making progress | spring 2009 inside risd, reality and the downturn

departments features publishing director The reality of my first year as president Given these new challenges, the Board of START HERE gatherings this spring, I have Becky Bermont at RISD is a lot like President Obama’s first Trustees and I have resolved to act decisively. been speaking to hundreds of alumni and few months in office – not what we expected. We will slice $10M (8%) from our previously friends about “The RISD Triangle of Engage- 2 5 editor I came here humbled and inspired to begin projected operating budget for next year ment.” The concept is quite simple, really: hillside making progess Liisa Silander working with our creative community to through a combination of operating and say RISD, hire from RISD and give to RISD. what’s up on campus This issue focuses on a new sense of energy and possibility shared design / production reinterpret our fine college and museum for capital expense cuts, salary freezes, benefits by members of the RISD community – in spite of global economic • Remember to mention RISD in all forms 18 Elizabeth Eddins ’00 GD a new era. And despite the murky economy, changes and reductions in employees uncertainties. of casual conversation. New students engagement @ risd that’s still what inspires me every day. (through attrition, retirement incentives writers won’t continue to apply here if they’ve news from alumni relations 6 and, unfortunately, some layoffs). As the Anna Cousins Though I never imagined that financial never heard of us. design we can believe in academic year comes to a close, we will 20 Delia Kovac ’02 PR concerns would cloud the forecast so Many RISD people contributed their creative talents to help elect know how much belt-tightening is necessary portfolio Liisa Silander • If you’re able to hire an intern or a RISD President Obama and are now equally committed to turning the quickly, RISD – like the world at large – news of alumni going forward. graduate, post the position on our country around. is being forced to make a series of difficult e-mail: [email protected] ArtWorks job board (www.risd.edu/ 33 decisions based on sobering economic Though we face serious financial challenges 10 fax: 401 454-6351 artworks) or contact Steve Whitten readers’ views developments. As the stock market continued in the years ahead, I am fortunate to lead changing design / designing change phone: 401 454-6349 ([email protected]) in Career Services. letters, comments, addenda its steep decline, RISD’s endowment lost an organization with such clear guiding As the industrial design profession shifts, students are learning to web: www.risd.edu/views As a community, we need to support each one-third its value between the time I first principles: increase RISD’s accessibility, focus their problem-solving skills on designing new services, strategies risd: 401 454-6100 other more than ever in tough times. learned of my appointment as president attract the best faculty and students, and and processes, not just products. post: Liisa Silander, risd views and January of this year. maintain the quality of our programs. For • Give to the place where you first connected Two College Street 14 the country and for RISD, it’s moments like with y(our) tribe and support the future Providence, Rhode Island At the same time, tuition and fees are earth to risd: going green in the tropics these that force us to clarify our priorities, of art and design (www.risd.edu/giving). 02903-2784 USA already more than $47,000 a year at RISD When RISD students go beyond their studios to explore new cultural search for creative solutions and come – almost double what they were 15 years As I’ve said on our blog (our.risd.edu), even contexts for design, they begin to grasp that the world really needs together more than ever before to question, RISD MEDIA + PARTNERS ago, both here and at just about every other if you follow through with just two points what they have to offer. debate and share ideas. 28,000 | MERIDIAN PRINTING college in the country. With many families of the triangle, we’ll be well on the way PRINTED ON ROLLAND OPAQUE, 70# RECYCLED struggling to pay for a college education, we I came to RISD to participate in and lead to ensuring that RISD’s voice – the voice TEXT WITH 30% POST-INDUSTRIAL FIBER, MANUFACTURED USING BIOGAS ENERGY have an urgent need to increase scholarships a community of creative thinkers, and there of American creativity – will be heard louder AND CERTIFIED ENVIRONMENT CHOICE AND and financial aid to make a RISD education will be nothing more gratifying than to and prouder than ever before. FSC MIXED SOURCES as accessible as possible. emerge from these challenges as a stronger, Thank you, more confident organization. Alumni have

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risd views is proud to feature the work of the following designers, writers and photographers:

Scott Stowell ’90 GD / Open Sami Nerenberg Peter Goldberg cover design + pages 5–15 pages 10-13 cover, pages 5–7 + 9

For the past decade, Scott for Brown and Yale. Last fall Contributing writer Sami When photographer Peter Stowell ’90 GD has run a studio Scott was the winner of the Nerenberg ’07 ID is an adjunct Goldberg ’88 PH sent us a link in Manhattan called Open Cooper-Hewitt’s National Design faculty member in the Industrial to the photos he took on (www.notclosed.com). It’s a Award for Communications Design Department and a sustain- Inauguration Day, we felt instantly place with a small footprint but Design. When John Maeda tried able systems strategist at Grain infused with the energy and a big reputation. Open makes to get his attention at the White Design. The year she graduated, hope they capture. “For a photo- things like identity systems for House awards luncheon, Scott she earned both the Mendelson grapher who loves shooting Bravo, the National Multiple couldn’t imagine whom he Award for Community Service in crowds, it was heaven!” he presented at Commencement and reports. “Walking among the Sclerosis Society, Planet Green was waving at. Six months later, the Rachel Carson Award, given crowds on the Mall was like and WNYC Radio; the editorial when RISD’s president asked by the ID Department. Since swimming in a sea of hope.” design of Good magazine; short Open to work on this issue, then Sami has worked with non- To see more of the “enthusiasm, films for Google and Jazz at Scott said “yes.” profits such as Design that Matters craziness and hope” Peter experi-

Lincoln Center; and signage 2009 Spring (above: samples of Open’s and GreenBlue, and is currently enced that day, check out his other work) working to start her own Design Obama Inauguration Day set at for America initiatives. www.flickr.com/photos/

