Reconciliation & the Providence Commemoration Lab
Event Details
We are partnering with the Providence Commemoration Lab for a site visit to their Columbus Square location. During this visit, we will engage in a conversation with the artistic team about how they are addressing issues of public memory and spatial reclamation in the city as they prepare for a public exhibition scheduled for later in July.
This event is free and open to the public, and is being supported by the SHAE Dean鈥檚 Office.
Artists at this site: + Lu Heintz + Shey R铆 Acu Rivera R铆os + Valerie Tutson
Writer at this site: +Traci Picard
About the Providence Commemoration Lab
The Providence Commemoration Lab will site and stage new, temporary projects that invite unexpected ways of understanding commemoration as a communal process of historical redress and spatial reclamation. Working with local artists, scholars, community stakeholders and neighborhood champions, ACT and the Rhode Island Historical Society have commissioned nine social practice/community-engaged artists to interrogate the ways that Providence constructs and share memory at three beautifully complex under-resourced sites: Columbus Square (24 Reservoir Ave, Providence, RI 02907), Roger Williams Park (Pine Hill Ave, Providence, RI 02907), and Public Street Beach (Public St. & Allens Ave).