warren, RI, on Tuesdays from 6–9 PM. Artists of all skill levels are welcome. Donations are collected to pay the model and offset any gallery expenses.
All participants must be 18 years of age or older and must bring their own supplies including drawing and painting materials, surfaces and easels. Tables and chairs will be provided. The sessions are structured with one model holding the same pose for the evening for 20-minute intervals with 5 to 10-minute breaks in-between to give everyone the opportunity to develop a portrait over the full three-hour session. To sign up in advance, please email imagogallery@gmail.com or stop in with your own supplies and join the group!
ONGOING: Imago Film Club
Thursdays: September 26, October 10, November 14, December 12
Imago Gallery | 6:30–8 PM | Free
Join the club for a lively conversation on the art of film, facilitated by Katherine Reaves, filmmaker, videographer and Imago community member. We are a small group of film friends learning together.
Imago Film Club meets the second Thursday of each month, 6:30–8 PM in the gallery. All are welcome.
LIbrary of Congress
Artist Talk and Reception for "Chromatics: Deconstructed Landscapes"
Presentation: Saturday, October 12, 2–3 PM |Free
Reception: Saturday, October 12, 5–8 PM | Free
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Imago will host a presentation by interior designer Melanie Pellegrini related to its new exhibit Chromatics: Deconstructed Landscapes from 2–3 p.m., entitled, “Curating Emotion: The Intersection of Art and Interior Design Through Color and Light.” This will be followed by a reception for IFA Exhibiting Artist Rina Naik, guest artists Carson Jackson and Phillip Beauchemin and other IFA exhibiting artists from 5–8 p.m. in the gallery. All are invited to attend either or both of these events.
Rhode Island Black Storytellers
Sunday, October 13 | 4–6 PM | Imago Gallery | $20
Imago welcomes Rachel Briggs and Marlon Carey as part of its Music at Imago series. Doors open at 3:30 p.m.
Rachel Briggs is an emerging writer and spoken word poet, a member of the Rhode Island Black Storytellers and dedicated to promoting the awareness, appreciation, and application of Black storytelling. As a “culture keeper,” she adheres to the African tradition of oral storytelling to pass on wisdom, history, and cultural information to nurture a sense of community.
Marlon Carey is a multitalented artist, community builder and inspiration, working to make positive changes to the world. As a storyteller, he weaves an intricate tapestry with words, using a variety of methods with respect to the Storyteller traditions of old.
Poets in Conversation at Imago | October 17 | Free
Join authors Tina Cane and Elisa Gabbert at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, October 17 at the gallery. All are welcome to this free event.
The event, “Look Deeper: Where Poetry and The Essay Meet,” will be facilitated by Vivian Eyre, a poet and IFA community member, with the goal of creating an informal dialogue between the featured poets and attendees.
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Tina Cane is the founder/director of Writers-in-the-Schools, Rhode Island, and served as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island for over ten years. In this capacity, she helped establish Rhode Island’s first youth poetry ambassador program. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband and three children.
She is the author of multiple books, iincluding the Year of Murder Hornet and the verse novel for young readers, Are You Nobody Too?.
In 2016, Tina received the Fellowship Merit Award in Poetry from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and was also a 2020 Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets.
Elisa Gabbert is the author of seven collections of poetry, essays, and criticism, most recently Any Person Is the Only Self (published in June 2024 by FSG). Her other books include Normal Distance, The Unreality of Memory & Other Essays, and The Word Pretty. She writes the On Poetry column for the New York Times, and her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, The Believer, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Providence.
Warren Walkabouts at Imago Gallery | October 20, 27
October 20 | “Moving Line” | Two sessions: 12–1:30 and 3:30–5 PM

Join Imago artists and community members and try your hand at gesture drawing, an artist’s method for loosening up, warming up and honing visual acuity.
The gesture drawing is a quick sketch intended to capture the essence of a situation observed. This technique develops eye/hand coordination, sharpens observation, and removes the focus from the object drawn on a piece of paper to the energetic experience of drawing. It also develops better mark making and sensitivity to materials. And it’s fun!
October 27 | “Spontaneous Writing” | Two sessions: 12–1:30 and 3:30–5 PM
Write a word, a phrase, or poem in response to any piece in the current exhibition featuring IFA exhibiting artist Rina Naik; guest artists Carson Jackson and Philip Beauchemin and other IFA exhibiting artists.
You don’t have to know how to draw. The end product is not the point. You won’t even be looking at the paper! Imago will provide drawing materials, instruction, and models. “Artists’ models?” you say, eyebrow raised. No worries, our models will be fully clothed. It’s an all-ages family event and all are welcome!
