Sport:Art 2012 @ Providence College Through March 29th

Visual images connect ideas, confront emotions, and speak across generations. SPORT:ART is a project that looks at the intersections of sport and art through media and the resulting construction of individual and cultural identity. Over a two-month period, a series of exhibits, lectures and programs are dedicated to this topic. The project is intended to forge interdisciplinary alliances traversing Providence College departments, and connecting across the campus and with the community. All events free.

EXHIBIT: Reilly Art Gallery
Out at Home! The Negro Baseball League: Joseph Norman Lithographs
January 26 - March 22, 2012

Out at Home! interrogates the banning of black athletes in the mainstream quintessential American sport, baseball, and the resulting formation of a black baseball league, until Jackie Robinson broke the color line in 1947. Norman's works are powerful metaphoric statements of how racism has sullied the game, as they reveal social content fluently rendered by an accomplished, aesthetic hand.


EXHIBIT: Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery
Student Sports Photography Exhibition
January 26 - March 22, 2012

Providence College photography students from Professor Eric Sung's Sports Photography seminar present their photo documentation of Providence College student-athletes.
Student Photographers: Dominic Channon (Athlete), Michael Dineen, Jessica Ho, Shannon Pustis (Athlete), Andrew Sayer (Athlete).


MULTI-MEDIA PRESENTATION: Byron Motley The Negro Baseball League: An American Legacy
Thursday, February 16 2012, 7:00 p.m.
The Ryan Concert Hall, Smith Center for the Arts

A recent resurgence of interest in the Negro Baseball Leagues led filmmaker Byron Motley to explore the life and experiences of his father, Bob Motley, an umpire in the Negro Leagues. In an insightful, moving, and amusing multi- media presentation, Byron discusses the history of the Leagues, bringing to it the unique personal connection of his own and his father's memories.

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