Inspired by the anthropology museum, we asked ourselves, can we put a familiar culture in a case?
What object defines your Brown experience? A Ratty tray? Your Sex, Power God costume? A photo of your friends singing along to Dave Binder on Spring Weekend? That copy of The Democratic Wish that you never cracked open?
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Opening May 3 – June/July, 2011
Manning Hall, 1st Floor Gallery (Haffenreffer Musuem)
Join us for a student-curated exhibit and reception celebrating the 375th anniversary of Providence. Capital Ideas: Planning Providence commemorates the history of Providence by presenting design plans drawn from the City Archives. View proposals for never-built projects and imagine the places in Providence that might have been. What kind of Providence would you design? Visit the Exhibit website!
Opening: May 4 – June 22, 2011
Providence City Hall, 25 Dorrance Street, 2nd Floor Gallery
In one month, 100 pairs of friends, family members, and acquaintances sat down together to record their interviews.The stories these visitors told span generations and together their voices tell a rich narrative of the moments that can shape a lifetime. Listen Closely: Stories of a Lifetime shared moments from these interviews, which were recorded in 2007 during StoryCorps' visit to Rhode Island, sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. The performance prompted visitors to pay attention to the ways we listen, along with the stories we hear.
Photos from the staging and produciton of Listen Closely in the Nightingale Brown House.
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May 5, 6, and 7, 2011
John Nicholas Brown Center
357 Benefit Street
WIndshield (2011) is an evocation of one of John Nicholas Brown's earliest and most important modernist commissions, Windshield House, a summer home for the Brown family on Fisher's Island, New York. Designed by the Los Angeles-based and seminal modernist architect Richard Neutra from 1936 to 1938, Windshield House was the first house built by the architect on the East Coast of the United States. Twice destroyed – first by the hurricane of 1938 and second by fire - the house exists now only as archive, memory and an affective absence.
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Opening April 29 – Ongoing
357 Benefit Street (Nightingale Brown House) Gardens
This exhibit is currated by students of AMCV0190W, "Displaying Activism Then and Now", as an experiment that explores the intersection of activism and curatorial techniques. Our exhibition asks how museums can be active participants in struggles for social justice, and how we can get visitors to participate. If you're in Providence, come learn about histories of struggle and transformation in the feminist, environmentalist, and queer rights movements. Examine and share tactics and methods for doing activism. Take action to improve the world we all share!. In the weeks following the opening, each of us – the six curators – will offer special tours during the Hay's open hours (Monday – Thursday 10-6, Friday 10-5).View the student's exhibit site.
April 18 – May 31, 2011
John Hay Library's Gammell Gallery
Speaking of Wickenden is a cell phone walking tour that shares stories of Fox Point, past and present. Produced by Brown University students and based on interviews with Fox Point residents and business owners, the audio tour highlights changes on Wickenden Street over time. Look for our audio tour stops along Wickenden Street from Benefit to Ives streets, and use your own cell phone to listen to "Fox Pointers" sharing their memories of this unique neighborhood in Providence.
December 16, 2010 – October 31, 2011
Wickenden Street from Ives to Benefit streets
More about the Fox Point Community History Project
Invisible String is the first iteration of Roadscore, a new series of work by artist Fiona Hallinan exploring mobility, memory, and materiality. It takes the form of an exhibition and a site-responsive sound installation relating to the demise and demolition of the original stretch of highway I-195 in downtown Providence, RI. Resulting from a residency at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Fiona will collaborate with Ian Russell and the students of his "Designing Heritages" course to create an open studio in the Nightingale-Brown House of their efforts of chorography, deep mapping, and contemporary antiquarianism through drawings, photographs, narratives, and audio recordings relating the life of old I-195. Exploring new media applications of traditional Irish storytelling (seanchaí), Fiona will produce a peripatetic sound installation activating relations between the studio, stories and material traces and absences of the highway. The audio piece will be available to be collected and experienced either at the John Nicholas Brown Center and online. Special thanks to the sponsors of this installation: the Consulate General of Ireland, Boston and Culture Ireland.
April 30 – September 8, 2010
Exhibit Hours
Monday – Friday, 2 – 5 p.m.
John Nicholas Brown Center
Carriage House Gallery
357 Benefit Street
Food on the Move: America's Traveling Tastes is a collaboration between the Johnson & Wales Culinary Arts Museum and the public humanities program at Brown University. The exhibit explores the history of eating while traveling on different modes of transportation and the fascinating stories behind the meals. Who prepares the food we eat? What does eating mean in different cultures and how is it adapted to the American context? What does our food on the move say about American culture?
April 16, 2010 – April 15, 2011
Exhibit Hours
Tuesday – Sunday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Closed Mondays and major holidays.
Culinary Arts Museum
Johnson & Wales University, Harborside Campus
315 Harborside Boulevard
Providence, RI
The Food on the Move exhibition is part of a larger project that includes public programming about food and eating right here in Rhode Island. You can follow us on Twitter @smallbitesri.
Check out the Food on the Move project blog, Small Bites
Learn more about the Food on the Move project
Brown's Culture on Display
Participate! Upload a picture with a sentence or two about why your object defines your life at Brown on the exhibit's Facebook page.
Capital Ideas: Planning Providence
Please join us at an Opening Reception, Wednesday, May 4, 5-7pm at Providence's City Hall, 25 Dorrance Street.
Speaking of Wickenden
The 12 audio tour stops include stories about Wickenden Street, churches and other important institutions, businesses, the waterfront, and more.
Invisible String
Fiona Hallinan is an Irish artist exploring the demise and demolition of the original stretch of highway I-195 in downtown Providence, RI.
Food on the Move
The Food on the Move exhibition is hosted by the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University.