The Unique Flavor of Scavotto Designs
Carol Scavotto has been in this business for some time. As her website headline states, a journey through artistic healing, she certainly reinvents traditional art in many forms. Her art, which consists of music books, floor cloths and traditional paintings is inspired by personal feelings and drive. She considers art as artistic healing through personal experience and converts those feelings into something positive to share with others. Carol began showing Art work in grammar school and has always been creating works of art since then.
The paintings, which consists of exaggerated features on faces and body has a very consistent style. Movement is portrayed with deep highlighted colors and rounded forms in bodies which highlight her background in figurative studies. "Some people express themselves in words, I think in pictures and express myself in visual images and the medium has changed may times throughout my life" she says.
When Carol was showing art work in grammar school she developed a sense and style of her work. Her main influences of her family, mostly by father and brother. Also, a 9th grade Art teacher named Mr. Nia and a notable influences of works of Frances Bacon and Norman Rockwell. Ballet classes and people in the general population also give Scavotto her artistic motivation. She went on to explain, "I could go on and on for this question (influences)....I just see things in a visual form".
Based out of the great state of Rhode Island, her exhibition credentials are exclusively New England based. Her art appeared at some hot spots in Newport Rhode Island and larger universities such as URI and Umass (Amherst). Some of work also appears regularly at Gallery X in New Bedford MA and Gallery Z in Providence RI.
Something Fishy
By Sam Bovat
In a section of the country home to some of the best educational and research institutions in the world, innovation is simply part of the culture. Well known for leading the country and the world in business development and innovation in highly technological fields, little attention is paid to the ambitions and creativity of everyday New Englanders who find opportunity in the most unlikely places.
The entrepreneurial spirit is not the exclusive domain of the Boston/Cambridge higher education/research community; it is one that embodies all kinds of New Englanders. It's a willingness to face head on what may seem to some as insurmountable challenges of business management, financial hardships and the never ending search for life balance in order to follow a passion.
Examples of Yankee ingenuity and entrepreneurship abound throughout the region. From Maine to Connecticut, there are people making lemonade from lemons; using the uncertainly of a weak economy and soft job market to build a business of their own based on creativity and hard work.
What drives entrepreneurship? Sometimes it's a singular person with a fantastic idea. Sometimes it's just pure creative exercising that blossom into a much needed or wanted product. And sometimes the ideas just seem to grow from one experience to the next like this Rhode Island entrepreneur.
Name of Business: Something Fishy, Inc
Owner: Kurt Harrington
Location: Warwick, RI
Website URL: www.somethingfishyinc.com
There's nothing "fishy" about how Kurt Harrington does business.
A true entrepreneur, Kurt Harrington started his business way back when he was a mere 15 years old. It all began when Mom gave Kurt a goldfish and a fishbowl for his 8th birthday. Who knew that would be the beginning of something so much bigger?
In Development...
One of the most important and valued segments of every New England community, large or small, are its schools. The general public rarely has the opportunity to experience the many wonderful things that occur in every classroom in each of our six New England states.
OneNewEngland.com is about to change all that by offering schools and teachers the opportunity to showcase the exemplary and the everyday things make our New England classrooms so successful and so well respected . Working with leading educators, we are working to establish a system and platform that will finally allow all of us to see first hand the things that make our New England schools special.
Stay tuned!
Euphoric Sounds of the Sun and Water's rendezvous: Esperanza Spalding at the JVC Jazz Festival
By Dan Bindschedler
Sunday August 11th, was the last day at the JVC Jazz Festival in Newport, RI, but it was the first day of a new beginning in Jazz. This nascence, an ethereal epiphany in modern jazz that had the crowd at the Festival's Waterside Stage buzzing louder than bees on crack awaiting their honey-payday goes by the name of Esperanza Spalding.
And she is Hot! So hot, in fact, that she will dominate this review just like she dominated the biggest group of fans that the smallest stage, reserved for the newest acts at both the Folk and Jazz festivals has seen in two weekends. And Esperanza Spalding isn't just sexy hot; she is "second album out-taking the Jazz world by storm-it's four o'clock and nobody is leaving to see the beginning of Herbie Hancock's set" hot.
