FW: PPS September E-Newsletter

In This Issue Preservation Education Events Quick Links Become a Member PPS Website Preservation Nation Upcoming PPS Events September 17 MEP Exhibit Opening Reception September 28 - November 25 Children's Heritage Education Tours October 23-24 Fall Symposium October 24 Gold Dome Gala December 5 Downtown Holiday Architecture Tour February 6 Winter Bash September 2009 News Preservation 2009 Most Endangered Properties Photography Exhibit Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 17 5:30-9:00 p.m. PPS's acclaimed annual photography exhibit will appear September 10-October 10 in the atrium of the historic Peerless Building at 150 Union Street in downtown Providence. A collaborative effort between PPS and the Arts & Business Council of Rhode Island, the exhibit is a unique promotion of preservation advocacy through fine art. The show features the work of Michael Cevoli, Ryan Conaty, Andrew Dernavich, Stephanie Ewens, Adam Hall, Kryzstyna Harber-Caldarone, Matthew Kierstead, Brian McDonald, Frank Mullin, and Karen Philippi. The opening reception will take place on September's "Gallery Night" from 5:30 to 9:00 p.m. The event and reception are free and open to the public. The exhibit may also be viewed during the building's leasing center hours: Sunday 1-5:00 p.m., Monday 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday 8:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m., Friday 8:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m., and Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. For more information contact PPS at (401) 831-7440 or go to www.ppsri.org. Education Children's Heritage Education Curricula Now Online For the past two and a half years, the PPS Education Department has been researching and creating curricula to support the Children's Heritage Education Tour Program. Each curriculum consists of two weeks of lessons including a tour of a Providence neighborhood. Currently, three neighborhoods are explored; College Hill, Fox Point, and Downtown, with more to be added in the future. Students of all ages can learn something about Providence's architectural heritage. Explore! Three of the six curricula are available for online viewing by visiting www.ppsri.org/curriculum. We thank our numerous volunteer interns, work-study students, curricula vetters, the PPS Education Committee, PPS Heritage Education Docents, and staff for their help and advice in making this project a reality. Funding for this project was provided by the City of Providence, Dexter Donation; The Haffenreffer Family Fund; and the Robert E. Freeman Downcity Fund. Summer Urban Planning Students Give Final Presentations On Wednesday, August 12, high school students in the Urban Planning Class at Volunteers in Providence Schools Summer "Learn to Earn" Program gave their final presentations at the Gymnatorium at Central High School in front of teachers, family, and project collaborators, including PPS. The lead teacher, Karlene Toppin, commented that "all of the students brought an interest in their community to the program. That is not something that one can teach." Through continued community collaborations, PPS can nurture young people's interest in their surroundings and inspire them to be caretakers of their community and built environment. Register Now for PPS Children's Heritage Education Docent Training September 22-24 PPS is looking for individuals interested in leading walking tours for elementary and middle school students, grades 4-8. Each year, docents lead over 3500 students on walking tours of Providence using the city's architecture as a resource from which students learn the history of Providence. This year's training will focus on the Downtown, College Hill, and Fox Point neighborhoods. No previous experience is necessary - just an interest in history and architecture and the desire to work with school children. Upon completing a 2.5 day training provided by PPS, docents are asked to make a one-year commitment to the program. For more information, please contact Kathleen McAreavey, Education Coordinator, by e-mail or telephone: 401-831-7440, ext. 103.  Fall Symposium - October 23 - 24, 2009 The American Renaissance and Providence: A Golden Age in Architecture and the Arts Please join us on Friday, October 23 and Saturday, October 24 to explore a "Golden Age" in Providence's history at the PPS Fall Symposium, The American Renaissance and Providence: A Golden Age in Architecture and the Arts. Seven speakers include Richard Guy Wilson, Ph.D., Commonwealth Professor in Architectural History at the University of Virginia, the premier architectural historian of this period. We anticipate stimulating and engrossing dialogue about the architecture, interior architecture, decorative arts, and culinary history presented in buildings of the period. More information will be posted at www.ppsri.org as it becomes available. Advance registration required. Events Save the Date: 2009 Gold Dome Gala October 24, 2009 The Providence Preservation Society's 2009 "Gold Dome Gala" promises to be as distinctive as its location - the iconic Old Stone Bank building, ca. 1854. This special event, planned in conjunction with the PPS Symposium on Providence during the American Renaissance, will give 200 attendees a glimpse into an otherwise private Providence landmark. Dinner, cocktails, and a spectacular location conspire to make this a remarkable event. As further information becomes available, it will be posted on our website. 2009 Downtown Holiday Architecture Tour December 5, 2009 Tour the Town! Celebrate the Holidays with the Providence Preservation Society Downtown Holiday Architecture Tour. In 2008, this holiday event attracted hundreds of people to explore downtown living in creatively renovated historic buildings and enjoy seasonal festivities. This year, the event has a new name and promises to be even more exciting. Stay tuned for more information as plans develop. 2010 Winter Bash! Save the Date: February 6, 2010 It's getting closer to midnight in The Garden of Good & Evil. Start picking out your mask for the Winter Bash 2010! Volunteer Opportunities General Office/Clerical Assistant PPS seeks a volunteer to assist with general office/clerical tasks, including but not limited to answering a multi-line phone, greeting visitors, working on special projects, assisting with mailings, and attending and assisting with various major events. Experience with Microsoft Office programs necessary. Help needed Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.  Must be pleasant on the phone and able to handle multiple tasks at once. Please email your interest and availability to info@ppsri.org. Community Notes The Avon Cinema History Project The Avon Cinema (260 Thayer Street) is looking for photos, newspaper clippings, and personal stories and memories to put in a retrospective exhibit in their lobby. Simply scan your materials and e-mail them to AvonHistoryProject@gmail.com. The mission of the Providence Preservation Society (PPS) is to improve the quality of life in the city of Providence through historic preservation and the enhancement of the built environment. PPS is a nonprofit membership organization, exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and is recognized as a charitable organization.

