May 2013
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The Wonderful World of Zaza
If you’re hungry for the flavor of Istanbul and other intriguing places where East meets West – as in these sketchbook images of breakfast in Turkey and impressions from a side trip to Oman…
…follow Harika, the addictive blog self-professed nomad Samantha Zaza 00 IL maintains to document her adventures abroad.
An American transplant, Samantha has lived in Istanbul since 2009...
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Yes, FAV seniors got to go first with last week’s big film fest. And they got some great coverage on the local NBC station Channel 10 and in the Providence Journal.
But that doesn’t mean this year’s junior films are any less deserving of our collective attention. And how often do you get to go to a premiere anyway? Two nights only: Wednesday + Thursday!
(And though the Senior Show...
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This past weekend’s This American Life was all about fresh takes on the hackneyed debate about climate change – and new ways to spur action. The segment that aired on National Public Radio featured this year’s honorary degree recipient Bill McKibben, whose 350.org is leading a grassroots movement on this critical issue.
Divest RISD, our own student-run environmental group, was...
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Subotnick Films at Festival of Nations
Two short 2011 films by Steven Subotnick (Critic, FAV), Two and West, will screen this June at the Festival of Nations in Ebensee, Austria. Two is a visual dialogue based on timing, gesture, mark-making and sound. West is one in a series of short animations about the destruction of the American wilderness.
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Latest Issue of Int|AR Now Out
The Interior Architecture department just released Volume 4 of its annual journal Int|AR (Interventions|Adaptive Reuse). Edited by Department Head Liliane Wong, Assistant Professor Markus Berger and Critic Maya Marx, each iteration of the journal examines various issues related to preservation, conservation, alteration and sustainability in the realms of architecture, landscape design and urban...
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Life After Art School
On Wednesday interdisciplinary artist Adriana Farmiga presented the third and final lecture in this spring’s Painting Department Visiting Artist Lecture series. A faculty member and graduate of Cooper Union, she discussed her work in terms of her personal history as a first-generation American of Ukrainian descent, a feminist, a New Yorker and a practical working artist.
Last year Farmiga had...
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Mazumder Wins 2013 KPCB Fellowship
Congratulations to Amrit Mazumder 15 GD, who today became one of 12 student designers nationwide to be named a 2013 KPCB Fellow.
Created by venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the program pairs top US design and engineering students with innovative Silicon Valley startups for a three-month summer internship. Mazumder will be working with Palo Alto-based Flipboard, a...
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Icy Exploration
Amanda Thackray MFA 12 PR will soon be spending her summer solstice suited up in a cold weather gear. The RISD alum is among a small crew of artists and scientists chosen to participate in a two-week residency program that takes place on Barquentine tall ship bound for the Arctic Circle.
“I am extremely excited to be a part of this voyage,” notes Thackray. “I’m intrigued by the Arctic’s...
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Modi Among Top Tech Designers
Business Insider has dubbed Shaun Modi 07 ID #33 in its new list of the top 75 Best Designers in Technology. The list includes designers of mobile apps, websites and user interfaces, among others, with the ranking based on experience, quality of work, number of nominations from readers and the size of the company where the designer works.
Modi, who worked at Google before joining Airbnb as...
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Good Dye Jobs
Standing upon sheets splattered with dots of multi-colored ink, Katie Buchanan 15 TX slowly lowered a white piece of cotton fabric into a vat filled with indigo. As she plunged the soft textile into the dye mixture, soapy bubbles popped to the surface – a visible indicator that the pigment was tinting the material a deep shade of blue.
“The color is so pretty,” said Buchanan. “I’m using...
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Humor and Perspective
For San Francisco-based performance artist Chris Sollars 98 SC, winning a 2013 Guggenheim fellowship means spending less time teaching and supporting the work of other artists in his 667Shotwell collective and more time focusing on his own projects. Since his days in the RISD Sculpture department, his work has centered around street performance documented with video. “I started doing performances...
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Living as an Artist
At a midday lecture at Benson Hall Gallery, Japanese sculptor Reiko Nireki, a visiting faculty member in Printmaking, mapped out the trajectory of her career. As she told students in the audience, she didn’t discover her favorite medium, washi (Japanese paper), until she was 25. She likes using paper because of its immediacy, noting that there’s little chance the germ of her inspiration will...
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TEDMED Talk Now Live!
President John Maeda’s talk at last month’s TEDMED2013 conference in Washington, DC just went live today. It’s called How can design principles lead to more discovery and better treatment? and you can watch it right here.
