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Teaching curatorial work and developing an exhibition, at the same time

Teaching curatorial work and developing an exhibition, at the same time

The semester is over and the exhibit is open, on time and on budget, and it’s been well-received. I think it’s pretty good. But it’s been a complicated journey to get to this point, and it seems worthwhile to think about why, and what I might learn from the process. The exhibit is Little Compton Connected at the Little Compton (Rhode Island) Historical Society, a history of how transportation shaped the town. It argues that the town was, and is,…

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Little Compton Landscape Stories

Little Compton Landscape Stories

Last year (summer 2019) the Little Compton Historical Society took on the topic of landscapes. (Each year the organization focuses on a different topic.) We edited a book on Little Compton landscapes. (Available here.) We did an exhibition that showed off maps, landscape paintings, and some of the tools that shaped our landscape history. Students in the public humanities program at Brown contributed several virtual extensions of the exhibit. One group used StoryMaps to tell focused stories of the landscape,…

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