RI Historical Society -- September Events

 

Monday, September 7
9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street, Woonsocket
For more information: Anne Conway
(401) 769-9675 or aconway@rihs.org
 
11th Annual Labor Day Open House
Admission is free inside the Museum of Work & Culture and to all its events today! This year’s Open House commemorates the 75th Anniversary of the Woonsocket strike and riot in 1934. A play entitled "The ITU Meeting" about the strike’s aftermath will be presented. Also be sure to take part in our annual raffle!
 
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September 5 & 6
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street, Woonsocket
For more information: Anne Conway
(401) 769-9675 or aconway@rihs.org
 
Free Admission for Bank of America Customers!
The Bank of America Museums on US program provides unparalleled access to some of the nation’s greatest museums and cultural institutions. Visitors to the Museum of Work & Culture will receive free admission every first weekend of the month throughout the year by simply presenting their Bank of America card.  Additionally, participants will receive 10% off their purchases in the Museum Store.
 
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Saturdays, September 5 & 19
Evenings of full WaterFire lightings, 5:30 p.m.
Tour departs from the
John Brown House Museum
52 Power Street, Providence
$10 per person
Reservations requested: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org

RiverWalk: Before the Fires are Lit
Discover the winding history and continued importance of Providence’s rivers! Urban outdoor sculpture and beautiful civic and commercial buildings of varied architectural styles provide the setting for stories of Providence’s fabled past and dynamic present. This walk shares the history of Rhode Island’s capital city and the history of WaterFire. $10 per person. Reservations requested for this tour. For schedule of WaterFire lightings: www.waterfire.org <http://www.waterfire.org/> , or (401) 272-3111. This walk is offered in collaboration with WaterFire.
 
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Sunday, September 13 to Sunday, October 25
Gallery Exhibit
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street, Woonsocket
For more information: Ray Bacon
(401) 769-9675 or rbacon@rihs.org
 
“New Eyes on Woonsocket”
This photography exhibit by local artist Christina Lauzon offers a new viewpoint on buildings in Woonsocket in terms of architecture, texture, character and history. Lauzon, a Florida native, is co-owner of T. Lauzon Funeral Home in Woonsocket.
 
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Thursday, September 17, 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…. Ray Rickman, William J. Brown
Come hear Ray Rickman outline his groundbreaking research on William J. Brown and Brown’s family background. Brown was born in Providence in 1814 to a free family of color, but his grandfather came to Rhode Island on a slave ship owned by the famous Brown brothers. It is a rare historical experience to track an African-American family back to Africa. Rickman is a former president of the RI Black Heritage Society, and has conducted walking tours for the RIHS.

 

JCB Lunch Chat Schedule for September 2009

THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY

Fellows’ Luncheon Chats
A weekly series uninterrupted since 1984

• September 2, 2009 (Wednesday). Heather Jespersen and Leslie Tobias Olsen, John Carter Brown Library. "Introducing the JCB's Archive of Early American Images."

• September 9, 2009 (Wednesday). No talk today (Brown University Convocation). Lunch will be held.

• September 10, 2009 (Thursday). Talk in Spanish at Fellows’ House (79 Charlesfield Street). 5 p.m. Esperanza López Parada, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, SPAIN, William Reese Company Fellow. "Lost in Translation or the Failed Dictionary: Epi–sodes of Misunderstanding between Quechua and Spanish."

• September 16, 2009 (Wednesday). Natalia Sobre–villa Perea, University of Kent, UNITED KING–DOM, Barbara S. Mosbacher Fellow. "The Changing Meaning of Patria in the Late Colonial Andes."

• September 23, 2009 (Wednesday). Juan Ponce Vazquez, University of Pennsylvania, José Amor y Vázquez Fellow. "'The Most Disruptive Man in this Republic': Rodrigo Pimentel, Local Elites, and the Politics of Power in Santo Domingo, 1630-1680."

• September 30, 2009 (Wednesday). Jason Eldred, University of Virginia, Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellow. “‘For proof hereof’: Spain’s Role as Imperial Exemplar in English Colonial Tracts, 1576-1625 .”

The Fellows’ Talks will be given in Chancellor’s Dining Room, Sharpe Refectory, Brown University, Providence, RI., on Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. with some exceptions. The location and times of the ex–ceptions are included on calendar above. The chat will follow our weekly JCB Fellows luncheon, held every Wednesday of the calendar year, summer and winter, without interruption.

RI Historical Society -- Upcoming Events

 

Running through October 15
Tuesdays – Saturdays, 11:00am – 12:30pm
 
Benefit Street: A Mile of History
Tours depart from the
John Brown House Museum
52 Power Street, Providence
$12 per person;
$10 for RIHS members; $6 for children 12 and under.
For more information: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
Sponsored in part by AAA of Southern New England and Parkside Rotisserie & Bar

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Evenings of full WaterFire lightings, 5:30 p.m.
Saturdays, September 5 & 19, October 10
Tour departs from the
John Brown House Museum
52 Power Street, Providence
$10 per person
Reservations requested: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org

RiverWalk: Before the Fires are Lit
Discover the winding history and continued importance of Providence’s rivers! Urban outdoor sculpture and beautiful civic and commercial buildings of varied architectural styles provide the setting for stories of Providence’s fabled past and dynamic present. This walk shares the history of Rhode Island’s capital city and the history of WaterFire. $10 per person. Reservations requested for this tour. For schedule of WaterFire lightings: www.waterfire.org <http://www.waterfire.org/> , or (401) 272-3111. This walk is offered in collaboration with WaterFire.
 
