Thursday, March 30, 2023

6 pm

$10 General Admission, $8 for JAC Members

The masks are a reference to a culture they themselves would surely have recognized. The names of the six women are displayed along with their appraised value, an amount equivalent to 25-40 acres of land, a property few Rhode Islanders would have been able to afford at the time. Six of the First is a combination of sculpture and storytelling that seeks to visualize unwritten histories rooted in a region that was acutely shaped by the contours of colonialism’s triangular trade in bodies whose voices and names have often remained unheard.

Photo by Maddie Van