VSA Arts Rhode Island and the Rhode Island School for the Deaf worked together to orchestrate the RiverWalk Registers project. Students from the area created bands or “registers” of self-portraits, portraits of well-known Rhode Islanders, and images from the art collection at RISD. The artwork tiles cover the columns of the pavilion. A panel on the pavilion invokes the memory of Roger Williams, who founded a settlement here in Providence as a “shelter for persons distressed for conscience.” Tiles in 26 languages remind the viewer of Williams’ intention.