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Pam Hall
From 16 January to 23 February 2008, Pam Hall was in Providence as Rhode Island School of Design's inaugural Public
Engagement Associate, a new program of artists-in-residence sponsored by the RISD Office of Public Engagement. Her work
has been exhibited in Canada and internationally, and she teaches in the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Goddard
college in Vermont. For more information on Pam Hall's work, please visit her web site:
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| Hall working with students at New Urban Arts |
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| View of New Urban Arts installation |
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| Detail of New Urban Arts installation |
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| Reading of the Wishing Wall, 21 February |
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| Reading of the Wishing Wall, 21 February |
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Pam Hall is an interdisciplinary artist working across, and sometimes in between, the boundaries of medium and discipline.
She makes visual art, constructs installations, works with language, and is engaged in film, video, and most recently,
performance. She works alone (inside and outside of her studios), and collaborates with others (sometimes individuals, sometimes
communities). Based in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, she travels extensively to pursue the creation and presentation of
her work, and to teach graduate students in the U.S. Her work has been shown throughout Canada and internationally.
residency activities
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23 January - 22 February:
A Wish and a Prayer at New Urban Arts
In conjunction with her residency at RISD, Pam Hall is spending two afternoons a week with the students, staff and artist
mentors at New Urban Arts. In an effort to connect the pieces of her time here, she's created a second installation of A
Wish and A Prayer at NUA. She will conclude her NUA residency with a talk on Creative Practice on 20 February.
20 February:
Conversation on Creative Practice at New Urban Arts
5-7 PM, 743 Westminster Street, Free and Open to the Public
The first of an exciting new series of conversations, sponsored by New Urban Arts, Hall has been invited to talk to the idea of process and practice in the pursuit of an artful life and career.
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17 January - 22 February:
A Wish and a Prayer
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| First day of installation at Hillel |
Revisiting preoccupations with process, place and presence- a Wish and a Prayer is a new site-specific installation by Canadian
artist Pam Hall intended to open a space for hope, healing and dialogue.
The installation includes a new work entitled 32 days towards a house of prayer and The Wishing Wall which is a participatory
work inviting community members to share their own prayers and wishes as part of its creation. In constructing the installation,
Hall carried over 250 wishes and prayers gathered from more than 50 Canadians to Providence and install them as the “foundation”
for The Wishing Wall, and has provided prayer rags on which others might inscribe their own wishes to be added to the to the
wall during its time in Providence.
A Wish and a Prayer is at the Brown|RISD Hillel gallery (80 Brown Street, Providence, RI) from 17 January to 21 February
2008. A satellite installation has been created at New Urban Arts (743 Westminster Street, Providence).
Thursday, February 21, Open Event: Gallery Talk and Reception with Artist Pam Hall at
Brown|RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street (Brown Campus)
5-7:30PM
Images from 32 Days Toward a House of Prayer, courtesy of the artist.
21 February:
Closing Performance and Reading at Hillel
21 February:
Faculty Conversation about Public Engagement
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19 February:
From Studio to Situation
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31 January:
Career Panel: Making a Living While Making a Difference
How can artist and designers sustain a career that engages their social conscience and work for the public interest? Hear
from community development experts, funders and those who work in the arts, as we explore a variety of paths to apply creative
practice to public issues. Developing not-for-profit centers, public private partnerships, ad situating your art practice
in unexpected locations will be discussed. This program featured Pam Hall, Robert Leaver (principal consultant at New Commons),
Danial Kertzner (Community Philanthropy Officer at the Rhode Island Foundation), and Tamara Kaplan (interim director of New
Urban Arts), and was moderated by Peter Hocking (interim director of RISD | Public Engagement). Thursday, 31 January, 7 PM,
The Met -- Room A, 55 Angell Street.
25 January:
Cultural Creatives Talk
Pam met with members of the Providence Cultural Creatives group at New Commons to discuss the nature of creative practice
and the challenges of balancing art making with personal economics.
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30 January:
Oral History Seminar
Pam met with Lindsay French's Winter Session seminar on oral history to present her work, provide insight into the role of
narrative interviewing in contemporary art, and to discuss the challenges of working within community.
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