Queering the Collection

This program has been cancelled.

As a verb, to “queer” is to challenge or subvert normative ideas of gender and sexuality. Join museum educator Sam Nehila to “queer” an object on view in our galleries. The discussion will focus on how artists and makers of the past and present explore their identities in ways that are meaningful to our own experiences today.

This program is cancelled. Look for more Queering the Collection dates in 2026 on our website soon.

Free with admission. 

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 and public programs at the RISD Museum, and teaches art history at Rhode Island College. Sam’s artistic practice includes 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.