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Monday, September 7
9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street, Woonsocket
For more information: Anne Conway
(401) 769-9675 or aconway@rihs.org
 
11th Annual Labor Day Open House
Admission is free inside the Museum of Work & Culture and to all its events today! This year’s Open House commemorates the 75th Anniversary of the Woonsocket strike and riot in 1934. A play entitled "The ITU Meeting" about the strike’s aftermath will be presented. Also be sure to take part in our annual raffle!
 
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September 5 & 6, October 3 & 4,
November 7 & 8, December 5 & 6
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street, Woonsocket
For more information: Anne Conway
(401) 769-9675 or aconway@rihs.org
 
Free Admission for Bank of America Customers!
The Bank of America Museums on US program provides unparalleled access to some of the nation’s greatest museums and cultural institutions. Visitors to the Museum of Work & Culture will receive free admission every first weekend of the month throughout the year by simply presenting their Bank of America card.  Additionally, participants will receive 10% off their purchases in the Museum Store.

RI Historical Society -- Upcoming Events

Through to Monday, September 7
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street, Woonsocket
For more information: Anne Conway
(401) 769-9675 or aconway@rihs.org
 
Gallery Exhibit: Happenstance: Women at Work
From June 28 through September 7, the Museum of Work & Culture will be featuring an exhibit of candid art photographs entitled Happenstance:  Women at Work by local artist Madeleine O. Robinson, Ph.D. of Cumberland, RI. The photos are women at their worksites in our local area. Madeleine has been an artist member of the Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA since 1999 and has participated annually in many of their shows, especially the Member, Flower and Small Works events. Her photographs have been exhibited at River Bend Visitor Center in Uxbridge, MA; Ten Year Retrospective at the East Greenwich Photo Gallery, January 1998; Community College of Rhode Island in Lincoln, RI and at the Attleboro City Hall, Attleboro, MA.  In 1998 Madeleine Robinson participated in a cultural exchange with the Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England, sister site of the Blackstone Valley.  Her second ten year retrospective was held at the Museum of Work & Culture during the summer of 2007.  

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Thursday, July 23, 6:30p.m.
John Brown House Museum Lawn
52 Power Street, Providence
For more information: Mary Lou Upham
(401) 331-8575 x33 or mlupham@rihs.org.
 
Concert Under the Elms
Capital Properties Inc., Presenting Sponsor
Magnolia plays Cajun music tonight. Adults $8; Children under 12 free; RIHS members and accompanying minor children, free.
NO PETS ALLOWED. Lite Fare & Beverage Sponsor: Eastside Marketplace.
Other sponsors include: Bank of America, Brown University, Esten & Richard Insurance, Partridge, Snow & Hahn, LLP, Coldmasters, Hinckley, Allen & Snyder, LLP, Joukowsky Family Foundation, Dr. & Mrs. George Goodwin, Mandel & Tracy, LLC, Pratt Radiation Oncology Associates, Inc., Dr. Russell & Ms. Carla Ricci, E.F. O’Donnell & Sons Co., Inc., Santoro Oil Company, Inc. and Washington Trust Company Wealth Management. Check out our website for the full series schedule: www.rihs.org <http://www.rihs.org/> .
 
Thursday, July 23 – Magnolia
Thursday, July 30 – The Carlos de Leon Latin Jazz band
Thursday, August 6 – Greg Abate Jazz Quartet
Thursday, August 13 – Pendragon
 
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Saturday, August 8, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Tour begins at St. Joseph’s Church
92 Hope Street, Providence
Tickets: $32.95
Reserve by Friday, July 31!
Contact: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
 
A Cultural Day in Fox Point
Today, come take a walk through and experience Fox Point, one of the oldest and most diverse neighborhoods in Providence. Learn about the ever-changing character of Fox Point, from its first colonial settlements through the waves of Irish, then Portuguese and Cape Verdean immigration, to the impacts of urban and highway development today. The tour’s route will focus on and include three active churches in the area: St. Joseph’s, Sheldon Street Church, and Our Lady of the Rosary. The neighborhood’s vibrant cultural story including a varied cuisine, art, architecture, and music, comes alive in these parishes. Lunch is included in this day-long excursion. Reservations are required. Please reserve by Friday, July 31st. The tour begins at St Joseph’s Church, 92 Hope Street, Providence.

 

RI Historical Society - Upcoming Events

Through to Monday, September 7
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street, Woonsocket
For more information: Anne Conway
(401) 769-9675 or aconway@rihs.org
 
Gallery Exhibit: Happenstance: Women at Work
    From June 28 through September 7, the Museum of Work & Culture will be featuring an exhibit
     of candid art photographs entitled Happenstance: Women at Work by local artist Madeleine O.
Robinson, Ph.D. of Cumberland, RI. The photos are women at their worksites in our local area.
Madeleine has been an artist member of the Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA since 1999 and has participated annually in many of their shows, especially the Member, Flower and Small Works events. Her photographs have been exhibited at River Bend Visitor Center in Uxbridge, MA; Ten Year Retrospective at the East Greenwich Photo Gallery, January 1998; Community College of Rhode Island in Lincoln, RI and at the Attleboro City Hall, Attleboro, MA.  In 1998 Madeleine Robinson participated in a cultural exchange with the Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England, sister site of the Blackstone Valley.  Her second ten year retrospective was held at the Museum of Work & Culture during the summer of 2007.  

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Thursday, July 16, 6:30p.m.
John Brown House Museum Lawn
52 Power Street, Providence
For more information: Mary Lou Upham
(401) 331-8575 x33 or mlupham@rihs.org.
 
Concert Under the Elms
Capital Properties Inc., Presenting Sponsor
Pendragon plays Celtic-inspired “roots music” tonight. Adults $8; Children under 12 free; RIHS members and accompanying minor children, free.
NO PETS ALLOWED. Lite Fare & Beverage Sponsor: Eastside Marketplace.
Other sponsors include: Bank of America, Brown University, Esten & Richard Insurance, Partridge, Snow & Hahn, LLP, Coldmasters, Hinckley, Allen & Snyder, LLP, Joukowsky Family Foundation, Dr. & Mrs. George Goodwin, Mandel & Tracy, LLC, Pratt Radiation Oncology Associates, Inc., Dr. Russell & Ms. Carla Ricci, E.F. O’Donnell & Sons Co., Inc., Santoro Oil Company, Inc. and Washington Trust Company Wealth Management. Check out our website for the full series schedule: www.rihs.org <http://www.rihs.org/> .
 