petergoldberg. risd views 1 hillside overheard what’s up on campus “Each time I bring my students to the RISD Museum, one of them When Toady Met Ratty, the latest children’s book by Illustration Critic identifies a piece of Jack Prip’s as something that has resonance/ Mary Jane Begin ’85 IL, was published meaning/interest. His dramatic use of form, unusual combination Digital + Media Visiting Critic Lalya in the fall. She and Assistant Pro- Gaye spoke at the fall Mobilisable fessor of Illustration Nick Jainschigg of materials, expert craftsmanship and integrity as a designer offer conference at ENSAD in Paris. In April ’83 IL created ornaments for the 2008 she and D+M Department Head Teri White House Christmas tree. so many opportunities to learn.” Rueb also organized and spoke at the D+M symposium Embodiment & Assistant Professor of Architecture Matthew Bird ’89 ID, adjunct faculty member, two.risd.edu (4.20.09) Collection 2009, the annual runway show of the best work produced this Mobility. Hansy Better has been elected to the year by RISD Apparel Design majors, will be shown on Saturday, May 16 at board of directors of the Boston In January Professor of Foundation 7 pm at Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Providence (with a 2 pm preview noteworthy Society of Architects. Work by Studio Studies Nade Haley completed performance). Inspired by the California coastline, Peggy Sue Deaven Luz, run by her and Critic Anthony installing a series of laminated glass ’09 AP hand-dyed, painted and bleached silks and meshes to create Piermarini, was published in recent panels at the Des Moines, IA Federal a collection with the fluid motion, flowing silhouettes and ephemeral issues of Architect and Kontakt. Building (commissioned by the GSA). qualities of “Venice Beach at daybreak.” For tickets and more breuer travels to risd information, go to . FAV seniors will also Painting Critic Dike Blair has won www.risd.edu/collection The Year She Disappeared, the screen their degree project films every evening at 7 pm from May 13–16 Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture a 2009 Guggenheim fellowship. , an international latest novel by English lecturer in the RISD Auditorium. Junior films will be screened at 7 pm on May 20 He is also showing in September traveling exhibition, continues through July 19 Ann Harleman, was a runner-up in and 21, also in the Auditorium. at the Weatherspoon Museum in at The RISD Museum. It’s the first show to treat the fiction category at the 2008 New photo by Jeff Barnett-Winsby MFA ’06 PH Greensboro, NC. all facets of the Hungarian modernist designer’s England Book Festival. State House Calendar, a chapbook work with equal weight, from the highly innovative Assistant Professor of Interior Archi- in memoriam: by Associate Professor of English furniture he produced at the famed Bauhaus, to the tecture Heinrich Hermann presented Mairéad Byrne, was published in John Axel Prip, 1922–2009 a paper at the first Architecture, elegant but modestly scaled houses he created after December by watersign press/ Culture and Spirituality symposium, Calendar Girl Books. Several of her moving to the US, to the large-scale institutional Professor Emeritus Jack Prip, a metalsmithing held in March in Salem, OR. poems have appeared in recent buildings he eventually designed in major cities virtuoso and influential member of RISD’s As part of a 2008–09 residency issues of Veer and Poetry Salzburg. around the world. Developed by the Vitra Design faculty for two decades, died on April 8, 2009 at the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus Associate Professor Daniel Cavicchi Museum in Germany, the exhibition traces several in Providence, RI. in Schwandorf, Germany, Assistant curated Songs of Conscience, Sounds themes that connect the apparently diverse Professor of Foundation Studies of Freedom, a winter exhibition at Diane Hoffman ’87 IL exhibited elements of this prolific and influential 20th- A prolific and talented artist, teacher and designer the new Grammy Museum in LA. for industry, Prip established RISD’s BFA and MFA drawings there in January. Her work century designer’s portfolio. and that of Assistant Professor Leslie With support from United States programs in Jewelry + Metalsmithing in the 1960s, Hirst is also included in the most Artists, Assistant Professor of emphasizing that form and function should never recent volume of Studio Visit. Textiles Liz Collins ’91 TX/MFA ’99 will grad show promises surprises coogan to lead mcad be at odds. By the time he retired in 1981, he had spend the month of June doing a Animalia, a show of photographs by RISD’s Graduate Thesis Exhibition 2009 opens from residency in Alaska. In July Professor Jay Coogan will become the 16th honed the department into one of the best in the Professor Henry Horenstein ’71 PH/ 6-8 pm on Thursday, May 14 and continues through president of Minneapolis College of Art and Design country, inspiring and helping to launch the careers MFA ’73, was on view in the winter Readers’ Services Librarian Claudia Saturday, May 30 at the Rhode Island Convention and spring at Robert Klein Gallery Covert curated BeDazzled, a winter (MCAD) – the first RISD faculty member to earn of countless RISD artists along the way. in Boston and Afterimage Gallery exhibition of WWI-era dazzle Center in downtown Providence. More than 120 the title of college president since the late Professor Known for his technical virtuosity and Scandinavian in Dallas. camouflage plans, at the Fleet students receiving graduate degrees in 14 disciplines of Painting John Frazier ’12 PT became president Library at RISD. In addition, she Modernist designs, Prip experimented with and Last fall Ken Horii, associate will show bodies of conceptually challenging and of RISD in 1955. During his 26-year tenure at organized and presented at a expanded the scope of contemporary metalsmithing, professor of Foundation Studies, commencement 2009 technically sophisticated work. For information RISD, Coogan has consistently approached his work February symposium related to the setting high standards of excellence throughout his exhibited sculpture in a solo show exhibition, where Assistant Professor on hours, the artists and images of their work, visit with purpose and passion, whether teaching as at Providence’s Chazan Gallery. At RISD’s colorful outdoor Commencement on half-century career. His work included everything Daniel Harkett also spoke. www.risd.edu/gradshow. a professor of Sculpture or serving ably in the This spring he and Professor Gerald May 30, approximately 660 students (473 under- from sterling silver jewelry, to holloware and Immonen showed works on paper Sculpture Professor Ellen Driscoll administration as dean of Fine Arts, associate graduates and 187 grad students) are expected to flatware, to pewter, copper and stone sculpture, at Lenore Gray Gallery in Providence. has received a grant from the new sightings at museum provost and provost. “MCAD is a major contributor celebrate their hard-earned degrees. As part of the to other art forms. LEF Foundation for her project to the dynamic art and design environment in the Sculpture Critic Paul Ramirez Jonas FastForwardFossil. She also curated festivities, RISD also confers honorary Doctor Now in its 15th year, the annual Sitings competition has received support from Art Twin Cities,” he noted in the press release about his Professor Prip’s talented family is also closely tied a spring show at Gasp gallery in of Fine Arts degrees on exceptional individuals who invites students to propose site-specific installations Matters for Desahogo, an oral Boston. appointment. “I look forward to further integrating to RISD; his daughter Janet Prip ’74 SC is an history project based in several have made groundbreaking contributions to the that “celebrate the architectural idiosyncrasies” the college’s educational goals with the needs of alumna, his son Peter Prip is a faculty member in Central and South American cities. Foundation Studies Critic Yizhak world of art and design. of The RISD Museum’s interconnected, four-building Elyashiv MFA ’92 JM showed prints the region as well as developing global opportunities Industrial Design and his wife Judy Skoogfors- Work by Professor of Landscape complex. Camilo Alvarez, owner and director and drawings in a recent solo This year the following five for MCAD’s students and faculty.” Prip teaches in Apparel Design. Architecture Mikyoung Kim has of Samson Projects in Boston, served as this year’s exhibition at Rhode Island College. people will accept honorary been published in recent issues of guest juror and chose the winning entries. A memorial service will be held at 2pm on Saturday, June 6, Sculpture, Landscape Architecture Illustration Critic Jon Foster ’89 IL degrees at the ceremony: at RISD’s Woods-Gerry House. Memorial contributions may and Dwell magazines. Kim is won a Gold Medal in the Comics entrepreneur Caterina Fake, Better Reflectivity by Jill Peterson MID ’09 is currently working on commissions category of Spectrum’s Juried be made to the John Prip Endowed Scholarship Fund, RISD best known as the co-founder actually installed outside the museum – on its for the Chicago LAB school, the Competition of Contemporary Division of Institutional Engagement, Two College Street, Chicago Children’s Memorial Hospital, Fantastic Art for “Buffy the Vampire of Flickr; Apple executive cargo truck. She covered the truck in reflective vinyl Providence, RI 02903. the Dunkin’ Donuts Center in Provi- Slayer,” which will be published in Sir Ken Robinson Jonathan Ive, credited with rectangles, creating an “abstract mobile mural.” dence and Salem [MA] State College. Spectrum 16: The Best in Contempo- the design of the iconic iMac, iPod and iPhone; arts In TOGETHER together Laura Swanson MFA ’10 rary Fantastic Art. Painting Critic Julian Kreimer MFA ’03 advocate and educator Roger Mandle, president PH and Gregory Kuball respond to a question PT and Printmaking Critic Christo- As a visiting scholar at Brown’s of RISD from 1993–2008; writer and creativity expert they’re often asked: “Are you two together? As in pher Ulivo MFA ’04 PT exhibited work Pembroke Center for Learning and Sir Ken Robinson, a cultural visionary who will together together?” Their installation in the Radeke together in a spring show at Research on Women, Professor In February a dozen graduate students from several Providence’s Lenore Gray Gallery. Nancy Friese participated in the also deliver the keynote address at Commencement; Garden presents pairs of ready-made objects that departments traveled to Japan to visit Toshiba’s corporate 2008–09 Pembroke Research Seminar and accomplished artist Betty Woodman, widely are identical, except that one is approximately headquarters in Tokyo and meet with key members of its Textiles Critic Chunghie Lee has “Nature’s Vision: Constructing the leadership team. The students are exploring the intersection curated two exhibitions of pojagi

Spring 2009 Spring considered one of the most important ceramic one-third smaller than the other. Ultimately, they 2009 Spring Cultural Other.” Her paintings were of design, technology and commerce in a studio taught by (a type of Korean textile) – one artists working today. For more on the celebration hope viewers will question whether paired objects featured in a winter exhibition at Associate Professor of Furniture Design Peter Walker and are shown in April in Paducah, KY and Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery in and background on the honorary degree recipients, lose “their original purpose” and only have meaning working with Toshiba, an international leader in advanced another that opens in September in

risd views Claremont, CA. go to www.risd.edu/commencement. “when they stand next to each other.” electronics, to reconsider its brand and business model. St. Marie-aux-Mine, France. risd views 2 3 As the first scholar-in-residence at VSA Arts, English Lecturer Gloria-Jean Masciarotte is conducting research on Lucy Truman Aldrich, a deaf art collector and donor.

Work by Assistant Professor of Painting Carrie Moyer was exhibited making recently at Momenta Art in Brooklyn and American University in Washington, DC.

Christiane Paul, a critic in Digital + Media, co-curated the April SOS 4.8 Festival in Murcia, Spain, and students show @ icff in may contributed an essay titled “Sustainable Art Practices” to the Furniture Design students will show the outcomes accompanying catalogue. of recent materials research in Immaterialize, RISD’s exhibition at the 2009 International Contemporary Painting Critic Sara Greenberger progress Rafferty ’00 PH recently exhibited Furniture Fair in New York City (May 16–19). In work in shows at The Kitchen in NYC representing RISD at the ICFF – both through their and at Amherst [MA] College. work and by manning the booth during the event Micaelan Davis MFA ’09 FD transformed the rawhide most typically used for dog chews into a naturally A 25-year retrospective of work itself – students gain unparalleled professional undulating table buffed to an amber glow. by Printmaking Professor Andrew experience at one of the industry’s leading Raftery was held earlier this year at showcases for new design. Boston University’s Sherman Gallery.

