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RINewsToday – Rhode Island ART update with Stage of Freedom art performance, Oct. 4, 2025

To Do in RI: Women in the Windows – at Stages of Freedom TODAY

This engaging live-action installation returns to the Stages of Freedom Museum windows for the first time since 2018 when it drew hundreds of viewers.

See Nancy Elizabeth Prophet (portrayed by Sylvia Ann Soares), the first woman of color to graduate from RISD (1918), who went on to become an extraordinary sculptress, as she creates  a new sculpture before your very eyes. Catch the excitement during Waterfire.

This Saturday, 7 to 9pm at Stages of Freedom, 10 Westminster Street, Providence

Free & Open to the Public

An exciting live-action vignette seen through our sidewalk windows during Waterfire.

See: Sylvia Ann Soares as Nancy Elizabeth Prophet creating a sculpture.

Learn: About RISD’s first woman of color graduate, who became a world- class sculptor.

Thank you to The Providence Shelter for generously supporting this project.

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