Karyn Olivier creates sculptures, installations, and public art. Her work often intersects and collapses multiple histories and memories with present-day narratives. She will discuss several projects which engage existing monuments and her fabrication of contemporary monuments and memorials.

With 3,000 members throughout the region, the New England Museum Association has been a hub for keeping museums and museum people connected during the coronavirus crisis. Here’s your chance to speak with NEMA Executive Director Dan Yaeger about the latest from the front lines of museum leadership, how people are coping, and the short/long-term prospects for museum careers.

Having been closed for 18 months of renovation, Providence Public Library was scheduled to begin its grand reopening on March 30th, with events and activities designed to bring crowds into the Library’s beautiful new public spaces throughout the weeks and months ahead. Instead, the Library didn’t open, and all public gathering for the foreseeable future has ceased.

How many times a year do you visit a museum (when there’s not a pandemic)? How many times a day do you check your phone? Museums’ social media accounts offer great ways to reach the audiences where they are and create unique experiences that you can’t offer IRL. But, it’s harder than it looks.

(Margaret) Zheng, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Heritage & Museology, Fudan University (Shanghai, China). 

Talk description coming soon.

Defiant Spirits: Fernando Brito’s Sinaloa is an exhibition of Fernando Brito’s moving images of life in Sinaloa, a province that has been wrecked by the struggle between one of the most powerful drug cartels in the world and the Mexican government. The award-winning photographer’s work reveals both the raw violence and the resilience of life in Sinaloa under the Cartel de Sinaloa.

The exhibition is on view at the Center for Public Humanities Gallery February 6 - April 16.

The closing reception will be held in conjunction with Gallery Night Providence.

How can we create exhibit experiences that prioritize visitors’ comfort, enjoyment, and safety? We will look at case studies, identify challenges to serving visitors of various ages and abilities, and discuss strategies for meeting their unique needs.

Unity and collective empowerment can transform previously separated histories to reimagine an empowering future. In the process of colonizing what we now know as the United States, the indigenous peoples of the Americas faced murder and displacement at the hands of European migrants. Indigenous peoples from Africa were enslaved and displaced by those same hands. “Entangled Legacies” is a prompt that invites four artists to re-think, re-interpret or further meditate on their personal histories with these considerations in mind.

Panel discussion featuring Fernando Brito and the exhibition curator Didier Aubert, Director of American Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris in conversation with Barbara Mundy, Professor of Art history at Fordham University and Denise Mathews-Reidpath, Co-Executive Director of Girls Roc! RI, who is from Sinaloa.