Pieces from RISD’s Illustration Faculty are up now through November 30 at the ISB Gallery facing on the Canal Walk. Seen here is ‘The Kirklands’ by Kelly Murphy and ‘Jacobs Point’ by Nick Jainschigg. Also showing is Rhode Island native Mary Jane Begin of My Little Pony fame. She has two paintings from ‘The Dragons …
(10.23) The RISD Center for Student Involvement (CSI) will be taking over a block of Benefit Street this Sunday with their ‘Eat the World’ celebration, described as a . . . cultural food festival that celebrates the diversity of RISD students through food. We have booths representing RISD student’s home countries and culture, and the …
(10.15) Still room in the RISD Museum’s Artist Development Day. . . . an afternoon of professional development workshops, panels, and collegial dialogue for artists and designers is presented in collaboration with the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Practical tips and critical conversation on contemporary creative practice benefit individuals in every stage of …
The RISD Museum opened the new Café Pearl today. Located at the (newly reopened) Benefit Street entrance, the café honors longtime docent, the 102-year-old Pearl Nathan. The café is named in honor of one of the Museum’s first and longest-serving volunteer docents, Pearl Nathan. It is located just inside the RISD Museum’s Benefit Street entrance, …
(6.4) Among the many free things to enjoy this weekend is the RISD graduate show at the RI Convention Center. It’s a good year. Channing Gray has a comprehensive write-up in the ProJo, “RISD students show their mind-blowing work in sprawling show.” The show, up through June 4, contains the thesis work of some 225 …
Things to do Thursday. First check out ‘Furniture Music’ in the Grand Gallery at the RISD Museum, Thursday, May 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. (Thursday is Gallery Night Providence and admission to the museum is free. There are other events on tap for Thursday at the museum.) James Falzone, one of the RISD Museum’s 2016 …
The Senior Textiles Exhibition is up now through Tuesday. Seen here: Julia Wright (BFA Textiles 2016) works with wool, alpaca silk, digital prints, and cotton in “You Can’t Be Twenty On Sugar Mountain.” The opening reception for the furniture seniors is Thursday, May 19, from 6pm to 7:30pm. (Below: A video shows another senior demonstrating …
(5.7) Apparel design seniors at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) will debut their creations on the runway at Collection 2016. Two fast-paced runway shows, 4pm and 7pm, take place at the RISD Fleet Library on Westminster Street this Saturday. The eye-opening designs shown at Collection are juried by a panel of guest critics—professional designers who give …
Thanks to the generosity of a local donor, the RISD Museum will be renewing its invitation to Rhode Island residents: Free individual one-year membership for an adult who identifies as an artist or designer. (Thank you generous anonymous donor!) You can see stuff like this blown glass Venetian bowl, circa 1600ce, from the Decorative Arts …
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Registration starts Monday for the Spring Continuing Education courses at RISD. Classes for adults, kids, and teens. For teens courses include: Drawing, Fashion Sketchbook, Steampunk Fabrication lab. For adults courses include: Intro to illustration or sewing; Oil painting fundamentals; Intro to Adobe Photoshop, or illustrator. Weekend workshops include Korean papermaking, portrait drawing, figure painting, experimental …
The RISD Textiles Departmental Exhibition runs now through December 6 with everything from fabric, fashion, wall panels, painting, sculpture, and some gorgeously diaphanous sheer things that are impossible to photograph but would be lovely to have hanging about the house . . . and something called Frog Genome. (Seen here is “Glitch,” a silkscreen panel …
Filmmaker, author, and self-described “filth elder” John Waters delivered the RISD commencement address this afternoon. He accepted his honorary doctor’s degree “without irony” as promised but could not resist deploying a “trigger warning” in his address. It wasn’t really necessary; Dr. Waters had left the transgressive provocateur at home and honored the occasion by being …
Hey, I found the aluminum tubes! Someone tell Rumsfeld they were anodized not weaponized. This piece is a Partition from Julie Kang, BFA furniture Design 2015. It is made of climbing rope and anodized aluminum. Below is a Library Chair by Anthony Dahut made of cherry, felt, and urethane foam. The RISD Senior Shows have …
The senior shows don’t stay up long so get over there — this one runs through Tuesday — and it’s one of the best I’ve ever seen. This well-rounded mix of wall art, tapestry, sculptures — an over-stuffed chair features tufts of raccoon fur — and of course apparel, is never boring and frequently funny. …
A special offer from the RISD Museum for artists and designers who are Rhode Island residents in 2015. There has always been a discounted rate for artists and designers, but check it out. Free during 2015 for artists and designers who are RI residents, thanks to the generosity of a local donor. Use discount code: …
(8.21) RISD Museum holds its Thursday ‘Design the Night’ celebration this week which means you can check out the new ‘Circus’ exhibition for free. The spectacle of the American and European circus takes center stage this summer in Circus—a glimpse into the visual world of this phenomenon during the height of its popularity, 1850 to …