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09.20.05 | issue #10 |
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 Although their focus is on the next generation of contemporary artists, the almost 500 full- and part-time faculty members who teach here are also extraordinary artists and designers in their own right. Their work comes together in one venue every other year when The RISD Museum hosts the Faculty Biennial — a show of enormous range that’s also something of a barometer of contemporary taste. The Biennial opens to the campus community and other Museum members on September 29, and continues through October 30. Be sure to catch it if you’re on campus for RISD by Design weekend (October 7-9).
look around
• A RISD graduate is once again among the 25 artists, scientists, writers and scholars reeling from today’s news that they’ve won $500,000 no-strings-attached awards from the MacArthur Foundation. Painter Julie Mehretu MFA ’97 PT/PR (see also, risd views, Fall 2004) was selected for a coveted 2005 MacArthur “genius grant” for her “dazzling, layered pictorial planes of geometric abstractions, iconic imagery, and figurative markings.”
• After over two years of focused effort by more than 100 people in the RISD community, a compact solar-powered home designed and built by RISD students will be open to the public from October 7 through 16 on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The full-scale prototype is one of 18 houses created by teams of college students competing in the US Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2005.
• His name may not be on the marquee, but when Corpse Bride opens this week you’re likely to hear more about Mike Johnson ’90 FAV, who co-directed the fabulous new animated film with Tim Burton. Featuring the voices of Johnny Depp, Danny Elfman (who also composed the score) and Albert Finney, among scads of others, it promises to be “warped and wonderfully effervescent,” according to Rolling Stone.
• You just had to be there. But assuming you weren’t, you can still check out the latest collection by Laura Poretzky ’99 AP, one of 10 up-and-coming fashion designers selected to show at last week’s UPS Delivers Fashion’s Future. The event was part of the renowned Olympus Fashion Week in New York’s Bryant Park. Given the timing, Poretzky’s label, Abaeté, will donate a portion of proceeds from the sale of one of its jumpers to victims of Hurricane Katrina.
on campus
15 west now open
RISD welcomed 500 more on-campus residents earlier this month when it opened 15 West, the new student housing facility at 15 Westminster Street (read more about it in the fall issue of risd views, which is on its way to you this week). Another 411 students — the new members of the Class of 2009 — also moved into The Quad, still home to all Foundation students. Read about some of them here.
lynch on creativity and the brain
On Sunday, October 2, film director David Lynch (Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive) will speak at Brown on “Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain.” He’s also using the occasion to launch the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace. Sponsored in part by RISD, Lynch’s talk is free and open to the public, and will be held at 7:30pm at Salomon Hall 101 (on the green).
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from the alumni association
• Many RISD alumni were in the path of Katrina. Check here for updates on how they’re now doing and RISD’s efforts to assist.
• Find out when you can see the RISD San Francisco Biennial, visit the student-built Solar Decathlon house in DC or attend a career seminar in Boston by checking out the ever-changing alumni events calendar.
• Career resource: designguide.com is a great site to locate architects, interior designers, landscape architects and other design professionals working throughout the US. The site serves as a portal to design-related information, from competitions to publications, products, employment and more.
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? Send a message to risdviews@risd.edu.
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© Rhode Island School of Design 2005
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Irving Haynes ’51 PT/’53 AR
RISD Industrial Design Gallery
Providence, RI
September 27-October 21
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Arno Minkkinen MFA ’64 PH
Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park
Lincoln, MA
through January 8
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Eva Kwong ’75 CR
Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY
October 12-December 16
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Mac Premo ’95 IL
Duke Riley ’95 PT
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
New York, NY
through October 9
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Elizabeth Ginsberg TX
TAI Gallery
New York, NY
September 29-October 28
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Carol Heft ’76 PT
Blue Mountain Gallery
New York, NY
October 4-29
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