(12.10) Find unique gifts, while supporting the arts in the most direct way possible, at the annual RISD Alumni & Student Holiday Art Show. Shop for ceramics, painting, textiles, jewelry, prints, soft sculpture, glass, home decor, and more. Providence City Arts will be hosting a Holiday Craft Lab, featuring drop-in workshops for kids and families […]
Vernacular Spectacular — where art meets life and you are on display — features work by RISD students, grad and undergrad, who invite you to take a second look at the everyday objects in your life. Curated by Cem Eskinazi (MFA GD ’17) and Drew Litowitz (MFA GD ’17). Every product you pull off the
This chair really is a flotation device. The furniture shows at the Woods-Gerry Gallery never disappoint. Both undergrads and alums are represented in the Department of Furniture Design Triennial Exhibition which runs through December 12. Seen here is ‘Sinuous’ — powder coated steel and pool noodles — by Noelle Antignano (BFA Furniture Design 2016). In
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