Boston Phoenix review of ‘rolemodelplaytime’
2012 ‘Rolemodelplaytime at Brown’s Bell Gallery‘ in The Boston Phoenix, 19 June. Read 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 […]
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 […]
Nostalgia Machines
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present Nostalgia Machines from Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011 through Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. Exploring the intersection of nostalgia and technology in contemporary sculpture, the exhibition, curated by Maya Allison, features artists Meridith Pingree, Jasper Rigole, Jonathan Schipper, Gregory Witt, and Zimoun. An opening-night colloquium will be held on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, at […]
Cai Guo-Qiang @ Brown University
As part of the Year of Chinae, the Cohen Gallery at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University is featuring an installation of recent works by Cai Guo-Qiang. The exhibition “Move Along, Nothing to See Here” will run through October 28, 2011.
Building Expectation: Past and Present Visions of the Architectural Future
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present Building Expectation: Past and Present Visions of the Architectural Future from September 3 through November 6. An opening reception and lecture by the exhibition curator Nathaniel Walker will be held on Friday, September 9, from 5:30–7:30 p.m. It has been said that the past is a foreign country—but […]
Exquisite Things in Contexts, Haffenreffer Museum Annual Newsletter
Exquisite Things: An exhibition of connections within collections from the May 2011 issue of Contexts – The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology’s Annual Newsletter –by Ian Russell This past December, the students of Things: The Material Worlds of Humanity opened a new off-site exhibition project for the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. Located in the newly reopened Stephen […]
Research Posters featured at Harvard and Brown Universities
Students, whose poster designs I supervised, were featured this weekend at the Slavery’s Capitalism Conference at Harvard and Brown Universities. Their work was a development from a workshop seminar I gave at both Harvard and Brown on Research Poster Design in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Photograph by Prof. Seth Rockman, Brown University Department of […]
Placing Voices, Voicing Places: Archaeology in Inner-Cty Dublin: Spatialitiy, Materiality and Identity-Formation among Dublin’s Working Class and Immigrant Communities
2008 Hertiage Council of Ireland INSTAR Report. (With Pat Cooke, Alice Feldman, Cormac O’Donnell, Tadhg O’Keeffe, Sarah Tuck and Patrick Ryan) Read it here