For more on RISD’s involvement with the national conference, check out Illustrating for TEDMED on risd.edu.
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Pushing the Boundaries of Virtual Art
In a panel discussion held on Thursday night, RISD students examined the lightning speed evolution of video game art and the unique challenges curators face as the medium transitions into the museum environment.
Jian Shen 14 FD, Lauren Martin 14 PT, Koji Yamamoto 14 FAV, David Tompkins 14 PT and Brown student Zachary Salmon were speakers on the engaging panel. Chris Romero – a writer from New...
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Emmy Win for Torres
Filmmaker Caroline Torres 12 FAV took second place in the animation category at the 34th annual College Television Awards for her piece 21 Years in 7 Minutes.
Sponsored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation, the national competition recognizes excellence in college student-produced video, digital and film work. Torres’ animated film was selected from hundreds of entries,...
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Awards for Animation
Visually captivating animated films by four Film/Animation/Video students and recent grads will be featured in an upcoming exhibition at The Museum of American Illustration. The show features the winning work submitted in the Society of Illustrators’ 2013 Student Scholarship Competition.
Troubleshooting, a black and white animated film by Eric Ko 13 FAV,took second place in the competition and...
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Loving Lunch Ladies
Author/illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka 99 IL has declared today – May 3 – national School Lunch Superhero Day.
Jarrett is also excited that NPR is featuring his goofy Lunch Lady series as its May Kids’ Book Club. Inspired by one of his own grade school lunch ladies, the graphic novels have sold 350,000 copies,won two Children’s Choice Book Awards and been optioned by Universal Pictures for...
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Fletcher Fires Up FAV Students
At last night’s special screening of Violet & Daisy in the Metcalf Auditorium, filmmaker and Columbia University adjunct professor Geoffrey Fletcher told the large crowd of mostly FAV majors that the key to making it in Hollywood is to “control the material” – that lots of people can create pretty shots but the magic lies in telling a story.
Fletcher, who won an Academy Award for Best...
April 2013
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Brown/RISD Poetry Team Slams Competition
The Brown/RISD Poetry Slam Team continues to push the boundaries of spoken word performance one well-crafted rhyme at a time.
The team of talented wordsmiths – coached by Jessie Chen 15 FAV – took sixth place in the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI). In early April, a total of 59 teams competed in the prestigious competition held at Barnard College in New York City.
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E’Ship Fosters Entrepreneurial Spirit
On Sunday night, more 70 students packed into the top floor of RISD’s Ewing Multicultural House to socialize, eat pizza and discuss their visions of entrepreneurial grandeur. The lively mixer was hosted by members of Brown’s Entrepreneurship Program and E’Ship, a new student club founded by Winston Cuevas 15 ID, Amrit Mazumder 15 GD and Ryan Murphy 15 ID.
The trio of enterprising...
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A Message on Divestment Discussions at RISD
As some may be aware, there has been activity on campus to support the Divest RISD movement, including a rally and a sit-in. Decisions regarding RISD’s endowment investments are made by the Board of Trustees, upon recommendation of the Investment Committee of the Board, and are not within the purview of the President or the Administration.
Members of the administration and I met at length with a...
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House Beautiful’s Top Ten
The April issue of House Beautiful magazine focuses on inspiring American designers and calls out innovative and “poetic” accessories by 10 designers, including three RISD alumni.
Lindsey Adelman 96 ID is noted for her vintage-vibe hanging light fixtures, which feature hand-blown glass globes and brass-plated clamps and chains.
Boston-based designer Debra Folz MFA 10 GD earns the editor’s...
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Chau’s Got the Beat
Senior Wesley Chau 13 ID is garnering quite a bit of attention for his Drop the Beat wearable drum kit, including write-ups on Fashioning Technology and Fast Company. Inspired by the drum-suit dance sequence in musician/poet Laurie Anderson’s 1986 film Home of the Brave, he designed the instrument for the six-week Wintersession studio Digital Body: Hybrid Adornment.
“I realized how static and...
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Knit fanatics in Providence can get their hands on a great textured sweater by Liz Collins 91 TX/MFA 99 TX at her trunk and sample sale this Friday, May 3. Collins will also be selling a new collection of gorgeous scarves created in collaboration with fellow alum Jungil Hong 99 CR at RISD’s Alumni + Student Art Sale on Benefit Street this Saturday.
