Projects
Fiber/Paper/Love
Working Objects: Props By Ross MacDonald
Props & Fine Art From Movies, Television and Theatre
Alumni of Color Exhibition
Color-ism
Precession
On and On: Art Without End
The Meek Shall Inherit
A Tool is a Mirror
Pawtucket Foundation Exhibition
Shadow Show
Providence Art Windows
Apartment at the Mall
Ourchitecture
We'll Do It Live
Wheel Arts Administration
Elizabeth Keithline
205 Kenyon Avenue, East Greenwich, RI, 02818
401/578-4313
Download this resume: Wheel Arts Resume 2017 (pdf)
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- Current: Rhode Island State Council On the Arts: Consulting Director, Percent For Art program/State Cultural Facilities Grants; Contemporary Art At the State House Galleries; Oversight of Airport Galleries; convene selection panels, coordinate site visits, RFQ’s, project management, budgets, press, communications, social media, artist contracts, website, educational outreach, coordination of loan agreements
- Current and 2014-2015: Wheaton College, Norton, MA: interim director, Beard & Weill Gallery – Curating, exhibition design, collections, emergency management, teaching in the galleries and classrooms, faculty exhibition, press, social media, Biennial selection process, staffing, interns, loans, shipping, coordination with administration
- 2008-2013: Director of RISCA Grants To Organizations: convened selection panels, grants management, constituent review & support, ADA compliance.
- 2014: New England Foundation For the Arts/Barr Foundation: public art assessment for the City of Boston, convened 44 informants for group & individual interviews, deep research, reporting to funders & community partners, recommendations for implementation of a Percent For Art Program and improvements to preexisting program.
- 2012-2016: Governors Island Art Fair: gallery engagement, development, business advisor
- 2014: Charles River Conservancy, MIT D-Lab: public art management with Mags Harries & Lajos Heder, contracts, meetings, major funders
- 2015: Art In The Park, Worcester MA: call for entries, panel, selection management
- 2014: City of Gloucester: public art forum, planning
- 2010-2013: Providence Foundation: founded and directed Providence Art Windows, art management, public artists, call for entries, contracts, events, media management
- 2009: Gilbane Corporation: public art management
- 2006-2007: Newport Art Museum: interim Director of Operations
- 2004-2007: Wind/Sea/Sky: public art projects
Gallery/Curatorial/Exhibition Design
Society In Upheaval, Beard Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, Ma
Helen Popinchalk: The Sleep Of Reason, Weil Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Drawn Threads, Beard Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Taleen Batalian: Graft, Weil Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
On & On: Art Without End, Mark Miller Gallery, 92 Orchard Street, New York, NY, 2016
Precession, Anne Morgan Spalter, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Moynihan Station, New York, NY, 2015
The Meek Shall Inherit, BoxoProjects, New York, NY 2013; Umass Amherst 2014
A Tool Is A Mirror, Umass Amherst, Mobius, Boston Cyberfest and Danforth Museum
The Shadow Show, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
The Apartment At The Mall: The Showcase Opening, Providence, RI
Ourchitecture, Newport Art Museum and RI Housing Authority, Providence Providence Art Windows Invitational, Providence, RI
Writing
Monthly International Sculpture Center public art blog
So Happy Together, Artists and Fabricators, Public Art Review, January 2015
Creative Time, Creative Place, Public Art Review blog, December 2013
Durability I, Sculpture Magazine blog, October 2013
Durability II, Sculpture Magazine blog, December 2013
Convergence, Art New England, Fall 2013
Percent For Art Programs, Public Art Review, Fall 2013
What Panelists Look For In An RFQ, NE Foundation For the Arts, Oct 2012
Minding Your RFQ's and P's, Americans For the Arts Blog, Feb 2013
Pushing The Boundaries of Public Art, Art New England, Apr/May 2013
Lectures, Panels
Public Art, Anna Maria College, with Professors Darrell Matsumoto, David Wackell and Michael Yefko
Writing About Public Art, Panel for the International Sculpture Center conference, New Orleans; October 2014, with Greg Cook, Douglas MacCash, Abby Suckle
Does Public Art Create A Sense Of Place? Panel at Boston Society of Architects, Boston, MA July 2014, with Kate Gilbert, Elizabeth Devlin, Karin Goodfellow
Culture & Urbanity, Panel held at the International Sculpture Conference, Art Institute of Chicago, October 2012, with Mary Jane Jacobs, Bill Fontana, Christina Lanzl