Teri Rueb, associate professor and The idea was to create “prototypes of thought,” says head of Digital + Media, received a Assistant Professor Lothar Windels BID ’96, who 2008 Prix Ars Electronica Award of taught the studio in which students created tangible Distinction in the Digital Music Category for her piece Core Sample. objects that challenge preconceived notions about products and materials. For instance, three students An article by Philosophy Professor transformed household materials such as bubble Yuriko Saito was published in the anthology Humans in the Land: The wrap, loofahs and dog chews into intriguing Ethics and Aesthetics of the Cultural products. Others experimented with pouring and gap welcomes students’ ideas Landscape (2008, Oslo Academic Press). molding liquid forms of plastic, resin and wax. Wendy Seller ’75 AE, assistant In February RISD students from half a dozen majors “Each of our students reinterpreted their chosen professor of Foundation Studies, sliced, diced, embellished and reconstructed Gap’s exhibited paintings recently in shows material to make a meaningful object,” Windels new line of spring cardigans, responding to an at Diamond-Newman Fine Arts observes. “Through their inspiring work, they were in Boston and Judy A. Saslow Gallery able to totally transcend its materiality without invitation to totally reimagine its classic sweaters. in Chicago. fundamentally denying it.” For more on the student In doing so they added the “freshness, ingenuity add the mind-boggling Having contributed their and subtle surprises” characteristic of RISD students, In January paintings by Professor work shown at this year’s ICFF, go to www.risd. Duane Slick were featured in a solo notes Apparel Design Department Head Donna global economic meltdown creative talents to bring edu/icff. show at Rhode Island College. Gustavsen, who helped coordinate the effort. to the huge political shift about a sea-change in the After leading an international com- following the silk road The project – the first Gap has undertaken with mittee to assess design education we’ve had in Washington, DC national agenda, many mem- in Israel, Professor and Head of a college – attracted media attention in Women’s During their 2009 winter residency at RISD, cellist Furniture Design Rosanne Somerson Wear Daily, a local TV station and on quite a few Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble conducted and you’ve got an ideal envi- bers of the risD community ’76 ID recently presented final fashion blogs. Those involved in the project were recommendations to the country’s a workshop on campus for area high school students excited that all of the students’ one-of-a-kind ronment for a fresh approach now share in a renewed Council of Higher Education. and presented the US premiere of Layla and Majnun, cardigans sold out the very first day they were Assistant Professor of Sculpture a new chamber arrangement of a 1908 Azerbaijani to solving our most pressing sense of possibility for creat- displayed at Gap’s White Space venue (next to its Stephanie Snider ’92 SC has won opera, at the Providence Performing Arts Center. a Guggenheim fellowship for 2009-10. flagship store in Manhattan). As Gap’s creative societal concerns. This new, ing a better, more peaceful The residency also included a presentation by director Patrick Robinson told WWD, in today’s Tracy Steepy, assistant professor somewhat paradoxical mix and sustainable world, of Jewelry + Metalsmithing, curated Henrik Søderstrøm ’08 FD, who had partici- troubled economy “this is what we should all The Silence is So Loud: Five Views pated in last year’s residency and was selected from be doing – promoting out-of-the-box thinking of optimism tempered by despite the many challenges of Contemporary Swedish Jewelry, a national pool of candidates to design the set and talking about emerging designers.” For more exhibited in February at Gallery for Layla and Majnun. In March he spoke about the on the project, go to www.risd.edu/gap. Loupe in Montclair, NJ. stark economic realities also and uncertainties that lie experience as Ensemble musicians performed Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal, the excerpts from the opera to give students and others presents a perfect opportu- ahead. The following three first book by Assistant Professor in the audience a feel for the new production. of Sociology Damian White, was pub- nity for artists and designers articles explore some of the lished in November; his second book “This winter we continued an ongoing investigation (with Chris Wilbert), Technonatures: – who thrive on experimen- ways they’re seizing the Environments, Technologies, Spaces of two types of expressive media – music and and Places in the Twenty-First the visual arts,” Ma says. “That each residency tation – to help shape the Us moment, ready to focus their Century, is due out this year. brings new opportunities for exploring responsive Sculpture Critic Joy Wulke has collaborations across art forms speaks to the of the 21st century. creative energies on ima- recently installed glass, steel and

Spring 2009 Spring innovative, creative relationship we have developed mixed-media works at Needham [MA] with the RISD community.” For more information gining a better future – and High School, Hartford–Brainard [CT] Airport and NC State University’s D.H. and images of the residency, go to www.risd.edu/ making it a reality.

risd views risd views Hill Library. silkroad. 4 ever) and be part of a states. once he took refreshing surge of new office and began 2008 Us presidential Hope and opTimism. tackling the multiple campaign, much of the For many that meant crises at hand, it meant risD community doing what came most a renewed commitment joyfully jumped on the naturally: contributing to contributing their obama bandwagon, their arT and Design CreaTive energies to inspired to actively talents to help elect help america shape Spring 2009 Spring support a candidate Barack obama the 44th a new, more egalitarian 2009 Spring

risd views risd views (many for the first time president of the United and sustainable future. risd views 6 7 No single RISD grad made a bigger impact on the “For onCe i Goldenberg says, and is “the kind of work I was looking Obama, Perry-Zucker says it was simply an opportunity campaign and in the media than Shepard Fairey ’92 IL, for and this country needs—now more than ever.” too good to pass up. “You had an incredibly inspiring the LA–based street artist/commercial designer whose Was inspireD candidate running the most grassroots campaign in work is now featured in Shepard Fairey: Supply & Demand, students build on momentum history—one that truly embraced both technology and a 20–year retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary To make RISD students Aaron Perry-Zucker ’09 GD and Adam design. When you put an opportunity like this in front Art in Boston (continuing through August 16, 2009). Meyer ’09 ID have also learned and benefitted more from of creative people, the results look like what we saw— His instantly popular red, white and blue graphic image a posiTive their efforts on behalf of Obama than they could ever have an outpouring of energy and work the likes of which have of Barack Obama—seen on posters, t–shirts, buttons, imagined. Last summer the two seniors built a website in never been produced by so large a community.” stickers and now in commercial knock-offs for everything poliTiCal response to a Design Observer challenge asking what from cable shows to vodka—became the unofficial icon artists and designers could do to support the Democratic of the campaign. In January of this year the Smithsonian’s grapHiC…” nominee’s candidacy. Called Design for Obama, it National Portrait Gallery added his original five–foot–tall, encouraged people to post their own political poster “YoU HaD an inCreDiBlY mixed media stenciled collage of Obama to its permanent —shepard Fairey ’92 il designs and vote on the success of others on the site. collection, noting that it “is an emblem of a significant Viewers could also download and print their favorite inspiring CanDiDaTe previous spread: election, as well as a new presidency,” according to posters for free. Excitement and hope Gallery Director Martin E. Sullivan. “What I think is so fasci- Psyched as they were about their idea, they rUnning THe mosT radiated from the crowd nating [about it] is its ubiquitous nature,” added Deputy he now considers his Obama portrait to be the “defining had no clue how quickly the site would catch on or how at Obama’s Inauguration. Director Carolyn Carr. “When people think of a portrait image” of his career. “I had been making political graphics the power of grassroots design would open their eyes, grassrooTs Campaign below: At the 2008 of Obama, they think of this image.” for a while but most of them had been negative— along with new opportunities (see web references below). Democratic National Based on how quickly Fairey’s first HOPE poster went criticizing the policies of the Bush Administration,” he More than 400 submissions flooded in during the fall, in HisTorY. everYone Convention in Denver, viral and created a phenomenological stir even more explained in an interview that aired on NPR, one of along with plenty of positive publicity and invitations RISD students provide far-reaching than his Obey Giant street art campaign, hundreds he had with national media outlets during and to subsequent exhibitions in NYC and DC marking the WanTeD To ConTriBUTe information on efforts to after the campaign. “For once I was inspired to make a January Inauguration. Now, Taschen Books is publishing thwart global warming. positive political graphic because I felt that Barack Obama a book of selected posters from the site, with essays in some WaY.” was an unusual candidate, and that it was worth putting by Steven Heller, Spike Lee and Perry-Zucker, which is my efforts into making… something that portrays him scheduled for release this fall. —aaron perry-Zucker ’09 gd as having vision and the ability to lead.” Perry-Zucker was also inspired to build on the momentum of the election season to spearhead initiatives promoting dialogue in denver with a similar spirit at RISD. This spring, for instance, Around the time that Fairey’s poster was making a global he and fellow activist Justin Rosengarten ’10 FAV splash, Seth Goldenberg ’03 PT was working behind motivated students, faculty and alumni to organize

the scenes to plan a huge public art event to coincide with their own grassroots community initiative. Called simply DAVIDo’ConnoR the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Denver. What We Do, the student-run event in April enabled As curator, director and prime visionary behind 100 members of the RISD community to present Dialog:City, he worked closely with Denver’s mayor and its and record their work and ideas during a full-day mind- Cultural Affairs Office, commissioned work from a variety stimulation marathon. of internationally renowned artists and designers, and As for why he and so many others in the creative coordinated their efforts with those of local students, arts community chose to throw their design talents behind organizations and public agencies. The ambitious undertaking was a natural offshoot of his public engage- ment efforts while he was still a student at RISD— founding Catalyst Arts in Pawtucket, RI and pushing for a new Office of Public Engagement at RISD, among others—and resulted in a series of 10 thought-provoking “iT Was a UniqUe momenT art initiatives, a couple of which involved RISD students and faculty (see web references on page 9).

in Time To galvanize “It was a unique moment in time to galvanize PeTeRGoLDbeRG ’88 PH the arts community to help open the window of hope that THe arTs CommUniTY To was and is the Obama future,” Goldenberg says. left: By the time Inaugura- above: Seth Goldenberg In addition to generating winning enthusiasm for the tion Day arrived, Shepard ’03 PT visited RISD several Help open THe WinDoW Democratic nominee, one of the many positive outcomes Fairey’s Obama poster had times last spring to get of his immersion in the DNC was meeting Canadian design become the most widely students involved in the oF Hope THaT Was anD is visionary Bruce Mau, perhaps best known for his recent recognized icon of the Dialog:City arts program Massive Change exhibition on the future of design campaign. he curated in conjunction THe oBama FUTUre.” and sustainability. As the two like–minded activists with the DNC in Denver. “built an enriching collaboration together” last fall, they —seth goldenberg ’03 pt decided to make their working relationship more official. This year Goldenberg joined Bruce Mau Design as a vice For more on the people and initiatives president, where he’s now helping to organize and mentioned in this article, go to: promote the Denver Biennial of the Americas planned www.risd.edu/fairey for summer 2010. He and Mau share a vision for the www.ingoodwetrust2010.com biennial they’re calling In Good We Trust, which builds www.risd.edu/dnc

