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| mandle legacy |
11.16.07 | issue #32 |
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 After leading RISD to new heights over the past 15 years, President Roger Mandle is moving on at the end of this academic year and recently spoke on camera about the value of art and design education. Throughout the year the president will be visiting alumni chapters around the country, with stops scheduled in NYC on January 16, Boston on January 29 and Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia in subsequent months. As the new issue of risd views (currently in transit) emphasizes, Mandle’s strong belief in opening RISD’s doors to diverse students from all economic backgrounds has led to a new $5-million scholarship drive. If you’d like to make a contribution to the President’s Scholars Program in his name, please click here. |
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’tis the season, and just in time risd|works has launched its 2008 collection (and brand new website) with plenty of options for everyone on your list. |
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| from the alumni association |
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Don’t miss the next Athena Awards presentation in NYC. The festive event takes place on Thursday, April 10 and will honor a host of luminaries, including alumni Jamie Carpenter ’71 IL, Roni Horn ’75 SC and Mark Pollack ’76 TX.
Regional alumni biennials continue to showcase the
work of RISD graduates. Following the very successful DC-area inaugural
exhibition at the Warehouse
Gallery, alumni in the Bay area are encouraged to apply for the RISD Northern California Alumni Biennial 2008 by December 20. The show will be curated by René de Guzman, senior curator at the Oakland Museum of California, and will open on March 4, 2008 at the Oakland Art Gallery. A Southern California biennial is also planned for June at the Tinlark Gallery in Hollywood, and the 2008 NYC biennial will take place in the fall. |
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out Spare Rooms in the November issue of Elle Décor, which focuses on “one of the fashion world’s favorite architects,” Michael Gabellini BArch ’81, and his latest project: his own newly renovated Brooklyn apartment. In the July/August issue of Metropolis, “Lebanon’s emerging star architect” Bernard Khoury BArch ’91 takes center stage in a fascinating article called The Discreet Charm of Bernard Khoury.
The Getty Center in Los Angeles is hosting an exhibition co-curated by Paola Demattè, associate professor of Chinese art and archaeology at RISD. Called China on Paper, the show focuses on cultural exchanges between Europeans and the Chinese between the 16th and early 19th centuries. “For a long time, hybrid stuff was not
liked either in China or in the West,” Demattè told a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. But exhibitions like this that highlight the intersection of cultures show that tastes have changed, she said, “maybe because of postmodern thought.” Demattè also co-edited a substantial hardcover catalogue to accompany the exhibition.
“Our mission is simple: to be the largest, freely accessible sustainable materials library in the world,” proclaimed Matt Grigsby ’05 ID and Joe Gebbia ’05 ID/GD in launching their new site, www.ecolect.net. Targeting architects and designers of all sorts, the site helps people in a good position to spec green materials to source and appreciate the importance of these alternatives (see article in Interior Design).
In discussing Berlin-New York Dialogues: Building in Context, the show’s co-curator and RISD’s Architecture Department Head Lynnette Widder told a reporter for The New York Times that these two cities “are both on the verge of paradigm shifts in how growth happens.” But the comparisons drawn in the show, which continues through January 26 at the Center for Architecture in lower Manhattan, aren’t totally parallel. “It was much easier for us to find
examples of interesting architecture in Berlin, [whereas] in New York, design is much less collective and more privatized,” she commented in another article in Metro New York. |
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In recognition of her nearly 30-year career at RISD, Ceramics Professor Emerita Jacquie Rice has been selected for the 2008 James Renwick Alliance Distinguished Educator Award. She will accept the award during the Smithsonian
Craft Show (April 10-13, 2008) in Washington, DC. Rice’s company Gild the Lily also won Best in
Show for Original Art in the recent Fine Furnishings & Fine Crafts Show Providence.
It’s not your usual poetry reading, promises RISD Professor Krzysztof Lenk and his colleagues Paul Kahn, Piotr Kaczmarek and Noah Fischer ’99 SC, who are working with the Paris-based NEW magazine to present an evening of soundscapes, readings and visual work. The NEW event takes place at the Fleet Library at RISD on Tuesday, November 20 at 7pm.
Don’t miss the lectures coming up at The RISD Museum in conjunction with the Kenneth Jay Lane ’54 AD Fabulous Fakes show, including one on Wednesday, December 5 at 6 pm, when Apparel Design Professor Emerita Lorraine Howes and jewelry artist Martina Windels MFA ’88 JM will discuss the cultural context of costume jewelry.
Design an apron or just come buy one on November 30, when RISD’s Dining + Catering Services hosts a Fashion Show and Auction of lovingly-designed aprons to fight hunger in Rhode Island. |
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Robert Cronin ’59 PT
Zabriskie Gallery
New York, NY
through December 15
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Jen Corace ’96 IL
Giant Robot
New York, NY
through December 5
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Adam Silverman BArch ’88
Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery
Portland, OR
November 27-December 29
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Todd McKie ’66 PT
Gallery NAGA
Boston, MA
through December 15
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Jenny Holzer MFA ’77 PT
Mass MoCA
North Adams, MA
through fall 2008
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Larissa Nowicki ’93 GD
Man&Eve
London, England
through December 9
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