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Photography and Democracy: Artist’s Talk by Cedric Nunn

Wheaton College Beard & Weil Galleries 26 East Main Street, Norton, MA, United States

Lecture and discussion with South African documentary photographer Cedric Nunn. Nunn’s 30 minute talk will be followed by an open discussion about Nunn’s work as an artist who is committed to social change and liberation movements. Nunn’s talk will be in conjunction with two special exhibits of South African resistance art in the Beard Gallery:“Unsettled: […]

The New Tour: Innovations in Place-based Storytelling

Brown University, Alumnae Hall 194 Meeting Street, Providence, RI, United States

The New Tour: Innovations in Place-based Storytelling brings together a range of activists, historians, artists and entrepreneurs who are engaged in pioneering new ways to design, program and disseminate place-based tours.

Humanities in the World Lecture

Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University 172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI, United States

Literary study has lost ground within universities and with the general public because of two apparent failures. It doesn't seem to produce research knowledge of the kind defined by the natural and physical sciences. It also appears not to help to solve public problems like climate change, structural racism, faltering technological innovation, or economic inequality. […]

Institutional Futures of Humanities Research

Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University 172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI, United States

This fall marks the 45th anniversary of the collapse of the job market for humanities PhDs. Thanks in large part to adjuncting, the market has never fully recovered. Assuming perm-austerity in university finances and distruptive debates about student learning, how should graduate programs respond? Speaker Christopher Newfield's prior research suggested the humanities have been too […]

Senator Pell Lecture on Arts & Humanities

Biltmore Hotel 11 Dorrance S, Providence, RI, United States

Honoring the late Claiborne Pell - who was instrumental in the development of the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities - this year’s Pell Lecture celebrates the 30th anniversary of Rhode Island’s Expansion Arts program and challenges us to develop a more equitable arts ecosystem. 

Studies and Sketches in Impressionism

RISD Museum 20 North Main Street, Providence, RI, United States

Working quickly and often out of doors, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters captured the ephemeral and often fleeting effects of light and atmosphere. Their contemporaries criticized the apparently imprecise qualities of their finished canvases for being merely sketches or studies. Britany Salsbury, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, guides viewers through close […]

Exploring the African Diaspora with Dance – Presented by FirstWorks

Brown University - Lyman Hall 83 Waterman St - Rm 211, Providence, RI, United States

Get ready for Urban Bush Women's February 2016 performance of a jazz dance fest entitled "Walking with 'Trane" by celebrating the culture of the African diaspora.

Free

Double Take: Boyce

RISD Museum 20 North Main Street, Providence, RI, United States

Courtney J. Martin, assistant professor at Brown University’s History of Art & Architecture Department and Chris Rose, associate professor and Graduate Program Director in RISD’s Furniture Design Department, consider space and objects as they look closely at Martin Boyce’s work A Raft in the Roof part the new exhibition Martin Boyce: When Now is Night. […]

Making Art History: Ancient Sculptors’ Models

RISD Museum 20 North Main Street, Providence, RI, United States

How did ancient artists learn to work and sculpt stone? Join Gina Borromeo, curator of ancient art, in a conversation about ancient techniques and processes. Rare examples of incomplete works reveal how sculptors were trained in ancient Egypt. Careful observation of the marks they left on these sculptors’ models and training pieces leads to insights […]