An arduous 2-day, 20-mile walk through all of Providence. Level: Moderate / Strenuous / Very Strenuous. Join us on a two-day collaborative walk through Providence. We are ditching the guide books and traditional walking tour format to create a make-as-we-go experience that will take us through every single one of Providence’s twenty-five neighborhoods over two […]
May 4, 2019 - July 18, 2019 The Providence Album, Vol 1 revisits Providence in the 1960s through the photographs of Carmel Vitullo and Harry Callahan, whose powerful images capture the city during this time of tremendous change. This exhibition will be on view at the Carriage House Gallery, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public […]
Engaging with and extending the fields of African American studies, urban studies, gender and sexuality studies, dance studies, performance studies, popular music studies, ethnomusicology, and media studies, Do You Remember House? considers house music culture’s liberatory potential in relation to its flexible repertoire in motion, an ever-expanding archive of danceable sounds perseverance. Featuring the author […]
Exhibition: September 26 – November 14, 2019 Map It Out – Providence (September 26 – November 14) is an exhibition of hand-drawn maps created by Providence and Rhode Island community members in collaboration with the Toronto-based artists Gwen MacGregor and Sandra Rechico. The maps reveal our community’s memories, and propose new ways of understanding the geography […]
Panel discussion on alternative ways of mapping the city. This panel discussion is part of a one-day conference titled Radical Cartography Now: Digital, Artistic and Social Justice Approaches to Mapping. The entire conference is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Register here. Counter-mapping Providence (and Tulsa) Moderator: Marisa Angell Brown, Assistant […]
Hacking Heritage is a participant-led unconference where attendees can propose session discussions on any topic related to preservation, history, heritage, and the arts. How do we build community through neighborhood history? How do cemeteries, vacant lots, and wild spaces impact our sense of place? How can podcasts be used to tell new stories about place? Which […]
Drawn from the Center for Public Humanities’ deep pool of alumni, the panelists in this new Zoom series represent a cross-section of our eclectic field. Join us in conversation over three virtual sessions to connect, ask questions, and prepare for next steps. The 2nd panel discussion in the series will focus on Advocacy, Government and Service. […]
"Mapping Indigenous Long Island" with Shinnecock Artist Jeremy Dennis Please join enrolled Shinnecock tribal member and artist Jeremy Dennis as he discusses his landscape photography project titled ‘On This Site - Indigenous Long Island’ which involves the mapping of sacred, historical, and archaeological Indigenous sites throughout Long Island, New York. Dennis will also share selections […]
Museum & the Arts Drawn from the Center for Public Humanities’ deep pool of alumni, the panelists in this new Zoom series represent a cross-section of our eclectic field. Join us in conversation over three virtual sessions to connect, ask questions, and prepare for next steps. The 1st panel discussion in the series will focus […]
