Multiplicity: Abstraction, Pattern & Identity in Limited-Edition Art— Integrating Fine Art Multiples Into PCG’s Permanent Collection

FAIN: ZPA-283449-22

Providence College (Providence, RI 02918-7000)
Jamilee Lacy (Project Director: May 2021 to April 2023)

The hiring of three part-time staff members and various contractors to integrate 75 recent contemporary art acquisitions into the permanent collection, to make accessible and mount semi-permanent thematic exhibits in the galleries, at the Philips Memorial Library, and at the Ruane Center for the Humanities and to produce an online catalog related to the project’s central concept, "Multiplicity: Abstraction, Pattern & Identity in Limited- Edition Art.” 

Providence College Galleries [PCG] will integrate recent art acquisitions into its permanent collection via physical displays in publicly accessible spaces, an online catalog, and the implementation of proper storage and preservation methods. The 75 newly acquired artworks showcase American contemporary artists’ explorations of personal and collective identity, heritage, and cross-cultural narratives. They are all limited-edition artworks, including fine art prints, small sculpture, artist books and more. As part of the integration process, a project team will first digitize, interpret, and preserve the artworks and then organize them into publicly accessible physical displays comprised of thematically curated sections. To further expand public access to these recent acquisitions, as well other aspects of PCG’s permanent collection, the artworks will be accessible via the website in an online catalog and collection database and by appointment in a new fine art print study hub.