We're excited to partner with our friends at the Newport Art Museum for a plein air session at Rough Point, with artist John Grosvenor.
Our founder Doris Duke was a supporter of the arts and artists, and at NRF we celebrate art, craft, and design each day.
Artists will meet on the lawn of Rough Point, an iconic mansion that was the home of heiress and collector Doris Duke, surrounded by gardens and a stunning ocean view.
Join us for a family-friendly workshop in the Kitchen Garden! Enjoy the beautiful and organically-maintained grounds at Doris Duke’s Rough Point while you work in the garden and learn the basics of growing, harvesting, preserving and preparing a variety of different foods. We will work with classic produce such as tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and culinary herbs, as well as unique plants, medicinal herbs, and edible flowers. Discover how to identify and stock your pantry with nutritious food that will last all year long, and leave with preserved and fresh food in hand for your personal use.
SOLD OUT: Join Lycette Designs and Newport Restoration Foundation for a hands-on evening of stitching set against spectacular ocean views.
All levels welcome, no experience required. The custom canvas, floss, needle, snaps, and canvas carrying bag are included, and we’ll provide light refreshments and guidance.
Bike/trolley/walk to Roam Around Rough Point! We invite you to join us for a day of community fun and connection, listen to live music, and enjoy the spectacular ocean views.
This FREE community event is open to all.
MOVED TO RAIN VENUE. NewportFILM returns to Rough Point! Join us for the *world premiere* of John Shearer: An American Moments. A groundbreaking Black photographer reflects on his career inside the country’s most influential publications during the height of America’s pictorial magazine era, when his vivid images—from the deaths of JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. to the Attica uprising— helped define how the nation saw itself.
SOLD OUT: Join Lycette Designs and Newport Restoration Foundation for a hands-on evening of stitching set against spectacular ocean views.
All levels welcome, no experience required. The custom canvas, floss, needle, snaps, and canvas carrying bag are included, and we’ll provide light refreshments and guidance.
We are excited to partner with Puddingstone Festival on an evening of music at Rough Point! Our founder Doris Duke was a supporter of the arts, as well as a musician and a dancer. We are delighted to host this evening celebrating the performing arts in her home. This concert features guitarist and composer Thatcher Harrison, whose distinctive style blends classical technique, fingerstyle guitar, and jazz-inspired expression.
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Join us to celebrate excellence and innovation in historic preservation!
The annual Doris Duke Preservation Awards, a joint program of the Newport Restoration Foundation and the City of Newport, encourages excellence in historic preservation by recognizing exemplary projects that carry forward the legacy of Doris Duke and have had a significant impact on the preservation of the cultural and historic fabric of Newport, Jamestown, Middletown, and Portsmouth.
Join Lycette Designs and Newport Restoration Foundation for a hands-on evening of stitching set against spectacular ocean views.
All levels welcome, no experience required. The custom canvas, floss, needle, snaps, and canvas carrying bag are included, and we’ll provide light refreshments and guidance.
Reed McLaren of The Sustainable Garment and the Newport Restoration Foundation will guide an exploration of how stewardship and legacy of our textile belongings influence the greater circular economy. Bring a beloved textile item from the wardrobe or home, and Reed will demonstrate the tools and practices once used to preserve our belongings with her presentation The Lost Art of Garment Grooming. Participants will gain hands-on experience considering how best to care for these items and others, as well as insight from the Doris Duke fashion collection. Includes admission to Rough Point Museum.
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We're excited to welcome Fall with this new garden-to-table workshop. Learn to make fresh pasta with Amy of Matriarch using herbs and edible flowers from Rough Point's kitchen garden. All levels are welcome!
We are excited to partner with Puddingstone Festival on an evening of music at Rough Point! Our founder Doris Duke was a supporter of the arts, as well as a musician and a dancer. We are delighted to host this evening celebrating the performing arts in her home. This concert features the Sitkovetsky Trio performing a program centered on the Romantic era’s fusion of music and poetry, extending into the post-Romantic voice of Dmitri Shostakovich.
