AS220 has always operated as and continues to be a community center and residential hub for artists living and working in Providence. AS220 was founded in 1985 by Umberto Crenca, Susan Clausen, and Scott Seabolt, just one year before the organization started rolling out weekly episodes of TV220.
John Fronmayer has written a book revered as hol by the Eastern Orthodox Church, Blood and Faith is the focus of a book club run out of OLLI in Ashland.