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| risd showcases new talent |
05.19.05 | issue #8 |
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 From a glowing Tyvek wedding dress to images projected on stoneware, this year’s graduate student exhibition shines with the culminating work of students about to receive their master’s degrees. With 16 grad programs, RISD offers the widest variety of options and degrees of any school of art and design in the country, and over the past decade has seen its graduate student population almost double — to just shy of 400 students. This spring the first 14 students to complete the MFA program in Digital Media will graduate, along with 151 other master’s degree recipients. When the annual graduate student show opens at The RISD Museum and Sol Koffler Graduate Student Gallery this evening, it will mark one of many concurrent exhibitions and events leading up to the last hoorah for grad students.
from the alumni association
• If you’re in NYC in June, check out shows featuring work by our newest class of MFA alumni in three discplines: Textiles at Felissimo Design House; Sculpture at RKL Gallery in Brooklyn; and Painting at Supreme Trading, also in Brooklyn.
• Feel like you’re in the hot seat when you go on interviews? If you don’t know what to ask or what to say, take a look at these tips for artful interviewing (.pdf). They may help prepare you for that next big career move.
• Alumni who want to participate in the upcoming October and December alumni art sales in Providence need to fill out an application, which will be mailed out in June. If you’re not already on the mailing list and want to be, contact Alan Tracy.
look around
• Andrea Zittel MFA ’90 SC, founder of the A-Z “institute of investigative living,” has won the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s 2005 Lucelia Artist Award, given each year to an edgy American artist under age 50. “Zittel has shown a sustained commitment to distinctive work that challenges conventional thinking and expectations about the nature of art,” noted Elizabeth Broun, director of the SAAM.
• 2x4, a New York-based design firm run by partners Michael Rock MFA ’84 GD, Susan Sellers and Georgianna Stout ’89 GD, has teamed up with KnollTextiles to design wallcoverings and upholstery fabrics for both commercial and residential use. Chatter and Field Theory, their first two collections on the market, reference the digital world of e-communications and living environments (Suburban, Urban, Exurban), respectively. If you don’t stumble across 2x4’s work at Prada or in the lounge of your favorite restaurant, it’s also on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through November 27.
• If you’re a Family Guy fan, you probably already know that this month the animated sitcom by Seth MacFarlane ’95 FAV was resurrected on prime-time TV — by Fox, the same network that canceled it three years ago. Thanks to “killer ratings” for Family Guy reruns on cable and runaway DVD sales, MacFarlane has created 35 new episodes, along with the first episodes of a new sitcom called American Dad. Look for movie versions of both in the near future.
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Robert Ladislas Derr MFA ’02 PH is among the RISD artists who will perform at ProvFlux, a late-May event sponsored by the Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies (PIPS). On Saturday, May 28 at 11:59 pm, Ladislas will begin “a psychogeographical walk” loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “To Helen,” with four video cameras attached to himself.
on campus
apparel show this weekend
“If you’re going to wear a pasta dress, you really need matching pasta shoes,” Whitney Burr ’07 AP told The Providence Journal. “Otherwise, why bother?” The lasagna noodle ensemble is among the sophomore innovatives that will make its public debut at this Saturday’s Collection 2005 juried runway show of the best work produced this year in the Apparel Design Department. Click here for ticket info.
conceptual encampment
A small group of RISD students joined faculty members Liz Collins ’91 TX/MFA ’99 and Julia Bryan-Wilson for The Muster, an offbeat artists’ encampment held last weekend on Governor’s Island in Manhattan. The students busied themselves knitting a huge abstract banner on machines they’d brought along for the occasion, which The New York Times described as “a Dadaist’s dream of a craft fair.”
on the horizon
RISD students aced the Horizon Award 2005 competition sponsored by the Museum of Arts & Design (formerly the American Craft Museum), pulling in three of the five awards given to emerging artists. Shawn Merchant ’05 TX took first prize for an untitled linen and cotton textile; JaHyun Rita Baek ’05 ID won third prize for her Origami Light; and Jessica Starkel MFA ’06 JM took fourth for her urethane and silver Imprint Series. The winning work will be exhibited in June at SOFA NY, followed by a stint at MAD.
The latest print edition of risd views (Spring 2005) should arrive in your mailbox by late next week (if you live in the US; international deliveries are considerably slower). e-views is produced as a complement to the magazine 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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Perry Burns ’88 IL
Cheryl Hazan Gallery
New York, NY
through June 6
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Maureen McCabe ’69 SC
Vose Galleries
Boston, MA
through July 2
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Whitney Bedford ’98 PT
D’Amelio Terras gallery
New York, NY
through June 18
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RISD Furniture Design
seniors + graduate students
Gallery Katz
Boston, MA
through June 18
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Emilie Lee ’04 IL
Holderness School
Plymouth, NH
through June 20
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Genevieve Antoine-Dorang ’83 PT
Susquehanna Art Museum
Harrisburg, PA
July 6-August 19
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