Projects
In Development
Snowtown: A Hidden History / Public history and art project that tells the story of a little known 19th-century multi-racial neighborhood in the heart of Providence, demolished to make way for the city’s railroad tracks — to include exhibitions, walking tours, a digital publication and physical markers, 2019 - ongoing.
My State House
2021 - 2022
My State House was a participatory art and design project that invited artists, architects, designers and community members to imagine ways to make the Rhode Island State House more welcoming, more accessible and more of a true public commons in keeping with its symbolic identity as “the people’s house,” culminating in an exhibition at the Rhode Island State House in the fall of 2022.
The Providence Album, Vol. I: Carmel Vitullo & Harry Callahan | May 4 - July 21, 2019
The Providence Album, Vol. I revisited a tumultuous decade in the life of the city through the 1960s-era photographs of Carmel Vitullo and Harry Callahan. The exhibition included twenty-four prints and video interviews with Carmel Vitullo, Stephan Brigidi – an early student of Callahan’s at RISD – and seniors who remembered the city during this period, including the de facto segregation of downtown.
Urban Museum of Modern Architecture:
New Haven | 2002-04
UMMA: New Haven was a two-year city-wide project that turned New Haven into a “museum” of modern architecture, featuring the work of prominent American architects who designed buildings in the city between 1950 and 1975. Visitors to each of the seven “exhibited” buildings found interpretive brochures housed in kiosk-like structures designed by GRO Architects to reflect important elements of that building’s design. The project was exhibited at the New Haven Museum in 2004.
All Projects
Les Vues d’Amérique du Nord: Artists Respond | Curator of a two-year artist residency inviting two Rhode Island-based artists, Jazzmen Lee-Johnson and Deborah Spears Moorehead, to create site-specific artworks that respond to Brown University’s Center for Public Humanities’ historic wallpaper and its racialized representations of Black and Indigenous peoples (2021 - 23).
Untitled (Walking) | A series of community walks across Providence’s twenty-five neighborhoods. History walks and “memory walks” trace historical paths as a way to get closer to the past. Activist and social justice walks and marches are a core strategy of political and social organizing. Can a walk be a work of art? 2019 Dates: May 4 (11 miles), May 5 (10 miles), August 30 (5 miles). 2020 Dates: March 30 (3 miles), ongoing.
Year of the City: The Providence Project | A year-long exploration of the history, life and culture of Providence’s twenty-five neighborhoods through exhibitions, performances, walks, lectures, and conferences produced by more than 50 different curators, 2019.
The Fogarty Funeral | This preservation happening was organized to mark the demise of Providence’s best known Brutalist building, designed by the Providence firm Castelluci, Galli and Planka in 1968. The memorial ceremony included a eulogy delivered by those who knew and loved the building, including Planka’s daughter. March 17, 2017. Learn more.
Sentenced: Architecture and Human Rights | Exhibition of works on paper created by incarcerated artists and people in the San Francisco area. The drawings, hand-drawn plans and maps described the artists’ experiences of solitary confinement, 2017. Learn More.
John Portman Architecture Museums | Consultation on planning, implementation and programmatic issues related to turning two homes the Atlanta architect John Portman designed for his family in the 1960s and 1980s into publicly accessible architecture museums, 2015.
