Gina Raimondo. PHOTO: Will Morgan
The State of Rhode Island is going to spend fifty thousand dollars on an official portrait of former governor Gina Raimondo. Really?
There is nothing wrong with honoring our past chief executives with an image in the State House. It is honorable, too, to actually pay a too often underappreciated and undervalued artist for their work.
The current Secretary of Commerce deserves her place in the pantheon of Governors of Rhode Island. The problem is the word official. Given the nature of such paintings, plus the dreadful lack of quality of the existing gubernatorial portraits, the Raimondo version is likely to be a visual disaster.GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST
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Get paid $50,000 to paint Raimondoâs official portrait
Though there have been 74 Rhode Island governors before her, Gina Raimondoâs official portrait will hold even more historic weight.
By Alexa Gagosz Globe Staff,Updated May 6, 2021, 11:27 a.m.
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The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts is calling for artists to apply to paint the the official portrait of the state s former governor, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.Drew Angerer/Getty
PROVIDENCE â Think you could paint the official portrait of former governor Gina Raimondo? The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts is calling for creatives to apply to paint the stateâs first female governor.