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Innovative glass sculptor, engineer and designer
Jamie Carpenter ’72 IL
has won a
MacArthur ‘genius award’
for creating “fluid and elegant designs that...address contemporary environmental and energy considerations.” James Carpenter Design Associates, his 11-member studio in TriBeCa, focuses on the interplay between light and architecture through its groundbreaking work with glass as a structural and sculptural component. Carpenter is currently working on a reflective, multilayered stainless steel screen for Seven World Trade Center, a 60-story “crystal prism” of a tower under construction in Lower Manhattan, and will add his signature take on “the stunning properties of light” to the city’s $750-million Fulton Street Transit Center project. As a MacArthur Fellow, he will receive $500,000 in “no strings attached” support over the next five years.
from the alumni association
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Get
ArtSmart
— 10 professional development seminars, with a keynote presentation by contemporary artist Donald Sultan, on campus November 6. Free to alumni and students.
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Support
The Phil Seibert Alumni Art Acquisition Fund, a unique way to join
The RISD Museum
while helping to add new alumni work to the permanent collection.
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Find fellow alumni, locate lost friends or update your contact information. The
Online Directory
is free and easy to use.
look around
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The Polar Express, a Tom Hanks film based on the picture book by Chris Van Allsburg MFA ’80 SC, opens on November 10 at theaters across the country. The movie mirrors the magic of Van Allsburg’s illustrations by using a new film technique called “performance capture.”
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Before traveling Down Under for a fall tour,
Les Savy Fav
(Syd Butler ’96 FAV, Tim Harrington ’96 FAV, Seth Jabour ’96 IL and Harrison Haynes ’96 PT) released
Inches,
a new collection of danceable punk. “We just go in and make a lot of noise, pretty much,” Butler told
The Washington Times.
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“RISD was much more free and artistic” than the French haute couture school she later attended,
Nicole Miller ’73 AP
recently told National Public Radio’s Elizabeth Blair. Click here to listen to their conversation on
Morning Edition.
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As one of the organizers of High Desert Test Sites (HDTS), a series of experimental art projects in the California desert,
Andrea Zittel MFA ’90 SC
has been gearing up for the
HDTS4 event, rumored to be drawing the curious from all over the world the weekend of October 23-24.
on campus
art of architecture
Bestselling author/illustrator
David Macaulay ’69 AR
will give the keynote address at
Drawing from Providence, a conference on architectural illustration that runs from October 27-31 and is hosted in part by RISD’s
Architecture Department. Alumni and faculty members Hansy Better, Derek Bradford, Robert Frank ’83 AR,
Jon Kletzien BAR ’92
and
Friedrich St. Florian
are all involved and the
Sol Koffler Gallery
will host an international juried exhibition of architectural illustration.
desperately seeking risd
If you haven’t been back to RISD for years or find yourself here a lot but still don’t quite grasp the lay of the land, you can get a bird’s-eye sense of the place via the
interactive campus map
on the
risd.edu website.
open to the risd community
Graphic designer
Scott Stowell ’90 GD, proprietor of the New York studio Open, will talk about his work at 5:30pm on Thursday, October 21 in the RISD Auditorium.
Lea Cloud BAR ’84, who heads a firm in Lower Manhattan with Victoria Rospond BAR ’84, will speak at RISD from 7-10pm on November 4 as part of this fall’s Evening Lecture Series in Architecture. LA-based architect
Michael Maltzan BAR ’85
follows from 7-10pm on November 11. Both lectures take place in Room 106 of the Bayard Ewing Building, 231 South Main Street.
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