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Later this month author/illustrator David Macaulay ’69 AR, national chair of the Future by Design capital campaign, begins a series of informal get-togethers around the country to discuss progress to date on reaching the campaign’s $85-million goal. The first gathering is from 6-8pm on Tuesday, November 30 at the Boston club Embassy; another takes place from 6-8pm on Wednesday, December 1 at The Steel Yard in Providence, where Macaulay will be joined by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast ’77 PT. At another campaign event last week, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude were officially welcomed into the RISD family at the Athena Awards gala in New York. In addition to the Christos, who accepted the Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf Award for lifetime achievement, recipients of the 2004 Athena Award included author, curator and art critic Lucy Lippard; art education specialist Sir Ken Robinson; Dutch designer Jan van Toorn; and Fleet National Bank, for its support of art, culture and the new Fleet Library at RISD set to open in 2006.
from the alumni association
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Make the most of RISD’s Online Career Library (for the exclusive use of the RISD community), featuring more than 9,000 annotated websites, sorted into discipline-specific folders.
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Separated by one day and 3,000 miles, the RISD holiday art sale in Providence (on December 11 from 10am-5pm in the Convention Center) and its San Francisco counterpart the next day display the work of myriad alumni artists. No sale near you? Talk to Alan Tracy.
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The alumni network is growing by leaps and bounds, with 35 clubs and contacts throughout the country and the world (and two new ones — in the Midwest and France — ready in the wings). Find the club nearest you and join us for one of more than 100 alumni events this year.
look around
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Paul Eshelman MFA ’81 CR, Thea Izzi ’91 JM and Amy Putansu ’95 TX are among the many alumni in the popular Crafts at the Castle 2004 show in Boston. The sales exhibition takes place the weekend of December 3-5 at the Park Plaza Castle; proceeds support Family Service of Greater Boston.
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If your holiday browsing includes a look at the new Steuben Glass catalogue, be sure to notice curvaceous classics by RISD alumni Peter Drobny ’80 SC, Taf Lebel Schaefer ’79 SC and Joel Smith BID ’86, all of whom have been designing for Steuben for years.
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In honor of her husband Robert Mercer BAR ’97, children’s book author/illustrator Grace Lin ’96 IL has rallied more than 150 book illustrators (including dozens of alumni) to contribute artwork to Robert’s Snow: for Cancer’s Cure, an online auction that continues through December 12. Proceeds benefit the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
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“It was like someone was designing water or designing air,” Tobias Frere-Jones ’92 GD told a New York Times reporter in explaining how he initially came to realize that type design is an actual job. An article on the well-respected font design studio Hoefler & Frere-Jones ran in the October 19 edition.
on campus
latino flavor
On Saturday, November 20, The RISD Museum offers free admission and an afternoon symposium focused on Island Nations, the show of Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican art currently on view. Artists and specialists in the region will help put the exhibition in context and Poetica, a group of local musicians and writers, will perform.
now at works
Last month risd|works, the retail store, gallery and design showroom in downtown Providence, announced its new annual collection, which can be ordered online. A holiday show of small works under $500 opens from 5-9pm on Thursday, November 18 and continues through December 24 at the 10 Westminster Street location.
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