Remember the Old Times: Cape Verdean Community in Fox Point, 1920 to 1945 is a student-curated and executed exhibition that tells the story of the history and culture of the Cape Verdean community that lived in the Fox Point neighborhood. Cape Verdean Fox Point was a vibrant, close-knit community that was displaced by urban renewal, gentrification, and the expansion of Brown University. But the community lives on in former residents' memories, and in the photographs, archives, and artifacts so many residents saved. Their memories and stories come alive in this exhibit.
The exhibit was curated by students in the course AMCV1550: Methods in Public Humanities with generous help from Claire Andrade-Watkins, Lou Costa, Steven Lubar, Ron Potvin, Anne M. Valk, Erin Wells, and many others.
Download "The Cab Ride," an original comic by artist Alec Thibodeau based on an oral history interview with Fox Point native, Johnny Costa.
May 11 – October 29, 2009
Exhibit Hours
Monday – Friday, 1 – 4 p.m.
John Nicholas Brown Center
357 Benefit Street
An exhibition of commissioned artworks that reflect on the assembled histories of the Nightingale-Brown House
Art+History is an exhibition and community programming series about the processes of interpreting history. The John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage has commissioned Carla Herrera-Prats and Jill Slosburg-Ackerman to make new artworks influenced by the physical and historical parameters of the Nightingale-Brown House. Built in 1792 and boasting gardens designed by the Olmstead landscape design firm, it was home to five generations of the Brown family and now houses the JNBC. Art+History is a catalyst for conversation about how historical narrative is crafted and a different model for engaging audiences in historical sites and museums through contemporary artwork. The exhibition is curated by students in the master's in public humanities program, Meg Rotzel and Rosie Branson Gill.
Learn more about Art+History at the expanded project site
Read the Boston Globe review of Art+History
April 1 – October 29, 2009
Exhibit Hours
Monday – Friday, 2 – 5 p.m.
John Nicholas Brown Center
357 Benefit Street
REMEMBER THE OLD TIMES
Thirty graduate and undergraduate students curated this exhibit as part of the course Methods in Public Humanities.
art+history
Using the photos from the archives of John Nicholas Brown Center, artist Carla Herrera-Prats will try to understand how the Brown family has been “historicized” through photography.