LIFE AFTER LIST 2 – Sunday, April 5, 1pm List Art Building
Life After List 2, is an alumni career panel bringing back Brown Alumni who have pursued careers in the arts. Part of Brown Degree Days, this event was created to expose concentrators the possibilities of concentrating in History of Art & Architecture, and focus on how concentrations lead to real world opportunities.
The panel will begin at 1 p.m. and will be divided into two panels, (Art History and Architecture), to be followed by light refreshments on the second floor of List at approximately 3 p.m.
The panelist's scheduled to attend are:
HISTORY OF ART
Peter Falk- President of Hastings Art Management Services
Hastings Art Management Services is a publisher of art reference books and databases for on-line research, particularly relating to American artists of all periods. Also management of artist estate collections, which involves strategic planning, promotion, gifting, and sales.
http://www.falkart.com
Jenna Wainwright
Associate Conservation Preparator
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/
Selena Juneau-Vogel
Arts & Business Council of NYC
Program and Membership Coordinator
http://www.artsandbusiness-ny.org/
Laura Conover
Skinner Auctioneers and Appraisers
Department of Painting
http://www.skinnerinc.com/
Mihn Nguyen
CEO of MyArtPlot
MyArtPlot (MAP) is an art community and empowerment platform - of artists, crafters, and supporters - fighting to create a united, supportive, and non-elitist art world.
http://www.myartplot.com
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
RI Historical Society -- Upcoming Events
Thursday, April 2, 6:30 p.m.
Rhode Island Historical Society Library
121 Hope Street, Providence
Free Admission, To R.S.V.P.: Lee Teverow
(401) 273-8107 x10 or lteverow@rihs.org
Lecture: A Key into the Language of American History
Join us for an evening of poetry and history. Rhode Island poet Rosmarie Waldrop will read from her books Shorter American Memory and A Key into the Language of America. Waldrop is Coeditor and Publisher of Burning Deck Press, as well as author or co-author of over three dozen books of poetry, prose, and translation. Shorter American Memory subjects historical texts to various playful manipulations, while A Key Into the Language of America takes its title, chapter sequence, and many quotations from Roger Williams's book of the same title. On display will be a number of the original documents which inspired Waldrop’s poetry.
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Thursday, April 2, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
National Council for Public History Annual Meeting
Public Plenary
First Unitarian Church
One Benevolent Street, Providence
FREE and open to the public
Telling Stories About Why History Matters
Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and staff writer at The New Yorker, is the author of books and articles that have enormous appeal to historians as well as the general public, including The Name of War (1998) and New York Burning (2005). She has also served as a consultant for the National Parks Service, the Old State House in Boston, the Boston History Collaborative, and WGBH's American Experience. "Sometimes," Lepore writes, "history can read like a comic book: action, adventure, larger-than-life heroes, shocking tragedies. The past, like the present, is full of heroes, and villains, too. Unfortunately, a cartoon only gets you so far: it's colorful, but there's no denying it's flat. What happens when we try to make history rounder?"
The public plenary is cosponsored by the Rhode Island Historical Society.
For Registration and other conference information: http://www.ncph.org/Conferences/2009/tabid/304/Default.aspx <http://web.memberclicks.com/mc/getLink.do?id=698004391260700094318Z2CN&linkId=3588> /
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Saturday, April 4, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Collection Event
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street, Woonsocket
To R.S.V.P.: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
Public Scanning Event - “20th Century Settlers in the Blackstone Valley”
The Rhode Island Historical Society is pleased to announce plans for a new exhibit at the Museum of Work & Culture in Woonsocket. Going to Work: 20th Century Settlers in the Blackstone Valley will look closely at the people who moved to the Blackstone Valley area in Rhode Island during the twentieth century to find work. We want to know your story! This Collection Event is an opportunity to share your family’s photos, letters, postcards, diaries, recipes, etc. with the Historical Society. Staff will be on hand to listen to your family’s story and scan your items. Come include your history and participate in the making of this new exhibit! For more information on the Collection Event or the “Going to Work” exhibit, please contact Dalila Goulart, (401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org.
Rhode Island Historical Society Library
121 Hope Street, Providence
Free Admission, To R.S.V.P.: Lee Teverow
(401) 273-8107 x10 or lteverow@rihs.org
Lecture: A Key into the Language of American History
Join us for an evening of poetry and history. Rhode Island poet Rosmarie Waldrop will read from her books Shorter American Memory and A Key into the Language of America. Waldrop is Coeditor and Publisher of Burning Deck Press, as well as author or co-author of over three dozen books of poetry, prose, and translation. Shorter American Memory subjects historical texts to various playful manipulations, while A Key Into the Language of America takes its title, chapter sequence, and many quotations from Roger Williams's book of the same title. On display will be a number of the original documents which inspired Waldrop’s poetry.
