My Living Monument

Morning session 11 am - 2 pm. Afternoon session 3 pm - 6 pm.
General Ambrose Burnside, military commander, senator, governor, sideburn enthusiast, and first president of the NRA presides over a corner of Kennedy Plaza.
Join 2018 Artist Fellow, Becci Davis, as she facilitates the second event in a series of interactive interventions that uses this designated site of memory to continue a conversation about the General’s female contemporaries. My Living Monument becomes part Davis’ broader investigation of monuments and commemoration practices inside the RISD Museum and out.
Free. This RISCA -sponsored event is organized in collaboration with the RISD Museum and the Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy.