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Title: Development Manager (30 hours/week) Summary: The Development Manager is an experienced and entrepreneurial professional with a passion for Rhode Island’s historic and unique places. They will work with the Executive Director to set development priorities, as well as to lead the execution of those strategies with the goal of substantially increasing the organization’s capacity, sustainability, and impact. This position is responsible for overseeing the organization’

Title: Administrative Assistant (Part-Time, 20-25 hours/week) | 3-Year Position Summary: The Administrative Assistant provides administrative support to Preserve RI’s Executive Director and for the organization’s meetings, preservation programs, events, and initiatives. The ideal candidate is a motivated self-starter who is energized by the opportunity to support a small non-profit organization’s daily and annual activities. The ideal candidate has a BA; strong writing, ver

Arctic Mill, West Warwick For years, Preserve RI has partnered with Grow Smart RI to advocate for the state’s Historic Tax Credit (HTC) program. This program has a proven track record – it has generated over $2.18 billion in total investment into the state and has generated approximately 20% of all new housing from 2013 through 2023. After unsuccessful efforts to include funding for the program in the Governor’s budget, we worked with key allies in both the House and Senate t

From Louisiana, Bailey is joining the Preserve Rhode Island team as the Preservation Programs Manager. She earned a Bachelor's in Cultural Resource Management and Public History from Southeastern Louisiana University in 2018, followed by a Master's degree in History in 2020. For nearly a decade, she has worked alongside preservation professionals in education, advocacy, and historic preservation programs. Most recently, Bailey served as Louisiana's National Register Coordinat

On Being American | Contemporary Artworks, Echoes of the Past is an exhibition reimagining the historic house through the work of five contemporary artists. each drawing on the house's architecture, time period, and stories to explore the theme "On Being American." Curator Susan Hardy reflects that, "If you look at the whole of the installation, you see so much more than the history you would associate with a 161-year- old mansion. A bigger story unfolds and conversation beg

Entitled Patterns in Color and Flow, Wright’s installation transforms the Lippitt House Music Room through immersive images and regional waterways, offering viewers an opportunity to reflect on the unseen systems of labor and the histories flowing beyond the frame which allow the Lippitt House to exist.

Lynne Harlow’s evocative cotton installation on the floor of the library contemplates the question, “how little is enough?”

Textile artist Amalia Goldona Broche’s trio of textile works center the experiences and memories of the laborers that sustained life at the Lippitt House.

Displayed in the Dining Room of the Lippitt House Museum as part of the exhibition On Being American | Contemporary Artworks, Echoes of the Past, Easton’s works invite the viewer to contemplate the house’s architecture and interior, the Victorian period’s fascination with ornamentation, and materiality as a conveyor of cultural value.

If one were to enter the Drawing Room at the Lippitt House Museum, see the small-scale sculptural works installed on individual white pedestals, and ask, “What are these?,” this would be exactly the response artist Susan Hardy hopes to provoke.