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Thursday, April 2, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
National Council for Public History Annual Meeting
Public Plenary
First Unitarian Church
One Benevolent Street, Providence
FREE and open to the public
Telling Stories About Why History Matters
Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and staff writer at The New Yorker, is the author of books and articles that have enormous appeal to historians as well as the general public, including The Name of War (1998) and New York Burning (2005). She has also served as a consultant for the National Parks Service, the Old State House in Boston, the Boston History Collaborative, and WGBH's American Experience. "Sometimes," Lepore writes, "history can read like a comic book: action, adventure, larger-than-life heroes, shocking tragedies. The past, like the present, is full of heroes, and villains, too. Unfortunately, a cartoon only gets you so far: it's colorful, but there's no denying it's flat. What happens when we try to make history rounder?"
The public plenary is cosponsored by the Rhode Island Historical Society.
For Registration and other conference information: http://www.ncph.org/Conferences/2009/tabid/304/Default.aspx <http://web.memberclicks.com/mc/getLink.do?id=698004391260700094318Z2CN&linkId=3588> /
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Saturday, April 4, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Collection Event
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street, Woonsocket
To R.S.V.P.: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
Public Scanning Event - “20th Century Settlers in the Blackstone Valley”
The Rhode Island Historical Society is pleased to announce plans for a new exhibit at the Museum of Work & Culture in Woonsocket. Going to Work: 20th Century Settlers in the Blackstone Valley will look closely at the people who moved to the Blackstone Valley area in Rhode Island during the twentieth century to find work. We want to know your story! This Collection Event is an opportunity to share your family’s photos, letters, postcards, diaries, recipes, etc. with the Historical Society. Staff will be on hand to listen to your family’s story and scan your items. Come include your history and participate in the making of this new exhibit! For more information on the Collection Event or the “Going to Work” exhibit, please contact Dalila Goulart, (401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org.
Lecture by Christopher Clark
As part of the Slavery and the Modern World Lecture Series, Professor
Christopher Clark will give a lecture on "The Ends of Slavery" at 7PM in
Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 201, Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Please see the
attached flyer for more information.
Christopher Clark will give a lecture on "The Ends of Slavery" at 7PM in
Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 201, Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Please see the
attached flyer for more information.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Roberto Chao Romero Lecture- Tuesday March 31st
Please join us for the last in our Ford Postdoctoral Lecture Series, please pass this onto any other students or student groups you know that might be interested:
Roberto Chao Romero
“El Destierro de los Chinos”: Popular Perspectives of Chinese-Mexican Interracial Marriage as Reflected in Poetry, Cartoon, Comedy, and Corridos of the Early Twentieth Century
Date: Tuesday March 31, 2009
Time: 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Location: Wilson 104
Drawing from poetry, cartoons, comedy, and corridos, this talk examines the historical phenomenon of Chinese-Mexican intermarriage through the lens of Mexican popular culture of the early twentieth century. Popular Mexican culture portrayed Chinese cross-cultural marriages as relationships of abuse, slavery, and neglect, and rejected the offspring of such unions as sub-human, degenerative, and unworthy of full inclusion within the Mexican national community. Interracial marriage with prosperous Chinese merchants was scornfully depicted as a shameless short cut by which slothful Mexican women avoided the need to work and secured lives of material comfort. Such popular criticism of Chinese-Mexican interracial marriage, moreover, was often couched within larger discourses of revolutionary economic nationalism. Beyond presenting an historical examination of the phenomenon of Chinese-Mexican interracial marriage, as one important theoretical consideration, this paper argues for the revision of prevalent notions of “mestizaje” within the discipline of Chicano/Latino Studies. It challenges the “white-brown” binary of traditional Chicano racial theory and sounds a clarion call for further research and discussion related to the important contributions of Chinese, Japanese, African, Middle Eastern, and other overlooked ethnic immigrant groups to the Mexican and Chicano cultural melting pot.
Roberto Chao Romero
“El Destierro de los Chinos”: Popular Perspectives of Chinese-Mexican Interracial Marriage as Reflected in Poetry, Cartoon, Comedy, and Corridos of the Early Twentieth Century
Date: Tuesday March 31, 2009
Time: 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Location: Wilson 104
Drawing from poetry, cartoons, comedy, and corridos, this talk examines the historical phenomenon of Chinese-Mexican intermarriage through the lens of Mexican popular culture of the early twentieth century. Popular Mexican culture portrayed Chinese cross-cultural marriages as relationships of abuse, slavery, and neglect, and rejected the offspring of such unions as sub-human, degenerative, and unworthy of full inclusion within the Mexican national community. Interracial marriage with prosperous Chinese merchants was scornfully depicted as a shameless short cut by which slothful Mexican women avoided the need to work and secured lives of material comfort. Such popular criticism of Chinese-Mexican interracial marriage, moreover, was often couched within larger discourses of revolutionary economic nationalism. Beyond presenting an historical examination of the phenomenon of Chinese-Mexican interracial marriage, as one important theoretical consideration, this paper argues for the revision of prevalent notions of “mestizaje” within the discipline of Chicano/Latino Studies. It challenges the “white-brown” binary of traditional Chicano racial theory and sounds a clarion call for further research and discussion related to the important contributions of Chinese, Japanese, African, Middle Eastern, and other overlooked ethnic immigrant groups to the Mexican and Chicano cultural melting pot.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
RI Historical Society -- African American History Walking Tours
Saturdays, 10:00 a.m.
