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| more good caldecott news
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02.16.07 | issue #25
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 In January David Wiesner ’78 IL was thrilled to learn that his latest book Flotsam has won the 2007 Caldecott Medal, making him only the second illustrator ever to have earned the coveted award three times. He won his first Caldecott Medal for Tuesday (1991), chronicling a fantastic invasion of flying frogs, and his second for his ingenious take on The Three Pigs (2001). Renowned for his gift for storytelling without words, Wiesner may have amassed more Caldecott Medal and Honor awards than most, but he’s not alone among RISD graduates to be so recognized; bestselling illustrators Chris Van Allsburg MFA ’75 SC and David Macaulay ’69 AR are among more than half a dozen other RISD-educated artists who have won over the years (see audio slide show). In announcing this year’s Caldecott winners, the American Library Association also chose Macaulay for the 2008 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award.
from the alumni association
• Nearly half of RISD’s trustees are also alumni, and each year all RISD alumni are invited to elect a new alumni representative to the Board. By now you should have received a ballot in the mail with information on this year’s candidates: Wilma Parker DePavloff ’63 PT, Patricia Dingle MAT ’77 and Matthew Hintlian ’75 FAV. Please be sure to share in this important responsibility by returning your ballot no later than March 16.
• Following the success of the RISD Routes show now at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA, the inaugural RISD Midwest Biennial, featuring 42 works by alumni in the region, opens on Saturday, March 3 from 5-7 pm at the Sherrie Gallery in Columbus, OH. Please join us for the opening.
• Temperatures may be dipping to the single digits in Providence, but students are thinking summer and are actively seeking full-time jobs and internships. Now is an excellent time to attract new creative talent. Just go to our ArtWorks page and click on “Employer” to post any opportunities you have available.
on campus
president mandle plans to leave in 2008
Having come to RISD in the summer of 1993 from the National Gallery of Art, Roger Mandle intends to complete his extraordinary 15-year tenure as president when his contract expires in July 2008. Click here for the full announcement.
risd by design coming 10.5-7
Plan ahead: the next RISD by Design weekend takes place on campus from October 5-7, 2007. Since the annual alumni reunion and parents’ weekend is always held leading up to Columbus Day, hotels and motels in the Providence area tend to fill up fast, so best to book lodging sooner rather than later.
respond|design
Respond|Design co-founders Tom Weis MID ’08 and Gretchen Hooker MID ’08 are among the RISD students who meet weekly to discuss how design can be used to respond to society’s most pressing issues. On February 20 the group is hosting screenings of the 2010 Imperative: Global Emergency Teach-in, a nationwide event on climate change. The webcast will be shown at The Met, the Fleet Library at RISD and the CIT lobby from 12-3:30 pm.
look around
• Good news for RISD Photography Professor Ann Fessler: her well-received look at The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade is a finalist in this year’s National Book Critics Circle Awards. Winners in nonfiction and all other categories will be announced in March. Click here for the New York Times review of the book.
• Next month children, families and other visitors to a neighborhood library in Providence will work together to design and build an imaginative pseudo-city using recycled materials. The brainchild of Providence-based artist Jean Cozzens B.ARCH ’05 and a children’s librarian at the Fox Point branch, the New Your City project is in its second year and will culminate in an opening at the library to view the elaborate, community-designed city on April 3 (as part of Gallery Night Providence).
• “I kept hoping to see the definitive ‘Oh, wow!’ product at the [International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Boston], wrote Tim Dees, editor of the Officer.com website, “And on the last day, I think I found it.” The product that grabbed his attention is a new dashboard design for police cruisers by Jr Neville Songwe MID ’05, who first conceived of it as his master’s thesis project and has since been focused on developing the design further through his firm Joneso Design.
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© Rhode Island School of Design 2007
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Kamilla Talbot ’90 GD
Bruno Marina Gallery
Brooklyn, NY
February 22-April 29
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Kara Walker MFA ’94 PT/PR
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN
February 17-May 13
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Alex O’Neal ’79 IL
Linda Warren Gallery
Chicago, IL
March 2-31
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Professor Henry Horenstein
’71 PH/MFA ’73
Robert Klein Gallery
Boston, MA
through March 17
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Christopher Ulivo MFA ’04 PT
Susan Inglett Gallery
New York, NY
through March 17
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John Dilg ’69 PT
Luise Ross Gallery
New York, NY
March 1-April 14
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Nancy Taplin ’64 PT
Firehouse Gallery
Burlington, VT
through March 3
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