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| risd appoints a new president |
01.05.07 | issue #33 |
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 If you missed the original news during the holiday, accomplished artist, designer, innovator and academic John Maeda will succeed Roger Mandle as RISD’s next president, according to an announcement made on December 21, 2007 by Merrill Sherman, chair of RISD’s Board of Trustees and of the Presidential Search Committee. Maeda will assume office in June 2008, but as a means of getting to know members of the RISD community and discussing issues of particular interest to students, faculty, staff and alumni, he has already launched a new blog known as one.risd. Since this is a communications vehicle currently open to members of the campus community only, please contact Christina Hartley ’74 IL, director of Alumni Relations + Special Events, if you are an alumnus/na and would like access to the blog. |
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in memoriam
Longtime RISD trustee, gallery owner and arts advocate Virginia Lynch died on Thursday, December 6, 2007, in Providence. Click here to download an article in which alumni and faculty reflect on her widespread influence. |
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| from the association |
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Before moving on at the end of this academic year, President Roger Mandle is traveling to various alumni club hubs to connect with the many graduates he has befriended during his 15-year tenure. Alumni living in the NYC-area are invited to a reception in the president’s honor on January 16 from 6-8 pm at Christie’s, 20 Rockefeller Plaza. Alumni in northern California are invited to join him on Tuesday, March 4 at the opening of the RISD Northern California Alumni Biennial 2008 at the Oakland Art Gallery. Other stops are being planned for Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Chicago.
Hone your entrepreneurial skills through the Wintersession Art of Business seminar series sponsored by RISD Career Services. Register for programs on copyrights, contracts, licensing, marketing and promotion, networking, accounting, business essentials (entry-level and advanced) and careers in nonprofit organizations.
As RISD works to reevaluate and refine its alumni programming, Christina Hartley ’74 IL welcomes your input and suggestions. As the new director of Alumni Relations + Special Events, she will also be traveling this winter and spring to meet with alumni in various parts of the country to get direct feedback on potential changes. |
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“Audubon on Viagra” is how New York magazine chose to describe the new limited-edition monograph Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra. Just out last month, the 354-page book of watercolors by Walton Ford ’82 FAV features his extraordinary, savage depictions of beasts and birds — and comes at a pricetag to reflect its extraordinary reproduction quality and 16 foldouts. Walton’s work is also on view through January 6 in a solo show at the San Antonio [TX] Museum of Art.
Committed to inspiring urban youth through the arts, Jason Yoon ’01 PT will return to Providence this winter to head up New Urban Arts, the popular after-school arts program for teens where he first got hooked on this type of work when he volunteered there as a RISD student. Read all about it in this article in The Providence Journal.
“Most of my clients are young entrepreneurs who work in creative fields like music or art, so when I walk through the door I have to be just as fashiony as I am polished,” says Nina Freudenberger BArch ’03 in the January 2008 issue of Lucky magazine. The founder of Haus Interior in Manhattan, she models her favorite clothing in the issue’s four-page Personal Style feature, which sums up her look as “Laid-back & Ladylike.”
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Jason Brockert ’94 IL, an adjunct faculty member in Illustration, has received a small grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts to start a blog called A Year in Art. He’s now four months into writing an essay a week tracing the inner workings of being an artist and would love some feedback from other practicing artists.
Thanks to the Museum Fellows program, a new initiative launched in the fall, selected students pursuing a concentration in Art History (in addition to their majors) are getting a firsthand look at a possible profession of interest by apprenticing with curators at The RISD Museum.
This year RISD will help sponsor the online professional journal Contemporary Aesthetics. Professor of Philosophy Yuriko Saito serves as associate editor of this publication and encourages you to not only read it but consider submitting articles on aesthetic matters.
Members of cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble will be in residence at RISD again in 2008. Click here for more on the plans for spring semester. |
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Jill Greenberg ’89 PH
Fahey/Klein Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
through January 26
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Brett Cody Rogers ’99 PT
Praz-Delavallade
Paris, France
through January 18
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Meridith Pingree MFA ’03 SC
and several other alumni
BravinLee Projects
New York, NY
through January 12
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Julie Mehretu MFA ’97 PT/PR
Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI
through March 30
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Howard Ben Tré MFA ’80 SC
and several other alumni
The Farnsworth Museum
Rockland, ME
through February 17
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Maureen McCabe ’69 SC
Parthenon Museum
Nashville, TN
through January 12
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Painting Critic Brian Shure
Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery
New York, NY
through January 5
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