"Intimacy and Isolation in Providence" is an oral history exhibit featuring the images and voices of 17 Providence artists and institution builders. The exhibition, curated by Brown students and designed by students from Rhode Island School of Design, was initially developed in the fall of 2004 at Brown in an American civilization course, Theory and Methods of Oral History, taught by Paul Buhle, senior lecturer. Brown students Monica Martinez ’06, Nolan Shutler ’06, and John Butler ’07 curated the exhibition; RISD students Jannah Townsend and Shraddha Aryal designed the display. The exhibition featured Providence artists Raffini, Barnaby Evans, Paul Iannelli, Peter Eiermann, Paula Hunter, Nancy Fuller, Jose Pinera, Xander Marro, Lynette Labinger, John Roney, Lynn Ho, Richard Fishman, Edward Zaretsky, Matthew Barros, Michael Gaughan, Milton Stanzler, and Ruth Frisch Dealy.
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February 28 – April 15, 2005
Carriage House Gallery
47 Power Street
Monday – Friday, 1 – 4 p.m.
For rural Mexican families living in the Coachella Valley of inland Southern California, the 1970s is remembered as a difficult time, when a divisive “fight in the fields” between members of the United Farmworkers Union (UFW) and the Teamsters tore at the fabric of the local community. Although painful, these struggles inspired young Mexican Americans – many now identifying as “Chicano” – to question the treatment of Mexican people in all sectors of society, including education. The exhibition "From Coachella to Providence" was part of the research project Educating Change: Latina Activism and the Struggle for Educational Equity, which remembers the victorious struggle for bilingual education and educational equity for Mexican Americans.
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April 29 – September 30, 2005
Carriage House Gallery
47 Power Street
Monday – Friday, 1 – 4 p.m.
Intimacy and Isolation
Paul Buhle: "The oral histories of artists and cultural activists capture a mood of Rhode Island life...a story that has never been told."
Coachella to Providence
The exhibition at the John Nicholas Brown Center was part of a larger research project documenting a history of Mexican women’s migration and activism.