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| students reach out to cameroon
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12.19.06 | issue #23
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 Film/Animation/Video students have connected with their counterparts in Cameroon this semester thanks to a high-tech video exchange between RISD and the University of Yaounde I, the largest public university in Cameroon. Called Call and Response, the experimental web-based project directed by Assistant Professor Daniel Peltz and his colleague in Cameroon, Professor Charles Soh, involved 36 RISD juniors, who each posted 30-second videos as a series of “calls” to their cohorts in Cameroon. The African students then responded to the clips that moved them most by posting their own visual rejoinders. In other words, “each video builds directly off the work of one of the other students,” explains Peltz, a media artist who arranged for the exchange during a summer visit to Cameroon (where he also produced a new public video installation called Beepez-le). Call and Response is the latest series produced for RISD.tv, a portal Peltz and Associate Professor Dennis Hlynsky ’74 FAV launched last year. By connecting with like-minded students in Africa, RISD students have not only “radically expanded the audience” for their own work, Peltz says, they are engaging in constructive critiques with people who view the world from entirely different perspectives than their own.
from the alumni association
• Announcing the birth of twins (well, sort of): we are pleased to welcome the Minnesota-based RISD/Twin Cities as the latest alumni group. Peter Zelle ’87 GL will help out as contact person, so feel free to e-mail him. To find phone numbers and other contact information for all 40 RISD alumni groups, click here.
• Did you know Amy Devers ’01 FD is rescuing the Detroit Tigers? Or that Peter Greenwood ’82 GL opens his glass studio in Riverton, CT to tours? Or that Devon Holzwarth ’00 TX can create the perfect mural for a child’s room? Discover all this and more via the 2,600-plus links to alumni websites in the Online Career Library.
• A full 20% of recent RISD graduates will become entrepreneurs soon after graduation. If you live in the Rhode Island area, plan to attend the Art of Business series in January to get information about copyrights, contracts, marketing, licensing, accounting and promotion. Click here to register.
look around
• Two alumni are among the first 50 fellows to be awarded unrestricted $50,000 grants by United States Artists (USA), a new, privately funded organization dedicated to the support of America’s finest living artists. At a December 4 celebration in NYC, Tanya Aguiñiga MFA ’05 FD, a furniture designer based in Los Angeles, and Liz Collins ’91 TX/MFA ’99, a textiles and apparel designer who is also an assistant professor at RISD, were each presented with a 2006 fellowship aimed at providing “venture capital” for the creative spirit.
• More than half of the elaborate machine-knit cozies Textiles students designed and made on commission for DKNY sold at the December 5 opening of wrapped, a sales exhibition at the DKNY flagship boutique on Madison Avenue. Click here for more on the project and a gallery of images of the crits, the cozies and the opening.
• Joe Gebbia ’06 ID/GD continues to rack up press for his butt-inspired invention — a squishy molded foam pillow known as CritBuns. Although he’s now otherwise occupied as a designer at Chronicle Books in San Francisco, he managed to land a full spread for the product in the December issue of I.D. magazine, which focuses on “the year’s sharpest products.”
• RISD alumni are also making an impact in education. Two longtime teachers just learned that they are being recognized for outstanding contributions to the field: Cathy (Davis) Hayes ’88 IL has been selected the 2007 Rhode Island Teacher of the Year and Carole Villucci ’60 AP has won the 2007 Eastern Region Museum Education Art Educator of the Year Award from the National Art Education Association. In addition to working as an art teacher at Oakland Beach Elementary School in Warwick, RI, Hayes is the Coordinator of the RISD Continuing Education Young Artist Program, where she has been teaching for 13 years. Villucci is the associate curator of education at The RISD Museum of Art and teaches in RISD’s Art + Design Education Department.
on campus
last-minute holiday ideas
Whether you’re finishing up or just getting started, check out the inspired options from risd|works — all made or designed by alumni and faculty. If you’re in the area, drop by 10 Westminster Street in Providence for an ever-changing array of products. Otherwise, you can shop online at www.risdworks.com. But act fast: some items are flying off the virtual shelf.
follow the silk road
Members of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble will come to RISD again in January for their third residency. They’ll be working on two new multimedia pieces: Indigo, which traces the evolution and cultural migration of the dye, and Blue & White, which does the same in looking at the ceramics developed in the regions around Asia’s Silk Road. Musicians will interact with students and faculty via selected Wintersession courses, and on February 1 the residency will culminate with a screening of the classic animated film The Adventures of Prince Achmed, with a score composed and performed live by the Silk Road Ensemble.
explore china with risd
RISD President Roger Mandle and Architecture Professor Peter Tagiuri are hosting a group trip to China from June 4-20. The RISD in China tour will focus on ancient and contemporary highlights of the Middle Kingdom.
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© Rhode Island School of Design 2006
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Mel Prest ’91 PT
Branch Gallery
Durham, NC
through January 5
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David Hanson ’96 FAV
Alison Berger ’87 GL
James Carpenter ’72 IL
Preston Scott Cohen BAR ’83
Elizabeth Whelan ’91 TX
David Wiseman ’03 FD
Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Museum
New York, NY
through July 29
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Mary Shaffer ’65 IL
Sculpturesite Gallery
San Francisco, CA
through March 3
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Randy Frost ’59 GD
Daphne Taylor ’77 CR
Durst Lobby Gallery
New York, NY
through January 19
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Peter Barrett ’90 PT
DeCordova Museum and
Sculpture Park
Lincoln, MA
January 20-April 22
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Brandon Herman ’06 PH
Holden Luntz Gallery
Palm Beach, FL
December 23-January 20
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Laura Paresky Gould MAT ’91 AE
Seth Jason Beitler Gallery
Miami, FL
through February 8
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