Spring 2009 Spring on the spirit of the 2008 DNC by envisioning “a new kind www.risd.edu/political_posters 2009 Spring of cultural and civic engagement based on the most designforobama.org fundamental creative acts.” It involves “massive experi- whatwedo.risd.edu

risd views risd views mentation with innovative thinking and practice,” risd views 8 9 CHanging

by sami nerenberg There are many good ’07 iD definitions of “design,” aDjUnCT FaCUlTY memBer which have been Design / expanDing, sHiFTing, siFTing and most of all CHanging rapidly, along with the rest of the world. But how is industrial Designing Design, in particular, changing, and what is happening both at risD and within the design 2009 Spring

profession itself? risd views CHange 11 As most RISD people know, ID is not the design of new “borrowing” natural resources beyond our ability to previous spread: Students “glocal” connections “RUNNING ALL OVER factories or industrial machinery, contrary to what the replace them and beyond our needs. discuss strategic design For the first half of the semester we investigated the words literally suggest. Traditionally, the field has to do If you look at the progression of work produced in options in a new studio UN Millennium Development Goals as a framework for THE PLACE, TALKING with everything you touch—every blender, every watch, RISD’s ID Department over the last five to 10 years, you focused on environmental, understanding large-scale social concerns and other every shoe, every stick of deodorant, every razor has been see a slow but steady progression from an emphasis social and economic pressing global issues. These goals include: end world TO PEOPLE AND MAKING designed by an ID professional. Industrial designers deal on traditional product design to growing interest in sustainability. hunger and poverty, provide universal education, with the interactions of objects in our everyday lives, problem-solving at the macro level—through service and below: As part of the guarantee gender equality, support environmental CONNECTIONS IS study users and their needs, and develop products to fit strategy design. Simultaneously, there has been a studio, RISD students sustainability and tackle several other humanitarian our lifestyles. However, these human-centered design consistent effort to reemphasize classes on sustainability partnered with local priorities. We then translated these global challenges to MORE WHAT DESIGN skills allow for a much broader spectrum of thinking about in the last decade, a trend that had waned in the 1980s nonprofits such as our own community—to think “glocally,” as RISD President things beyond products. Earlier this year when I surveyed and ’90s, but began reemerging with Charlie Cannon’s CityArts, where kids can John Maeda puts it. Each student chose a local nonprofit SHOULD BE.” RISD design students and alumni about their definitions Innovation Studio, a true favorite of mine that recently explore creative interests partner and then explored how a product, service, system, of design, they agreed that it’s generally about using marked its 10th year (see next article). after school, and the space or strategy could improve what the organization —LIAM VAN VLEET ’10 ID visual and creative tools to problem-solve. And Molly At RISD there is a groundswell of designers and Rhode Island Coalition does and/or better help its clients or beneficiaries directly. Rosenberg ’09 ID pointed out that Richard Farson, students who know that sustainability is not just about for the Homeless. From bike-sharing programs and volunteer orienta- author of The Power of Design, extends the meaning using recycled materials, it is about questioning the very tion booklets to art and nature studios and business to refer to “any planned change.” existence and relevance of our designs and about strategies for homeless entrepreneurs, we found a wide With the economy in a tailspin, natural resources addressing needs as opposed to creating wants. range of solutions that tap into the power of design to being depleted and massive amounts of pollutants As part of this, I developed and taught an advanced ID make a positive impact on our communities. At our final released, we all know that we can no longer produce studio last fall called Design for Social Entrepreneurship crit, students shared their new insights into design and Or as the design firm IDEO sums up, designers “Hear, and consume products the way we have for the last 100 to investigate the power of products, systems and community partnerships. Hayden Reilly ’10 ID realized Create, Deliver.” years. Just as Wall Street is suffering the consequences services to create positive social and environmental “just how easy it is to get involved” and “the power that we Countless new initiatives have sprung up within of subprime lending—when banks and mortgage change. The goal is to use design thinking to achieve triple have as students with new ideas.” She added that she’s the last few years to explore the challenges of design for companies made loans well beyond borrowers’ ability bottom-line sustainability—environmental, social now committed to continuing to work with local nonprof- optimal social impact. These range from organizations to pay—as designers we, too, are becoming mindful of and economic. its. Liam van Vleet ’10 ID felt that “running all over the such as Design that Matters, IDE, Design in Kind, Project H place, talking to people and making connections is more and Designism, to large consultancies such as IDEO and what design should be,” and nate bastien ’09 ID said that Design Continuum, to start-ups such as Catapult Design, this was the first time he really felt encouraged to go out Design Ignites Change… and the list goes on. Just take a into the “real” world and work on something he sees as look at www.ideablob.com to see a whole host of new “THIS IS THE MISSING LINK deeply meaningful. Nate worked with the Rhode Island seedlings waiting to blossom. Coalition for the Homeless, where he saw an opportunity In fact, with the design industry galvanizing its I HAVE BEEN WAITING for job creation by harnessing the labor and creativity of resources and getting organized, we are definitely on the homeless themselves. the crest of change and ready to ride the wave. FOR — A WAY TO COMBINE In the same studio, nate Phipps ’10 ID worked with The Winterhouse Institute was recently awarded a the RISD community to develop Pink Rides, a new bike $1.5-million grant from The Rockefeller Foundation to THE PRIVATE ANd PuBLIC sharing program for students who don’t own bikes but assess the current state of this design movement via want to use them for local transportation. After choosing several channels: identifying new opportunities for critical SECTORS SO THAT PEOPLE Project Open Door (POD) as her nonprofit partner, engagement from various stakeholders; holding a design Krisa Ryan ’10 ID developed a three-part volunteer summit this November in Aspen, CO; developing case CAN PuRSuE CAREERS engagement strategy to introduce, acclimate and reach studies to highlight existing precedents; and providing top: Liam van Vleet ’10 ID out to newcomers interested in working with teens in an online platform to share best practices. In addition, designed a new curriculum dOING THE RIGHT THING.” this after-school support program. my good friend Manuel Toscano, a principal at Zago, for CityArts that encour- In each of the six projects undertaken last fall, was awarded a Rockefeller grant to investigate business ages inner-city youth to —SAMI NERENBERG ’07 ID students learned that more than just a product is needed models to financially sustain these new design initiatives learn from nature and to address a complex problem and that it’s important to and invited me to a workshop in March to discuss this. become lifelong environ- work with the community concerned to develop appropri- For me, this is the missing link I have been waiting for— mental advocates. ate solutions. And if a new product is part of the solution a way to combine the private and public sectors so that above: nate bastien ’09 ID at all, its design and development require systemic people can pursue careers doing the right thing. designed a 75-cent thinking to fully understand the context in which it will be As Timothy Prestero, my former boss at Design that backpack as a pilot project made, used and delivered. Matters, says, “Doing good is no reason to run a bad for a proposed company business.” I have a hunch that with all the new energy that would hire homeless welcoming change and optimism in America—not to mention sobering new people to produce For generations we have been reliant on the same old economic realities—we just might be at the tipping products they need. political, economic and business powers-that-be to point in shifting design away from a preoccupation develop social services and public policies. It’s now time with products and towards planned change. to change—to use design and designers to help solve glocal challenges from a strategic standpoint. What makes designers so well suited for designing change? For more inFormation on the issues raised in At last winter’s World Economic Forum in Davos, this article, see: President Maeda participated on a council that proposed www.de-se.com tapping into designers’ unique talents to tackle the www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ issues of the day because they can provide insight www.Weforum.org