Thursday, July 16 – Pendragon
Thursday, July 23 – Magnolia
Thursday, July 30 – The Carlos de Leon Latin Jazz band
Thursday, August 6 – Greg Abate Jazz Quartet

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Saturday, July 18, 1:00 p.m.
Tour departs from the
John Brown House Museum
52 Power Street, Providence
Tickets: $10
To R.S.V.P.: Barbara Barnes
(401) 273-7507 x62 or bbarnes@rihs.org
 
Gallery Night in the Light of Saturday: Wickenden Street
Join us on these walking tours offered by Gallery Night Providence and the Rhode Island Historical Society. Let the fun you had on Gallery Night continue during the weekend. On the Saturday after Gallery Night in May, June and July, walk with a tour guide who knows the neighborhood and an artist who knows the galleries and the art. Learn more about the Providence art scene, and after the tour, linger awhile. Explore the neighborhood; find a great cafe for coffee and conversation; stay for dinner. Maps and local information provided. Today’s tour begins at 1:00 p.m. from the John Brown House Museum, 52 Power Street. Tickets are $10/person. Reservations are requested.

RI Historical Society -- Upcoming Events

 

Sunday, June 28 – Monday, September 7
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street, Woonsocket
For more information: Anne Conway
(401) 769-9675 or aconway@rihs.org
 
Gallery Exhibit: Happenstance: Women at Work
From June 28 through September 7, the Museum of Work & Culture will be featuring an exhibit of candid art photographs entitled Happenstance:  Women at Work by local artist Madeleine O. Robinson, Ph.D. of Cumberland, RI. The photos are women at their worksites in our local area. Madeleine has been an artist member of the Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA since 1999 and has participated annually in many of their shows, especially the Member, Flower and Small Works events. Her photographs have been exhibited at River Bend Visitor Center in Uxbridge, MA; Ten Year Retrospective at the East Greenwich Photo Gallery, January 1998; Community College of Rhode Island in Lincoln, RI and at the Attleboro City Hall, Attleboro, MA.  In 1998 Madeleine Robinson participated in a cultural exchange with the Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England, sister site of the Blackstone Valley.  Her second ten year retrospective was held at the Museum of Work & Culture during the summer of 2007.  

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Wednesday, July 8, 12:00 noon
Tour departs from the
Hampton Inn & Suites
58 Weybosset Street, Providence
Free, Contact: Barbara Barnes
(401) 273-7507 x62 or bbarnes@rihs.org
 
Downcity Alive! Art and the City
Join us on 45-minute noon time walks sponsored by the Providence Foundation and Rhode Island Historical Society that are free and open to all! They are discovery tours for those who work, shop and walk downtown at lunch time. Today, come see and learn about the public sculpture and architectural details that create an outdoor gallery in downtown.
 
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Thursday, July 9, 6:30p.m.
John Brown House Museum Lawn
52 Power Street, Providence
For more information: Mary Lou Upham
(401) 331-8575 x33 or mlupham@rihs.org.
 
Concert Under the Elms
Capital Properties Inc., Presenting Sponsor
The Duke Robillard Band plays classic blues, R&B, and swing tonight. Adults $8; Children under 12 free; RIHS members and accompanying minor children, free.
NO PETS ALLOWED. Lite Fare & Beverage Sponsor: Eastside Marketplace.
Other sponsors include: Bank of America, Brown University, Esten & Richard Insurance, Partridge, Snow & Hahn, LLP, Coldmasters, Hinckley, Allen & Snyder, LLP, Joukowsky Family Foundation, Dr. & Mrs. George Goodwin, Mandel & Tracy, LLC, Pratt Radiation Oncology Associates, Inc., Dr. Russell & Ms. Carla Ricci, E.F. O’Donnell & Sons Co., Inc., Santoro Oil Company, Inc. and Washington Trust Company Wealth Management. Check out our website for the full series schedule: www.rihs.org <http://www.rihs.org/> .
 
Thursday, July 9 – The Duke Robillard Band
Thursday, July 16 – Pendragon
Thursday, July 23 – Magnolia
Thursday, July 30 – The Carlos de Leon Latin Jazz band
Thursday, August 6 – Greg Abate Jazz Quartet
 
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Saturday, July 18, 1:00 p.m.
Tour departs from the
John Brown House Museum
52 Power Street, Providence
Tickets: $10
To R.S.V.P.: Barbara Barnes
(401) 273-7507 x62 or bbarnes@rihs.org
 
Gallery Night in the Light of Saturday: Wickenden Street
Join us on these walking tours offered by Gallery Night Providence and the Rhode Island Historical Society. Let the fun you had on Gallery Night continue during the weekend. On the Saturday after Gallery Night in May, June and July, walk with a tour guide who knows the neighborhood and an artist who knows the galleries and the art. Learn more about the Providence art scene, and after the tour, linger awhile. Explore the neighborhood; find a great cafe for coffee and conversation; stay for dinner. Maps and local information provided. Today’s tour begins at 1:00 p.m. from the John Brown House Museum, 52 Power Street. Tickets are $10/person. Reservations are requested.
 
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The RIHS Library will be closed on Thursday, July 23, 2009 until 1pm for a teacher workshop.

