Art Meets Business: East Providence group partners with small biz to aid local artists
(WorldNews Business)

EAST PROVIDENCE – Karen Murphy is a nationally recognized contemporary landscape painter who`s work has been featured in publications like American Art Collector Magazine, New England Living and The Bay Magazine. A resident of the Riverside neighborhood of East Providence, she left the corporate world in 2015 to focus on her art and, since then, has made a good living selling her work, which focuses on coastal scenes and painting in a tonal style. Then came the COVID-19 pandemic. The spread of the coronavirus has not only decimated Rhode Island`s restaurant industry, it`s had a devastating impact on the economic livelihoods of local artists like Murphy who have lost work because of closed...