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  • Geometry Meets the World of Making

    06/21/2012
    When architect Eduardo Benamor Duarte had an idea for building with porcelain blocks, he turned to RISD’s Ceramics department experts for help.

  • Movie Stills that are Anything But

    06/05/2012
    RISD Painting Critic Dawn Clements has been awarded a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship for her work, inspired by melodrama and film noir, that the Village Voice has dubbed “still lifes that refuse to be still.”

  • Tribal Nuances in Black and White

    06/04/2012
    Paintings by RISD Professor Duane Slick are featured in We Are Here!: The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, which opened on June 2 at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York.

  • Creating Communities in the Sky

    06/01/2012
    Architect and alumnus Kenneth Lewis BArch 83 brings his expertise about post-9/11 skyscrapers to the spring semester Tall Building Studio.

  • Poetics of Space

    05/14/2012
    This spring renowned public artist Kristin Jones 79 SC brings new explorations of space and time to an interdisciplinary studio offered through Architecture.

  • Books as Art

    05/10/2012
    BOOKMARK, a breathtaking exhibition now on view at the library, celebrates 30 years of book arts at RISD.

  • Welcome to couscous

    05/02/2012
    Accomplished poet and Associate Professor Mairéad Byrne curates and hosts a monthly feast of poetry, music and performance open to the Providence public.

  • Full STEAM Ahead

    05/01/2012
    As part of SmART Schools, a research-based K–12 reform initiative, Industrial Design faculty member Amy Leidtke is leading two mini-institutes this spring to help Rhode Island math and science teachers incorporate art and design into their lesson plans.

  • Speakers Focus on Ground + Water

    04/02/2012
    In celebration of National Landscape Architecture Month, RISD is bringing seven prominent practitioners to campus to talk about their work.

  • Ono Named First Gardner Fellow

    03/30/2012
    After winning a competitive fellowship, Landscape Architecture faculty member Takuma Ono will engage in research on dredging during a three-month residency at the Gardner Museum in Boston.

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Foundation Studies students consider each other's work under the guidance of Professor Merlin Szasz.