Currently On View
PPL offers free major exhibitions and community showcases throughout the year.
Exhibitions are viewable in our Joan T. Boghossian Gallery, Providence Journal Rhode Island Room, Updike Room, Marble Staircase Community Gallery, and other locations.
PPL in partnership with AS220, OPEN, and the City of Providence’s Department of Art, Culture and Tourism (ACT), has formed a curatorial collaboration to activate and sustain the Library’s gallery spaces during a period of transition. If you are interested in proposing an exhibition or project, please fill out this form. Please note that, at this time, funding for honoraria and production support is limited.
reharvest repair
A circular economy research project by Ayako Maruyama and Markus Berger.
Joan T. Boghossian Gallery, 3rd Floor
This show is part of an ongoing series at the Providence Public Library organized by the Providence Department of Art, Culture, and Tourism, Neal Walsh (AS220), and Ben Sisto (OPEN). Our signage sponsor is Wayfinder Collaborative; photography services donated by Therese Iacono Photography. Our media parter is the Providence Eye.
Reharvest Repair
“Re-harvesting” challenges the traditional notion of waste as something useless or undesirable. It prompts us to see waste not as an end but as a beginning.
reharvest repair invites artists, designers, makers, repairers, hackers, scavengers, and re-makers to submit work for a curated exhibition exploring acts of re-harvesting and repair as creative, social, and ecological practices. Head curators Ayako Maruyama and Markus Berger are on the hunt for work that engages the afterlife of materials, especially those connected to the regions industrial, domestic, ecological, or community-based material streams. They are interested in projects that do not simply reuse waste, but rethink the values and conditions that made something “waste” in the first place.
reharvest repair resists the notion of repair as mere restoration to an original state. Instead, it advances repair as an act of reconfiguration and transformation, cultivating renewed relationships among people, materials, place, and value. Repair is understood here not only as fixing, but as remaking, re-pairing, revaluing, and reimagining.