Join C.J. Chivers, combat veteran and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter to explore the unique challenges of reporting on war as part of a two-year project on "Irregular Warfare: Experiences Across the Civil-Military Divide." This projectt is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Learn more about the goals of the project […]
Caroline Woolard (b. 1984) is a New York-based artist born in Rhode Island. Woolard creates sculptures using online networks, hand built objects, and immersive environments. Her work has been commissioned by MoMA, the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Creative Time, the Brooklyn Museum, Cornell University, and Cooper Union. She is the recipient of […]
When Sylvia Brown’s father handed much of his inheritance to Brown University in 1995, the gesture maintained a 300-year family philanthropic tradition. Less than a decade later, at the inaugural symposium of the University’s Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, one speaker declared “there were no good Browns.” “Grappling with Legacy” was born of the […]
Edra Soto (b. Puerto Rico) is a Chicago-based artist, educator, curator, and co-director of the outdoor project space THE FRANKLIN. She obtained her Master of Fine Arts degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000, as well as attending Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (ME), Beta-Local (PR), the Robert Rauschenberg […]
On April 12th at 7pm join the Newport String Project for “Musical Pioneers”, an evocative program featuring chamber works by trailblazing composers including Franz Joseph Haydn, Grazyna Bacewicz and George Walker, hosted by the Newport Historical Society on the second floor of the Colony House on Washington Square, Newport, RI. This event is only accessible […]
The John Carter Brown Library invites you to the Vasco da Gama lecture by Josiah Blackmore, a scholar of Iberian literature and culture and medieval and early modern Portuguese writing and Professor of the Language and Literature of Portugal and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. “Navigation and Narrative: […]
Undressing History: Women’s Clothes & Unmentionables from the 19th Century A History Space Talk Presented by the Newport Historical Society & the Rhode Island Historical Society The Newport Historical Society and the Rhode Island Historical Society are pleased to partner for their first 2018 joint History Space talk when they present Undressing History: Women’s Clothes […]