March 28, April 25, May 30, June 27
Tours depart from the
John Brown House Museum
52 Power Street, Providence
To R.S.V.P.: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org <mailto:programs@rihs.org>
African-American History Walking Tours
These walking tours celebrate the history of African Americans who lived on College Hill from 1701 to the present. Ray Rickman, a well known community leader, will lead a lively discussion and offer his perspective on the people and historic buildings of Providence's oldest neighborhood. Tickets are $10 per person; tour lasts about ninety minutes. Reservations are required.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Alice Rayner to speak Friday, April 10th
Professor Alice Rayner will be speaking at the Department of Theatre,
Speech & Dance's Graduate Colloquium on Friday, April 10th at 4pm in
Lyman Hall, room 219. Please forward the attached announcement to
anyone who might be interested in attending.
Speech & Dance's Graduate Colloquium on Friday, April 10th at 4pm in
Lyman Hall, room 219. Please forward the attached announcement to
anyone who might be interested in attending.
Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South
Birds and American Indians in the South
Tuesday, March 31, 5:30 p.m.
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at
Manning Hall, Main Green, Brown University
Shepard Krech III, professor of anthropology and director of the Haffenreffer Museum at Brown University, will share thoughts on his most recent book — the fi rst major synthesis of the neglected relationship of birds and North American Indians. On the American southeast, Spirits of the Air details how Native people incorporated birds in diet and material culture, as well as how birds fi gured in politics, war, religion, myth, ceremony, and incantations for good or malevolent ends. A major synthesis of environmental history by a scholar who has also been a life-long birder, this work is lauded in advance notices by historians and anthropologists and environmental historians as “superbly researched” (Raymond Fogelson) and “insightful” (Carolyn Merchant) and by fi eld ornithologists as a “wonderful surprise” (Donald and Lillian Stokes) and a “landmark” work (Kenn Kaufman). Be among the first to purchase Spirits of the Air.
Reception and book signing will follow the lecture.
Monday, March 23, 2009
RI Historical Society -- Spring Programs and Events
Thursday, March 26 – Sunday, March 29
Gallery Exhibit
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street, Woonsocket
For more information: Ray Bacon
(401) 769-9675 or rbacon@rihs.org
“Hidden from History: Slavery in Rhode Island from its Inception to its End”
Ray Rickman, former president of the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, will share materials from his private collection representing slavery and Rhode Island’s involvement in the slave trade. Rickman will also speak at the Museum’s final Ranger Days Talk on Sunday, March 29 at 1:30 p.m.
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Saturdays, 10:00 a.m.
March 28, April 25, May 30, June 27
Tours depart from the
John Brown House Museum
52 Power Street, Providence
To R.S.V.P.: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
African-American History Walking Tours
These walking tours celebrate the history of African Americans who lived on College Hill from 1701 to the present. Ray Rickman, a well known community leader, will lead a lively discussion and offer his perspective on the people and historic buildings of Providence's oldest neighborhood. Tickets are $10 per person; tour lasts about ninety minutes. Reservations are required.
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Saturday, March 28, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Rhode Island Historical Society Library
121 Hope Street, Providence
RIHS members, $8; Non-members, $10
To register: Lee Teverow
(401) 273-8107 x10 or lteverow@rihs.org
Workshop: Identifying and Dating Family Photographs
A single photograph can unlock a family mystery. The details are in the photographic clues. Come learn how to solve your own picture mysteries with Maureen Taylor, known as the Photo Detective. Taylor is a photo curator, genealogist, and author of Picturing Rhode Island, as well as a contributing editor at Family Tree Magazine. See her website at http://photodetective.com <http://photodetective.com/> . This workshop will teach you ten easy steps to identifying your own family photos. RIHS members, $8; non-members, $10.
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Thursday, April 2, 6:30 p.m.
Rhode Island Historical Society Library
121 Hope Street, Providence
Free Admission, To R.S.V.P.: Lee Teverow
(401) 273-8107 x10 or lteverow@rihs.org
Lecture: A Key into the Language of American History
Join us for an evening of poetry and history. Rhode Island poet Rosmarie Waldrop will read from her books Shorter American Memory and A Key into the Language of America. Waldrop is Coeditor and Publisher of Burning Deck Press, as well as author or co-author of over three dozen books of poetry, prose, and translation. Shorter American Memory subjects historical texts to various playful manipulations, while A Key Into the Language of America takes its title, chapter sequence, and many quotations from Roger Williams's book of the same title. On display will be a number of the original documents which inspired Waldrop’s poetry.
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Thursday, April 2, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
National Council for Public History Annual Meeting
Public Plenary
First Unitarian Church
One Benevolent Street, Providence
FREE and open to the public
Telling Stories About Why History Matters
Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and staff writer at The New Yorker, is the author of books and articles that have enormous appeal to historians as well as the general public, including The Name of War (1998) and New York Burning (2005). She has also served as a consultant for the National Parks Service, the Old State House in Boston, the Boston History Collaborative, and WGBH's American Experience. "Sometimes," Lepore writes, "history can read like a comic book: action, adventure, larger-than-life heroes, shocking tragedies. The past, like the present, is full of heroes, and villains, too. Unfortunately, a cartoon only gets you so far: it's colorful, but there's no denying it's flat. What happens when we try to make history rounder?"
