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Woods-Gerry Gallery is showcasing the work of artists and craftspeople involved in The Steel Yard, an industrial arts center in downtown Providence. Not surprisingly, a number of these people happen to be RISD students, faculty and alumni, who are drawn to the three-ton cranes and heavy metal fabrication equipment available at the former Providence Steel and Iron Building. But the RISD Student Gallery Board organized On Site: The Steel Yard @ Woods-Gerry as a means of strengthening the ties between RISD and this fledgling nonprofit and chose to include examples of all the work going on at The Steel Yard, regardless of direct RISD affiliation. From the pudgy Tar Baby (made of rubber roofing) in the foyer to the eye-opening paintings, intriguing 3-D work and conceptual video installation, the show captures the sense of new and cool for which The Steel Yard is known. If you’re in the area, you can find it at Woods-Gerry through January 23.
from the alumni association
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look around
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“The story is not, ‘The rovers are on Mars,’” notes documentary filmmaker Mark Davis ’72 PH. “That’s the situation. And situations don’t make good television.” For more on Davis’ adventure writing, producing and directing Welcome to Mars for the PBS show Nova, click here.
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When Furniture Design senior Timothy Liles ’05 FD interned at Converse last year, he didn’t exactly expect to design anything, well — real. But Converse was so tickled with one of his heavily doodled high-top designs that it released the sneakers in late fall. “I wanted it to look like a doodle you might do in high school during a rather dry math class,” Tim says.
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So maybe it’s not the worst thing in the world to be the butt of jock jokes. In making a series of “fearless predictions” about the year ahead, Sports Illustrated’s Phil Taylor posed this scenario for March: “The NCAA tournament begins. With most of the traditional college basketball powers having been decimated by players leaving early for the pros, being declared academically ineligible or suspended for taking money from agents, Rhode Island School of Design reaches the Sweet 16.”
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Jesse (Solomon) Sykes ’89 PH “sings in a tender, cigarette-scraped rasp with an accent that simultaneously evokes the untamed wagon-wheel West and the England of rainy royal gloom,” wrote Seattle Weekly critic Mikael Wood in reviewing Oh, My Girl (Barsik), a new CD by Jessie Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter. Rolling Stone calls it “utterly transfixing.”
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museum show attracts attention
“The absurdity of government policies is the message of the RISD show’s opening salvo,” notes Boston Globe critic Christine Temin in a recent review of Island Nations: New Art from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the Diaspora. The well-received exhibition continues at The RISD Museum through January 30.
marking progress
On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, author and activist Bikari Kitwana visited RISD to compare the political agenda of the hip-hop generation with America’s earlier justice pioneers. “From lockups to loitering laws, he doesn’t simply enumerate the issues on a continuous loop,” noted the Los Angeles Times; instead, Kitwana offers thought-provoking solutions, as the RISD audience discovered on Monday.
risd students liven up local elementary school
Even the teacher learned something new when a fifth-grade class at the Veazie Street Elementary School in Providence worked with RISD graduate students Donna Charging MAT ’05 and Frank O’Toole MAT ’05 to explore how map-making can be a valuable teaching tool.
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