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10.19.07 | issue #31 |
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 If you haven’t yet discovered it on your own, RISD’s homepage has a new look and now features a series of eight recent video interviews with alumni, students and faculty. Although the primary audience for the risd.edu site is prospective students, the videos offer a glimpse into how various members of the RISD community think about and react to their experiences here. Over the course of this year, new video interviews with other members of the community (including staff) will be added to keep the mix fresh and interesting. RISD’s main site gets an increasingly significant volume of traffic, averaging 2,600 visitors a day, and judging by the top four languages visitors’ browsers are set at — English, Korean, Chinese and Spanish — it appears to be attracting worldwide attention. |
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Ashleigh Smith ’08 GD and Nerima Ochwada ’07 AP talk about what they’ve gained at RISD. |
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“If Ms. Walker retired today, she would leave behind one of the most trenchant and historically erudite bodies of art produced by any American in the last 15 years,” noted art critic Holland Cotter in last week’s New York Times review of the new Kara Walker MFA ’94 PT/PR retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. “Brilliant is the word for [her magnetic style],” the reviewer proclaimed. The New Yorker also ran a fascinating piece on Kara in the October 8 issue.
Artist Kevin Jankowski ’88 IL, RISD’s assistant director for Career Programming, tells a wonderful story about his formative years in this week’s broadcast of Tony Kahn’s Morning Stories program on WGBH radio in Boston. Listen in and view the trailer Kevin lived in as a kid, along with the Frank Lloyd Wright house full of art that changed his life forever.
A self-described “artist, cultural worker and designer with a social consciousness,” Mimi Robinson ’81 PT works with local artisans in Asia, Africa and South America to preserve their culture and traditional skills through sustainable businesses. Find out more in this recent article from the San Francisco Chronicle. |
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Members of the RISD community are invited to hear renowned architect Richard Meier talk about his work on Tuesday, October 23 at 5:30pm at Brown’s MacMillan Hall.
Through their acclaimed Artist in the Marketplace program, The Bronx Museum of the Arts provides emerging artists with valuable career development seminars, including one at RISD this Thursday, October 25 at 7pm. AIM’s project facilitator Jackie Battenfield and AIM alumna Melissa Potter will discuss how the program meets the changing professional development needs of artists. Questions? Contact RISD’s Career Services Office at 401 454-6620.
Help make risdpedia, the inspired brainchild of student Adam Meyer ’09 ID, even more useful to members of the RISD community (and anyone else who stumbles across it online). Dubbed “a collaborative instruction manual for products and materials used by RISD students,” it’s already full of great information and will only get better over time.
The title may not flow readily off the tongue, but the subject matter promises to be fascinating as RISD’s Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab teams up with the Synergetics Collaborative to present a two-day symposium on Synergetics and Morphology: Explorations into the Shapes of Nature at the RISD Auditorium from November 3-4.
Check out the new and improved risd:store site, offering a range of RISD-related t-shirts, umbrellas, gifts and more.
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Judy Kensley McKie ’66 PT
John Dunnigan MFA ’80 ID
Hank Gilpin MFA ’73 ID
Museum of Arts & Design
New York, NY
thorugh October 28
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Judy Gelles MFA ’91 PH
Skirball Cultural Center
Los Angeles, CA
through January 6, 2008
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Amy Cohen MFA ’90 PR
Chazan Gallery at Wheeler
Providence, RI
through November 5
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Jaclyn Presant ’00 IL
M Modern Gallery
Palm Springs, CA
through November 17
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Amanda Barr ’96 PR
Motel Gallery
Portland, OR
through December 1
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David Macaulay BArch ’69
National Building Museum
Washington, DC
through May 4, 2008
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Matthew Clowney MFA ’08 PH
Allen Gallery
New York, NY
through November 10
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