Co-Curators Claire Andrade-Watkins, PhD, & Glynis Ramos-Mitchell

Executive Assistant Sydnie Herbert

Installation Ben Kaplan

Title Graphic Jason Tranchida

Tockwotton/SPIA Videographer Amanda Murphy

Tockwotton/SPIA Lead Editor Rachel Eisengart

Web Design Mel Rainsberger

TEAM MEMBERS

Charlene Andrade

Steven Andrade

Carol Harden Britto

Patricia Joseph

Gary Jennings

Nancy Lima

Andre Nembhard

Katy Pickens

Ava Pereira

Michael Pereira

TOCKWOTTON FOX POINT CAPE VERDEAN HERITAGE PROJECT, INC.

President, Glynis Ramos-Mitchell

Vice-President, Claire Andrade-Watkins, PhD

Treasurer, Theresa Mello

Secretary, Leah Hooks

Attorney, Ron Locke, Esq.

SPECIAL THANKS

Wendy Nilsson, Superintendent, Providence Parks Department

Victor Lopes, Gateway Visitor Center Manager

THE BLUE COLLAR RHODY EXHIBITION IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART WITH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THE CRUZ COMPANIES

WORKING THE BOATS

MASTERS OF THE CRAFT

A DOCUMENTARY WEBISODE SERIES
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR, CLAIRE ANDRADE-WATKINS

QR code to the exhibition link tree

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GALLERY OF MEMORY PORTRAITS

DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHS*,
LIANE BRANDON

https://www.lianebrandon.com

Framing/printing of 20” x 40” photos by Dorian Color, Arlington, MA. Alan Asadorian, Jim Munn

Printing of 14” x 20” photos by Liane Brandon Framing of 14” x 20” photos by Abraxis

Framing Company, Auburndale, MA. Eric Blomster

*Interviewees in the documentary webisode who were unable to sit for formal portraits for the Masters of the Craft: Gallery of Memory portraits are Leslie Barrows, Paul Cardoza, James daSilva, Raymond Silva, Horace Castle, and Jesse H. Johnson.

The printing and framing of the documentary portraits were made possible in part with support from Emerson College and through grants from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities in 2010 and 2012.

The mission of SPIA Media and the TFPCVHP (Tockwotton Fox Point Cape Verdean Heritage Project) team is to preserve and document the history and memory of the Tockwotton Cape Verdean community, designated a 2022 Providence Preservation Society, MEP (Most Endangered Property), as an endangered ‘intangible memory’ of the Tockwotton Fox Point Cape Verdean community displaced by historic preservation, urban renewal, I-195, and the expansion of Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design.

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