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| risd applauds achievement |
11.18.05 | issue #12 |
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 On Monday RISD presented awards to a handful of artists and designers who have made extraordinary contributions to their fields at the RISD Athena Awards gala in New York. Award recipients included performance artist Laurie Anderson, product designer Hella Jongerius and fine artist Kiki Smith, along with Tiffany & Co., which was honored for corporate leadership. The first RISD/Target Emerging Designer Award went to Cameron Sinclair, co-founder and executive director of Architecture for Humanity, who announced that he will split his $25,000 prize between two projects: rebuilding homes for Hurricane Katrina victims in Biloxi, MS and developing earthquake-resistant housing for Kashmir. During the awards benefit for RISD, participants got a sense of the current climate on campus through videos of students talking about the challenges and rewards of studying here.
from the alumni association
• ’Tis the season for two RISD holiday sales featuring work in all disciplines: in San Francisco it’s the 10th annual Holiday Arts & Crafts Sale (billed as The Best in the West) on Sunday, December 4 at Ft. Mason Center. In Rhode Island the RISD Alumni Holiday Art Sale (The Arts Feast in the East) features 200 exhibitors on Saturday, December 10 at the Rhode Island Convention Center.
• Looking for time, space and financial resources to create your work? Use these newly updated resources to identify grant search engines, residency opportunities, discipline-specific funding and state art agencies. Plus, get tips on researching, writing and winning grants.
• Have you moved? Found a new job? Got a new e-mail address? Remember to update your contact info via the online Alumni Directory so you can keep connected to RISD, informed about regional events and up on fellow alumni.
look around
• Londoners and other visitors have warmed to the vibrant splash of color brought by Dale Chihuly’s most recent spectacle, Gardens of Glass: Chihuly at Kew. Billed as “the first exhibition of its kind to be held in Europe,” it features Chihuly’s organic glass installations “growing” among the Kew’s 300 acres of gardens and greenhouses.
• In a travel article on Providence, Yankee Magazine (November) calls the campus riverfront “the RISD Riviera” and notes that Mary Davison ’08 loves to draw on the waterfront: “You meet the most interesting people when you draw here.” The article also recommends stops at the RISD Store, risd!kids and risd|works.
• Assistant Professor Steven B. Smith’s “aesthetically elegant, delicately nuanced pictures [of America’s suburban west] are pitch perfect,” noted judge Maria Morris Hambourg, curator of photography at the Metropolitan, in announcing that his book The Weather and a Place to Live has won the biennial Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography. The book has just been published this week.
on campus
keep learning
Wintersession is a great time to return to RISD for Continuing Education evening and weekend courses in everything from entomological illustration to fusing and slumping glass. Or you can learn to make a chair, understand cascading style sheets or master the culinary art of braising. To get the full picture, download the course catalogue; classes begin January 9, with online registration now in full swing.
edgy tech talk
Multimedia artist Michael Snow and mathematician Martin Wattenberg (a specialist in information visualization) will round out this fall’s lively lecture series in Digital Media, which examines the latest trends in digital art and expanded media design practices. Snow will speak at 7pm on November 29, Wattenberg at 7pm on December 6. Free and open to all.
risd music lives on
RISD has long been the perfect breeding ground for interesting new bands and eclectic music, a phenomenon the Office of Student Life (OSL) has been supporting by producing several compilations of current student sounds. The latest CD, Volume iv, is available through risd|works — or by contacting Paul Connelly in the OSL.
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.
If you would prefer to receive this newsletter at a different e-mail address, please update your information at www.risd.edu/alumni_directory.cfm.
© Rhode Island School of Design 2005
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Michael Oatman ’86 PT
MASS MoCA
North Adams, MA
through February 2006
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Shepard Fairey ’92 IL
Black Floor Gallery
Philadelphia, PA
through November 26
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Karen LaMonte ’90 GL
Museum of Glass
Tacoma, WA
December 10-September 4, 2006
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Fay Jones ’57 PT
Grover/Thurston Gallery
Seattle, WA
through December 21
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Brad Silverstein ’97 IL
33 GRAND
Oakland, CA
November 18-December 18
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Shahzia Sikander MFA ’95 PT/PR
Miami Art Museum
Miami, FL
through January 15, 2006
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Dan Bruce ’01 SC
Soyeon Lucy Kim ’01 PT
Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute
Utica, NY
through December 6
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