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Art Context: Free Not Free: An Installation By Indira Freitas Johnson, David Henry, Indira Freitas Johnson
Art Context: Free Not Free: An Installation By Indira Freitas Johnson, David Henry, Indira Freitas Johnson
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Exhibition Notes, Number 14, Spring 2001. What Is Really Free? Acts of kindness and the stories people tell: an Interview. Between February and June of this year, Indira Freitas Johnson traveled each week from the Chicago area to work with a literacy group at the Knight Memorial Branch of the Providence Public Library. Starting with these students, recent immigrants learning English, Johnson began to collect stories of occasions where people had given "freely” of their time and spirit for the nourishment of others. With the assistance of five graduate students from Rhode Island School of Design, Johnson expanded her collection …