Ongoing Events
- public interventions –
Guerilla Mosaics ||
Justin Coleman
Throughout Providence
A project designed to aesthetically enhance the urban environment, while simultaneously addressing issues of permanence, legality, and cultural value of graffiti as represented in different physical forms.
Potato Planting Brigade ||
various artists
Throughout Providence
Coming soon to a downtown planter near you... keep an eye out...
Chandelier #1 ||
Arley Marks + Ben Strear
Location TBA
An installation made of salvaged chairs and luminescent materials will be found somewhere in Providence. The location being undisclosed at this time, the work depends on the adventures of the viewer. Using a map to locate the piece, a night derive would be the best time to view this work.
24 Hour Public Intervention Workshop ||
various artists
First meeting and dispersion: Steel Yard 12:00p Friday
In 24 hours of experimentation, decoration, and intense collaboration, a band of miscellaneous artisans will run amuck in the city of Providence, leaving a city-wide path of installation and beautification in their wake. Begins on May 14, with frequent visits by different members of the group to check in at the Steelyard hub and report progress.
-mapping -
Mapsproject ||
Lori Ann Napoleon
The Steelyard
I collect personal maps people draw. One’s memory and perception of a place is very personal, so each is a reflection, however small or large, of how the individual connects to their environment: knowing, organizing, and understanding it. Each one is a small token of memory and experience, whether created in order to help me understand a place, to direct me to the nearest gas station, or as an answer to my persistent requests to find the local gem of a strange little town.
Places between Name and Space ||
Anna Shapiro
The Steelyard
Segmentation is evident in maps caused by natural and man-made boundaries. These boundaries describe the partitioning of every space and are easily transposed to become metaphors for navigating both exterior and interior landscapes. In my work I obscure the place names on the maps. Specific material location is relegated to a place of obscurity. This absence of knowledge and history is a dislocation. The anonymity of the map is juxtaposed with recognizable objects. Here the realms of the domestic and the military come into play with human form and cartography.
Oxygen Mapping ||
Emily Saarman
The Steelyard
For centuries, Narragansett Bay has been an important part of the Rhode Island way of life, providing valuable fisheries, recreation opportunities, tourism, and a shipping port. But in past summers we’ve seen the effects of the urbanized environment surrounding Narragansett Bay take an enormous toll on the health of the estuary, mostly due to algae growth from pollution robbing the water of its oxygen. For the last 5 years, a number of scientists from both Rhode Island and Massachusetts have been volunteering their time to measure the oxygen levels in the bay during the summer months. From this data, I have used geographic information systems (GIS) software to generate maps of the oxygen in Narragansett Bay that are both informative and aesthetically pleasing. For the Provflux I will compile a number of these maps along with some information about the causes and effects of oxygen depletion in the most valuable and underappreciated urban environment in Rhode Island.
Mnemonicon ||
Kevin Hamilton
The Steelyard
This disorientation device enables me to walk through one city as if it were another. Juxtaposing one map of a bygone neighborhood onto another present-day map allows me to navigate routine walks as landscape remembered, but not seen.
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