FW: PPS July E-Newsletter

In This Issue Preservation Education Events Employment Volunteer Opportunities Community Notes Quick Links Become a Member PPS Website Preservation Nation Upcoming PPS Events October 23-24 Fall Symposium October 24 Gold Dome Gala December 5 Holiday Festival   July 2009 News Preservation Historic Schools Recommended for Replacement May Be Spared Providence Public Schools Superintendent Tom Brady has commissioned a review of the 2006 DeJong Facilities Master Plan for the Providence Public Schools, which recommended a nearly $800 million overhaul of all public school buildings. Regarding the study, which favored new construction over preservation, Brady told The Providence Journal that "the reliance on new construction left me cold." To read the full article, click here. Nathan Bishop Middle School Rehabilitation The school, included on PPS's 2007 Most Endangered Properties list, had been recommended for rehabilitation by the DeJong Facilities Master Plan, but many parents and neighbors demanded a new, state-of-the-art school. Following meetings with the disparate stakeholders and persuasive reuse plans from Ai3 Architects, the decision was made to reuse the building and transform it into a 21st century learning environment. Now, over two years later, the project is approaching completion. The school will reopen this fall as a testament to the success of rehabilitating Providence's historic public school buildings. Brown Chooses Preservation over New Construction for Two Buildings Brown University has announced that it is abandoning the planned construction of two new buildings in favor of historic preservation. The proposed Mind Brain Behavior Building, which was to be built on the site of 127, 129, and 135 Angell Street (2008 PPS Most Endangered Properties List), will be housed in the renovated Metcalf Research and Chemistry Buildings on the corner of Thayer and Waterman Streets. Brown had also planned to build a new medical education building in the Jewelry District; instead, the University will renovate 222 Richmond Street, a former jewelry factory. It will house Brown's medical school along with neighborhood retail. PPS applauds Brown's decision to preserve these distinctive buildings! Long Awaited Grocery Store Opens Downtown At last, downtown Providence has a grocery store! On Thursday, June 18, Gourmet Heaven opened in the historic Fletcher Building (ca. 1893) at 173 Weybosset Street. The Fletcher Building, originally two stories, was built upwards as the city grew and was fitted with storefronts in the mid-20th century. For more information, click here. Education Fall Symposium: The American Renaissance and Providence's Golden Age This fall, PPS will re-launch its adult educational programs by taking a look at the American Renaissance (1876-1914) in Providence with a two-day symposium featuring experts' lectures and site visits. The symposium coincides with our 2009 fall event, The Gold Dome Gala, to be held under the gilded dome of the Old Stone Bank, one of Providence's most iconic commercial buildings of the period. This topic will be further explored through a series of lectures in 2010. Please mark your calendars for October 23-24 and check www.ppsri.org for updates. Mark Your Calendar: PPS Children's Heritage Education Docent Training September 22-24 PPS is looking for individuals interested in leading walking tours for elementary and middle school students, grades 4-8. Each year, docents lead over 3500 students on walking tours of Providence. PPS's award-winning program uses the city's architecture as a textbook from which students learn the history of Providence. No previous experience is necessary - just an interest in history and/or architecture and the desire to work with school children. Upon completing a 2.5 day training provided by PPS, docents are asked to make a one-year commitment to the program.  For more information please contact Kathleen McAreavey, Education Coordinator, by e-mail at kmcareavey@ppsri.org or telephone at 401-831-7440, ext. 103. Events Festival of Historic Houses 30th Anniversary - A Grand Celebration PPS celebrated the 30th Anniversary of its signature event in style with a special garden party kick-off sponsored by Tiffany & Co. on May 29, a June 6 tour in the majestic Stimson Avenue area, and a June 7 tour in the eclectic Broadway-Armory Historic District. For more on the Tiffany Garden Party, click here; for more on the tours, click here. Sponsored by: Dominion Energy, Pella Windows and Doors, Bank Rhode Island, Fireman's Fund, Starkweather and Shepley Insurance Brokerage, Anonymous, Dimeo Construction Company, Narragansett Bay Insurance Company, New England Home, and WPRI-TV. Employment Preservation & Advocacy Coordinator Position Full time contract position at PPS available immediately. Click here for full description. Send application materials to jobs@ppsri.org.   Volunteer Opportunities General Office/Clerical Assistant PPS seeks a volunteer to assist with general office/clerical tasks, including but not limited to answering a multi-line phone, greeting visitors, working on special projects, mailings, and attending and assisting with various major events. Experience with Microsoft Office programs necessary. Help needed Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.  Must be pleasant on the phone and able to handle multiple tasks at once. Please email your interest and availability to info@ppsri.org. Community Notes PPS Graffiti Statement Included in "Art from the Streets" Exhibit   Appearing at the URI Feinstein Providence Campus July 1 - August 20, "Art from the Streets" features homeless artists' work about their life in Rhode Island. In response to the inclusion of imagery of graffiti, a position statement from PPS has been included; click here to read it. July 3 To Be Declared George M. Cohan Day in Providence! Click here for a full schedule of events, which includes an unveiling of a statue of Cohan and a tour of Fox Point, where Cohan was born. "Landscape of Industry: An Industrial History of the Blackstone Valley" Book Release Party Tuesday, July 7, 10:00 a.m. Alternatives at the Whitin Mill, 50 Douglas Rd. Whitinsville, MA Click here for more information. Events at Roger Williams National Memorial Junior Ranger Day, July 11, 2:00-4:00 p.m. For more information, visit www.nps.gov/rowi, e-mail sparkle_bryant@nps.gov, or call 401-521-7266. First Amendment Night, July 16, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Visit the Roger Williams Memorial website or e-mail john_mcniff@nps.gov for more information. Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture Through July 20 at the RISD Museum of Art Click here for more information on this expansive exhibit. The mission of the Providence Preservation Society (PPS) is to improve the quality of life in the city of Providence through historic preservation and the enhancement of the built environment. PPS is a nonprofit membership organization, exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and is recognized as a charitable organization.

