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EYE TO EYE: Photographs and Projects by Mary Beth Meehan

02jul10:00 a.m.5:00 p.m.EYE TO EYE: Photographs and Projects by Mary Beth MeehanJune 30 - August 22

Event Details

EYE TO EYE Photographs and Projects Mary Beth Meehan Exhibition at the WaterFire Arts Center (Photograph by Matthew TW Huang)

WaterFire Providence presents EYE TO EYE: Photographs and Projects by Mary Beth Meehan at the WaterFire Arts Center (WFAC), an exhibition of work from all four of Mary Beth Meehan’s most recent in-depth projects – from Brockton, Massachusetts, to Providence, Rhode Island, to Newnan, Georgia, to her newest project and book on Silicon Valley, California. A collaborative installation, ANNYE RAYE PITTS: WITNESS an installation by Jonathan Pitts-Wiley and Mary Beth Meehan will be on display in the Visitor Center Gallery. This exhibition will be at the WFAC from Wednesday, June 30 – Sunday, August 22, 2021.

The exhibit is free for all, donations encouraged. The WaterFire Arts Center hours are: Wednesday – Sunday, 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m, Thursday 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. 

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MARY BETH MEEHAN is an independent photographer, writer, and educator, who has spent more than twenty years embedding herself in communities across the United States. Beginning in her native New England, and continuing in the Midwest, the American South, and Silicon Valley, her work, which combines image, text, and large-scale public installation, stems from her belief in a collaborative process that should function in and for the communities it reflects. Co-opting the scale of celebrity and advertising, Meehan’s portrait banners activate public spaces and spark conversations among and about the people who inhabit them.

Read about Meehan’s 2018 installation in Newnan, Georgia, How 17 Outsize Portraits Rattled a Small Southern Town, New York Times (January, 19, 2020).

Learn more about Mary Beth Meehan on her NetWorks RI profile page.

The exhibition is made possible in part by the support of BankNewport.

Event Times

(Friday) 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.(GMT-04:00)