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11.17.06 | issue #22 |
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 When students returned to classes this fall, it didn’t take long for them to discover that the new Fleet Library at RISD is actually a wonderful place to hang out — an activity the former library on Benefit Street was just too cramped to handle. With almost four times the space of its predecessor, the new library is also more welcoming in other ways: it’s in the same building that houses 500 students along the riverfront, has plenty of different seating choices to cater to varying study styles, allows for small group gatherings and quiet discussion, and offers hundreds of thousands of visual resources with specialized reading rooms on the second floor. RISD officially dedicated the new library on October 7, but even before then students, faculty and alumni had begun to use it in ways the old library couldn’t accommodate. To view students talking about why the new facility is such a success, click here.
from the alumni association
• ’Tis the season, with RISD alumni holiday happenings starting this weekend with the San Francisco alumni holiday sale on November 19. They continue with the opportunity to buy a knitted cozy made by RISD Textiles students at a December 5 opening at DKNY in Manhattan and wrap up with the popular Alumni Holiday Art Sale at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence on December 9.
• Focus on the Photography resources section under Fine Arts in RISD’s Online Career Library and you’ll discover valuable directories like Photo District News (PDN) and links to 176 alumni websites, including those of Jill Greenberg ’89 PH, Judy Gelles MFA ’01 PH, Peter Goldberg ’88 PT, Michael Neff ’04 PH and scores of others. The page will also connect you to online contemporary galleries and directories such as Zone Zero and Art-Support.
• Moving? Changing jobs? Have a new e-mail address? Keep in touch with RISD and fellow alumni by updating your contact information via the online alumni directory. And while you are there, check out whatever happened to your first roomate, too.
look around
• It was probably kismet when Bloomsbury chose to publish Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006, a new 400-page book by Roz Chast ’77 PT, on Halloween — especially since the cartoonist “hates Halloween,” according to a feature article that ran in The New York Times several days before. Catch a clip of Steve Martin “interviewing” her earlier this fall at The New Yorker Festival or listen to this timeless chat with Chast on NPR.
• Alumni Eric Pike ’83 GD and Ben Edwards MFA ’97 PT were among the six award recipients to be honored at the 2006 RISD Athena Awards event on November 9 in New York City. Pike, who is executive vice president and creative director for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, was visibly moved to receive Special Recognition for Design Excellence, while Edwards, an abstract painter, was taken by surprise to learn that he had edged out four other finalists for the $25,000 RISD/Target Emerging Artist Award.
• C. David Thomas MFA ’74 PR, director of the Indochina Arts Partnership, and Huynh Phuong Dong, one of the most influential artists to capture the tumultuous war years in Vietnam, are currently promoting the US release of their new book Huynh Phuong Dong: Visions of War and Peace. Dong will speak about his work at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, on November 19, and at Mass College of Art’s Brandt Gallery on November 29. You can also contact Thomas directly to order the book and/or attend a private book signing on December 1 in Newton Centre, MA.
on campus
public engagement
Academic Affairs has launched a new Office of Public Engagement to work with students, faculty and the administration to identify and expand the tools, resources and opportunities at RISD for academic and co-curricular work in the local and regional communities. Seth Goldenberg ’03 PT, founder of the Catalyst Arts program in Pawtucket, RI, has been named interim director, with support from Emily Ustach MA ’06 and Rhode Island Campus Compact/AmeriCorps*VISTA.
record-breaking feat
On Sunday, October 29, Ashrita Furman broke another world record at RISD, adding to the 41 titles he already held through Guinness World Records. He chose RISD as the site for his latest feat because he saw the attempt to balance hundreds of uncooked eggs on end as a work of performance art. Click here to see him working to shatter the record of 420 eggs, which he did by a long shot, painstakingly placing 700 eggs on end on an unforgiving floor in the Design Center.
student shows
New works by graduate students in RISD's Digital + Media program are featured in Translations: Misguided Machines and Cultural Loops, the opening show at Emergence@DUO, a gallery dedicated to new media and digital works at DUO Multicutural Arts Center in NYC. The show has been extended until December 2, with a panel presentation planned for late November. And here in Providence, the Jewelry + Metalsmithing Triennial Exhibition continues through December 10 at Woods-Gerry Gallery.
e-views is produced by RISD’ Division of Communications + Design as a complement to risd views and is e-mailed to readers monthly. Questions? Comments? Send a message to risdviews@risd.edu.
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© Rhode Island School of Design 2006
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Pamela Murphy ’91 PT
Chase Gallery
Boston, MA
through November 25
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Trine Bumiller ’81 PR
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
New York, NY
November 16-December 16
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Susie Ghahremani ’02 IL
GR2
Los Angeles, CA
through December 6
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David Strout ’47 PT
Edge of Maine Gallery
Brownfield, ME
December 2-January 8
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Martha Armstrong MAE ’63
Gross McCleaf Gallery
Philadelphia, PA
through December 1
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Robert Ladislas Derr MFA ’02 PH
Photographic Resource Center
Boston, MA
through January 28
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Anne Pundyk MFA ’82 PT
Benjamin Edwards MFA ’97 PT/PR
Jenny Holzer MFA ’77 PT
Roni Horn ’75 SC
Steven Klein ’76 PT
Puck Building
New York, NY
November 29
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