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| getting cozy with cashmere |
10.20.05 | issue #11 |
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 Designer Donna Karan has invited 20 RISD Textiles students to rethink one of DKNY’s best sellers — a hybrid sweater known as a “cozy.” Through a collaboration with the Italian Trade Commission, students in a fall studio taught by Assistant Professor Liz Collins ’91 TX/MFA ’99 are using fine cashmere and blends donated by Italy’s top spinners to redesign the classic shawl with sleeves. “This project gives students a chance to balance the creative with the commercial while working with my favorite fabric,” says Karan. Students’ prototypes will be part of a month-long sales exhibition at the DKNY flagship boutique on Madison Avenue, which will open on November 15 with a reception hosted by artist Kara Walker MFA ’94 PT/PR (if you’d like to attend, e-mail Lisa Mackie or call 401 454-6775). DKNY will donate proceeds from sales on opening night to the Textiles Department.
from the alumni association
• Forget “red” and “blue” states; how about orange, cyan and chartreuse instead? Check out the newly redesigned online job board, ArtWorks, where alumni and students can target specific regions of the US as part of their job hunt. Searches can be further refined by job type and discipline.
• What do you do when your building gets a brand new coat of paint — and the color happens to be mustard? You make the most of it, as Alumni + Career Services has with this postcard detailing the services available (in one handy jar).
• E-mail risdviews@risd.edu about your upcoming exhibitions, gallery shows and other events in your artistic life, and we’ll get the word out to fellow RISD artists and designers through the “now showing” listing to the right, on the web exhibitions page and/or the “portfolio” section of risd views.
look around
• In the wake of Jumanji and The Polar Express — the first two books by Chris Van Allsburg MFA ’80 SC to be made into movies — the film version of Zathura opens on November 11 at theaters across the US. On November 8 the author/illustrator will attend a Providence premiere and fundraiser to benefit underserved teenagers interested in local art opportunities, including RISD’s Pre-College Program.
• Artist Jenny Holzer’s “much delayed” response to the 9/11 attack was projected on the facades of five Manhattan buildings over 11 nights earlier this month and last. You can get a look at the project via the public art organization Creative Time.
• In Lexington, KY another name was cast in bronze and added to the sidewalk this week, beside such notables as Loretta Lynn, Bill Monroe and Rosemary Clooney: Professor Emeritus Malcolm Grear, who established RISD’s Graphic Design Department and founded the internationally known studio Malcolm Grear Designers, was honored as a “Kentucky Star” by the Downtown Lexington Corporation.
on campus
risd hosts ncaa
Don’t look to ESPN for coverage of this NCAA “tournament” — of ideas. The National Conference of Art Administrators takes place at RISD and The Westin in Providence from November 9-12 and some of the key discussions, all focused on building the future of art and design education, will be open to the campus and alumni communities. For a full schedule and details about speakers, check out the NCAA page of RISD’s intranet and note in particular Ken Bain’s Thursday afternoon presentation on “What Makes Great Teachers Great?” and Dan Pink’s Saturday morning address on the growing need for finely honed creative thinking skills in the workplace.
impressed with degas
“The show paints a more vivid portrait of Degas, than you’ll find in most Impressionist exhibits, which have a tendency to devolve into mindless, ‘Greatest Hits’ spectacles,” The Providence Journal noted in reviewing the Museum’s major fall focus, Edgar Degas: Six Friends at Dieppe. For a preview of the exhibition, watch the audio slide show narrated by the curator.
ethical design
Susan Szenasy, editor-in-chief of Metropolis, will speak on “Matters of Conscience” at 6pm on Wednesday, November 2 in the RISD Auditorium. Her talk is hosted by the Rhode Island Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and is sponsored in part by RISD. Free for students and AIGA members; $10 for everyone else.
action speaks
Even if you can’t make it to AS220 in Providence tonight and on Wednesday, October 26, it’s worth tuning in to Rhode Island’s public radio station, WRNI (1290 AM), for Sunday evening broadcasts of the provocative discussions generated by Action Speaks, a series of community forums. RISD has joined with the local arts organization AS220 and the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities to sponsor the series.
tell us what you think
Please let us know if we’re on or off the mark with e-views and its cousin, risd views. Take a minute or two to respond to this online survey.
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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Andrea Zittel MFA ’90 SC
Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston, TX
through January 1
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Rebecca Clark MFA ’88 PH
Knight Campus Gallery, CCRI
West Warwick, RI
through October 31
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Liz Collins ’91/MFA ’99 TX
Knoxville Museum of Art
Knoxville, TN
October 21-January 29, 2006
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Bethany Johns MFA ’83 GD
Elizabeth Resnick ’70/MFA ’96 GD
Bakalar Gallery
Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA
through November 11
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Cheryl Simeone MAE ’78
Galerie Jean-Jacques Hofstetter
Fribourg, Switzerland
through November 12
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Lauren Shaw MFA ’72 PH
Farnsworth Museum
Rockland, ME
through November 27
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Susan Stillman ’78 IL
Gallery in the Park
Cross River, NY
through December 31
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