Public Art, Panel held at the Visual Resources Conference, Providence, RI, April 2013, with Jack Becker, Helen Lessick, Rachel Cain
Meatwater, Lecture at the RI School of Design Museum, May 2012
Served On New England Foundation For the Arts, NEST Grants Panels Managed Grants To Organizations, General Operating Support Panels for the RI State Council on the Arts
Public Art Commission Management
- What Color Do You Think Of? Lynne Harlow, Wheaton College Campus
- The RI Fire Academy Eagle, Natalie Blake, RI Fire Academy, Exeter, RI
- Guardians And Warriors In The Community, Deborah Baronas, RI State Police Barracks, Lincoln, RI
- Light Pressure and Droplets 1, 2 & 3, Jenn Figg and Matthew McCormack, University of RI College of Engineering
- Day To Day, Gillian Christy, TF Green Airport, Warwick, RI
- Four Seasons of Block Island, Marilyn Bogdanffy, Block Island Airport
- River Bikes, Mags Harries, Charles River Conservancy
- Interval, Barbara Cooper, TF Green Airport, Warwick, RI
- Liminal Lining, Susan Dory, TG Green Airport, Warwick, RI
- Horizon Garden, Mikyoung Kim Design, RI Convention Center, Providence, RI
- Reinstallation, Peter Geisser, RI School For the Deaf, Providence, RI
- Torsion III, Peter Diepenbrock, University of RI, Kingston, RI
- Schooling, Cliff Garten, University of RI, Narragansett, RI
- Heber Younken Medicinal Garden, Elizabeth Billings, Andrea Wasserman & H. Keith Wagner Partnerships, Kingston, RI
- All Together Now, Rosario Marquardt & Roberto Behar, R&R Studios with John Grant Projects, Warwick, RI
- Monument To the RI State Police, Benjamin Victor, N Smithfield, RI
- In Passing, Erik Carlson, Department of Motor Vehicles, Cranston, RI
- All Aboard, David Alan Clark, Wickford Junction Station, Wickford, RI
- Semaphore, Laura Haddad & Tom Drugan, Wickford Junction Station, Wickford, RI
- Infinity, Peter Diepenbrock, East Greenwich, Rhode Island
- Waves Of Narragansett, Peter Geisser and Mike Seeger, Narragansett, RI
- Hyparbole, Mark Fornes/THEVERYMANY, RI College Fine Art Center, Providence, RI
- GeNeSiS, Erwin Redl, University of RI, College of Chemistry & Biological Life Sciences, Kingston, RI
- Making Waves, Peter Diepenbrock, Paul W. Crowley Met Center, Newport, RI
- The Eagle Has Landed & Timeline, Allison Newsome, RI State Veterans Home, Bristol, RI
- Seven Installations, Deborah Baronas, RI State Veterans Home, Bristol, RI
- Bristol Parade Colors, Nicholas Paciorek, RI State Veterans Home, Bristol, RI
- Freeze, Erik Carlson, University of Rhode Island Harrington School Of Communication & Media
- Rhode Island College Fogarty & Gaige Lee Buildings
- RI Fire Academy, Exeter, RI
- RI State Police Barracks, Lincoln, RI
- University of Rhode Island College of Engineering
Public Art Assessments/Master Plans
Conducted a 9-month assessment of the place-making and public art climate in the City of Boston. Sponsored by San San Wong at the Barr Foundation and Jane Preston at the New England Foundation For the Arts The assessment included deep research, interviews with 45 informants, reporting and recommendations.
Public Art Master Plan for TF Green Airport – convened arts advisors and members of the public to discuss a master plan for the future of public art at Rhode Island’s seven airports. Resulted in Greenspace, an ongoing gallery program, and a total of nine public art commissions.
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'Props' go to Wheaton: Exhibitions celebrate stage, movie, TV artistry that usually goes unnoticed, The Sun Chronicle, Mar 2018
Props From Theatre, Television, and Film on Exhibit at Wheaton College, Stage Directions, Feb 2018
Guns From HAMILTON and More Theater, Movie, and Television Props on Display in MA, Broadway World, Feb 2018
Props from Hamilton and More Featured in New Exhibit Celebrating Design Elements Rarely Seen Up Close, Playbill, Feb 2018
Invigorating The Senses On & On At Wheaton, Suzanne Volmer, ArtScope, Jan/Feb 2018
ArtWorks, Martina Windels, RI-PBS, May 2012
Public Art, Maureen Moakley, RI Access, April 2013
A Tool Is A Mirror at Mobius, Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid, May 2011
Rhode Island's Public Art Program Threatened, Art New England, Doug Norris, April/May 2010
Window Dressing: A Look Into Providence’s Art Windows, Art New England, Doug Norris, December/January 2010
Art That Walks A Fine Line Between Reality And Illusion, The New York Times, Benjamin Genocchio, January 2008
Shadow Show, Art New England, Patricia Rosoff, April/May 2008
Out Of Darkness, The Hartford Courant, Matt Eagan, November 2007
Education
Emerson College, Bachelor of Science in Communications
Advisory Committee, Public Art Review
Membership: ArTTable, International Sculpture Center, Americans for the Arts