Welcome Blanket Exhibit

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Welcome Blanket is an art initiative started by Los Angeles-based artist and Brown University graduate Jayna Zweiman that invites handcraft makers to create blankets and share stories important to them about immigration, migration, or relocation that become symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States. These gifts are collected, cataloged, and displayed at art [...]

The Girl of My Dreams, Sylvia: A 19th Century Life Exhibit

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The Rhode Island Historical Society invites the public to view its latest temporary exhibit, The Girl of My Dreams, Sylvia: A 19th Century Life from artist Stacy Morrison now on display in the RIHS’s museum at the John Brown House. The exhibit features the contents from a small 19th-century trunk discarded on a New York [...]