BRT Art Gallery The BRT Art Gallery is an ongoing initiative to have the work of local visual artists combine with BRT's performing arts programming to enhance the audience's total experience and expose them to the many talented artists that live and work nearby. Exhibits generally change every 5-6 weeks between September and May. Artwork is viewable two hours before scheduled theater events and is often for sale. Current Exhibit Group photography exhibit featuring Kristin Elliott Stebenne, Rebecca Skinner, and Michelle Lundquist Blackstone River Theatre's Art Gallery will host a Group photography exhibit featuring Kristin Elliott Stebenne, Rebecca Skinner, and Michelle Lundquist from April 20 through May 30, viewable two hours before and during scheduled theatre events, in the upper and lower lobby of the Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St., Cumberland, RI. Kristin Elliott Stebenne My interest in photography began in my teens when I borrowed a friends 35mm camera and enrolled in a B&W darkroom course. I quickly fell in love with the entire creative process. I continued to shoot film for many years and made the switch to digital photography about eight years ago. Through the lens I instinctively see the details of a subject that are often overlooked. While I enjoy the many genres of photography I am especially intrigued and inspired by the altered world that emerges from a subject when it is photographed up close or in macro. It is a rewarding challenge to transform something rather mundane and discover its hidden textures, shapes and patterns. I find a certain solitude in photography, a chance to free my mind and discover a new perspective on the world around me. I look forward to completing my Digital Photography studies at RISD in the spring of 2014. Rebecca Skinner Photography is my lifelong passion, ignited on my 8th birthday when I received my first camera - a Polaroid. My interest continued into my adult life, through my years in North Carolina as a printer, photographers assistant, and wedding photographer. In 2010 I formalized my education with a Digital Photography Certificate from the Rhode Island School of Design. I photograph primarily landscapes, seascapes, macro, documentary and portraits. The majority of my work is in color, and I tend to avoid any type of digital manipulation of my images. I am constantly exploring new subjects as well as new techniques - there is nothing more rewarding to me. Michelle A. Lundquist I am currently a student at Rhode Island School of Design in the continuing education digital photography certificate program. I found the program two years ago after rediscovering my interest in photography, one that had initially begun as a teenager but got put aside when the "real world" began after college. As a communications consultant for a financial services company, my day-to-day work is to create communications which explain complex financial benefit given to employees of my clients. My work is both tactical and creative, much like photography, and it seems once you start looking at the world around you as you would if you were looking through the lens of your camera, everything gets much more interesting. My photography is not defined by a particular subject; it could be a beautiful landscape, and intense closeup of an amazing flower or an abstract look at an everyday object. The enjoyment for me is to bring the image to life and give the viewer a fresh perspective on it.