8. URI Library, 80 Washington Street

AS220 Print Shop Key Members

AS220 Community Print Shop Staff and Key Members

Jennifer Almeida

Morgan Calderini

Kat Cummings

Michael Kachanis

Victoria Lockard

Stephanie McGuinness

Derek Schusterbauer

Carol Sweeney

Meg Turner

Meredith Younger

About the Work

* Please note the installation with the AS220 PrintShop is in transition. It lives online at the Flickr page, and the collective web site below.

The AS220 Community Print Shop Key Members, in collaboration with the general public and the Providence Public Library, have screen-printed and installed new work in the window of the University of Rhode Island’s downtown library.

Interested pedestrians who passed by a sidewalk-based screen-printing station received a simple prompt; “What would you like to see more of downtown?” In front of them lay a small assortment of illustrations – including trees, tunnels, bridges, and bicycles- that had been culled by Key Members from the Special Collections at the Central Branch of the Providence Public Library and prepared as silkscreen stencils. The images selected by the participating public were then screen-printed onto translucent window film. Once dry, these visual records of the public’s wishes were composed by the Key Members in the URI Libraries’ windows facing Washington Street.

About the Artists

For more about the artists and the AS220 Print Shop, please go to

as220.org/printshop.

AS220 Print Shop Making Art Windows on the Street

Stop by outside the URI Library today, or tomorrow or Wednesday (beginning at 10 AM every day). The AS220 Print Shop, for their Art Windows piece, will be making prints on site to put in the windows, asking the question, "What do you want for Providence?" The resulting tally of printed images will show what passers by, who work or live in the city, what they think Providence needs most in Downtown. Images so far include more green space, more room for bikes, courteous behavior, affordable living, etc. New images will be made every day from a poll of passers by. Come down and participate if you can.

Go to the URI Library Windows on Washington Street to participate!