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| selznick wins caldecott |
01.25.08 | issue #34 |
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 For the second year running, a RISD Illustration graduate has won the top honor in the children’s book field. Last week author/illustrator Brian
Selznick ’88 IL learned that his extraordinary children’s novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007, Scholastic) has earned the prestigious 2008 Caldecott Medal — along with an invitation to launch RISD’s new Alumni Lecture Series (see below). Since its publication
a year ago, the 526-page illustrated novel has been selected as a finalist in the 2007 National Books Awards, chosen as one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Illustrated Books of the Year and snapped up for movie rights, with the possibility
that Martin Scorsese will direct. In 2002 Selznick’s The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins was named a Caldecott Honor Book, meaning he is now among the many RISD alumni who have been recognized multiple times with the American Library Association’s Caldecott seals of approval. |
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In his tireless efforts on RISD’s behalf, president-elect John Maeda has been responding to a flood of media requests for interviews while maintaining the popular one.risd blog and announcing the launch of his latest idea-sharing venture, our.risd, which goes live today. As for that media coverage, Design Within Reach founder Rob Forbes has posted an enthusiastic online interview with Maeda and you might also want to check out Steven Heller’s interview for print, which is already on the AIGA website. Maeda’s presidency begins on June 2.
Sylvia Wolf MFA ’86 PH, a curator, author, educator and former head of the photography department at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, has been appointed the new director of the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington in Seattle (pdf press release). “She’s one of the most bright, articulate, focused curators that I’ve met,” noted Sarah Greenough, head of photography at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, in an article in the Stranger. “I see her very much as a leader.” Wolf’s exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe’s little-seen Polaroids will open at the Whitney in May, while Ed Ruscha and Photography, a show she originated at the Whitney in 2004, will open at the Art Institute of Chicago in March.
“My goal is to reclaim for the victims of torture their right to describe what happened in their own words,” notes Daniel Heyman, a RISD adjunct faculty member in Printmaking, in the current issue of Virginia Quarterly Review. Heyman’s prints and watercolors of detainees at Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq will be featured in an upcoming solo show at DePaul University’s Art Museum in Chicago and in Intimacies of Distant War at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY/New Paltz and Artists and Iraq at North Dakota Museum of Art. Also, watch for a profile on Heyman in the February issue of Esquire.
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As the first illustrious speaker in the Alumni Relations Office’s new Alumni Lecture Series, 2008 Caldecott Medal-winner Brian Selznick ’88 IL (see above) will re-visit RISD to talk about his work on Wednesday, February 20 at 6:30pm. Architectural glass artist James Carpenter ’72 IL, who will accept RISD’s Athena Award for Excellence in Design this spring, will deliver the second talk in the series on Tuesday, March 18 at 6:30pm. A third guest will speak on Thursday, April 17, with details TBA. All lectures in the series take place in the RISD Auditorium and are free and open to all members of the RISD community.
Reminder re: the 2008 Athena Awards: the festivities take place in midtown Manhattan on Thursday, April 10. Click here for the full scoop on tickets as well as this year’s esteemed recipients — Roger and Gayle Mandle, Chris Anderson, Ayse Birsel, James Carpenter ’72 IL, Roni Horn ’75 SC, Mark Pollack ’76 TX and Meejin Yoon.
How can artists and designers contribute to social change and blend their personal work with the public interest? Hear from community development experts, funders and those who work in the arts at RISD’s Making a Living While Making a Difference seminar on Thursday, January 31 at 7 pm in The Met, Room A. Co-sponsored by Career Services and the Office of Public Engagement, the seminar will be moderated by OPE Director Peter Hocking ’88 IL.
Following on the heels of the successful RISD/DC Biennial, the RISD Northern California Alumni Biennial opens on March 4 at the Oakland Art Gallery. Looking ahead, the RISD Southern California Alumni Biennial 2008 will run from June 19-21 at the Tinlark Gallery in LA. |
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RISD senior Davia Rabinoff-Goldman ’08 AP is one of four outstanding fashion design students who beat out the competition to win a $25,000 Geoffrey Beene National Scholarship designed to support up-and-coming talent in the industry. The winners were announced at a fundraising dinner in New York.
RISD’s Office of Public Engagement launched a new residency series last week with the arrival of Pam Hall, an interdisciplinary installation/performance artist based in Newfoundland. As the culmination of her week-long residency, Hall will present an installation entitled A Wish and a Prayer at Brown|RISD Hillel Gallery, 80 Brown Street in Providence, where she will also speak about the piece on Thursday, February 21 at 5pm.
Professor Elizabeth Dean Hermann of the Architecture and Landscape Architecture departments has long focused on contemporary problems in the megacities of South and Southeast Asia. Click here for a slideshow and update on her most recent research, which centers on the issue of access to clean water.
On Sunday, February 10, visiting artist Chan Park, who is teaching here during Wintersession, will perform the Korean art of p’ansori, an oral tradition involving storytelling through song. Her performance will take place at 1pm in The RISD Museum and is co-sponsored by the Department of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences and The Korea Society. |
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Printmaking critic Daniel Heyman
DePaul Art Museum
Chicago, IL
February 15-May 25
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Vicki Wulff ’69 PT
Carrie Haddad Gallery
Hudson, NY
through March 2
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Daniel Clayman ’86 GL
Mint Museum of Craft + Design
Charlotte, NC
through May 25
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Illustration critic Oren Sherman ’78 IL
Grand Central Station + subway stations
New York, NY
spring 2008
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Lori Hepner MFA ’05 DM
Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas
Dallas, TX
March 1-31
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Leah Tinari ’98 PT
eo art lab
Chester, CT
through January 31
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Painting critic Carrie Moyer
Thrust Projects
New York, NY
through February 17
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Wendy Wahl MAE ’85
Newport Art Museum
Newport, RI
through February 3
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Christy Rupp MAT ’74
Frederieke Taylor Gallery
New York, NY
through February 16
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