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William Wiley was a civil rights activist, newspaper editor and postal worker who worked in Providence, Rhode Island. Wiley is known for editing and publishing the Providence Chronicle, the only black newspaper in Rhode Island in its time. Wiley was…

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{{Infobox festival|name=Wickford Art Festival|organizer=Wickford Art Association|website=https://wickfordart.org/art-festival-2020/}}{{Userspace draft|help=no}} The Wickford Art Festival is an annual arts festival held in July in Wickford,…

{{Infobox organization | name = Writers Guild of Rhode Island | native_name = | products = | website = URL|www.wgri.org }} The Weavers Guild of Rhode Island is a nonprofit organization. The organization was founded in 1947 at a meeting…

Washington County Fair is the largest fair in Rhode Island <9781439634417>. It is held annually in August in Richmond, Rhode Island. The fair began in 1967 on the grounds of the Perryville Grange in Wakefield, Rhode Island.…

Warwick Center for the Arts is an arts center and venue in Warwick, Rhode Island. The Center for the Arts was founded as the Warwick Museum in 1974 as part of the American Bicentennial Celebration. The museum moved into the Kentish Artillery…

Walker Mettling is an acclaimed comics artist, printmaker, illustrator, and publisher living and working in Providence, Rhode Island. Mettling co-founded the Providence Comics Consortium in 2010; the consortium publishes limited edition comics…

Virginia Lynch was a curator and proprietor of the Virginia Lynch Gallery in Tiverton, Rhode Island. Her gallery was described as "one of the most respected and influential galleries in New England" by the Providence Journal. <ref…

{{Infobox artist | name = Vatic Kuumba | known_for = playwriting, rap, poetry }} Vatic Kuumba is a playwright, poet, activist, and rapper, MC, living and working in Providence, Rhode Island. Kuumba grew up in Florida and moved to…

Valerie Tutson is an artist, storyteller, and arts administrator working in Providence, Rhode Island. Tutson is Executive Director and co-founder of the Rhode Island Black Storytellers (also known as RIBS).<ref name=":0">Andrade, Kevin. "5…