As a huge comic book fan from my teenage years, how could we not curate this project working with young people in our home state (Rhode Island)? The PCC will be touring across the state this summer, keep an eye out for them!
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Reimagining your neighborhood through theatre? Communities building their community through puppetry? That's a public humanities dream - help make it a reality!

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Everyone knows about the cultural life of places like Brooklyn or DC - what's going on in Kansas City? Help Outpost connect cities and creative types by learning more about each other.

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For some, mobile apps are the future but this one is looking at our past and present. This app and database will bring information about your built environment to your fingertips. Learn more about the space around you or explore the rest of the world - sounds good to me.

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Great music, and now a great dress to go with it. The RIBHS has a remarkable collection. Help them conserve it for public display.
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Community conversations through museum interventions? Sounds like a good idea to me. LGBTQ* issues are so important and relevant; supporting organic works like this is necessary.

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With a name like Hack Manhattan, you know it's good. The creation of a public space for hackers, artists, and makers has clearly been successful thus far and they deserves the chance to see what more they can do.

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You might imagine that power company employees don't often work with dancers or musicians, but in this case, you'd be dead wrong. This is an incredible project showing a deep understanding and respect for the Austin field crews. And it sounds fun too!

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This very week we discussed how a "public-facing museum" should look in our classes. What better way to describe than by example? Real distribution of authority and authentic opening of the museum.
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Embedding intrinsic creativity at the local, community level is a key concept for much Public Humanities work. An artistic vision lifts this community garden even higher.
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Recycling (up-cycling?) shipping containers, building a community space, and telling stories. I've seen some great things done with shipping containers and this ambitious project is right up there with the best.
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Demonstrating the creativity, quality and diversity of Brown university alumni.

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I visited the 1964 World's Fair and remember it mostly through the photos my parents took--and the helicopter ride! The folks who made these home movies remember the 1939 fair through their movies. Now you can, too.

Created by Brown Public Humanities alumna Amanda Murray!
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A community-oriented art museum? We're there. Almost literally, in this case, since the Pop-Up Museum will pop up in Central Falls, Rhode Island for a week in May. Confronting issues of access within cultural events, the Pop-Up Museum will be a week to remember. Check it out!

Taking art to the streets in Honolulu. Working with the public, with professional artists and addressing the urban cityscape, this project aims to completely re-define how people relate to their city.

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Im a huge fan of cycling. It's cheap, green, and fun. Combining it with a community-based arts project to share knowledge and resources makes perfect sense!

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Yellowstone National Park is an important part of American culture, maintaining the incredible natural world on this continent. This brings the visitor into the process, using their photos to create a public archive to research and protect this amazing resource. Keep it up!

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What does your (nearest) city sound like? The American Music Project has you covered. At least, it will once it gets going, starting with Nashville and Austin. This will be the beginning of an incredible musical resource, available to everyone with wifi. Don't miss it!

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The Cable Car is an amazing resource for everyone who lives here in Providence, bringing together unique films and unique audiences. The transition to digital has hurt many independent theaters, but let's not let the Cable Car be another. See you there!

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Remember "snail mail"? Olivia Meny and other mail artists do. It may seem ironic that we say art can create community while promoting a mail art project, but this is just the thing to collapse the barriers of social life to spark discussion of real issues we share.

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This initiative increases local education and community engagement through food in an urban environment. Also, they seem careful to create active opportunities for engagement through classes around gardening, cooking, and nutrition. Very interesting work!

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We may not know Dora, but her personal history and place within her family will interweave with cultural expectations and macrohistorical occurrences. The creation of this family archive will maintain her stories for the future, as well as for those who love her today.

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Funding transcriptions and travel expenses isn't the most exciting project on this site, but the diverse stories told by African American AIDS activists more than warrant their funding. This is an important and ongoing chapter of history; those involved need to be heard.

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This collaborative "placemaking" installation in Miami focuses on the city's need for better transit to improve social connectivity.

The Purple Line will literally bring Miamians together through a common need. Plus, how great does "future pop-up transit station" sound?

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Issa Nyaphaga plans to return to Cameroon to build a local community radio station. This project is particularly noteworthy for the risk Issa faces and the deeply divided political situation in the country.

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Free Art!

The Evereman image has become iconic in Detroit and this particular project allows resident to create their own interpretation of Evereman... and then give it away for free!

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This local, bespoke movie theater is the heart of its community. As technology develops in leaps and bounds, this project reminds us of some of the unseen consequences of progress.

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Pushing the boundaries of how we make art... and involving the community in the making of it. What more could a biologist dream of?

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So, they'll bicycle around the city in a mobile laboratory taking pictures of trash. And then they'll put the trash on exhibit. You'll have to read the description to learn about the taxonomy part. And the neat stickers!

I'd like to join them.
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Rivers are good metaphors, but they're more than that. They'r'e real places that matter to people and nature. The Connecticut River tells many stories. I want to hear them.
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Get kids reading in public spaces. Transform empty lots into spaces for programming. Great ideas. And you get Literary Lots postcards for backing the project!
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Help the Evanston Art Center and the National Museum of Mexican Art think through the meaning of street art, so that they can help the public think it through, too.
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Take the wood out of the xylarium and put it back in the forest!
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Newport, RI, has a remarkable story of historic preservation to tell. The Newport Restoration Foundation has spearheaded the creation of a Maya Lin designed park to tell that story. Help finish the park by contributing to this Kickstarter project.
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