Nancy Friese is a painter-printmaker who works in open-air. Friese’s paintings and prints have been exhibited in 30 solo shows and 170 group shows, nationally and internationally. Friese was elected as a National Academician in the National Academy Museum and School in New York City and received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and the Japan-US Friendship Commission Creative Artist Fellowship.
She was granted a Yale University Summer School of Music and Art at Norfolk Fellowship, Anne Bremer Award, and Wilder Traveling Fellowship during her artistic studies. She received a six- month Lila Acheson Wallace Giverny Fellowship, a Blanche E. Colman Award, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award and a George Sugarman Foundation Grant for painting. Artist’s Resource Trust (ART) funded her exhibition and residency at Trustman Gallery. Her works are in 50 corporate and museum collections and over 100 private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum UCLA, the Spencer Museum of Art, and the Portland Art Museum. Her paintings and prints are represented by Cade Tompkins Projects. She has been represented by six galleries from New York to San Francisco. Tamarind Institute, Oehme Graphics, Mimosa Press and Sundog Press have published her works. Most recently she was an artist in residence at Andy Warhol's Montauk Nature Preserve administered by The Nature Conservancy.
In addition to earning BS and MFA degrees, Friese studied in the graduate painting program at the University of California, Berkeley, and studied painting and printmaking at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. She came to RISD with a joint appointment as head of Printmaking (1990–98) and as a member of the Painting department faculty and served as graduate program director. She initiated a teaching collaborative between RISD’s Graduate Studies division and Brown University during her subsequent tenure as dean of Graduate Studies (1998–2004). That collaborative has contributed to the advancement of collegiate-level teaching in the fields of art, design and architecture, has awarded teaching certificates to hundreds of RISD graduate students and faculty and was the precursor to TLAD’s Graduate Certificate in Collegiate Teaching.
Friese has served as a board member for the College Arts Association, the RISD Museum, North Dakota Museum of Art Foundation, FirstWorks Providence and Buxton in Bloom North Dakota, and has been a repeat juror with the National Endowment for the Arts and Japan US Friendship Commission in Washington, DC.
Times: W | 8:00 AM - 11:00 AMInstructor(s): Nancy FrieseLocation(s): SoMain Barn (345 S. Main St.), Room 231Enrolled / Capacity: 15Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
How can we add to the future enrichment of our disciplines? How do we make future collegiate teaching a more meaningful practice? This semester-long professional practice course is designed for artists, designers, architects, and educators who are considering teaching in higher education after graduation and/or those who will be teaching during Wintersession as they complete their course of study at RISD. The goal is to introduce graduate students to a reflective teaching foundation and to provide an orientation to the collegiate teaching and learning experience. The first half of the course is composed of readings and discussions related to seven teaching portfolio assignments. The second half of the course entails Individual Teaching Practice Sessions in which students prepare a class that is observed, videotaped, and receives detailed feedback from faculty and peer observers. Major outcomes of the course are: a partial teaching portfolio including a teaching and inclusivity philosophy, course proposals and an extensive course syllabus. This is the first course in the required sequence for the Certificate of Collegiate Teaching in Art + Design.
Times: TH | 8:00 AM - 11:00 AMInstructor(s): Nancy FrieseLocation(s): SoMain Barn (345 S. Main St.), Room 231Enrolled / Capacity: 15Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
How can we add to the future enrichment of our disciplines? How do we make future collegiate teaching a more meaningful practice? This semester-long professional practice course is designed for artists, designers, architects, and educators who are considering teaching in higher education after graduation and/or those who will be teaching during Wintersession as they complete their course of study at RISD. The goal is to introduce graduate students to a reflective teaching foundation and to provide an orientation to the collegiate teaching and learning experience. The first half of the course is composed of readings and discussions related to seven teaching portfolio assignments. The second half of the course entails Individual Teaching Practice Sessions in which students prepare a class that is observed, videotaped, and receives detailed feedback from faculty and peer observers. Major outcomes of the course are: a partial teaching portfolio including a teaching and inclusivity philosophy, course proposals and an extensive course syllabus. This is the first course in the required sequence for the Certificate of Collegiate Teaching in Art + Design.
Open to Graduate Students.
Elective
TLAD 658G-01 - DRAWING OBJECTIVES: MARKING AND MAKING
LevelGraduate
UnitTeaching + Learning in Art + Design
Subject Teaching+Learning in Art+Design
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
FormatSeminar
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
TLAD 658G-01
DRAWING OBJECTIVES: MARKING AND MAKING
LevelGraduate
UnitTeaching + Learning in Art + Design
Subject Teaching+Learning in Art+Design
PeriodFall 2023
Credits3
FormatSeminar
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: F | 8:00 AM - 11:00 AMInstructor(s): Nancy FrieseLocation(s): SoMain Barn (355 S. Water St.), Room 004Enrolled / Capacity: 12Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Drawing has been called the distillation of an idea. Drawing sensibilities pervade all visual media, yet drawing can be independent of all other media. How can we make our drawing ventures resonant or challenging? Through independent studio production and focused critique, the course provides graduate students from any major the opportunity to more deeply understand the nature of drawing through a series of self-directed and self-paced experiences and investigations. Coursework may be referenced or supported by historical and contemporary contexts. Digital works, a single drawing medium or tool, phenomenal means, or other materials or mixtures of instruments can be used for mark-making. A full spectrum of drawing ways and ideas can be explored. The class is structured around cross-major conversations in small group critiques, peer-exchange critiques, larger group reviews and individual analysis. Drawings from this course may integrate or extend other areas of graduate students' study, including thesis content and personal visual inquiries.
Times: TH | 8:00 AM - 11:00 AMInstructor(s): Nancy FrieseLocation(s): SoMain Barn (345 S. Main St.), Room 231Enrolled / Capacity: 15Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
How can we add to the future enrichment of our disciplines? How do we make future collegiate teaching a more meaningful practice? This semester-long professional practice course is designed for artists, designers, architects, and educators who are considering teaching in higher education after graduation and/or those who will be teaching during Wintersession as they complete their course of study at RISD. The goal is to introduce graduate students to a reflective teaching foundation and to provide an orientation to the collegiate teaching and learning experience. The first half of the course is composed of readings and discussions related to seven teaching portfolio assignments. The second half of the course entails Individual Teaching Practice Sessions in which students prepare a class that is observed, videotaped, and receives detailed feedback from faculty and peer observers. Major outcomes of the course are: a partial teaching portfolio including a teaching and inclusivity philosophy, course proposals and an extensive course syllabus. This is the first course in the required sequence for the Certificate of Collegiate Teaching in Art + Design.
Times: F | 1:10 PM - 4:10 PMInstructor(s): Nancy FrieseLocation(s): SoMain Barn (345 S. Main St.), Room 231Enrolled / Capacity: 15Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Using RISD as a site for the exploration of strategies for studio-based teaching and learning is the goal of the course. It is designed for students who have completed TLAD-044G Collegiate Teaching: Preparation & Reflection and are interested in models of practice for a future academic environment. The course examines teaching methodologies in graduates' respective fields through case studies, faculty interviews, and article reviews. Learning to teach in a generative and attentive manner can bring teaching closer to one's studio practice. The seminar is composed of guest faculty and graduates, readings, discussions, and project assignments. Graduates in this course will complete a full professional teaching portfolio in preparation for teaching position applications. Individual and group meetings will be equally balanced. The seminar fulfills a partial requirement for the Certificate in Collegiate Teaching in Art and Design.
