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| crit on ice
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01.19.07 | issue #24
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 Forty RISD freshmen capped their fall studio in three-dimensional design with a sled design project under the direction of Foundation Studies Critic Deborah Coolidge MFA ’80 CR. Building on a series of assignments that help students to understand form, Coolidge chose this four-week finale because it challenges students to build fully functional 3D objects that factor in complex structural variables (stability, tracking, safety, weight, steering, braking, etc.) with aesthetic concerns. Her students in two Foundation sections worked individually and in teams of two to construct 29 full-scale sleds in materials of their choice — wood, metal, rope, plastic, found objects. Despite this winter’s balmy temperatures in the northeast, the final crit proved to be a blast after all the hard work as students and their teacher “test drove” their creations at a local ski area.
from the alumni association
• See the best work of some of RISD’s leading craft artists in RISD ROUTES: Contemporary Craft by New England Alumni, which runs at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA from January 20 through May 6. Curated by David Revere McFadden of the Museum of Arts & Design in NYC, the exhibition has already been favorably reviewed in The Providence Journal. All alumni and their guests are invited to an opening reception from 2-5pm on Sunday, January 28.
• Learn about opportunities for artists’ residencies at a series of public information sessions RISD is presenting in six different cities in partnership with the Alliance of Artists Communities (AAC). For details on the first two panel discussions — in NYC on February 14 and Chicago on February 22 — click on the calendar listing on the left of the AAC web page. The series includes a host of panelists from such desirable destinations as Anderson Ranch, Art Farm and Sundance, among many others.
• Since it’s good to be green and even better when you can access resources that are beneficial to your art and design work, ACSO has begun to cultivate an array of associations, conferences, directories and discipline-specific “green” links in its password-protected Online Career Library. Help this resource to grow by clicking on Add A Link when you’re in the Green Design category (located under Additional Resources).
• Duke? UNC? Syracuse? None are in the same league as RISD’s famed basketball team, The Balls. Join them in NYC for their annual grudge match against arch-rival Cooper Union: 3pm tomorrow, January 20, at Baruch Junior High, East 20th Street (between First and Second avenues). And if you need a t-shirt to show your support, check out the selection at the RISD Store.
on campus
library wins preservation award
Last night the Providence Preservation Society presented RISD with its 2006 Adaptive Reuse/Material Conservation/New Design/Institutional Award for “the creative adaptation” and “outstanding new design” of the Fleet Library at RISD, which was dedicated last October.
turkish influences
If you’re in Providence, check out the new painting show at risd|works, which features work by Shadi Khadivi M.ARCH ’05 created during her recent Fulbright-supported stay in Izmir, Turkey. The show continues through February 15 (so you might even want to pick up something for Valentine’s Day while you’re in the store).
at the museum
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Curator of Ancient Art Gina Borromeo shows examples of Love in Ancient Art during an Always on Sunday talk at 2:30pm on February 11 at The RISD Museum. Later that week, the RISD community and other museum members are invited to the opening reception for Feathers, Flowers, Talons and Fangs: Power and Serenity in Japanese Nature Prints on Thursday, the 15th, from 5:30-8:30pm.
enjoy art in italy
Join Museum Director Hope Alswang and Museum curators Judith Tannenbaum and Maureen O’Brien for a breathtaking trip to Italy this fall to take in the art and architecture of Venice, Urbino and Rome.
look around
• Even if your New Year’s resolutions called for cutting the sweet stuff, you might want to have some fun with crazyaboutcupcakes.com, the latest entrepreneurial venture by the ever resourceful Krystina Castella ’89 ID. Why cupcakes? They’re “friendly, stylish, nostalgic and portable,” she says.
• “Schaechter blurs the distinctions between painting and glass using skillfully rendered compositions and novel technical approaches,” notes curator Alex Baker in the foreword to the eye-catching new book Extra Virgin: The Stained Glass of Judith Schaechter. Early influences such as doodling, comic books and punk rock definitely show in the unconventional vignettes of this 1983 graduate of the glass program.
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© Rhode Island School of Design 2007
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Linda Leslie Brown MAE ’87
Kingston Gallery
Boston, MA
through January 27
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Steven Rosen ’81 IL
Superfine
Brooklyn, NY
through February 4
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Steven Weinberg MFA ’79 SC
Liuli Glass
Shanghai, China
through June
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Maureen Jeram ’93 PT
Galerie Koal
Berlin, Germany
through January 27
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Merle Temkin ’58 TX
Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago, IL
through March 4
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Fred Lynch ’86 IL
Clark Gallery
Lincoln, MA
through January 25
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