The public plenary is cosponsored by the Rhode Island Historical Society.
For Registration and other conference information: http://www.ncph.org/Conferences/2009/tabid/304/Default.aspx <http://web.memberclicks.com/mc/getLink.do?id=698004391260700094318Z2CN&linkId=3588> /
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Saturday, April 4, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Collection Event
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street, Woonsocket
To R.S.V.P.: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
Public Scanning Event - “20th Century Settlers in the Blackstone Valley”
The Rhode Island Historical Society is pleased to announce plans for a new exhibit at the Museum of Work & Culture in Woonsocket. Going to Work: 20th Century Settlers in the Blackstone Valley will look closely at the people who moved to the Blackstone Valley area in Rhode Island during the twentieth century to find work. We want to know your story! This Collection Event is an opportunity to share your family’s photos, letters, postcards, diaries, recipes, etc. with the Historical Society. Staff will be on hand to listen to your family’s story and scan your items. Come include your history and participate in the making of this new exhibit! For more information on the Collection Event or the “Going to Work” exhibit, please contact Dalila Goulart, (401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Puerto Rican Cultural Week
Event:
Semana Puertorriqueña
- Puerto Rican Cultural Week -
Title:
¡Mi Gente!
Pa’lante y Pa’ya: Moving Forward as a United People
Event information:
La Guagua Aérea Made a U-Turn:
Boricua Unity Across the Divide
Monday, April 6th - 5:15 PM, MacMillan 117
Based on his book, “The Diaspora Strikes Back: Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning,” Professor Juan Flores will explore some of the dimensions and implications of the reverse flow of Puerto Rican, Dominican and Cuban culture and the challenges that it represents to dominant assumptions of the national cultures.
*Rice, beans, pork, empanadas and maduros will be served.
The Puerto Rican Dilemma:
National Identity within the
Borders of the American Nation
Tuesday, April 7th - 7:00 PM, Mencoff Hall 205
Dr. César Rey will raise questions about the origins and evolution of the concept of Puerto Rican nationhood and identity from a historical, sociological, educational, and political perspective.
*Tres leches, flan and guayavitas will be served.
Hamlet and Segismundo
Wednesday, April 8th - 7:00 PM
Carmichael Auditorium (Hunter Lab)
Professor Giannina Braschi will debut a lively and dramatic piece about Puerto Rico’s political and economic relationship with the United States. This theatrical piece stresses the collision between the Latin and Anglo worlds.
*Tostones, yuca and croquetas de jamon will be served.
Islander-Mainlander Discussion
Thursday, April 9th - 6:30 PM, Smith-Buonanno Lobby
What does it mean to be Puerto Rican? Professor Garcia Coll and Professor Otero Garabis will lead a discussion that focuses on the division that exists between Puerto Rican Islanders (those from the island) and Mainlanders (those from the US).
*Empanadas and guayavitas will be served.
Semana Puertorriqueña
- Puerto Rican Cultural Week -
Title:
¡Mi Gente!
Pa’lante y Pa’ya: Moving Forward as a United People
Event information:
La Guagua Aérea Made a U-Turn:
Boricua Unity Across the Divide
Monday, April 6th - 5:15 PM, MacMillan 117
Based on his book, “The Diaspora Strikes Back: Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning,” Professor Juan Flores will explore some of the dimensions and implications of the reverse flow of Puerto Rican, Dominican and Cuban culture and the challenges that it represents to dominant assumptions of the national cultures.
*Rice, beans, pork, empanadas and maduros will be served.
The Puerto Rican Dilemma:
National Identity within the
Borders of the American Nation
Tuesday, April 7th - 7:00 PM, Mencoff Hall 205
Dr. César Rey will raise questions about the origins and evolution of the concept of Puerto Rican nationhood and identity from a historical, sociological, educational, and political perspective.
*Tres leches, flan and guayavitas will be served.
Hamlet and Segismundo
Wednesday, April 8th - 7:00 PM
Carmichael Auditorium (Hunter Lab)
Professor Giannina Braschi will debut a lively and dramatic piece about Puerto Rico’s political and economic relationship with the United States. This theatrical piece stresses the collision between the Latin and Anglo worlds.
*Tostones, yuca and croquetas de jamon will be served.
Islander-Mainlander Discussion
Thursday, April 9th - 6:30 PM, Smith-Buonanno Lobby
What does it mean to be Puerto Rican? Professor Garcia Coll and Professor Otero Garabis will lead a discussion that focuses on the division that exists between Puerto Rican Islanders (those from the island) and Mainlanders (those from the US).
*Empanadas and guayavitas will be served.
Premier Film Screening, March 30: El General
The FAV and Photography Depts. are hosting a very special event: Former ISD
Photo Grad, Natalia Almada, is returning to RISD to screen her latest film,
El General, that just won the award for best direction at Sundance. The
screening will be at 7 pm in the RISD Auditorium and is a pre-release
premier, so it's a very special event. The film will be broadcast on POV
(PBS) later in the summer.
