Marisa Angell Brown

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One of the best-known images of the preservation movement of the last century shows Jane Jacobs, Philip Johnson, and others protesting the 1963 destruction o...

Jorge Otero-Pailos, Program Director of GSAPP’s Historic Preservation Program, speaks with Marisa Angell Brown, Assistant Director for Programs at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University, in advance of her Fall 2020 lecture at the school. Brown expresses the need for the preservation field to acknowledge the imbalance of what has been preserved and the importance in making amends for the things being overlooked. The conversation continues to explore the topic of equity and inclusion in public art collections. They discuss alternate strategies to monument and art removal such as re-contextualization, counter-labeling, and commissioning contemporary artists to create work that speaks to problematic historical objects.

#OurCapitol, Hidden Histories Lecture Series, America250 (Apr 8, 2022)

Notes Towards a History of the Brutalist Landscape, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth (Oct 22, 2021)

The Sixth Estate: Artists and Social Change, Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Program for Visual and Applied Artists (Sep 28, 2021)

Preservation, Placemaking and Placekeeping, Leadership Rhode Island (Sep 21, 2021)

Can This Museum Be Decolonized? On the Art of the US Capitol, Brown University (Apr 6, 2021)

Chair and Speaker, Preservation Futurists, Community College of Rhode Island, Annual Rhode Island Statewide Historic Preservation Conference (Apr 22, 2021)

Model City, Yale Center for British Art (Mar 31, 2020)

Moderator, Fitch Colloquium, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation (Feb 18, 2021)

Panelist, Non-Obvious Beyond Diversity Summit (Jan 26-28, 2021)

Preservation and the Public Humanities, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey (Oct 23, 2020)

Preservation’s Existential Crisis, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (Oct 15, 2020)

To Preserve an Imagined Past, University College London, Association of Critical Heritage Studies (Aug 23, 2020)

Inheritance: What We Preserve & Why, Keynote Address, Providence Preservation Society annual meeting (Jan 23, 2020).

1873 Meets 1963 at 526: The Design of Chaim Gross’ Home and Studio, Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation (Feb 13, 2019)

Chair, Preservation U: Preservation and the University, Annual Rhode Island Statewide Historic Preservation Conference (Apr 29, 2017)

What Is Experimental Preservation? Salve Regina University (Oct 14, 2016)

The Rise of Architecture Tourism, Annual Conference of the National Association of Interpretation (Nov 10, 2016)

Architecture is Fiction, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar (Nov 11, 2015)

Architectures of Public Housing, Brown University (Apr 20, 2015)

Theatrical Space and the Architecture of Public Housing, Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians (April 2004)

Louis Kahn’s British Art Center and the Picturesque, Yale Center for British Art (2003)