Defining Sustainability - Fall 2009 Season Preview - ASU Art Museum

ASU Art Museum becomes catalyst for dialog and change in sustainability through art

ANNOUNCES FALL 2009 EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

*complete list of fall exhibitions below
Invest in the continued success and excellence in exhibitions and programming provided to you by the ASU Art Museum by giving online today:
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TEMPE, Ariz. (June 26, 2009) Surprising. Invigorating. Thought provoking. The Arizona State University Art Museum continues to present the best in contemporary art with exhibitions in all media by regional and international, emerging and established artists. The ASU Art Museum organizes these outstanding contemporary art exhibitions – which often receive national and international attention – and presents them in innovative ways for students and visitors.

The fall 2009 season, titled Defining Sustainability, is a series of dynamic and interactive projects that will come together at the ASU Art Museum and Ceramics Research Center to illustrate ideas about sustainability. Each exhibition or project tells a simple story – an artist’s proposal for green transportation or a designer’s solution for recycled shade structures – which together convey the complexity of sustaining life on earth. A nontraditional art museum project, artists and designers, faculty and students will engage the greater Phoenix community in their creative processes and in conversations on sustainability. The diverse projects range in materials and format, and are installed throughout the ASU Art Museum to tell stories of environmental, social and cultural sustainability.

In Defining Sustainability, art and the museum are catalyst and site for campus and community members to gather and further the conversation on sustainability. While many of the projects focus on this place, they have implications for art, museums and urban centers throughout the country and the world. Today’s art museum is a pristine, controlled environment, keeping the landscape, with all its environmental systems, hazards and problems, at bay. The ASU Art Museum strives to forge a new model for the university art museum as an interdisciplinary lab to explore real world issues through the lens of the creative process.

Our museum is a gathering place for people to interact, collaborate, explore artistic vision, participate in creative process and discuss our contemporary world.

To illustrate some ways in which the idea of sustainability affects us, three separate projects will physically alter our museum buildings, if only temporarily: Native Confluence: Sustaining Cultures brings together Native American artists led by noted artist Nora Naranjo Morse, in a collaboration at the Ceramics Research Center that builds throughout the season, who will use organic materials to create an installation that will extend beyond the walls of the building; Political Ply, in which recycled political posters will be used to create shade structures on the museum’s west side sculpture courts; and Canalscape for Metro Phoenix, which will create an environment in the museum’s entryway to view project ideas and information about the history of Phoenix’s canals and prospects for the future.

This season includes our Social Studies initiative at the ASU Art Museum as well. Social Studies opens the creative process by turning over a gallery to an artist who considers social interaction a crucial part of his or her art-making. Visitors are invited to participate with the artist in the gallery to create the objects and installations that form the exhibition, or to observe and question the process. Now on our fifth project, New York-based, Canadian artist Jillian McDonald visits the desert in the fall of 2009 with her project, Alone Together in the Dark. McDonald’s project is expected to explore different aspects of Arizona ghost towns, which are the remnants of both unsustainable cities and industries.

In addition to these projects, the museum is also featuring exhibitions in the galleries that highlight issues of sustainability in desert and other environments through the use of prints, sound sculptures and other media. The season will be featured in national and international conferences including the U.S. GreenBuild conference, coming to Phoenix November 10-14, 2009 (www.greenbuildexpo.org) and World Wide Views on Global Warming, in conjunction with the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, Denmark, which plans to hold one of its satellite community events in Phoenix, dates to be determined (www.wwviews.org).

In addition to the Defining Sustainability projects and exhibitions, the ASU Art Museum continues to advance its Moving Targets initiative with the group video exhibition, I'm Keeping an Eye on You, which explores the broad and lasting effects of our curiosity and intrusions upon others. The exhibition features artists Mounira Al Solh (Amsterdam/Beirut), Rachel Garfield (London), Charlotte Ginsborg (London), Pia Greschner (Berlin), Myung-Soo Kim (Tempe), Yaron Lapid (London), Jeff Luckey (New York/Berlin), Johnna MacArthur (Los Angeles), Michael Mohan (Los Angeles) and Corinna Schnitt (Hamburg), and was curated by John Spiak initially as a single channel installation for Aqua Art Miami, December 2008.

*Press and freelance writers may call for images and interview opportunities with artists, collectors and curators featured this season.

FALL 2009 ASU ART MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
JILLIAN McDONALD: ALONE TOGETHER IN THE DARK
Social Studies Project 5
Artist in residence in the gallery: October 5-November 14, 2009
Exhibition: October 5, 2009-January 9, 2010

Social Studies challenges the traditional exhibition format by opening with an empty gallery and an artist in residence who considers social interaction a crucial part of their art-making. Visitors are invited into the gallery to participate with the artist to create objects and installations, or to observe and question the process. Working through public/private partnerships with multiple ASU departments, schools and community organizations, the project brings museum visitors into the art-making process, invites extensive collaboration with community and university students, and greatly enhances the museum’s role as a vital gathering place.
 
In this, our fifth Social Studies project, Canadian artist Jillian McDonald will explore sustainability in the museum while including grassroots, community conversations. “At this point, my thoughts for the Tempe project circulate around haunted sites, ghosts and abandoned houses, focusing on ideas around sustainable living, ghost towns and The Day of the Dead,” says McDonald. “I will be visiting Arizona in June to get acquainted with the landscape and local customs, and to further develop site-specific ideas.”
 
Usually, a work of art is created in the solitude of an artist’s studio, shipped to an exhibition space and installed by museum staff; this project will allow museum visitors direct access to a contemporary artist and her creative process. Research, discussion and art-making are the subject matter of Social Studies rather than a behind-the-scenes activity.
 
The project will culminate in an installation, led by the artist, which will remain at the museum beyond the six-week residency. There are few artists in Phoenix who work in this method and, as the city continues to mature, projects like Social Studies will play an important role in presenting new ways to make, think about and participate in art.
 