Photo Grad, Natalia Almada, is returning to RISD to screen her latest film,
El General, that just won the award for best direction at Sundance. The
screening will be at 7 pm in the RISD Auditorium and is a pre-release
premier, so it's a very special event. The film will be broadcast on POV
(PBS) later in the summer.
The following evening, March 31, at 7 pm at Chace Center, Natalia will be
giving a formal talk as part of the Photo Dept. TC Colley lecture series and
will screen All Water Has A Perfect Memory, her MFA Thesis project that went
on to win the award for best documentary short at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Her second award-winning feature film, Al Otro Lado, will be screened on
Wednesday in Peter O'Neill's documentary film class.
Please make plans to attend and tell your students. These events
(with the exception of Peter's class!) are free and open to the public.
Deborah B.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Artists Talks @ The RISD Museum-Thurs. 3/19
Thursday, March 19
6 pm - Portraits, Self-Portraits, + Re-Portraits
Danforth Lecture Hall, 3rd Floor
Joseph Chazan shares his personal inspiration for NetWorks 2008, a series of exhibitions and documentation celebrating the work of 16 contemporary Rhode Island visual artists. Following Dr. Chazan, photographer Salvatore Mancini discusses his body of work, which ranges from landscape essays to industrial archaeology. This lecture is free an open to the public.
7pm - From Film To Graphic Novel: David Polonsky
Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center
Art director on the Academy Award-nominated film, Waltz With Bashir, illustrator David Polonsky (http://www.dpolonsky.com/) talks about his aesthetic approach related to the film and recently released graphic novel based on the film. $8 non-Museum-members; free tickets for Museum members, RISD, Brown + Roger William Communities with ID can be picked up at the Chace Center Lobby after 5:30pm. Book signing following the lecture.
http://waltzwithbashir.com/
Image Waltz with Bashir, 2008. Courtesy of artist.
This evening the Museum is open and admission is FREE. Music, refreshments, a drop-in art class, and tours are also offered.
6 pm - Portraits, Self-Portraits, + Re-Portraits
Danforth Lecture Hall, 3rd Floor
Joseph Chazan shares his personal inspiration for NetWorks 2008, a series of exhibitions and documentation celebrating the work of 16 contemporary Rhode Island visual artists. Following Dr. Chazan, photographer Salvatore Mancini discusses his body of work, which ranges from landscape essays to industrial archaeology. This lecture is free an open to the public.
7pm - From Film To Graphic Novel: David Polonsky
Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center
Art director on the Academy Award-nominated film, Waltz With Bashir, illustrator David Polonsky (http://www.dpolonsky.com/) talks about his aesthetic approach related to the film and recently released graphic novel based on the film. $8 non-Museum-members; free tickets for Museum members, RISD, Brown + Roger William Communities with ID can be picked up at the Chace Center Lobby after 5:30pm. Book signing following the lecture.
http://waltzwithbashir.com/
Image Waltz with Bashir, 2008. Courtesy of artist.
This evening the Museum is open and admission is FREE. Music, refreshments, a drop-in art class, and tours are also offered.
April 1 alumni panel - Urban Studies
Three former Urban Studies concentrators will return to Brown to discuss how Urban Studies shaped and continues to shape their professional experiences. Panelists: Brian Bixby Esq (’74), Darrell Petit (’82), Matt Soursourian (’08).
From Brian Bixby:
“When I graduated from Brown in 1974, I was one of the first concentrators in Urban Studies. It was not yet a Department, so my major was an independent study, and I also wrote an honors thesis on The Interrelationship Between Organized Crime, Machine Politics, and Urban Poverty. I then went onto law school, in part because it interested me and in part to stay out of the Vietnam War, since I had a high draft number. I am an attorney and chair the Private Client Group of Burns & Levinson LLP, based in Boston and Providence.”
About Darrell Petit:
“A native of Montreal, Petit earned a bachelor’s degree in urban planning from Brown University, studied at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York and earned a master’s of art and sculpture from the University of Iowa.
‘A formative event was seeing the opening of the Isamu Noguchi Museum in New York,’ he recalls. The impact of that artist’s work led him to Berlin, where he worked for an American sculptor while making his ‘first effort at shaping granite to make expressive form’ at a Germany academy of art.
Petit recently constructed the base for the Torosaurus sculpture at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven. He’s currently creating an urban park in Scarsdale, N.Y., making a new piece for an exhibition in Tokyo, preparing for a temporary installation at a December art fair in Miami and consulting on two lower Manhattan projects.”
Singer, Karen. “Taking Something for Granite.” Contact.com. 4 September 2006. 24 February 2009.
<http://www.conntact.com/article_page.lasso?id=40236>
Darrell Petit just returned from India after having participated in the International Festival for Sacred Art Delhi.
From Matthew Soursourian:
“I chose to concentrate in Urban Studies because I wanted a major that would allow interdisciplinary learning combining public policy, political science, and ethnic studies, all focused on the intersection of these fields inside the laboratory of cities. Within the Urban Studies program, I enjoyed small seminars and close relationships with my professors. Some of the most rewarding courses were "Housing and Homelessness" with Professor Silver, "Urban Regimes" with Professor Orr, and "American Culture and the City" with Professor Morone. I started interning at Providence City Hall junior year, first for the Mayor's Advance Team and then in the Office of Policy and Legislative Affairs. While interning (and then working part-time) for the Chief of Policy, I wrote "Greenprint: Providence," a comprehensive report on the City's sustainability agenda. I ended up staying in Providence after graduation and working full-time for the City. I continue to focus on environmental sustainability, as well as mass transit issues and poverty reduction strategies.”
