OPEN

In the spring of 2025, I began moving all my “collections-as-art” type works into a new house of sorts. OPEN is being billed as “a place for things,” and in addition to having a new website, there are plans to move into a physical space at 50 Sims Avenue in Providence. Today is March 26, below is a little bit about OPEN so far. I

“OPEN is a loose set of strategies for finding, documenting, and sharing things, with things defined in the loosest ways possible. Ideas, handhelds, memories, and monuments. OPEN is searching for new ways of searching; looking for new ways of looking. The project was established in 2025 by Ben Sisto, an artist and community organizer living in Providence, Rhode Island.”

OPEN’s Collections and Projects:

+ A Droll Yankee Archive
+ Deejay, please
+ Earthrise Museum
+ Gut Check Library and Research Center
+ Interaction of Interaction of Color
+ Museum of Who Let Who Let the Dogs Out Out
+ QUERI
+ Reinsulator
+ Rhode Island QSL Archive
+ Rock Collection Collection
+ A Seekonk Museum
+ Star Dot Star
+ Where Life is Worth Living

This post will be left pretty much static—if you want to keep up with all things OPEN, head over to openforever.org.