NOWHERE TO HIDE: THREE ARTISTS IN THE DESERT
Julie Anand, Richard Lerman, Carrie Marill
October 10, 2009-February 20, 2010

Nowhere to Hide presents the work of three artists who live in Phoenix and have explored definitions of sustainability in their multi-media artworks. Their approaches range from photography to sound sculpture and gouache paintings.
 
Julie Anand’s Material Histories are based on her walks around the Valley; as she moves through the city’s neighborhoods she collects lost and discarded items along the way. Her brilliantly-hued photographs present the found objects like specimens and begin to tell stories of the people who have traveled along the same path – their habits and preoccupations.
 
Richard Lerman is a well-known sound artist who creates speakers and instruments from tumbleweeds and cactus, cereal boxes and rejection letters. His work often explores the inevitable trade-offs in our interaction with the land, how even green systems and solutions impact our environment.
 
Visual Aides, by Carrie Marill, is a series of gouache paintings which represent environmental problems and solutions brought on and devised by humans. The series was inspired by candy-colored classroom posters from the 1940s, found by the artist at a flea market in France, of different domestic, agricultural, industrial and maritime landscapes. She reprints the images on watercolor paper and updates them with current events and objects, like recycling bins in a bucolic farmyard and a cargo ship with a parasail in the busy harbor scene.
 
Marill, like all of the artists in the exhibition, grapples with issues of personal responsibility and control, sustainable systems that inevitably require compromise and the complex, global challenges of humans living on earth.


DEFINING SUSTAINABILITY:
FROM THE ASU ART MUSEUM COLLECTION
Exhibition co-curated by Heather S. Lineberry, Interim Director/Senior and
Claudia Mesch, Associate Professor, Art History.
Seminar taught by ASU Herberger Institute’s Claudia Mesch, Associate Professor, Art History, and Julie Anand, Assistant Professor, Photography.
September 19, 2009-January 30, 2010

Students from the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and the School of Sustainability will work with faculty and curators to explore art and sustainability issues raised by artworks in the ASU Art Museum’s permanent collection. The exhibition will include both past and present examples of artists exploring human interaction with the land, urbanization, natural and manmade materials, pollution, cultural sustainability and sustainable processes, and will explore how artists have brought issues of sustainability to a broader community, encouraged participation and dialog, and proposed creative solutions.
 
The exhibition will include historic precedents, like the 19th century Hudson River school painters who painted classic American landscapes with encroaching signs of industrialization, as well as selections of work by contemporary artists like Matthew Moore, who has created compelling land art works on his family’s farm in the middle of the suburbs in West Phoenix, and Eddie Dominguez, who uses ceramics to explore human history and impact on the earth.
 
The students in the seminar will bring their different disciplines to their discussions and research. As the conversation deepens, the projects that emerge from the class will be accessible to the public in the gallery on a class bulletin board and on the website including a class blog.  Class sessions with guest speakers from the fields of art, science and the humanities will be open to the public. The students in the seminar will also interact with the artists in residence during the larger fall season.
 
Urban Design Projects -

CANALSCAPE FOR METRO PHOENIX
November 7-December 1, 2009
Dr. Nan Ellin and her students create a canalscape in the museum’s entryway and Nymphaeum.

Amsterdam has 47 miles of canals. Venice has 125. And Phoenix has … 181! Yet Amsterdam and Venice are widely known and lauded for their stunning canal-oriented cityscapes, while Phoenix has largely turned its back on this tremendous asset. We use the canal banks for recreation and have been engaged in canal bank enhancements – public art, benches, landscaping and shade structures – but we have failed to leverage the opportunity to create special places alongside the canal banks that combine live, work and play areas.
 
Canalscape proposes the creation of vital urban hubs where canals meet major streets.  This mixed-use "urban infill" would provide highly desirable places to gather by the water as well as an alternative to sprawl. Unlike Amsterdam and Venice, much smaller cities with urbanized canals throughout, Phoenix’s trademark would be distributed canalscape, reflecting its unique quality of being a “network” city as well as a region that creatively intersperses urban living into a breathtaking desert landscape. Canalscape would contribute to a sustainable and authentic Desert Urbanism for Metro Phoenix.
 
Dr. Nan Ellin and her students will create a canalscape in the museum’s entryway and Nymphaeum. Water features and plants will create an environment to view project ideas and information about the history of Phoenix’s canals and prospects for the future. For more information, see:
ASU Office of the President podcast on Canalscape:  http://president.asu.edu/node/667
ASU Canalscape website:  http://canalscape.asu.edu/
AIA Canalscape Competition:  http://aia-phoenixmetro.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/canal-comp-rules.pdf
 

POLITICAL PLY: RECYCLED EVAPORATIVE COOLING SHADE STRUCTURES
October – December 2009
Architecture faculty member Jason Griffiths and Design students create innovative shade structures for the ASU Art Museum’s sculpture courts.

Architecture faculty member Jason Griffiths and Design students create innovative shade structures for the ASU Art Museum’s sculpture courts. Using recycled materials, specifically old political posters, they have built a gridded structure that will provide shade, respond to the existing architecture and inject color and whimsy into the environment. On the western side of the building, the courts are currently inhospitable for visitors or art due to the ferocity of our climate, the building materials and lack of shade; even in the winter, the sunlight can be uncomfortable for prolonged visits. The new structures promise to positively impact the visitor’s experience in the space in manifold ways. Social and educational events will take place in the court during this time frame to test the new environment created by the structures.


Sustainability in Clay at ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center -

NATIVE CONFLUENCE: SUSTAINING CULTURES
August 29 – November 28, 2009
Nora Naranjo Morse, Espanola, NM
Athena & Bill Steen, Canelo Project, Elgin, AZ
Postcommodity (Kade Twist, Steven Yazzie, Nathan Young and Raven Chacon), Phoenix, AZ

For centuries, native peoples have practiced sustainable living, having a cultural and spiritual connection to the environment and a deep respect for the balance of natural and rhythmic cycles of plant, animal and human life which has always been nurtured and guarded. In Native Confluence, three Native American artists (or groups of artists) from Arizona and New Mexico will each spend one week per month in residence.
 