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risd views risd views innovations to suit diverse cultures and scales. www.graindesign.com risd views 12 13 With grazing cattle and groves of mango, banana and citrus trees, the site of a new satellite campus for Costa rica’s earth University is a perfect testing ground for sUsTainaBle design. as it turns out, it’s also the ideal spot for risD students to THink going green in THe TropiCs about eco-progressive solUTions in a new cultural context. Spring 2009 Spring risd views risd views 14 “Our proposals should be on a scale I never imagined,” noted Nate French MLA ’09. detailed proposals to make the satellite campus a hub for “The challenge of regenerating the site, creating a viable entrepreneurial activities. The visit to Costa Rica con- simple, work sufficiently, income source and maintaining the holistic balance vinced Landscape Architecture graduate student Jessica between Earth’s mission and operations becomes Roundy MLA ’09 that “our proposals should be simple, use appropriate technology apparent as soon as the biogas is ignited and the work sufficiently, use appropriate technology and so-called ‘odorless’ byproduct of concentrated sheep and ultimately have the ability to be replicated by the local and ultimately have the pig waste penetrates the depths of your nostrils.” Still, community”—something she intuitively understood when students were excited about the opportunity to propose working in Providence, but didn’t fully grasp until she was ability to be replicated by ideas and solutions with real, long-lasting ramifications. immersed in the local culture and conditions. “After visiting Earth U, I realized how the campus is at With that in mind, George Harvey MLA ’09 looked the local community.” the point where it could go in many different directions,” at short- and long-term revenue-generating opportuni- Cody Casale ’09 ID wrote. “This means that what we ties, recommending the development of infrastructure — Jessica Roundy MLA ’09 produce as RISD students could actually give important to support eco-tourism and educational exchange. insight into how they go about planning their future.” Stephanie Castilla ’09 ID and Carolyn Spinney ’09 ID proposed merging existing technologies—GPS, topo- designed to sit lightly graphic mapping, Google applications and handheld As students in the Architecture studio learned, designing phone/data units—to create an open-source research, facilities for a green campus meant addressing a range of data collection and tourism tool to provide immediate, constraints imposed by the climate, the terrain and the on-site information about the land, climate, species, “humanitarian and social challenges associated with rural, growing conditions and so forth. community-based economies in Central America,” Once the studios wrapped up last fall, Cannon began Martinez says. For instance, given the many subsistence working with several students to produce a book that farmers in the region and the huge gap between rich and documents the group’s investigations and serves as a poor, students worked to find solutions that balance the reference for future research partnerships. Searle is need to stimulate the local economy and generate good planning a return trip to Costa Rica to present the RISD jobs with preserving the delicate eco-systems on which work to Earth U’s Board of Trustees and to discuss the increased tourism and strategic development depend. potential for continued collaboration. One intriguing Architecture majors considered a comprehensive site possibility involves expanding Castilla’s and Spinney’s plan that includes a green convention center, a small hotel, mobile-device concept through field testing and and a number of leisure and educational facilities to be multi-phase development. The venture could serve as a shared by visitors and the local community. Several valuable model for how partnered research that takes students proposed using locally sourced construction place anywhere on Earth can lead to systems and Since 1986 college students from around the world have materials and techniques such as rammed-earth walls, solutions of global relevance—developed right here in been drawn to the tropical university in Guácimo to study fast-growing bamboo and concrete made from volcanic RISD’s studios. agricultural sciences and natural resource management. ash. Walter Zesk MArch ’09 envisioned gathering spaces As the birthplace of eco-tourism, Costa Rica reserves 25% that minimize the distinction between indoors and of its land for wildlife refuges and other protected parks outdoors, with open-framed buildings that support fabric and in 2007 announced its intention to become the canopies and are complemented by a hotel constructed of world’s first carbon-neutral nation by 2021. So when Earth rammed earth. Daisuke Suzuki MArch ’09 focused on U recently received a gift of 3,700 acres on the country’s “minimizing the impact of buildings on the land” by west coast, it turned to RISD for help in planning a sister designing the hotel as separate units joined by natural campus that would support Costa Rica’s progressive challenges—dealt with Earth U, opening the door to previous spread: Students vine canopies. Guest critics for both projects applauded ecological agenda. developing a “new paradigm for sustainable education.” meeting with the director their designs for “sitting lightly on the earth”—an Having collaborated on projects in Europe, Asia, In addition to the Innovation Studio, which focused of Earth University’s approach that reinforces both Earth University’s mission Africa and the Americas, RISD students and faculty have a on potential systems, programs and products for the satellite campus in Costa and Costa Rica’s carbon-neutral goal. long tradition of engagement in global issues, notes satellite campus, Assistant Professor of Architecture Rica. above: Site studies Professor Colgate Searle BLA ’71, head of the Landscape Enrique Martinez MID ’98 taught an Architecture studio and proposed plans by supporting rural economies Architecture Department and team leader for this project. focused on the design of a university conference center Katy Foley MLA ’09 and Students in the interdisciplinary Innovation Studio “We want our students to understand diverse cultural that would set new standards for green architecture. After Teresa Wan BArch ’09. conducted extensive research on the social and economic contexts and be alert to, and deeply critical of, the world the Earth U planning team visited RISD to brief students in context of the region before generating around them,” he says. “To help them get the experience both studios, they, in turn, traveled to Costa Rica to get a and exposure needed to make sound critical judgments, true feel for the local environment, community and we search out projects that bring together designers, culture. “The enormity of the site scientists and planners to create models for environmen- Posting to the studio’s blog from Central America, tally sensible development.” Katy Foley MLA ’09 noted that she envisions the new and the lack of an When a small group of RISD faculty met with Carlos campus as “a place where you can live and learn in Murillo, director of Earth U’s offshoot, they recognized connection with the land, waking up with the monkeys at overall understanding that his vision for a model green campus fit well with their 5:30 in the morning, drinking juice from the fruit you work pedagogical goals. Participating in the holistic planning to harvest and gathering as a community…to embark on a are both disheartening process from the ground up provided RISD students with process of lifelong learning.” But the students also “an incredible opportunity to think about how the land, recognized a clear disconnect between their vision of and inspirational on buildings, programs and products should be designed,” what the campus could become and stark realities on the

Spring 2009 Spring says Charlie Cannon, an adjunct faculty member in ground, where the vast acreage has been ravaged by a scale I never imagined.” 2009 Spring Landscape Architecture and Industrial Design. His fall ’08 climatic extremes and too little land management. Find more on the RISD/Earth U Innovation Studio—the 10th annual studio in an ongoing “The enormity of the site and the lack of an overall —Nate French MLA ‘09 collaboration at:

risd views series that grapples with large infrastructure understanding are both disheartening and inspirational www.risd.edu/earth risd views 16 17 engagement @ risd overheard news from alumni relations “The films I have made are about newly created families. [In Milk] that’s what the Castro [neighborhood] was – groups of people creating their own families. I guess it’s just a preoccupation of mine.”

director Gus Van Sant ’75 FAV talking about his latest film

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To keep up with general news and informa- tion about RISD and its community, we encourage you to bookmark the our.risd.edu Juliana Paciulli Juliana Paciulli Jeannie Choe Jeannie Choe blog, read our mid-month newsletter e-views (www.risd.edu/eviews) when President Maeda has been traveling the it arrives in your inbox and join the RISD country this spring to meet with alumni and other members of the RISD community. association applauds Alumni Association group on Facebook. (from l–r) A few of the 80-plus alumni who excellence in teaching Jeff Barnett-Winsby MFA ’06 PH You might also want to check out our online got together with him on March 30 chat listing of current alumni exhibitions listed outside Heath Ceramics in Los Angeles, At this year’s Commencement by city/region of the country/world (www.risd. where Adam Silverman BArch ’88 runs the start here everywhere Legendary Pictures, where he has served as exe- celebration on May 30, edu/exhibitions_offcampus). And please studio and gallery. Inside, the president is cutive producer of such recent films as Where the Hundreds of alumni, parents, newly accepted the Alumni Association will shown in conversation with Scott Mednick Wild Things Are, 10,000 BC and 300. When President remember to keep your contact information ’78 GD (see next page). Alumni, parents and students and other friends of the RISD universe present its Art & Education Maeda visited Mednick in LA earlier this year, up-to-date on the online alumni directory friends gathered at 111 Minna Gallery in film industry alums share have gathered in various parts of the country this Award to Liz Collins ’91 TX/ (www.risd.edu/alumni_directory), where you San Francisco – where John is shown posing he was struck by the executive producer’s advice: spring to welcome John Maeda as he completes MFA ’99, an assistant professor of Textiles at their stories can also search for fellow alumni and with Anne Feste ’80 AP – and at the Knoll “Don’t look for someone else’s ending in life.” his first year as RISD’s 16th president. At these RISD. An internationally recognized artist and establish a RISD-specific e-mail account, Showroom in Boston, where two alumni In April two luminaries in the film/entertainment It seems to be a maxim they both intend to live by. gamely pose for the photographer. On informal gatherings, he has been talking about his designer, she is known for her groundbreaking if you’d like. industry visited RISD as part of the spring Alumni May 14 the president will meet with New personal path to RISD, his thoughts on leadership, apparel designs, textiles and installations. A week after Mednick’s visit, accomplished film York-area alumni at Martha Stewart Living Lecture Series sponsored by Alumni Relations. To share news of interest to the RISD and how and why RISD will be a key player in director Gus Van Sant ’75 FAV also spoke at in Manhattan. And stay tuned for more Collins launched several critically acclaimed Scott Mednick ’78 GD, now chairman of community, please e-mail: [email protected] the burgeoning creative economy. RISD. Flush from his success with Milk, the information about an upcoming alumni clothing collections in the early 2000s, before MysticVision Entertainment and a well-respected gathering in Providence this spring. well-received biopic about San Francisco’s first Feel free to attach image submissions (in tif At each of these events, there has been “a palpable returning to RISD to teach. Her enthusiasm for marketing, media and entertainment executive, openly gay politician Harvey Milk, he spoke about or jpg format), unless they’re larger than sense of energy and excitement about RISD” experimental knitting and construction techniques spoke about his incredibly exhilarating trajectory the challenges and rewards of making the movie 6MG, in which case you can let us know that and great enthusiasm for Maeda’s message, notes and her unique perspective on the interplay since graduating from RISD. In addition to earning that won Sean Penn the 2009 Oscar for Best Actor. hi-res images are available and we’ll contact Beth Garvin, vice president for Institutional between fabric construction and apparel design an MA in Applied Psychology and creating the you to make alternate arrangements. Engagement. A broad span of alumni – from those have proven to be inspirational to students in both popular board game Twenty Questions, he went Van Sant also talked to students about how he who graduated in the 1940s to newbies fresh Textiles and Apparel Design. Constantly on the on to found and lead the largest independent made his way in the industry through such early To submit via post, please mail: risd views out of RISD – have come together to meet and lookout for new knitting applications and sources marketing and design firm on the West Coast independent standouts as Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Two College Street reconnect with one another. And at each one, of inspiration, she juggles teaching with research, (promoting TV programs from Lonesome Dove to My Own Private Idaho (1991) and To Die For (1995). With Providence, RI 02903 USA the president has also answered a broad array of practice, exhibitions, residencies and travel. Survivor and movies such as Groundhog Day, X-men Good Will Hunting (1997), Finding Forrester (2000) and questions, engaging the crowd in discussions about This spirit of inquiry energizes her approach to and The Matrix); found THINK New Ideas, one Milk (2008) his biggest commercial successes to For questions about submitting information for RISD’s commitment to diversity, the escalating teaching and enables her to be especially effective of the first and most successful interactive date, he says he’s lucky to be able to continue to publication, e-mail [email protected] or call 401 454-6349. For questions about alumni activities need for more scholarship aid and why a RISD as she works closely with undergraduate and marketing companies; serve as president and CEO make the kind of movies that interest him most and programming, contact Christina Hartley ’74 IL education is more relevant today than ever before. graduate students throughout their years at RISD. of Mandalay Branded Entertainment; and found – more or less on his own terms. at [email protected] or 401 454-6794.