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
The 2009 Dwyer Memorial Lecture - Professor Allen F. Roberts, "Mystical Graffiti and the Refabulation of Dakar" (March 19th)
Jane Dwyer Memorial Lecture
Mystical Graffiti and the Refabulation of Dakar
Thursday, March 19, 5:30 p.m.
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at
Manning Hall, Main Green, Brown University
In conjunction with Brown’s “Year of Focus on Africa,” Allen F. Roberts (UCLA Department of World Arts & Culture) will discuss the complexities of artist Pape Diop’s wall graffiti in Dakar’s inner city depicting Cheikh Amadou Bamba, the Senegalese holy man whose writings and life lessons are central to the Sufi movement known as the Mouride Way. What differentiates Diop’s works from those of Dakar’s other street artists is the layering of his portraits: he paints image upon image and in doing so, produces astonishing effects, among them a three-dimensionality known as autostereopsis, which seems to reach out to viewers, or to receive them into mesmerizing intricacies. Bamba’s portrait is based upon the only known photograph of the man, taken in 1913; yet Mourides consider the portrait to be an active presence, which conveys God’s blessings (baraka). Diop’s mystical graffiti transforms the streets, making them protective and promotional of well-being.
Lecture takes place in Manning Hall. Reception follows.
Th is lecture is supported by donations to the Jane Dwyer Memorial Lecture Fund and the Friends of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology.
Monday, March 16, 2009
RI Historical Society - March Programs and Events
Thursday, March 19, 6:30 p.m.
Gallery Night
John Brown House Museum
52 Power Street, Providence
Free Admission, To R.S.V.P.: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
If These Walls Could Talk … Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander: “The Girl of My Dreams”
Join us in welcoming photographer Stacy Renee Morrison to the first Gallery Night and If These Walls Could Talk lecture of the year! In 2005, Morrison received a grant from the Rhode Island Council of the Humanities for the girl of my dreams project, which has been exhibited in Italy and the Fine Arts Center Gallery at URI. The girl of Morrison’s dreams is Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander, whose 19th century trunk she stumbled upon in Manhatten. Morrison would later discover that Sylvia was born in Rhode Island, and related to the DeWolf family of Bristol. Morrison will share her work from the past several years discovering and reconstructing Sylvia’s life and how the journey has influenced her artistically.
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Thursday, March 19, 9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
International week of Francophonie
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street, Woonsocket
Free Admission, To R.S.V.P.: Ray Bacon
(401) 769-9675 or rbacon@rihs.org
Consultation of the Center of Francophonie of the Americas
Join us in Woonsocket to celebrate Francophonie Week from March 19 – 29! Again this year, the Museum of Work & Culture has joined the New England Francophone Committee to plan and offer a variety of events during the International week of Francophonie in New England. Today, representatives from the Center of Francophonie of the Americas will be present to meet and share ideas with Franco-Americans and fellow Francophiles in the area. For more information on how to celebrate the diversity of the French speaking world, log onto: www.franco-newengland.org <http://www.franco-newengland.org/> .
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Thursday, March 26 – Sunday, March 29
Gallery Exhibit
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street, Woonsocket
For more information: Ray Bacon
(401) 769-9675 or rbacon@rihs.org
“Hidden from History: Slavery in Rhode Island from its Inception to Its End”
Ray Rickman, former president of the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, will share materials from his private collection representing slavery and Rhode Island’s involvement in the slave trade. Rickman will also speak for the Museum’s final Ranger Days Talk on Sunday, March 29 at 1:30 p.m.
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Saturdays, 10:00 a.m.
March 28, April 25, May 30, June 27
Tours departs from the
John Brown House Museum
52 Power Street, Providence
For more information: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
African-American History Walking Tours
These walking tours celebrate the history of African Americans who lived on College Hill from 1701 to the present. Ray Rickman, a well known community leader, will lead a lively discussion centered on the people and historic buildings of Providence's oldest neighborhood. Tickets are $10 per person; tour lasts about ninety minutes.
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Saturday, March 28, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Rhode Island Historical Society Library
121 Hope Street, Providence
RIHS members, $8; Non-members, $10
To register: Lee Teverow
(401) 273-8107 x10 or lteverow@rihs.org
Workshop: Identifying and Dating Family Photographs
A single photograph can unlock a family mystery. The details are in the photographic clues. Come learn how to solve your own picture mysteries with Maureen Taylor, known as the Photo Detective. Taylor is a photo curator, genealogist, and author of Picturing Rhode Island, as well as a contributing editor at Family Tree Magazine. See her website at http://photodetective.com <http://photodetective.com/> . This workshop will teach you 10 easy steps to identifying your own family photos. RIHS members, $8; non-members, $10.
