Mapping Arts Project-Providence

11/02/2018

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03/03/2016

Attention Mapping Arts-Providence! We are merging all of the Mapping Arts cities to one page. The project is growing, and this way everyone will stay up to date on all of the cities in one place! Head over to Mapping Arts Project and "Like."

01/01/2016

Happy New Year and news from Blackbird Arts & Research!

Happy New Year from Blackbird Arts & Research! Thank you for your support throughout 2015! We have had a great year bringing arts and research together. Here's a recap: - This year, we have partnered with Honey Pot Performance and Juke Cry Hand Clap in Chicago, and we are at work to add the city to…

10/26/2015

happening soon in Providence: http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20151016/NEWS/151019407

The exhibit, “Acting Black: Black Performing Arts in RI since the 1700s,” is the debut of a project that explores the critical role Rhode

07/17/2015

Are you ready for a new MAP city? We have been awarded funding from in , Colorado! Check out the news and the program here: http://artsandvenuesdenver.com/ima…/denvers-imagine2020-fund

This year, Denver Arts & Venues and the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs launches the IMAGINE 2020 Fund inviting city agencies, cultural institutions, businesses, entrepreneurs, civic leaders, neighborhood and community-based organizations and individuals to make this collective vision a realit…

02/01/2015

Happy birthday, Langston Hughes! In Providence? Celebrate with local poets today at RISD. http://www.providencejournal.com/features/entertainment/books/20150201-poetry-celebrating-the-subtly-incendiary-langston-hughes.ece

Writing Langston Hughes b. 1902- d. 1967 Langston Hughes was a prolific poet, writer, and playwright known for his use of rhythm and language. His writing style took cues from everyday life as well as jazz and blues music. Born James Mercer Langston Hughes in Joplin, Missouri, he only lived there a…

01/22/2015

Mapping Arts-Chicago is a collaboration between Blackbird Arts and Research and Honey Pot Performance's Juke Cry Hand Clap. The project will map histories of house music culture in Chicago throughout the 20th century.

10/07/2014

Mapping the Arts, at Harvard, October 9, 4PM
http://www.larasteinpardo.com/news/2014/10/5/talk-at-harvard-october-9-mapping-the-arts

I'll be giving a talk, "Mapping the Arts: Archives, Artists, and Digital Technologies," in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University on October 9, 2014, at 4PM. See the image below for complete details.

05/06/2014

two new student contributors will be adding new artists and locations to Mapping Arts-Providence this week!

04/08/2014

Space and Place: A discussion about Edward Bannister, Digital History, and Disaporic Arts in Providence

Thursday, April 17th, 6:30pm at the John Nicolas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, 357 Benefit Street.

Professor and Mapping Arts Project Founder, Dr. Lara Stein Pardo, Beverly Ledbetter, President of the Edward Bannister Society, and Keila Davis, Project Manager of the Mapping Arts Project will lead an insightful discussion on the importance of space, history, and the arts. Following the discussion there will be a brief walking tour to nearby sites associated with Mapping Arts Project- Providence.

Hosted by Mapping Arts Project-Providence and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, this event is free and open to the Public.

http://www.brown.edu/academics/public-humanities/events/space-and-place-discussion-about-edward-bannister-digital-history-and-disaporic-arts-providen

Lecture Space and Place: A discussion about Edward Bannister, Digital History, and Disaporic Arts in Providence Thursday, April 17, 20146:30pm - 8:00pm Nightingale-Brown HouseProfessor and Mapping Arts Project Founder, Dr. Lara Stein Pardo, Beverly Ledbetter, President of the Edward Bannister Societ...