A collaboration of the Providence Department of Art, Culture and Tourism and the Rhode Island Historical Society. Funded in part by the Mellon Foundation and the American Rescue Plan.
Artists Lu Heintz, Valerie Tutson, and Shey Rivera have begun their investigation of the site where they will eventually stage new commemorative works. The empty pedestal both evokes the absence of Bartholdi’s Christopher Columbus statue and offers possibilities for reimagining how this small triangular park between Elmwood and Reservoir neighborhoods could share and honor other collective memories.
Artists Lu Heintz, Valerie Tutson, and Shey Rivera have begun their investigation of the site where they will eventually stage new commemorative works. The empty pedestal both evokes the absence of Bartholdi’s Christopher Columbus statue and offers possibilities for reimagining how this small triangular park between Elmwood and Reservoir neighborhoods could share and honor other collective memories.
Artists Lu Heintz, Valerie Tutson, and Shey Rivera have begun their investigation of the site where they will eventually stage new commemorative works. The empty pedestal both evokes the absence of Bartholdi’s Christopher Columbus statue and offers possibilities for reimagining how this small triangular park between Elmwood and Reservoir neighborhoods could share and honor other collective memories.
