A series of site-specific performances and temporary art works demonstrating the potential for a public art park along the banks of Providence’s historic urban waterway.

• The Dirt Palace storefront window gallery began hosting Greenway Arts installations focused on the Woonaquatucket and its watershed in fall 2018.
• Installations by Keri King and Brendan Rose and animal habitats by The Steel Yard will be on view beginning the last week of July during PVD Fringe Festival (July 21-28).
• On July 27 the City of Providence Department of Art, Culture + Tourism, lead cultural partner WaterFire Providence, Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council, and collaborators, will stage a culminating celebration along the Greenway, highlighting the potential for a permanent linear art park connecting downtown to emergent arts institutions and diverse residential neighborhoods. As part of this event, the Manton Avenue Project will reprise excerpts of “The Olneyville Plays” and “The Woonasquatucket River Play” on the banks of the Woonasquatucket River beginning at Riverside Park. Wilbury Theatre Group will hold a chautauqua at Donigian Park. WaterFire will create a new site-specific lighting installation near Eagle Square. Following the WRGA demonstration project, partners will convene to refine a vision for the permanent park’s arts infrastructure in anticipation of the Woonasquatucket River Greenway extension project