The Most Endangered Properties Traveling Exhibit includes a selection of the best photographs from the Most Endangered Properties Gallery Exhibit and features images and status updates for all eleven properties on the 2007 Most Endangered List. Local professional photographers have generously donated their time and talent to the exhibit. Artists participating this year are Michael Cevoli, David Ellis, Stephanie Ewens, Peter Goldberg, Erik Gould, Matt Kierstead, Scott Lapham, Brian McDonald, Frank Mullin, David Simione, and Olivia Sauerwein Winter.
The Most Endangered Properties List helps call attention to significant historic and architectural resources citywide now endangered by threats such as deterioration, insufficient funds, insensitive public policy and inappropriate development-problems that frequently jeopardize cultural and historic resources throughout Providence.
November 15, 2007 – December 7, 2007
John Nicholas Brown Center
357 Benefit Street
Thursdays and Fridays, 1 – 4 p.m.
From A.A. to Zouave: Collections at Brown is an exhibition honoring the treasures of Brown University’s collections. From the coffee pot that launched a thousand Alcoholics Anonymous meetings to a hand-knit cap from a Civil War Zouave regiment, see what Brown’s libraries, museums, and galleries have to offer.
From A.A. to Zouave: Collections at Brown is curated by students in American Civilization’s Methods in Public Humanities course and features objects from the Annmary Brown Memorial, the Brown University Library, the David Winton Bell Gallery, the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the Department of Facilities Management, the John Carter Brown Library, the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, and the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center.
Press release from Brown University Media Services
December 11, 2007 – May 30, 2008
Annmary Brown Memorial
21 Brown Street
Brown University
Monday to Friday, 1 – 5 p.m.
Too often, Native Americans are in museums as curious anthropological studies and relics. The goal of this exhibition is to bring examples to Brown of living, modern, vibrant Native perspectives and profiles. Through the exhibit, we hope to show variety – variety of perspectives, variety of medium, variety of talent, variety of age, and variety of Tribal Nation. Through this variety, we hope to convey the diversity and humanity of present day Natives that the average public does not see in one-dimensional, stereotyped media representations of Native Americans. The art will be of a mix from professionals, aspiring artists, and students in the Native group here at Brown.
Part of the Native American Heritage Series, sponsored by the Third World Center at Brown University.
February 8 – February 28, 2008
John Nicholas Brown Center
357 Benefit Street
Thursdays and Fridays, 1 – 4 p.m.
How have American teenagers learned about sex over the last 100 years? The exhibition Beyond the Birds and the Bees: Sexual Education in the 20th Century reveals the history of sex education. Discover changing American ideas about childhood, sex, and the family by exploring some of the places where people have learned about sex: in the military and schools, from parents and friends, and through popular culture.
April 9, 2008 – September 19, 2008
John Nicholas Brown Center
357 Benefit Street
Monday to Friday, 2 – 5 p.m.
from A.A. to Zouave
This exhibition featured the coffee pot that the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, Dr. Bob and Bill W., first used to sober up in 1935. The pot was loanded by the Smith (Robert Holbrook, Dr. Bob) papers at the John Hay Library.
The birds and the bees
Students in the public humanities program unveiled a new exhibit on the history of sex education in spring of 2008.