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| blue thread in this year’s silk road
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04.20.07 | issue #27
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 Color was the focus of the most recent Silk Road residency at RISD, an annual collaboration in which students and faculty work with artists from The Silk Road Project to explore the intersection of music and the visual arts. The brainchild of cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Silk Road brings together composers, musicians, storytellers, dancers and others to study the ebb and flow of ideas among different cultures along the ancient Eurasian trade route. Each year during Wintersession, various artists from the Silk Road Ensemble come to RISD to develop new performance pieces in the context of studio explorations based on agreed-upon themes. In January members of the RISD community worked with the ensemble on two performance pieces-in-progress: Indigo, which traces the evolution and cultural migration of the dye, and Blue & White, which explores the development of the ceramics characteristic of regions along the Silk Road. In a studio last fall, graphic design and interior architecture students also worked on a project to design a portable stage set to be used at Silk Road performances throughout the country.
from the alumni association
• Whether you need it as Euros, lire, yen, wan or dollars, you can find out about funding options at two upcoming seminars: Be Our Guest (in partnership with the Alliance of Artists Communities) on April 30 and 2008 Fulbright Grants (open to recently graduated alumni) on May 8.
• Springtime (or New England’s best approximation of that season) means that the May Alumni Art Sale is around the corner — the corner of Waterman and Benefit streets, that is. Join thousands of visitors on Saturday, May 5 (rain or shine) and see the work of 160 alumni exhibitors (both old friends and new participants).
• After checking out ArtWorks, you can find more job opportunities in our Online Career Library. Log in, enter the library and then click on Additional Resources and start surfing for your next career move. The Creative Job Boards + Placement Agencies folder contains 125 links to sites representing various disciplines and fields.
on campus
library wins AIA honor
The American Institute of Architects and the American Library Association have selected the Fleet Library at RISD as a winner of the 2007 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards, which will be presented in June at the annual ALA conference in Washington, DC. The award celebrates "the finest examples of library design by architects licensed in the US."
high-res at shift
The student organization Respond|Design has teamed up with the Graduate Student Alliance to present HI RES, an exhibition and companion booklet “about artists and designers at RISD who are taking a fresh look at the opportunities and imperatives in the changing world around them,” according to the group’s cofounders Tom Weis MID ’08 and Gretchen Hooker MID ’08. Timed to coincide with Shift, the IDSA Northeast District Conference being hosted by RISD this weekend, HI RES opens tonight (April 20) from 6:30-8pm in the ID Gallery at 161 South Main Street in Providence and remains on view for a week.
rosenquist at risd
Painter James Rosenquist, one of the protagonists of the pop art movement in the 1960s, will visit RISD painting studios and speak about his work at 6pm on May 8 in the RISD Auditorium.
gore vidal speaks at commencement
Almost 600 students will collect their hard-earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees on Saturday, June 2. As part of the outdoor Commencement ceremony, honorary doctorates will be presented to film director and cinematographer Richard Leacock, animator/Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane ’95 FAV and world-renowned novelist Gore Vidal, who will also deliver the keynote address. Click here for background on the honorary degree recipients.
look around
• “Roz invented her own language, which is what geniuses do,” noted New Yorker editor-in-chief David Remnick in a CBS Sunday Morning television segment on cartoonist Roz Chast ’77 PT. “James Joyce comes along and the novel changes forever,” Remnick continued. “Shoenberg comes along and music is never the same; Bob Dylan comes along, the popular song is never the same. Roz Chast has her own language and her own look.”
• Never one to squander her RISD education, Carolyn (Scott) Panzica ’89 PH has mastered the art and artistry of making and marketing to-die-for desserts. Through her online business cakeart.com and her company Butterwood Desserts in New York state, she creates enticing gourmet sweets for clients worldwide, including US embassies, the US Open, the Kentucky Derby, and Hyatt, Hilton and Sheraton hotel chains, among others.
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© Rhode Island School of Design 2007
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Joe Borzotta ’85 GD
George Billis Gallery
New York, NY
through May 5
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Alan Metnick MFA ’73 PH
Newport Art Museum
Newport, RI
through May 27
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Shahzia Sikander MFA ’95 PT/PR
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Dublin, Ireland
through May 7
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Craig Stockwell ’75 SC
Genovese/Sullivan Gallery
Boston, MA
through May 1
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Daphne Minkoff ’91 PT
Linda Hodges Gallery
Seattle, WA
through April 28
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Eva Kwong ’75 CR
Kenyon College
Gambier, OH
April 26-May 26
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Claire O’Neill ’06 TX
Dan O’Neill ’01 PT
Alice O’Neill ’06 PR
Firehouse 13
Providence, RI
May 3-25
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