Artist Talk by Betsey Biggs on “The Providence Postcard Project”
From the Winter 2012 Symposium of the Urban Cultural Heritage & Creative Practice International Research Collaborative. More information here.
Postcard Project featured on Providence Daily Dose
A nice little piece of press on the Postcard Project was recently featured in the Providence Daily Dose: http://providencedailydose.com/2012/01/22/providence-postcard-project/ Head over to the Granoff Center Friday for the opening party of The Providence Postcard Project — 1000 postcards,100 photographs, 22 neighborhoods — you may still have time to participate yourself. The Providence Postcard Project, by artist Betsey Biggs, explores […]
Brown to host International Symposium on Urban Cultural Heritage & Creative Practice
A Discussion of International Approaches Heritage professionals from around the world converge on Brown’s campus for a day of conversation. Cape Town – Dublin – Hong Kong – Istanbul – Providence – York What is heritage, and what forms does it take in an urban environment? How are creative practices affected by, and how do they […]
Launch of the Providence Postcard Project
On January 15, 2012, at AS220 in downtown Providence, artist Betsey Biggs launched her Providence Postcard Project. The project explores the familiar souvenir medium of postcards as a source of reflection by the residents of Providence on what meanings the city holds. Beginning this week, the project will be distributing pre-addressed, postage-paid postcards featuring photographs taken […]
Guest at Koç University
This December and January I will be a guest lecturer at Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) in Beyoğlu, Istanbul. Lecturing on curation and leading workshops on exhibition design, the visit has been organized by Prof. Lucienne Thys-Şenocak as a part of the build up to the launch of their new exhibition and museum space at […]
Tracing heritage erasure along I-195
Video presentation for the “Heritage Erasure: Vandalism and Obliteration in the Historic Environment” session of the “Peoples, places, stories 2011” conference at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Created from the archive of Fiona Hallinan’s artist project “Roadscore | Invisible String”. Thank you to Fiona Hallinan, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, the John Nicholas Brown Center for […]
Brown University features ‘Windshield (2011)’
Brown University News & Events has just featured Dennis McNulty’s ‘Windshield (2011)’. Read the piece here: http://news.brown.edu/features/2011/07/windshield View the project page here: http://ianaldenrussell.com/projects/windshield-2011
Hong Kong-Providence Summer Institute Launched
Developed jointly by faculty of CUHK and Brown University, this course provides an opportunity for students to compare cultural heritage preservation strategies in two very different areas. In Hong Kong, students will explore historical development of Hong Kong as exemplified by, for example, cultural heritage, the conflict and negotiation of economic and political interests in […]
West Offaly Heritage New Media featured on Offaly’s first TV station
Videos produced by Brown University students as part of the West Offaly Heritage New Media project have been featured on Offaly’s first online TV station – Grove Street TV – http://www.grovestreet.tv/Local_Interest.html. The “TV station” collates a collection of online videos relating to music, folklore, history and sport and is a charming collection of insights into the […]
Windshield (2011) installed at Brown University
Windshield (2011) – a new piece of public sculpture by artist Dennis McNulty at the Nightingale-Brown House in Providence, Rhode Island – was installed successfully this past week. Dennis has been in residence at the John Nicholas Brown Center at Brown University since February 2011. During this time he has completed this sculpture as well […]