We love short weeks almost as much as we love this 16th century book bound in manuscript waste!
Publius Lentulus. In hoc libello epistola Lentuli ad Romanos de Christo Jesu… Padua: Johann Weyssenburger, 1535.
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New exhibit: Tomboy on view April 1 - June 30, 2022
New exhibit: Tomboy on view April 1 – June 30, 2022
Today! April 1st! It’s a big day:
It’s opening day for Tomboy, the first Special Collections exhibit on display in our post-renovation, now-fully-open-to-the-public, maximum-elegance 3rd floor exhibit gallery. (No thanks to COVID for thwarting the ability of the public to visit The King is Dead, our 2020 exhibition and program series, in person.)
Tomboy was expertly co-curated by PPL Curator of…
Creative Fellow Carmen Ribaudo’s work on display
Creative Fellow Carmen Ribaudo’s work on display
After many months of Special Collections research, PPL’s 2021-2022 Creative Fellow, Carmen Ribaudo, has created incredible new work as part of our current Tomboy exhibit. We’re so excited to tell you about it and invite you to view it in person at PPL!
First, you can visit PPL’s 3rd floor exhibition gallery to see Carmen’s projected collage movie, We Are Full – the colorful, cut-paper animation…
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween from Special Collections and from our spooky friends! First, this very cheerful cloaked skeleton who hopes they’re invited to your Halloween party:
Evans, Henry Ridgely. The spirit world unmasked: illustrated investigations into the phenomena of spiritualism. Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1897.
Next, from the characters in “Little Wee Pumpkin’s Thanksgiving,” none of whom are at all…
What’s Missing in Archives
What’s Missing in Archives
Here in PPL’s Special Collections, we do our best to talk openly about the gaps in our historical collections, as well as the ways that collecting practices and archival structures have created and upheld these omissions over time. “What can’t you find because it isn’t here,” we sometimes ask researchers, “and what stories do those absences tell?”
In that vein, we love the new exhibit at the…
CORRECTION: Creative Fellowship Call for Proposals
CORRECTION: Creative Fellowship Call for Proposals
We have an update to our last post! We’re still accepting proposals for our 2021 Creative Fellowship…
But we’ve decided to postpone both the Fellowship and our annual Exhibition & Program Series by six months due to the coronavirus. The annual exhibition will now open on October 1, 2021 (which is 13 months away, but we’re still hard at work planning!).
The new due date for Fellowship proposals is
Now accepting proposals for our 2021 Creative Fellowship!! The 2021 Creative Fellow will create new, original work in the field of two-dimensional artwork or illustration related to the topic of Tomboys, as part of the Library’s 2021 Exhibition & Program series. Visit our website for details: www.provlib.org/research-collections/artists-at-ppl/creative-fellowship/creative-fellowship-call-proposals/ (at Providence Public Library)
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2021 Creative Fellowship – Call for Proposals
PPL is now accepting proposals for our 2021 Creative Fellowship! We’re looking for an artist working in illustration or two-dimensional artwork to create new work related to the theme of our 2021 exhibition, Tomboys. View the full call for proposals, including application instructions, here. The application deadline is October 1, 2020.
SIGNS of the CHANGING TIMES…we’ve been a little busy this week! (at Providence Public Library)
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There’s a new light in town… #neon #neonsigns #neonlights (at Downtown Providence)
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