Occupied Thoughts
About
Art can offer complex perspectives and provide a reflective space to sit with difficult emotions and ideas. Occupied Thoughts, an interactive series of conversations led by museum educators, Maggie Bauer and Sam Nehila, will use artworks as a way to explore and discuss land rights, occupation, gentrification, and conflict-induced displacement. The discussion will be guided using anti-bias, multicultural and social justice principles to provide a respectful space to consider current global issues. For questions, concerns, or comments on this program please contact Deborah Clemons, Director of Public Programs, dclemons@risd.edu.
Schedule:
Sundays, October 13, 20, 27, 1:00-2:00 pm
Free. Space is limited. Registration is required for this in-person program.
Maggie Bauer is an artist and educator based in Providence, RI and Flossmoor, IL. She has facilitated intergenerational art programs at organizations that include Gather Farm, the Haus of Glitter, and Brown Arts Institute. Maggie has a BA in Education Studies from Brown University.
Sam Nehila wears many hats in the art world of Providence, RI. He is a tour guide for Gallery Night Providence, a museum educator for K-12 student visits at the RISD Museum, and working on his personal practice of printing stone lithographs in his Providence studio. He received a BA in Art History and a minor in Printmaking from Rhode Island College, and a MA in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is a co-organizer of PVDPrintmakers (@pvdprintmakers), an online and in-person community group working to support and connect printmakers across Rhode Island.