State Senate Confirms Joseph Dowling to Serve on Arts Council Board
(Providence, RI – January 27, 2016)
The Rhode Island State Senate confirmed the appointment of Dr. Joseph Dowling of Narragansett to the board of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA). Dowling was appointed by Governor Gina M. Raimondo to fill the remaining term of David Wax, who passed away last year. Dowling joins the thirteen-member governing body of the State Arts Council, the state agency responsible for support of the arts in communities throughout the state.
Dr. Joseph Dowling is a past Board Chair and a current board member of Trinity Repertory Company. He is a current Board member of Bradley Hospital, the Gilbert Stuart Birthplace and Museum, Friends of the South Ferry Church, Tides Family Services, Common Cause and the Marine Biological Laboratories in Woods Hole Massachusetts.
A veteran of the Navy from the Korean War, Dowling is a board certified ophthalmologist and The Rhode Island Eye Institute’s founder, focusing his practice on primary care ophthalmology. He is a senior staff member at both Rhode Island Hospital and Miriam Hospital, where he previously spent 15 years as Director of Ophthalmology. He also works as an ophthalmology consultant for both Butler Hospital and Women & Infants Hospital and is an Assistant Clinical Professor (Emeritus) at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, a trustee emeritus of Brown University, and the author of numerous original publications. Dowling is the co-author of a book entitled “Vision” to be published in April.
About RISCA:
The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts is a state agency supported by appropriations from the Rhode Island General Assembly and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. RISCA provides grants, technical assistance and staff support to arts organizations and artists, schools, community centers, social service organizations and local governments to bring the arts into the lives of Rhode Islanders.