Gallery Night
John Brown House Museum
52 Power Street, Providence
Free Admission, To R.S.V.P.: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
If These Walls Could Talk … Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander: “The Girl of My Dreams”
Join us in welcoming photographer Stacy Renee Morrison to the first Gallery Night and If These Walls Could Talk lecture of the year! In 2005, Morrison received a grant from the Rhode Island Council of the Humanities for the girl of my dreams project, which has been exhibited in Italy and the Fine Arts Center Gallery at URI. The girl of Morrison’s dreams is Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander, whose 19th century trunk she stumbled upon in Manhatten. Morrison would later discover that Sylvia was born in Rhode Island, and related to the DeWolf family of Bristol. Morrison will share her work from the past several years discovering and reconstructing Sylvia’s life and how the journey has influenced her artistically.
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Thursday, March 19, 9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
International week of Francophonie
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street, Woonsocket
Free Admission, To R.S.V.P.: Ray Bacon
(401) 769-9675 or rbacon@rihs.org
Consultation of the Center of Francophonie of the Americas
Join us in Woonsocket to celebrate Francophonie Week from March 19 – 29! Again this year, the Museum of Work & Culture has joined the New England Francophone Committee to plan and offer a variety of events during the International week of Francophonie in New England. Today, representatives from the Center of Francophonie of the Americas will be present to meet and share ideas with Franco-Americans and fellow Francophiles in the area. For more information on how to celebrate the diversity of the French speaking world, log onto: www.franco-newengland.org <http://www.franco-newengland.org/> .
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Thursday, March 26 – Sunday, March 29
Gallery Exhibit
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street, Woonsocket
For more information: Ray Bacon
(401) 769-9675 or rbacon@rihs.org
“Hidden from History: Slavery in Rhode Island from its Inception to Its End”
Ray Rickman, former president of the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, will share materials from his private collection representing slavery and Rhode Island’s involvement in the slave trade. Rickman will also speak for the Museum’s final Ranger Days Talk on Sunday, March 29 at 1:30 p.m.
************************************
Saturdays, 10:00 a.m.
March 28, April 25, May 30, June 27
Tours departs from the
John Brown House Museum
52 Power Street, Providence
For more information: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
African-American History Walking Tours
These walking tours celebrate the history of African Americans who lived on College Hill from 1701 to the present. Ray Rickman, a well known community leader, will lead a lively discussion centered on the people and historic buildings of Providence's oldest neighborhood. Tickets are $10 per person; tour lasts about ninety minutes.
************************************
Saturday, March 28, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Rhode Island Historical Society Library
121 Hope Street, Providence
RIHS members, $8; Non-members, $10
To register: Lee Teverow
(401) 273-8107 x10 or lteverow@rihs.org
Workshop: Identifying and Dating Family Photographs
A single photograph can unlock a family mystery. The details are in the photographic clues. Come learn how to solve your own picture mysteries with Maureen Taylor, known as the Photo Detective. Taylor is a photo curator, genealogist, and author of Picturing Rhode Island, as well as a contributing editor at Family Tree Magazine. See her website at http://photodetective.com <http://photodetective.com/> . This workshop will teach you 10 easy steps to identifying your own family photos. RIHS members, $8; non-members, $10.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Meeting Notice for Project Public Spaces Presentation - Waterfront Parks
Invitation to a Presentation by Project for Public Spaces on the New I-195 Waterfront Parks and Pedestrian Bridge
The Honorable David N. Cicilline, The Parks Department and The Providence Foundation thanks all who attended and helped with the January 20th Placemaking Workshop held by Project for Public Spaces, regarding the new waterfront parks and pedestrian bridge
and
Invite you to a presentation on PPS’ Study, Findings and Recommendations. The presentation will be given by Fred Kent, Founder and President of Project for Public Spaces.
The presentation will be held as follows:
DATE: Tuesday, April 7, 2009
TIME: 5:30 – 7:00
PLACE: Commerce Center, 1st Floor Conference Room, 30 Exchange Terrace, Providence, RI 02903
Seating is limited; please RSVP to Linda Pascoa at 521-3248 or by email to lpascoa@provfoundation.com
The Honorable David N. Cicilline, The Parks Department and The Providence Foundation thanks all who attended and helped with the January 20th Placemaking Workshop held by Project for Public Spaces, regarding the new waterfront parks and pedestrian bridge
and
Invite you to a presentation on PPS’ Study, Findings and Recommendations. The presentation will be given by Fred Kent, Founder and President of Project for Public Spaces.
The presentation will be held as follows:
DATE: Tuesday, April 7, 2009
TIME: 5:30 – 7:00
PLACE: Commerce Center, 1st Floor Conference Room, 30 Exchange Terrace, Providence, RI 02903
Seating is limited; please RSVP to Linda Pascoa at 521-3248 or by email to lpascoa@provfoundation.com
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Call to Artists: Peabody Historic Society
Call to Artists
"Historic Interpretation: Artists Interpret the Historic Collection"
On view June 6, 2009 - October 18, 2009
"Historic Interpretation: Artists Interpret the Historic Collection"
On view June 6, 2009 - October 18, 2009
Artifact selection days at The Cassidy Art Museum (Osborne-Salata
House), 33 Washington Street, Peabody
March 1 and 8, 2009, 12:00 to 3:00 p.m.
