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04.26.05 | issue #7 |
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 The Fleet Library at RISD, currently in the design development phase and slated to open in 2006, will offer both students and the public “new ways to engage,” predicts Nader Tehrani BAR ’86, a principal of the Boston-based firm Office dA. At a town meeting-style gathering on April 11, the project architect updated the campus community on his team’s approach to transforming a historic banking hall into a spacious new library for RISD. By moving the library to 15 Westminster Street, a downtown building currently being renovated to house 500 students, RISD will experience a “shift in its center of gravity,” he explained. Tehrani talked about balancing the many needs of the architectural program within a tight budget. He also outlined the creative process involved in integrating contemporary design interventions into a 1917 Italian Renaissance-style interior listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
from the alumni association
• Just in time for Mother’s Day (and well-timed for graduations, weddings and other occasions on the horizon), you can shop at the RISD Alumni Spring Sale on Saturday, April 30. That’s on Benefit Street in Providence from 10am to 4pm, rain or shine.
• Time to spruce up your résumé for a job hunt or a career change? Click here for (.pdf) samples that can help guide you towards a more powerful professional presentation.
• No matter where you live, there’s a RISD alumni group near you. Check out upcoming events in Los Angeles, Boston and Philadelphia. The newest alumni group — known as “RISD Rural” — covers the Hudson River Valley, the Berkshires and upstate New York and is gathering for its first event on Sunday, May 1.
look around
• As workers at Bloomberg LP, the financial-media giant, settle into their new Manhattan headquarters, there’s a fair amount of buzz about the permanent installation in the basement: a 100-foot-long bank of multicolored fluorescent tubes that The Washington Post applauds as “the building’s most impressive feature.” Spencer Finch MFA ’89 SC created the piece on commission for New York’s Public Art Fund; the Post praises his work as “poetic in the full, rich meaning of that overused term: not overwrought and underthought, but rigorous and probing in its encounter with reality.”
• Three issues into it, Me magazine is working to establish itself as a lively introduction to “emerging individuals in the creative professions.” The brainchild of NY-based designer Claudia Wu ’99 GD, the quarterly magazine focuses on one creative type and his/her coterie of friends per issue. Not surprisingly, RISD people get a generous amount of coverage, with the June issue slated to feature Hisham Bharoocha ’98 PT, Andrew Kuo ’99 GD, Ashley Macomber ’00 PT, Bjorn Copeland ’98 SC and Hanna Fushihara ’95 JM.
• When the first wasps buzz by this spring, think of Nina Zitani ’88 JM and her namesake Thyreodon zitaniae, a new species she discovered in the rain forests of Costa Rica. In the course of doing field research for her PhD in entomology, Zitani identified a number of new insect species — three of which have been named in her honor. The Thyreodon zitaniae discovery was announced in a recent paper in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society of London.
on campus
risd at boston cyberfest
Prior to graduating in June, the Digital Media Department’s first MFA degree candidates are sharing their recent work in a thesis show at the Boston Cyberarts Festival, which opened last Friday and runs through May 8.
catch catchy latino films
The 13th Providence Latin American Film Festival is in full swing this week (April 25-30) with daily screenings at the RISD Auditorium. The festival showcases the best new feature-length films produced in Latin
America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean.
dyson headlines cdb conference
British industrial designer James Dyson (of Dyson vacuum cleaner fame) is among the keynote speakers at this spring’s Success by Design conference sponsored by the RISD/Bryant Center for Design & Business. The conference takes place on Thursday, May 5 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence.
risd|works overtime
Beginning May 1, risd|works will be open on Sundays from 11am to 5pm. The gallery/showroom (at 10 Westminster Street, Providence) will also have extended hours during Brown and RISD commencement weekends.
As a complement to risd views, the college magazine, eviews is produced by RISD’s Design Marketing Collaborative and e-mailed to readers monthly during the academic year. Questions? Comments? Send a message to risdviews@risd.edu.
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© Rhode Island School of Design 2005
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Carlton Fletcher ’72 PT
Jane Haslem Gallery
Washington, DC
through April 30
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Kristian Rangel BGD ’01
Mind Puddles Gallery
Houston, TX
through April 30
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Barry Beach ’95 SC
Mirror Pond Gallery
Bend, OR
through May 1
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David Holmes ’84 GD
Keller & Greene Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
through May 21
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Alex O’Neal ’79 IL
Mississippi Museum of Art
Jackson, MS
through July 24
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Kim Kulow-Jones MFA ’92 FD
Doug Jones MFA ’92 FD
Fuller Craft Museum
Brockton, MA
through August 28
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