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| it’s happening at risd |
02.20.06 | issue #15 |
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 RISD students may be notoriously committed to their studio work, but they also look to events on campus and at Brown for inspiration and intellectual stimulation. Whether it’s video and performance artist Mika Tajima drawing a full house at the Tap Room, Pixar animators screening their latest clips or cellist Yo-Yo Ma talking about the intersection between art and music, campus events pique the imagination and bring students together outside the studio. A few weeks ago, students brought their own homemade and found drums to The Met dining hall for a late-night jam session with visiting musicians who were here as part of Ma’s Silk Road Residency. In the coming weeks, they’re likely to tear themselves away from the studio to check out such extracurricular happenings as a Fiery Furnaces concert, the MadCat Women’s International Film Festival, a “hysterical and heartbreaking” show by performance artist Karen Finley and lively openings at Woods-Gerry and the Sol Koffler Graduate Student Gallery.
from the alumni association
• The Alumni Association is proud to announce its 2006 Alumni Award recipients, who will receive their awards at Commencement on June 3.
• Looking for the perfect post-Valentine’s Day art experience? ArtKrush pulses with up-to-date information on emerging artists worldwide.
• Exercise your right and your opinion: vote for the candidate of your choice in the 2006 Alumni Trustee Election. Remember to mail in your response by February 28 using the paper ballot sent to you in January.
look around
• Self-described “fashion nerd” Diana Eng ’05 AP has been getting a lot of media play for her techy designs — a biomimetic vest, a hoodie that takes pictures based on the wearer’s heart rate, an inflatable gown. A recent stint on Bravo’s popular reality TV show Project Runway didn’t hurt her chances for success on Seventh Avenue much either.
• RISD Professor Henry Horenstein ’71 PH/MFA ’73 has published countless books about and full of photography and has shown his work all over the country and the world. But on March 10 the prolific photographer will experience a first when his solo show of photographs chronicling the early country music scene opens at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. Honky-Tonk: Country Music Photographs by Henry Horenstein, 1972-1981 will continue in the capital through September 5.
• Art director Aya Fukuda ’96 IL and fellow animators Mark Hoffmann ’00 IL and Cory Mitchell ’00 IL are among the team at Soup2Nuts animation studio (best known for its Comedy Central hit Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist) frantically finishing up a new season of O’Grady, a half-hour comedy for teens that will launch its second season on March 3 — on the N network, an offshoot of MTV. “It takes seven animators seven days to do the storyboard,” Fukuda told The Boston Globe, and that’s just the groundwork for getting this Twilight Zone-ish comedy ready for prime time.
on campus
plan your summer with risd
There’s plenty going on this summer through RISD Continuing Education, from 10 fabulous study abroad courses to an expanded Pre-College Program to the full range of credit-bearing summer courses — plus new summer institutes. In addition to the Summer Institute for Graphic Design Studies (SIGDS), CE now offers a focus on Poetic Arts/Critical Theory (aka IPACT) and Publicly Engaged Studies (or SIPES).
focus on photography
This spring’s TC Colley Lecture Series in the Photography Department promises a great line-up, including Assistant Professor Steve Smith on March 14, John Craig Freeman on April 4, Susan Unterberg on April 18 and TJ Wilcox on May 9. All lectures are at 7pm in the RISD Auditorium and are free and open to the RISD community.
haunted houses?
Some people might say RISD students are clearly working too hard (or partying too heartily), but according to juicenewsdaily, half a dozen dorms on campus are among Rhode Island’s rich legacy of haunted houses. Most of the poltergeists noted are said to be relatively harmless and happy to share accommodations with the living.
As a complement to risd views, the college magazine, e-views is produced by RISD’s Design Marketing Collaborative and e-mailed to readers monthly during the academic year (September-June). Questions? Comments?
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© Rhode Island School of Design 2006
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Matthew Kolodziej MFA ’84 PT
Gallery AA/B
Boston, MA
through March 24
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Ken Horii
Associate Professor, Foundation Studies
Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery
Providence College
Providence, RI
through March 23
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Michael Snow MFA ’90 PH
Ryan Trecartin ’04 FAV
Jordan Wolfson ’03 SC
2006 Whitney Biennial
New York, NY
March 2-May 28
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Richard Merkin MFA ’63 PT
Professor Emeritus, Painting
Peter Fingestin Gallery
Pace University
New York, NY
through March 10
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Nancy Friese
Professor of Printmaking
Pepper Gallery
Boston, MA
February 23-March 25
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Deidre Scherer ’67 AE
Gallery North Star
Grafton, VT
through March 5
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Ruth Gilbert ’58 AE
William Gilbert ’86 JM
SOHO20/Chelsea Gallery
New York, NY
February 28-March 25
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