Prior to opening, all of the artists together will conceptualize a theme or direction for the project, which will then be continually developing throughout their residencies at the museum, inspired through the lens of the collective. The first artist in residence will start the project knowing that later artists will add or subtract to the piece over a period of time. In the end, there will be a true collaborative installation that has been inspired by material, cultural and personal creativity.
 
The project will include an installation in progress within the gallery at the CRC as well as seep outside onto the exterior walls of the building. It is anticipated that materials to be used will include clay, adobe, dirt, stone, branches and other organic materials.
 
Native Confluence speaks to a native worldview in terms of inter-generational methods of practicing sustainability. It's this approach to organic materials – tools from ancestral traditions – that allow new doors to open. This idea is holistic in its approach; the idea of sustainability is consciousness about the whole – whole community, world and self.

Tentative residency schedule:
August 24-29; Postcommodity residency-exhibition project opens to the public August 29
September 21-25, Nora Naranjo Morse residency, opening reception October 9 with artist
November 9-14, Athena & Bill Steen residency, in conjunction with the Green build conference (tours at museum on Friday & Saturday)


Moving Targets -

I’M KEEPING AN EYE ON YOU
September 19 – December 12, 2009
Mounira Al Solh (Amsterdam/Beirut), Rachel Garfield (London), Charlotte Ginsborg (London), Pia Greschner (Berlin), Myung-Soo Kim (Tempe), Yaron Lapid (London), Jeff Luckey (New York/Berlin), Johnna MacArthur (Los Angeles), Michael Mohan (Los Angeles), Corinna Schnitt (Hamburg)

The Moving Targets initiative builds on the museum's long history of exploring the role of new media in the arts. The museum presented its first media exhibition in 1993, Nam June Paik: Time for Change and represented the U.S. at the 1995 Venice Biennale, Italy art exhibition with the work of five installations by Bill Viola. The ASU Art Museum supports emerging artists and critically acclaimed practitioners of new genres through solo exhibitions, including William Kentridge, Shirin Neshat, Jim Campbell, Pipilotti Rist, Gary Hill and Francesco Torres. In 1997, the museum developed an annual short film and video festival, which continues to present the work of international artists. As technology penetrates all aspects of art, the museum strives to present the most innovative and engaging works.

Through personal, established relationships, casual encounters, forced institutional interactions, or contact from a safe distance, we often overstep our boundaries. Whether we are conscious or not of our boundary breaking, we are all guilty at one time or another of intruding into other people's lives and space. What may pass as uneventful for one individual may be the cause of great anxiety and fear for another. I’m Keeping an Eye on You explores the broad and lasting effects of our curiosity and intrusions upon others.

Organized by John Spiak, ASU Art Museum curator, I’m Keeping an Eye on You premiered as a Video Project Space at Aqua Art Miami in December 2008. This project is made possible by the generosity of Aqua Art Miami and Friends of the Arizona State University Art Museum.  As part of the Moving Targets series, the ASU Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival is held each April. Look for its 14th annual screening in April 2010.

FRIDAY CONVERSATIONS @ 11
at ASU Art Museum

A series of discussions to further the conversation about our exhibitions and events, Fridays at 11 a.m. (Fall season subject to change. Please refer to http://ASUArtMuseum.asu.edu <http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/> for the most updated information.)

Sept. 18: I’m Keeping an Eye on You, with John Spiak
Sept. 26: Defining Sustainability: From the ASU Art Museum Collection, with Heather Lineberry, Claudia Mesch and others
Oct. 2: Defining Sustainability: Sustainable Interiors, with Deborah Schneiderman
Oct. 9: Alone Together in the Dark, with Jillian McDonald and John Spiak, The Start
Oct. 16: Nowhere to Hide: Three Artists in the Desert, with Julie Anand
Oct. 30: Political Ply, with Jason Griffins
Nov. 13: Alone Together in the Dark, with Jillian McDonald and John Spiak, The End


JAN FISHER MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES
Oct. 22: artist Kathy Butterly
Kathy Butterly's quirky, small sized sculptures and exquisitely colored glazes merge human and vegetal forms into organic ceramic shapes. The artist creates in response to her surroundings and topical issues. She describes her newer work as starting to feel like figure/landscapes involving outside elements. "Maybe I would call these ‘harmonious-parasitic-invaders,'" Butterly says. Labor intensive, Butterly often fires her work up to 20-30 times to achieve the jewel-like effects she seeks.

Her work is represented in numerous national and international collections and her work is sought after by collectors worldwide. While at ASU, Butterly will also meet with ceramics graduate students to offer critiques.


ASU ART MUSEUM
EXHIBITIONS ON THE ROAD

April 24 – September 6, 2009
Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection
Museum of Fine Arts
Santa Fe, New Mexico

June 26 – September 13, 2009
Eden Revisited: The Ceramic Art of Kurt Weiser
Erie Art Museum
Erie, Pennsylvania

July 11 – October 4, 2009
Business As Usual: New Video from China / Cao Fei and Yang Fudong
Henry Art Gallery
Seattle, Washington
November 13, 2009 – January 10, 2010
Innovation & Change
Vero Beach Museum of Art
Vero Beach, Florida

The ASU Art Museum is part of the Herberger Institute of Design and The Arts at Arizona State University. The museum is located on the southeast corner of Mill Avenue and 10th Street in Tempe and admission is free. Free parking for Museum patrons is available in front of the ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center in marked stalls.  Hours are 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. on Tuesdays (during the academic year), 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and closed on Sundays and Mondays. We offer additional educator hours by appointment, Monday and before 11 a.m. Tuesdays – Thursdays. To learn more about the museum, call 480.965.2787 or visit http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu <http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/>