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risd views MichaelMartella@alum. risd views 18 risd.edu 19 por notes Robert Cipriani ’60 GD (www. robertcipriani.com; Duxbury, MA) ’43 is showing new multimedia paintings in I Still Haven’t Found Work by Kay Whitcomb JM What I’m Looking For, a solo (Rockport, MA) was included exhibition on view through in the 42nd International Exhibition ’61 June 7 at the Cape Cod Museum of the Japan Enamelling Artist of Art in Dennis, MA. Lullaby Sas Colby PT (Berkeley, CA) Association, on view earlier this of Broadway (30 x 30") is among exhibited work last winter in year at the Tokyo Metropolitan his pieces incorporating collage, a solo show at Gallery Art Museum. ’64 acrylics and modeling mediums. Della-Piana in Wenham, MA, ’49 and in Considering the Book As Eric Engstrom IL (Fairfax, CA) A Work of Art, at the University has exhibited mixed-media work Mary Allen Bramhall GD of California, Berkeley. at several venues in and around t (Concord, MA) showed San Francisco in the past year, Watercolors: A Retrospective last Linda DeHart AP (dehartart. including the Janus et Cie fall at Loring Coleman Gallery in com; Cambridge, MA) has Showroom, Two Transamerica Concord, MA. created Colors in Motion, a series folio Center, ArtBrokers, Inc. Gallery of audiovisual compositions and 333 Bush Street Lobby. ’53 for therapeutic use in healthcare. The DVDs combine watercolors Earlier this spring recent Ben Weiss AE/MA ’67 AE with music to help patients cope drawings and paintings by David (Providence) exhibited work last with stress and pain. Estey PT (www.davidestey.com; summer at CreativeChica gallery Belfast, ME) were featured in Pawtucket, RI. ’62 in Driven to Abstraction, an ’58 Michael Manoogian GD (North exhibition at the University Hollywood, CA) recently of Maine at Presque Isle’s Reed Work by Merle Adler Temkin launched a website showcasing Fine Art Gallery. TX (NYC) is included in Cutters, his 40-plus years (and counting) a group exhibition on view Work by Elizabeth Ginsberg On a corner in Tokyo (2008, 12 x 9"), an etching A daughter, Paloma Shields as a logo designer: michaelma- through June 7 at Hunterdon Art TX (elizabethginsberg.com; with aquatint by Blair Batman Boudreau ’64 PT DiGeronimo, to Alison Shields noogian.com. Museum in Clinton, NJ. NYC) is on view through August (Framingham, MA), was selected for the Boston ’97 PH and Luciano DiGeronimo 30 at the Castello di Roncade Printmakers 2009 North American Print Biennial, ’63 unions on February 9, 2008. Fair Lawn, NJ. ’59 in Roncade, Italy. which was on view earlier this spring at Boston’s Diane Podrat Byer AE Jane Fordyce ’72 TX and 808 Gallery. A daughter, Perihan Elizabeth Bea (Turek) Robinson IL Susan Kendrot PT/MAT ’65 (Milford, CT) exhibited Louis Lieberman ’69 PT on Oguz, to Evian Zukas-Oguz ’98 (Rehoboth, MA) and Alice (King) (Windsor, NY) has exhibited Jennifer Davies ’68 IL watercolors in a winter show at February 20, 2007. New York, NY. TX and Ersin Oguz on July 29, (Branford, CT) is exhibiting undergraduate Miles SC (Providence) are in multiple shows in the past 2008. Her brother Ian is 7. the Gilded Lily Gallery in Dancing With the Stars and Adrienne O’Donnell BGD ’93 exhibiting together in Encore, year, including group shows Milford, CT. other pieces through January Providence, RI. a show at the Providence Art at Cooperative Gallery in and Jeffrey S. Gibson on April 19, ’65 2010 in Paper Runway, a Club. Alice’s oil, watercolor and Helen Webber AE (Exton, PA) Binghamton, NY and 516 Art in 2008. Seattle, WA. A daughter, Addison Jane Schink, A daughter, Ellen Miamar Matos show of paper-fiber garments monoprint landscapes and Bea’s was one of 50 Philadelphia-area Albuquerque, NM, and a solo Eileen Bloustein PT (Cincin- to Roger and Dorene Schink Powers, to Lindsay Powers ’99 on view at the Hartsfield- Carrie Gustafson ’94 PR and pencil and scratchboard nature fiber artists to exhibit in On the show titled Comment – Ink nati) exhibited paintings and BArch ’91 on March 17, 2008. SC and Heuris Matos Medina on Jackson Atlanta Airport (and Joseph Santiago on December 9, Lauren DeCesaris ’04 AP and Fringe of Fiber Drawings Her sister Elizabeth is 5. March 9, 2008. Philadelphia, PA. drawings are on view from , a spring show at Orazio Salati Studio sculpture in last fall’s Pyramid organized by the Robert C. 2007. Arlington, MA. Jason Sugarman on October 10, Middleton, WI. May 10-29. at Philadelphia City Hall. and Gallery in Binghamton. Hill Art Fair in Hamilton, OH. Williams Paper Museum in 2008. Portsmouth, RI. Atlanta). This life-size piece, Irene Woodbury ’97 IL and Barbara Shafer SC is a lecturer Currently self-employed after A son, Christopher Dennis Taylor, deaths which she co-created with Francesco Andrea Berti on Katherine Roy ’04 IL and Tim in the Department of Art and working for an architectural firm to Sean and Lisa (Mockler) Nancy Eisenfeld, is construct- September 20, 2008. Padua, Italy. Stout on August 23, 2008. White Joseph C. Cicchelli ’51 AR of Design at the University of for many years, Lloyd Dyson Taylor BArch ’91 on March 19, ed of kozo fiber adhered River Junction, VT. Narragansett, RI on October 29, Wisconsin Eau Claire. She has BArch (Amesbury, MA) has been Ryan Scott Bardsley ’98 ID 2008. His sister Samantha Marie to deer netting, over a core 2008. of bubble wrap. Stefanie Levine ’05 FD had solo exhibitions recently consulting for a major hospital news of bachelors’ program alumni program of bachelors’ news and Lindsey Shaw on June 28, and is 5. Westport, CT. at The Phipps Center for the Arts on adding a large inpatient 2008. Boston, MA. Richard Haining, Jr. ’05 FD on Nancy (Anderson) Etani ’55 IL A son, Guy Jeffrey Nelson, Jr., to October 11, 2008. Brooklyn, NY. of Westerly, RI on November 21, in Hudson, WI and the Heyde building to its campus. Logan (Daizy) LaVail BArch Guy Jeffrey “GJ” Nelson ’92 Arts Center in Chippewa Falls, WI. 2008. Richard Kendrot BArch ’99 and Stephanie Harris on GD and Ha Bui on June 17, 2008. Last fall Nancy Taplin PT* (Windsor, NY) co-curated a recent July 18, 2008. Brooklyn, NY. additions Watertown, MA. Mary Ann (Clegg) Smith ’56 Pamela (Resch) Tarbell AE (Warren, VT) exhibited oil retrospective of sculpture work IA of Fayetteville, NY on (Concord, NH) had a solo show Lindsay Powers ’99 SC and A daughter, Ella Hope Eastland, A son, Rowan Kennedy Gries, to paintings in the Vermont by Genevieve Karr Hamlin at the September 22, 2008. of new work titled lines last Heuris Matos Medina on July 4, to Juliet and Craig Eastland ’88 Alice Kennedy ’94 PT and governor’s office in Montpelier. Roberson Museum and Science winter at the Derryfield School 2007. Philadelphia, PA. IL on July 28, 2008. Her sister Ivy Scott Gries on January 11, 2009. Ann (Barbour) Parks ’61 GD Center in Binghamton, NY. is 3. Brookline, MA. Brooklyn, NY. of Auburn, ME on March 7, 2009. in Manchester, NH. Sarah Thomas ’99 TX and ’67 Phyllis Limbacher Tildes IL Todd Clark on August 16, 2008. A daughter, Ileana Maria Gerou- A son, Colin Raymond Peacock, Bruce Manwaring ’62 GD Henry Halem ’60 CR (Kent, (Savannah, GA) illustrated Plant Washington, MA. lanos, to Vanessa (Vassiliki) to Ray and Heather (Hedin) of Syracuse, NY on February 7, Mary Curtis Ratcliff AE OH) received the Lifetime Petropole-Geroulanos ’90 AP Peacock ’94 IL Secrets (2009, Charlesbridge), on February 29, 2009. Achievement Award from the (Berkeley, CA) exhibited work Lisa Manasar ’00 IL and a children’s book about the life and Petros Geroulanos on 2008. His brother Aidan is 2. Glass Art Society at its June this spring in Patterns of Nersesse Nersessian on J. Randall Kuiper ’65 SC cycles of plants with text by October 4, 2007. Athens, Greece. Phoenixville, PA. 2008 annual conference in Emergence, a show at Hess Gallery August 10, 2008. Jessup, MD. of Mahwah, NJ on December 24, Emily Goodman. Portland, OR. Founder and in Chestnut Hill, MA. A daughter, Campbell Anne A daughter, Hanaë Louise 2008. Hannah Bureau ’01 IL and a longtime teacher in the Howell, to Peter and Jennifer Rastoul, to Akiko Hamazaki- Amalie Rothschild GD (NYC) ’68 Jeff Sias ’96 FAV on Robert A. Colebank ’70 LA glass program at Kent State Howell ’90 SC on October 17, Rastoul ’95 AP and Arnaud exhibited photographs last winter October 4, 2008. Waltham, MA. of New Braunfels, TX on University, he is also a co- Jillian Barber CR (Jamestown, 2007. She joins siblings Mason Rastoul on May 16, 2008. founder of the Glass Art in Eyewitness to the 60’s Rock October 10, 2008. RI) exhibited a clay sculpture Stephanie Mason ’02 TX and Stone (3), Paris Merchant (11) and Tokyo, Japan. Society and served as its first Revolution, a solo show at the titled Katmandu in the Newport Luke Wiseman on October 18, August Marley (13). Amherst, NY. Mark Hazel ’84 ID of Concord, president. Henry has exhibited SACI Gallery in Florence, Italy. A daughter, Rebecca Marie King, [RI] Art Museum’s Annual throughout the US, Europe

