Introduction to the Urban Cultural Heritage & Creative Practice Research Collaborative

Posted by Ian on Feb 13, 2012 in academic, arts, blog, news, publications, video

From the Winter 2012 Symposium held at Brown University. More information here.

Artist Talk by Betsey Biggs on “The Providence Postcard Project”

Posted by Ian on Feb 13, 2012 in arts, news, publications, video

From the Winter 2012 Symposium of the Urban Cultural Heritage & Creative Practice International Research Collaborative. More information here.

A New Vision on College Hill

Posted by Ian on Oct 6, 2011 in arts, interviews, news, press, publications

New appointment as curator of Brown University’s Bell Gallery featured in the October 2011 issue of Providence’s East Side Monthly. Article by Renne Doucette.

Tracing heritage erasure along I-195

Posted by Ian on Oct 4, 2011 in academic, e-publications, news, publications, video

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 […]

Art and archaeology: A modern allegory

Posted by Ian on Jul 15, 2011 in academic, arts, essays, news, publications

2011 ‘Art and archaeology: A modern allegory’ a comment on Rodney Harrison’s article ‘Surface assemblages: Towards and archaeology in and of the present’ in Archaeological Dialogues 18 (2) 176–180. Read it here.

Exquisite Things in Contexts, Haffenreffer Museum Annual Newsletter

Posted by Ian on May 6, 2011 in academic, graphic design & layout, news, press, publications

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 […]

EU Transformations Curatorial Report: Ireland Project Scenario

Posted by Ian on Apr 13, 2011 in academic, articles, arts, essays, news, publications

2011 Curatorial Report for Transformations, an European Union funded land-art initiative. Read the article here.

Exquisite Things Discussion Podcast

Posted by Ian on Mar 27, 2011 in academic, graphic design & layout, news, publications, video

The Haffenreffer Museum just released this video podcast of a discussion and experimental interaction with the Exquisite Things exhibition with students and faculty at Brown University.

Images of the Past

Posted by Ian on Mar 20, 2011 in academic, articles, arts, essays, publications

2012 Entry for ‘Cultural Heritage Management’ section in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer, New York.  

Cultural Heritage Management

Posted by Ian on Mar 20, 2011 in academic, books, publications

2012 Section Editor for Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer, New York.