Public Art

This piece was originally created for PVDFest 2020, although it was canceled due to the pandemic, it was installed during the Black Lives Matter protest march through the city in front of Providence City Hall.

This sculpture, titled “Mother & Child,” represents two themes related to the I-195 Redevelopment District. The Mother figure is there to nurture and guide her Child, looking to the future of this creative mile, while the colorful elements reference the iconography of the construction trade and the work being done in developing new Providence.

A mural commissioned for Tizzy K’s Ice Cream storefront shows Tizzy herself in the summer sun as she eats her delicious fruity pebbles ice cream cone!

LUMUKU welcomes you to the park to have fun alongside large, lovable cartoon characters. Scattered throughout 195 District Park, LUMUKU’s newest park installation, Over The Top, is now on display for your enjoyment.

The two playful banner sets (summer and winter) combine the 195 District Park’s logo, color, geometric compositions, and custom illustrations to create a sense of place around the park while highlighting the local fauna and flora.

Inspired by the dazzle patterns, the mural design provides a dynamic composition that changes from different perspectives due to the uneven surface of the container. Its bright color palette brings color to the 195 District Park year round.

In collaboration with Ryan Dean from LUMUKU, Buena Gráfica Social Studio designed a 1,295-foot-long scrim/banner to serve as a temporary fence covering for the new pavilion being built in the park. The design features large-scale geometric shapes inspired by the building, along with vibrant colors, and Ryan’s fun construction illustrations.

Many living beings, including humans, have depended on alewife as a food source. Not only food in itself, the alewife has also provided important nourishment for vital crops when used as a fertilizer. The Three Sisters -- maize (corn), beans, and squash - were staple crops for indigenous communities in the Northeast for hundreds of years prior to the arrival of Europeans.

This piece emphasizes the incredible movement of the alewife. Their movement around and through barriers to make their way up the eastern coast of the United States is inspiring. I’ve designed and created portals for the fish to move through around the box.

Collaborating on the design of this box was great because the design concept is essentially about two very different things coming together. The design reflects both the clashing and marriage of natural and urban life.

This design represents the cycle of how the alewife spawn from the ocean into the fresh waters. It shows the phytoplankton that they eat while in the ocean. Once they transition to fresh water and spawn, the eggs turn into guppies. Once they die off, the heron birds feed off them. All in all, the fish are important to our ecosystem, and this piece is an interpretation of that importance.

A dam which blocks the path of herring from the sea to their original spawning rivers is an example of hostile architecture. I am interested in how infrastructures that restrict and harm other species mirror the structural inequalities in our own city so often taken for granted in the interest of social control and profit.

At certain points in Rhode Island waterways during spring and early summer, you may see people staring intently at the water. While it may look like they are mesmerized by the water’s surface, chances are they are counting alewife (Alosa psuedoharengus). These fish counting stations are a part of RIDEM’s effort to track alewife populations and are manned by volunteers conducting 10-minute fish counting surveys.