Your fellow Salve students are all around you, staring at their computer screens, typing away, pointing and clicking. Some are conducting research, some are proofreading a paper and others are finishing a PowerPoint presentation. This may seem like a familiar scene to you.

Barbara Shamblin’s show, Image and Memory: Photographs of Italy, currently on display at the Newport Art Museum, is not about clear sight. Her work evokes personal perception.

“‘Why are they blurry?’ I keep getting this over and over again,” the artist said, at the Gallery Talk she gave on Oct. 13.

I touched it and it was like a bolt of lightning went through me. I just knew,” explained a close work associate of Editor-in-Chief of SELF magazine, Lucy S. Danziger. “If your breasts usually feel like a bag of grapes, this felt like a pebble. It was that hard.

Sergeant Fitzgerald is no stranger to the Newport community, having been born and raised here. He even attended Salve Regina University, graduating in 1981 as an Administrative Justice major.

Having always been interested in law, Sgt. Fitzgerald originally was interested in becoming a state trooper and later became very interested in working with the Federal Bureau.

The Newport Historical Society, along with the Salve Regina University Press is proud to be sponsoring an illustrated lecture on Newport architecture on Wednesday, October 26.

The lecture will be presented by Dr. James L Yarnall, an assistant art professor at Salve Regina, followed by a book signing of his new book, “Newport Through its Architecture: A History of Styles from Postmedieval to Postmodern.