The Peabody Historical Society is seeking artist submissions for a
unique exhibition, "Historic Interpretation: Contemporary Artists
Interpret the Historic Collection." Artists are invited to choose a
historical artifact from the Society's collection and create a new
work in any media that is inspired by that artifact. Artifact
selection will take place on consecutive Sundays, March 1 and 8, at
the Cassidy Art Museum. At this time, participants will receive a
packet consisting of an image of the object, relevant historical
information, and exhibition guidelines.
Artists will submit their work Sunday, May 24, 2009. The exhibition
will be installed by museum staff throughout the Society's historic
Osborne-Salata and Gideon Foster Houses at 33 and 35 Washington
Street. "Historic Interpretation" will open June 6, 2009 and will run
through October 18, 2009. Artists may choose to make their work
available for sale during the exhibition.
Selected artists will be featured in an exhibition catalogue and on
the Society's website. Students and artists of varying levels of
experience are welcome to participate, and all disciplines and media
will be accepted. Size and content restrictions apply. All works
will be installed in historic house settings, with installation
restrictions. The Peabody Historical Society reserves the right to
deny any work(s) for any reason(s). If you are interested in
participating, but cannot attend one of the two artifact selection
days, please contact Kate Burgess at the email or phone below.
For exhibition inquiries, please contact Peabody Historical Society's
Curatorial Assistant Kate Burgess at kburgess1@mac.com or by calling
978-412-5290.
The 2009 Barbara Greenwald Memorial Arts Program - this weekend: Ukrainian Easter Eggs
Saturday – Sunday, March 14 – 15
The Barbara Greenwald Memorial Arts Program
The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
Manning Hall Gallery, Main Green, Brown University
Working on an Unusual Canvas: The Art of Pysanky
The egg has been a symbol of life in the Ukraine and other Slavic countries since ancient times. It was customary to give decorated eggs denoting stages of life in the spring. Colorful symbols representing nature and passed from mother to daughter enlivened the surfaces of eggs called pysanky. With the acceptance of Christianity, pysanky entered the Ukrainian Easter tradition as a symbol of rebirth blending pagan and Christian customs.
Father Paul Luniw (St. Michael’s Byzantine Catholic Church, Terryville, CT), will demonstrate the art of pysanky, in Manning Hall, from 10 a.m-noon on Saturday, March 14th, and will discuss its history at 2 p.m. On Sunday March 15, Father Luniw, an internationally recognized Master of Pysanky, will lead two free workshops for children and adults at 1-3 p.m. and 4-6 p.m. Please note that the workshops are full but visitors can watch and learn! An exhibit of Fr. Luniw’s eggs will also be on display both days from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The Barbara Greenwald Memorial Arts Program
The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
Manning Hall Gallery, Main Green, Brown University
Working on an Unusual Canvas: The Art of Pysanky
The egg has been a symbol of life in the Ukraine and other Slavic countries since ancient times. It was customary to give decorated eggs denoting stages of life in the spring. Colorful symbols representing nature and passed from mother to daughter enlivened the surfaces of eggs called pysanky. With the acceptance of Christianity, pysanky entered the Ukrainian Easter tradition as a symbol of rebirth blending pagan and Christian customs.
Father Paul Luniw (St. Michael’s Byzantine Catholic Church, Terryville, CT), will demonstrate the art of pysanky, in Manning Hall, from 10 a.m-noon on Saturday, March 14th, and will discuss its history at 2 p.m. On Sunday March 15, Father Luniw, an internationally recognized Master of Pysanky, will lead two free workshops for children and adults at 1-3 p.m. and 4-6 p.m. Please note that the workshops are full but visitors can watch and learn! An exhibit of Fr. Luniw’s eggs will also be on display both days from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Talk one-on-one with experts and practitioners in workshops and seminars like "Sustainability and Green Building Practices" and "Restoration and Renovation." Join Historic New England Preservation Specialist Sally Zimmerman in the exhibition hall for a "Preservation Resources Roundtable" on Friday from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. See demonstrations of traditional trades in window restoration, plaster repair, ornamental ironwork, and more. Visit with more than one hundred exhibitors who make and restore products for traditional building, restoration, and renovation. 
"Remember the Hancock House" is a battle cry that resonated with many New England preservationists well into the twentieth century. Although the fight in 1863 to prevent the demolition of the 1737 mansion was unsuccessful, it spurred the growth of the preservation movement in New England.
Plan a customized Beacon Hill Walking Tour with a focus on gems like the State House, Louisburg Square, and other highlights of this historic district. We are happy to arrange focused walking tours for groups of eight or more by appointment year-round. Visitors who come during the quiet season in winter and early spring have the benefit of calm streets and better views. Call 617-227-3957, ext. 256, or 
Historic New England member Susan Byrne enjoyed the information on portraits in "Making Fun of History" in the Fall 2008 issue of Historic New England magazine. Inspired by the photograph of four generations of Josiah Quincys, she took several portrait photographs of family members during a recent visit, including this one, which represents six generations. 
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