Title Information
Title
Interview with Lisa Melmed
Name: Personal
Name Part
Freeman, Ben
Role
Role Term: Text
interviewer
Name: Personal
Name Part
Melmed, Lisa
Role
Role Term: Text
interviewee
Type of Resource
mixed material
Origin Information
Date Created (encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
2013-03-19
Physical Description
Extent
1 sound recording + 1 PDF
Abstract
In this interview, Lisa Melmed describes her work as a teaching artist with Urban Pond Procession, touching on UPP’s partnerships with Providence CityArts and several schools in the area surrounding Mashapaug Pond – including Reservoir Elementary, Highlander Charter School, and Community Preparatory School. She reflects on the changes she has observed within her tenure, explains what role UPP may play within larger remediation and community revitalization efforts, as well as larger social and political contexts.
Note: venue
John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities, Brown University, 357 Benefit Street.
Note
Other person/people mentioned in interview: Juliet Cassolin; Sean King; Chris Lee; Amelia Rose; Paul Sharf; Janice Choi; Chris Lee; Anna Meyers
Genre (aat) (authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
oral histories (literary works)