Welcome to the first physical public viewing of several of the holdings in the Wanderground Archive/Library. Mev Miller shares selections from her extensive library of Lesbian/feminist publications as well as media, art, and other culturally significant items – collected over the past 40 years. The materials make up the cornerstone of Wanderground, a Lesbian Archive/Library being developed as […]
The Museum of Work & Culture, a division of the Rhode Island Historical Society and Smithsonian Affiliate, is excited to present “Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964,” a bilingual poster exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution with images and interviews by documentary photographer Leonard Nadel. The exhibit will open on Friday, June 10, and will remain […]
Queer & Trans Zinefest (QTZ) is an annual small works festival celebrating the creations of queer, trans, and gender non-conforming artists. This year, we welcome 50 exhibitors from RI and beyond to the The Steel Yard in Providence, RI, on Sunday, September 4, from 11 am–4 pm. Come join us! QTZ is totally free and open […]
One hundred years ago, Empire Street was home to a vibrant Chinatown, with shops, community organizations, subsidized housing, and more. How should we understand their stories, the stories of their descendants, and what it should mean to us today as Asian Americans? A "relational reconstruction" project which seeks to understand what it might have felt […]
Join MAP Director Meg Sullivan for three community autobiographical writing workshops to generate material for our fall musical project! Each workshop will be themed - see more below- and we will seek to answer the question, how do we envision the future? Can we go "back to normal" after the last three years? Do we […]
The Black Press in Rhode Island is a remarkable yet virtually unknown history. In 1857 we find Alexander P. Niger, an accomplished typesetter, in the Providence print shop of A. C. Greene. In 1860, the first African American newspaper, Rev. George W. Hamblin's L'Overture, began publication. In 1906, John Carter Minkins becomes the nation's first […]
View the Exhibit and Attend Dr. J. Stanley Lemons' talk on John Carter Minkins, the first Black editor of a white newspaper. Funded by Rhode Island Council for the Humanities & The Herman H. Rose Media Access Fund Please click the link below to register for this event. This program is supported by a Humanities […]
The My State House exhibition features six design proposals for a State House of the future and a selection of community-made maps of the building and grounds suggesting interventions that would make the State House more welcoming and accessible. The closing program includes remarks by Manuel Cordero, Becci Davis, and Ted Sanderson, and the announcement […]