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| new discoveries through ancient tradition |
03.20.08 | issue #36 |
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 While some students benefited from eye-opening Wintersession travel study courses in Bolivia, Ghana and Mexico, others made fascinating cultural journeys without ever leaving campus. The undergrad and graduate students from all disciplines who opted to take Pojagi and Beyond with Korean visiting artist Chunghie Lee brought “fresh, unexpected and surprising” approaches to the ancient art of pojagi, which involves piecing and patching fabric to make intricate apparel. (Click here for information on the Wintersession course in Mexico in which Architecture students designed and built a home to house a family of 11.) |
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faculty interview
Charlie Cannon of the Industrial Design and Landscape Architecture departments talks about why he loves teaching RISD students. |
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| from alumni relations |
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There’s still time to get tickets for the 2008 Athena Awards presentation, which takes place in midtown Manhattan on Thursday, April 10. Click here for ticket information and details on 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.
In response to requests from alumni, RISD is now making e-mail forwarding accounts available with the @alumni.risd.edu server tag, which helps facilitate interaction on Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn and other online communities. Go to www.risd.edu/alumni to activate your account.
Now you can keep up with the latest our.risd.edu blog postings with the greatest of ease! Just go to our.risd.edu and click on the Google icon to add the our.risd feed to your iGoogle page.
If you want to catch up on RISD’s regional biennials, images from the recent Washington, DC Biennial are now on Flickr, as are those from the Northern California Biennial, which continues through the end of March at the Oakland Art Gallery. (For a review of the show, click here.) Southern California alumni are reminded that the deadline to apply for the June alumni biennial at the Tinlark Gallery in LA is the same as tax day: April 15.
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To commemorate the fifth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, Jeff Carpenter ’76 FAV and reconnectUS, a group of like-minded artists in the Rhode Island area, have organized a series of exhibitions and related events. Click here for a Providence Journal interview with Carpenter and more on the Experiencing the War in Iraq project.
Since we first mentioned It’s JerryTime! a couple of years ago, this animated web series by Orrin Zucker ’83 GD has gone on to become the first blog ever to win an Emmy Award. Co-written and scored by his brother Jerry, the blog chronicles the life and times of a 40-year-old single guy who just can’t quite get it together.
Singer/songwriter Marissa Nadler ’03 IL/MAT ’04 is currently touring Europe promoting her latest CD, Songs III: Bird on the Water, which Entertainment Weekly called “gorgeously strange” and Pitchfork applauded as “one of the most engaging singer-songwriter releases this year.” In June Nadler will be back in the city she calls home, playing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on June 11.
Paranoid Park, the latest movie by Gus Van Sant ’75 FAV, has been getting plenty of attention both in the US and abroad. The New Yorker noted that the movie about a teenager who inadvertently causes a violent death “reaches a kind of nirvana of affectlessness,” and Rolling Stone summed up its review with this: “The result, a defiant slap at slick Hollywood formula, is mesmerizing.”
For the last month, Adam Stanforth ’00 PT has been showing his paintings at a literal hole-in-the wall gallery in Chelsea. Click here for the scoop on the “no-profit” venture known as the Honey Space.
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The Board of Trustees invites all members of the RISD community to the May 1 dedication of The Roger Mandle Building: The Rhode Island School of Design Living and Learning Center at 15 Westminster Street in Providence. The festivities begin at 5:30pm. Go to the RISD calendar for details.
Last week Chris Tolles ’08 FD learned he is one of 50 graduating seniors nationwide to win a coveted Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for a year of independent travel and study outside the US. He plans to research emergency shelter designs in Ethiopia, India, Peru, Switzerland, Turkey and Uganda.
Honorary degree recipients at this year’s Commencement on May 31 — performance artist Laurie Anderson, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Pop Art pioneer Ed Ruscha and art critic Roberta Smith — will share the limelight with the 664 RISD students who will be earning undergrad and graduate degrees. (Last week Ma presented an interesting “This I Believe” commentary on NPR’s All Things Considered.)
This year’s jurors for the 2008 Awards of Excellence, presented to exceptional graduate students for outstanding work in their fields, are Deborah Berke BArch ’77, who will judge entries in architecture; curator Ian Berry, who will assess fine arts portfolios; and design critic and writer Julie Lasky, who will consider works by students in the design disciplines. Winners will be announced in May.
Photographer Kent Rogowski MFA ’00 PH will speak at RISD on April 15 as part of the Photography Department’s T.C. Colley Lecture series. From teddy bears to jigsaw puzzles and self-help books, he uses mass-produced consumer products as vehicles for self-expression. Rogowski’s free slide lecture takes place at 7pm in the RISD Auditorium. |
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Joshua Abelow ’98 PT
Branch Gallery
Durham, NC
through April 19
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Yvonne Jacquette ’56 PT
Museum of the City of New York
New York, NY
through May 4
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James Reynolds ’84 GL
Fuller Craft Museum
Brockton, MA
through April 20
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Tiffany Pollack ’03 PT
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc.
New York, NY
through March 22
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John Whalley ’76 IL
Greenhut Galleries
Portland, ME
through March 29
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Leslie Hirst, Assistant Professor
Foundation Studies
Pavel Zoubok Gallery
New York, NY
March 20-April 19
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Sandy Belock-Phippen ’72 PT
Studio 412a
Boston, MA
through March 28
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