Cabin fever? Take a public art tour
Avenue Concept’s self-guided tours cover works on display in Providence’s South Side and West End
By Madeleine List Journal Staff Writer
“Cotyledon,” by David Boyajian, is another stop on the walking tour, which you can download on your phone.
“Still Here,” a large wall mural, is part of a self-guided public art walking tour of Providence sponsored by the Avenue Concept. [THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL PHOTOS / SANDOR BODO]
One of the artworks on a self guided public art walking tour of Providence.
Sometimes public art pieces provoke questions.
“Somnium” by M. DeAngelo.
PROVIDENCE — Public art never closes.
In the age of the new coronavirus, most businesses are closed, events are canceled and people are being told to hole up in their homes.
One of the few activities left to us, it seems, is walking outdoors — alone or while keeping a safe distance from others, of course.
To help make those walks more engaging, the Avenue Concept, a nonprofit that supports the creation and installation of art in public spaces, has created two self-guided walking tours of Providence artwork, complete with maps, prompts and questions to get the viewer thinking about each piece.
One route takes walkers to 13 sculptures and murals downtown, and the other route winds past a series of murals on Providence’s South Side and West End.
Each of the self-guided tours presents an attractive alternative to binging on yet another Netflix series.
For more information on the self-guided art tours, visit: https://theavenueconcept.org/public-art-providence-self-guided-tours/.
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