Spring 2009 Spring 2008. New York, NY. MA on August 30, 2008. 2009 Spring Kerry (Alcorn) Deidre Scherer AE A daughter, Ravi Louise Hasegawa, to Jason and and Japan. Enigmatic Vessel (Williams- Members’ Juried Exhibition; the Amy Eldon ’03 TX and to Martha Bush ’91 SC and King BArch ’95 in July 2008. Mark Ferguson ’90 GL of (2002; plate glass, blown ville, VT) showed fabric-and- piece was selected for the Jessica Leo Voloshin on June 30, 2007. Sergei Hasegawa ’93 ID on Her big sister is Sarah Grace. Brooklyn, NY on November 11, vessel, mixed media; 24 x thread works last winter at the Hagan Fine Art and Design

risd views Philadelphia, PA. October 20, 2008. Brooklyn, NY. Derry, NH. 2008. 12 x 12") is shown here. Greenville [NC] Museum of Art. award for three-dimensional art. risd views 20 21 The Zon hearing aid developed by Stuart Karten Design (SKD), the Los Angeles industrial design consultancy headed by Stuart Karten ’78 ID, received the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt People’s Design Award and a 2009 CES Innovations Award. SKD was also named one of the top five “design factories” in the US inFast Company’s 2008 “Masters of Design” issue, and won 2008 International Design Awards in three categories.

Robin Nuse PH (Hanover, NH) had a solo show of large-format pastels last fall at the Southern Vermont Art Center in ’71 Manchester.

Two stereoscopic photos Work by Julie Schachter SC by Richard W. Black GD (lightvideo.com/JulieDefault. (Brockport, NY) were selected aspx; Oakland, CA) is included for inclusion in the Photographic in the new fourth edition of Society of America’s 2008 Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering international show. His 3D image a Historic Technique by Eric Renner Twenty-one architectural projects by Deborah Berke BArch ’77 (dberke.com) are discussed in Deborah Berke (2008, Yale University Howard Newman BID and the of the Brooklyn Bridge won the (2008, Focal Press). Press), the first book to explore her career as an architect, designer, staff at the Newport, RI gold medal/best of show, and a teacher and writer. Shown here is a new 10,000-sf building for the restoration studio Newmans Ltd. stereo pair taken in a re-creation ’74 Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York (2004–07). Deborah practices (newmansltd.com) are engaged of Monet’s garden received an Jeff Long AE (San Francisco) Teri Figliuzzi TX (NYC) is the architecture in New York and has been a professor at Yale since 1987. in the cleaning, restoration and Brad Kendall ’78 IL (bradford exhibited new paintings last honorable mention. director of design at Bernhardt rehanging of a Richard Lippold kendall.com; Providence) winter in a solo show at Toomey Textiles, where she has worked sculpture at Portsmouth [RI] ’73 created the cover and interior Tourell Fine Art in San Francisco. since 2000. Abbey School. The complex illustrations for Escape Last fall Henry Isaacs PT from the Pop-Up Prison, one project was described in a recent Holly Mason IL (dressageby Diana Gordon IL (Cranston, RI) (Sharon, VT) exhibited work at of seven books written by New York Times article (1.8.09). design.com; Lincoln, RI) has has opened Antiques in the Attic, Warm Springs [VA] Gallery. Michael Dahl and published published It’s Never Too Late, a new shop in Cranston, RI. Tracy Turner GD (tracyturner in 2008 by Stone Arch Books. a guide for horseback riders Richard Kattman BLA Oil and Water, a fall show at the design.com; NYC) has recently Peter C. Jones PH (NYC) Aimed at young boys with to improve their skills through (Holliston, MA) exhibited Sculpture Ranch in Santa Fe, reading difficulties, the adven- completed graphic identity organized a fall ’08 exhibition study of biomechanics. paintings last fall in solo shows included work by New Mexico- ture books (part of the and signage projects for clients of Josef Breitenbach’s Surrealist at two BankRI branches. based sculptors Robin Speas company’s Library of Doom including the municipal The Truth About Lola, a retro- photographs at Gitterman Gallery, SC, Noel Aronov MFA ’75 SC, division) each feature about 20 government of Suzhou, China; spective exhibition of paintings Lynne Kortenhaus PR/MFA NY, in conjunction with the Carol Ware BArch ’85 and of Brad’s color illustrations. the US Air Force Memorial by Andrew Stevovich PT ’75 (Boston) showed recent publication of Josef Breitenbach: Gus Van Sant FAV received Sculpture Ranch founder Foundation in Arlington, VA; (Northborough, MA), is on view works on paper in Landscapes of Manifesto (Nazraeli Press), which several major award nominations Nathaniel Hesse SC. and Street-Works LLC in West through May 31 at the Boca Raton the Imagination, a solo show held he produced. for his 2008 film Milk, including Robynn Smith PT (Aptos, CA) Hartford, CT. [FL] Museum of Art. in the fall at D Scale in Boston. Oscar and Directors Guild ’77 showed work last winter in William Burgin BArch ’73, principal of Burgin Lambert ’75 nominations for best director. C.C. Wolf PT Lamentations & Passages, a show Architects (williamburgin.com) in Newport, RI, won multiple (ccwolfstudio. Jim Coan BArch (Essex, CT), awards for his adaptive reuse/additions work on the James- Charles Corda BArch at Felix Kulpa Gallery in Rebecca Miller FAV (Newton, com; Pawtucket, RI) paired 19 of ’76 director of architectural practice town [RI] Town Hall: an Honor Award from the RI chapter (Coconut Grove, FL) received MA) has founded Optik Nerve her paintings and poems for her and science at Centerbrook Santa Cruz, CA. of the American Institute of Architects, a Gold design award Honors of Distinction awards Carol Heft PT (NYC) showed (optiknerve.net), a marketing new book Angels Dance Upwards [CT] Architects, presented on from Rhode Island Monthly magazine and a Merit Award for two photographs in the 2008 work last fall in Ensemble, an Drawings by Ricker Winsor communications company. (Sunrise Publishers), which is the topic of “Lessons from the in the 2008 New England AIA Design Awards. Chris Arner Black and White Spider photo- exhibition at Blue Mountain PH/MFA ’78 are featured in Bert Her clients include Northeastern available through her website. Construction Trailer: How to BArch ’98 was the project architect, Carolyn Rufo ’83 AR graphy competition. Gallery in New York. Dodson’s new book Drawing with University, Custom Machine did the interior design and Robin Monihan ’79 IA of Robin Establish a Quality Assurance the Imagination (2008, North Light ’70 and MSI. Monihan Interiors selected the furniture. Noetic Moments, a solo show Kathleen Kolb IL (Lincoln, VT) Program for Design and Contract Press), and one of his paintings Tim Casey PT (NYC) exhibited of work by Eva Kwong CR exhibited recent paintings Documents” at the recent Build was published in a recent issue Last December Barbara Nadel work in It’s a Wonderful Life, (Kent, OH), was on view last fall in a fall show at David Findlay Boston conference. of Upper Valley Life magazine in BArch (Forest Hills, NY) was a group show held last winter at at William Busta Gallery in Galleries in New York. presented with the 2009 Edward As technical design director for Vermont/New Hampshire. Sideshow Gallery in Brooklyn. Cleveland. C. Kemper Award for service Deborah Cornell PT (Lincoln, Monster, a digital mosaic of knitwear at Jones Apparel Group, ’78 to the profession of architecture ’69 MA) recently presented TRACER, Fred Fassett BArch (Oakland, Susan Greenberg Ryza AE images of the Bush administration Pamela Danesi AP (Brooklyn) and the American Institute an interactive virtual reality CA), board president of the Kala and Sharon Keasling, partners created by Shelley Lake IL was recently presented with Judy Glantzman PT (NYC) Ed Baranosky PT (Toronto, of Architects. work, at the Institute for Art Institute of Berkeley, CA, in Santa Monica Artisans, have (shelleylake.com; Longwood, the company’s Excellence in the exhibited new paintings and Ontario) published two poems in Contemporary Art in Boston. was recently appointed to lead a transformed a collection of FL), recently won first place Workplace Award. sculptures last fall at Betty Aija Sterns CR (Goose Creek, LYNX XXIV:1 (2.09), and recently The work was also choreo- capital campaign supporting new antique Santa Monica, CA bus in mixed media at ArtExpo Cunningham Gallery in New York. SC) showed paintings last fall in did a reading at Clinton’s in J. Michelle Hill TX (NYC) was graphed by Judith Chaffee and facilities for the institute. tokens into a line of accessories, New York. a solo exhibition at Wild Goose Toronto. He has published more the recipient of a 2007 Research/ Karen Hackenberg PT (Port presented at the Huntington available at the city’s Transit Store. Gallery in Goose Creek, SC. than 30 chapbooks of poetry, Susan Margolis SC/MID ’84 Lecturer Fulbright Fellowship Townsend, WA) showed new Theatre in Boston. most of which are available Cynthia Scott SC (New (Ridgefield, CT) showed gem to work in Sofia, Bulgaria, where paintings and drawings in Divining Rhonda Wall PT (Easton, PA) through the Brown University Jack Dickerson GD (Hingham, Orleans) exhibited a mixed- carvings last summer in American she researched Thracian culture Line, a winter exhibition at the had a solo show at Accola library system. MA) is exhibiting paintings media site-specific installation Lapidary, an exhibition at the and taught computer graphics Gallery at OK Hotel in Seattle. Contemporary last winter. through the end of May in a solo last fall in a group show at Home Lizzadro Museum in Elmhurst, IL. at the National Academy of Art. As a project manager in Citrus Joseph G. Brin ’74 PH Valerie Hird PT (Burlington, A retrospective exhibition of show at South Street Gallery in Space Gallery in New Orleans. Her work was exhibited at the County, FL school district’s (Philadelphia) recently Selbert Perkins Design (selbert VT) received a grant from the work by author/illustrator David Hingham, MA. launched Brush Strokes Fine US Embassy library and Arosita facilities and construction Last fall Rory Marcaccio perkins.com), the LA firm where Vermont Community Foundation Wiesner ’78 IL (Wyndmoor, Art Rowing Posters (brush Gallery. department, Kenneth Bosted Maureen McCabe SC (Quaker Schaffer AE/MAE ’79 (Vienna, Clifford Selbert LArch and to support Maiden Voyages Project PA) – replete with amazing strokesrowing.com), a series BArch (Crystal River, FL) Hills, CT) showed 13 pieces VA) showed painting, jewelry, Robin Perkins ’86 GD are Carol Peligian IL (NYC) showed (maidenvoyagesproject.com), installations – was featured in evocative of “the energy, Spring 2009 Spring 2009 Spring oversees projects including in The Image in the Box: From spirit and river life of the sculpture and glass work at principals, recently created drawings, sculpture and paintings a web presentation of artist late winter at the Sungkok Art historic restoration and aligning Cornell to Contemporary, a winter rower,” he explains. The Fairfax Station [VA] Railroad new signage and gateways last winter in Transfluence, a sketchbooks detailing the lives Museum in Seoul, Korea as part design criteria with standards exhibition at Hollis Taggart posters incorporate his own Museum. She teaches at Virginia for the Fremont East district solo exhibition at the Museum of women from Egypt, Iran, of the first annual CJ Picture

