Rhode Island School of Design President John Maeda will be honored with the “STEM to STEAM” award by the Tribeca Film Festival later this month. more

Trinity Repertory Company will honor three Rhode Island residents with Pell Awards along with Kate Burton, who was previously announced as the recipient of the 2013 Pell Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts. more

Trinity Repertory Co. has added actor John Krasinski to its list of 2013 Pell Award recipients, Trinity officials announced Wednesday. more

Looking to use the power of art and design to transform the world of medicine, John Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design, will present at this year’s TEDMED health and medicine conference at The Kennedy Center in Washington. more

Rhode Island’s performance community has announced the formation of The Rhode Island Performance Exchange, a community-based organization that will work to generate greater awareness about the state’s performance community. more

Industrial arts nonprofit The Steel Yard welcomed its new executive director, nonprofit arts management veteran Helen Lang, who started in early April, the organization announced Friday. more

After a nationwide search, the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design has named Dominic Molon as the Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art. more

WaterFire Providence is asking its supporters for help in an “unusual” way. The nonprofit organization was recently named one of 14 semifinalists in the ArtsFwd 2013 Business Unusual National Challenge, and it’s looking for online votes to help it come out on top. more

Seniors in the New Bedford High School National Honor Society recently presented a $1,000 check to the Schwartz Center for Children in the Little Theater at New Bedford High School. The funds were raised through a teacher talent show they organized. Each teacher chose a charity to compete for and the winner donated all of the show’s proceeds to the charity of their choice. Aja Beach, a French teacher at the high school, won the talent show with an original inspirational rap song that she wrote about following your dreams, which was accompanied by a hip hop-infused tap dance. more

Public Art Works, a group of professional Rhode Island-based artists working to promote art in public spaces, began its fourth collaboration with Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island in March. more