Community Creatives
Email us if you would like to join the Broad Street Stories creative sessions.
Community Creatives are any community member who would like to join us in the creative process. From Fall ‘23 - Fall ‘24 we met weekly in the neighborhood to co-create understanding of the built environment of Broad Street. Earlier in the process included guest experts to present on their organizing and creative work in the neighborhood, and historical archive materials from the neighborhood. Later in the process we worked with photographs taken by the team to describe and remix the materials present in the neighborhood. In this process, participants proposed a poster project of past and present images of, and interesting insights about, the neighborhood.
Between Fall ‘24 and Summer ‘25 we’ll announce meetings to shape physical installations at three sites on Broad Street: the Grace Church Cemetery, Temple Beth-El Synagogue, and the former site of Fefa’s Market.
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Community Connectors
Community Connectors are community leaders with extensive experience organizing, building, connecting, and advocating for the Broad Street Community.
Managing Director, D Key Solution
Marta V. Martinez
Executive Director, Rhode Island Latino Arts
Founder and Executive Director, Nuestras Raíces: The Latino Oral History Project of Rhode Island
Project
Facilitators
Project Facilitators are trained designers who help to connect the creative team to resources, ideas, and fabricators to make the team’s vision a reality.
Katie Edmonds
Tamara Metz
Nonprofit Administration
Broad Street Stories is managed by Rhode Island Latino Arts.
City Support
Broad Street Stories is in partnership with City of Providence Department of Art, Culture and Tourism.
Dr. Micah Salkind is the Deputy Director of The City of Providence Department of Art, Culture and Tourism. He manages large grants and strategic artist initiatives for the City, collaborating with the Creative Capital’s largest non-profit cultural institutions as well as its emerging artists, designers, and creative entrepreneurs. He also sings with Collegium Ancora, throws quarterly Dollar Disco parties as one half of Micah Jackson, and is an ongoing collaborator with dancers and scholars in Chicago’s Honey Pot Performance collective. A DJ, sound designer, and curator, Salkind is the author of Do You Remember House? Chicago’s Queer of Color Undergrounds (Oxford University Press).
Rebecca Noon is a community arts organizer, deviser, and administrator. After running Community Engagement departments at Trinity Rep in Providence and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, she now serves as the Director of Special Projects for the City of Providence’s department of Art, Culture and Tourism. She is a founder of the defunct tri-coastal community-based performance ensemble Strange Attractor, and currently manifests independent creative exploits in a community art project called Center Aquidneck.
Funders
This project has been funded by National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Telling the Full History Preservation Fund, with support from National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this website do not necessarily represent those of the National Trust or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Broad Street Stories has received funding from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.
This project has been made possible in part by a Rhode Island Foundation Community Grant
This project is funded by RI Rebounds – Outdoor and Public Space Capital Improvements and Events Initiative