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Rhode Island boasts one of the highest concentrations of visual artists in the country. Providence streets, parks, and the RiverWalk are full of public sculpture, some of which make fabulous “outdoor rooms.” Join us for a 90-minute tour exploring the stories of the art, artists, the Providence Art Club, the Rhode Island School of Design, Gallery Night Providence, and Waterfire. The RISD Museum will be closed during the month of August. but Providence is a gallery en plein air.
Tuesdays and Fridays in August
Tour departs at 10 a.m. from the John Brown House Museum, 52 Power St., Providence
$10/person
Contact Barbara Barnes: 401-273-7507 x62 or bbarnes@rihs.org.
Keynote with Phoebe Bean, M.L.S., Printed Collection Librarian and President of the Rhode Island Center for the Book
Broadsides are posters that served as the tweets and town criers of their times, be it the 18th or the 21st century. This program will show highlights of the Society’s stellar Broadside Collection and discuss the evolution of their styles, and their social and political significance.
This is the keynote lecture for the Rhode Island Center for the Book’s annual “Art of the Book Series” with exhibits of R.I. Broadsides in special collection libraries across the state including the Brown Hay Library, Providence Athenaeum, Providence Public Library, Redwood Library & Athenaeum, and URI Special Collections.
Preservation and electronic cataloging of the RIHS Broadside Collection over the past three years was made possible by grants from the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the Revolution, the Rhode Island Society of Colonial Wars, the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and the General Society of Colonial Wars.
Free and open to the public!
Click here to download a copy of the Rhode Island Center for the Book’s 2012 Art of the Book Program.
Celebrate the 121st birthday of America’s master of the strange and macabre. Author of “The Thing on the Doorstep” and “The Call of Cthulhu,” H.P. Lovecraft was born in Providence in 1890. Join us on a walking tour which explores the College Hill neighborhood where Lovecraft drew literary inspiration and where he called home.
Contact Barbara Barnes: (401) 273-7507 x62 or bbarnes@rihs.org
The Rhode Island Historical Society and The Providence Foundation have partnered to offer 4 free downtown walking tours following a unique celebration theme: Hope, Freedom, Roots, and Ingenuity. Each sixty-minute tour begins on the steps of the Arcade, 130 Westminster Street.
R.S.V.P. to Barbara Barnes at (401) 273-7507 x 62 or bbarnes@rihs.org.
June 9: Hope
July 14: Freedom
August 11: Roots
September 8: Ingenuity
Jordan Goffin presents The Atlas of the Rhode Island Book Trade in the Eighteenth Century (www.rihs.org/atlas) and explains how he designed and built this unique online resource for the Rhode Island Historical Society’s web site. The Atlas charts the birth of the local book trade in the early 1700s and its growth throughout the rest of the century. Mr. Goffin will also present an overview of the broad development of Rhode Island’s print culture- from the earliest booksellers and printers to the establishment of a vibrant trade.
Jordan Goffin, Special Collections Librarian for the Providence Public Library, created The Atlas of the Book Trade for the Rhode Island Historical Society web site during his two years here as Special Collections Reference Librarian.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
6:30 pm
Rhode Island Historical Society Library
121 Hope St
Providence, RI 02906
R.S.V.P. to Natasha: 401-273-8107 x12 or
libprograms@rihs.org
Free and open to the public
Civil rights struggles in United States history were not confined to the movement in the 1960’s. Tullio D. Pitassi Ph.D. narrates the role of Italian-Americans in the ongoing struggle for civil rights from the 1700s through the 20th century.
Tullio D. Pitassi, psychologist and author, was the historian on Charles Pesaturo’s Italian-American radio program and guest speaker at the Italo-American Club for the 500th anniversary celebration of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the new world.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
6:30 pm
Rhode Island Historical Society Library
121 Hope St.
Providence, RI 02906
R.S.V.P. to: Natasha (401) 273-8107 x12 or libprograms@rihs.org
Free and open to the public.
