Historias de Una Pandemia

by | Sep 15, 2022

  Across the United States the Covid-19 pandemic presented many challenges and intensified racial tensions and health disparities in many communities, particularly minoritized communities. This public health crisis exposed and exacerbated many of the known...

The Thomas Indian School

by | Sep 14, 2022

       This exhibition, “It’s about community, told by community, and supported by community.” —Hayden Haynes     This photo essay by Hayden Haynes is part of the culmination of a community looking at the effects and aftereffects of one Indian...

(Re)tracings of What Was Once Present/Absent

by | Sep 13, 2022

we were going to be elders just because we were still around and i was going to listen to you on a panel we didn’t feel qualified for and hear you talk about your guilt for still being alive when so many of your friends were taken y suicide by AIDS by racist police...

Behind the Lens

by | Sep 9, 2021

This community program puts African American adornment traditions at the heart of our media literacy program. Many of  our lessons begin with an activity about a particular type of adornment and then we look critically at how that tradition is depicted  in  various...

A Closer Look at AS220 Youth

by | Sep 9, 2021

AS220 Youth is a free arts education program in Providence, Rhode Island, serving young people ages 14 to 21. AS220 Youth has three teaching sites: our downtown Providence studio, UCAP Middle School, and the Rhode Island Training School, the state’s juvenile detention...