Herb Weiss Email and Phone Number

On January 4, 1999, Weiss was charged by Pawtucket Mayor James E. Doyle with oversight of the City’s newly established Arts and Entertainment District. Over the years, he has been a driver of Pawtucket’s arts-oriented development strategy. In particular, his efforts to bring artists to the city’s historic mill buildings have attracted national attention and documented by filmmaker Jason Caminiti in Pawtucket Rising, a 2008 documentary.Weiss was part of the group that created the Pawtucket Arts Festival (PAF), founded in 1999, and received its inaugural Medal of Excellence Award in 2015. He was the first recipient of the Pawtucket Foundation’s Person of the Year award. In 2005, he received the Advocacy in the Arts Action Award from All Children’s Theatre, and in 2013 he was recognized with an Excellence in Arts and Business award from the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council. Weiss also serves as the liaison between the city and filmmakers seeking Pawtucket locations to film movies, television shows and commercials. For his advocacy and support of the film industry, the RI Film Collaborative gave Weiss its first Excellence Award in 2010. In 2016, the RI International Film Festival recognized his efforts to promote the RI film industry by awarding him its Producer’s Circle Award. Weiss was also invited by other13 municipalities (in Maine, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New York and Massachusetts to discuss Pawtucket’s arts policy and its economic impact on the city. In August 2023, Weiss became the City’s Deputy Director of the Leon Mathieu Senior Center. He oversees the Center’s transportation services, is involved in writing grants and delegated special projects.In August 2023, Weiss became the City's Deputy Director of the Leon Mathieu Senior Center, overseeing the Center's Transportation program, writing grants, and marketing the Center through marketing collateral and website. Since 1980, over 870 articles that Weiss has authored or co-authored have appeared in national, Rhode Island and trade publications. His articles are posted on herbweiss.blog.In 2016, he published a collection of his articles called Taking Charge: Collected Stories on Aging Boldly, also publishing a sequel, Taking Charge: Vol 2: More Collected Stories on Aging Boldly in Aug. 2021.