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The Mapping Arts Project<\/a> is publicly launching Mapping Arts Project-Providence <\/em>on Thursday, December 12 in the Digital Scholarship Lab.<\/p>\n This project\u2014a collaborative effort by Brown University graduate students and faculty\u2014digitally mapped the lives, influence, and work of black artists in Providence from the 1860s through the 1960s.<\/p>\n This undertaking is part of the larger Mapping Arts Project run by Blackbird Arts and Research, which has so far mapped the lives and work of artists in Miami during the 1920s through the 1950s.<\/p>\n This current project engages the university and larger Providence community via a publicly accessible, digital map with historical information and images about black artistic influence on Providence. Furthermore, it situates Providence as an important site of black Atlantic cultural production. Artists including painter Edward Bannister, singer Sarah Vaughan, and jazz musician James Berry spent time in the city and shaped its cultural landscape.<\/p>\n Date:<\/strong>\u00a0December 12 Contact:<\/b>\u00a0Lara Stein Pardo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mapping Arts Project is publicly launching Mapping Arts Project-Providence on Thursday, December 12 in the Digital Scholarship Lab. This project\u2014a collaborative effort by Brown University graduate students and faculty\u2014digitally mapped the lives, influence, and work of black artists in Providence from the 1860s through the 1960s. This undertaking is part of the larger Mapping … Mapping Arts Project Event in the Digital Scholarship Lab<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTime:\u00a0<\/strong>7 p.m.
\nLocation:\u00a0<\/strong>Digital Scholarship Lab,\u00a0Rockefeller Library<\/p>\n