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Picturing the Pandemic to Open March 22 at Providence Public Library
3/2020: Municipalities around the US go into lockdown due to COVID-19. The Pandemic Journaling Project is founded by anthropologists from Brown University and the University of Connecticut to virtually collect documentation of pandemic life from people around the globe. In Rhode Island, Providence Public Library (PPL) and the RI Historical Society partner to create the RI COVID-19 Archive, encouraging residents to document and contribute their experiences of COVID to this virtual public archive.
Both projects were created with the belief that every person has something valuable to contribute to the documented history of the pandemic. Even those who might not be reflected in news media accounts, medical statistics, or other governmental data, and that the very practice of documenting personal experiences can strengthen the voices of individual contributors as well as those of their communities.
Picturing the Pandemic brings together contributions from both projects, and asks, how can images -- making them, looking at them, thinking with them -- expand our capacity for self-recognition, empathy, and communal care? The exhibition will run through June 2023 and is viewable during regular Library hours.
Exhibition Opening
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 5 - 6:30 PM
JOAN T. BOGHOSSIAN GALLERY (3RD FLOOR)
All are invited to join us for an evening of opening events for Picturing the Pandemic: Images from the Pandemic Journaling Project and the Rhode Island COVID-19 Archive. The opening is free and open to the public; registration is greatly appreciated. Register at: https://provlib.libcal.com/event/10035024
Activities will include a conversation with founders of both archival projects, along with on-site opportunities for attendees to personally explore, reflect upon, and document their own experiences of the past three years, how those have brought them to the present, and/or how they are thinking about the future. These reflections can be kept private, or the documentation can be shared and become part of the physical exhibition and the virtual archives.
Event Links
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/1624184-0