risd views for materials and energy use. Galleries in New York. paintings and drawings. Commonwealth University. of downtown Las Vegas. of Biblical Art in New York. Jordan, Palestine and the US. Book Festival. risd views 22 23 This May marks the 21st anniversary of Hope Bindery & Box Co. (hopebindery.com), a Pawtucket, RI hand bindery ’83 headed by James Dimarcanto- Good Karma, Bad Karma Brooches nio IL. The company, which includes Paul O’Connor ’07 PR created by Sandra Enterline Colleen Kiely PT (Roslindale, and Samantha Gerlach ’06*, JM (San Francisco) are included MA) showed a group of drawings specializes in restoration, artist in Glasswear, an exhibition from her On the Road series in books and archival portfolios. traveling to seven international The Fine Art of Drawing Invitational, photos courtesy of Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry, 2003 Tarry, Jacqueline and McCallum Bradley courtesy of photos venues between 2008 and 2010. a fall ’08 exhibition at Florida Patrick J. Hamilton GD (NYC) State University at Tallahassee. David Langton GD and designed the winning display in As head of a nonprofit agency in Seattle, Elaine Simons ’87 Norman Cherubino ’85 GD, Bloomingdales’ recent Big Fotini Vurgaropulou SC JM has worked with homeless youth for the past 14 years. Window Challenge. His New principals at the New York design (Brooklyn) exhibited and sold For a detailed Q&A and more images, go to www.risd.edu/ communications firm Langton York living room is also featured views and check out www.psks.org for more on her kilnformed and freeze-cast glass Trine Giæver IL (NYC) designed as an “Inspiration” space on organization. Cherubino Group, were named sculpture in Artists of Urban Glass, a t-shirt and other materials Culinary Dreams (2006, majolica, HGTV’s Rate My Space (Episode “People to Watch in 2009” by a winter show at Urban Glass for the 2008 Yeast Genetics and Were you drawn to social activism at RISD? 60 x 60 x 50 cm) was included in Graphic Design USA magazine. 302), which airs through the in Brooklyn. Molecular Biology meeting in Yes, I felt like being in college was the time a solo show of food-inspired sculpture end of May. Toronto; she also created covers by Alberto De Braud ’83 PH (Milan), Ursula Huth GL* (Weil im to get involved in something larger than ’85 John Ruggieri PT* on view last fall at Galleria Dieffe in Schönbuch, Germany) exhibited Last fall Carol O’Malia IL for recent issues of Molecular (Boston) myself, so a few of us came up with the idea Biology of the Cell PLoS exhibited works from several Turin, Italy. glass and mixed-media works in Scott Constable FAV* (Westwood, MA) had a solo (8.08) and of organizing “Awareness Day” events with painting show at Julie Nester Genetics (8.8.08). of his photography series last a spring show at Galerieverein (thewowhaus.com; Sebastopol, a social justice slant. We ended up bringing Leonberg in Leonberg, Germany. CA) was recently awarded a grant Gallery in Park City, UT. summer and fall at F-collective Work by Farsad Labbauf ID Bread & Puppet Theatre to campus, which from the Center for Cultural in Hudson, NY. Eric Meier ’86 IL, director of (Jersey City, NJ) was recently turned out to be a natural way to combine ’84 Innovation to implement and Interactive Media at RISD, made acquired by the Saatchi Gallery Adam Silverman BArch performance art with social awareness. expand his deepcraft.org Rocco Ceo BArch (Coral presentations on new media and in London, and was on view recently merged his company Gables, FL), a professor at the initiative. social networking at the 2008 there in the spring exhibition Atwater Pottery (atwaterpottery. How did you end up founding Peace for the University of Miami School Environmental and identity AICAD conference in Portland, Unveiled: New Art from the com) with Heath Ceramics Streets by Kids from the Streets (PSKS)? of Architecture, recently became design work by Poulin + Morris, OR, and on the use of video Middle East. (heathceramics.com), a 60-year- After RISD, I went to Columbia for a master’s director of the undergrad pro- the NYC design consultancy as an online recruitment tool via old company based in Sausalito, degree in teaching and then got a job in ’88 gram. He has also been appointed where Douglas Morris GD a recent Brightcove Web-inar. CA. His new studio is in Heath’s Seattle teaching art at a middle school. In deputy district officer for (Clinton Corners, NY) is a prin- satellite facility in Los Angeles. ’81 A solo show by Hanna von In his fall show Providence 1995 I took a summer job at a drop-in center the state to conduct Historic Designers cipal, was featured in Goeler IL Underground at Gail Cahalan for homeless teenagers and when the kids (Montclair, NJ), was ’89 Miyoshi Barosh PT (Pasadena, American Landscapes Surveys USA No. 2 (2008, Graphis). on view last winter at Sloan Fine Gallery, Peter Goldberg PH wanted to keep doing something together Leah Reynolds ’80 PR (Philadelphia) showed drawings CA) will be an artist in residence for the National Park Service. Karen Gelardi PT (karenge- Art in New York. (Pawtucket, RI) exhibited photos in the fall, I let them meet at my home. Within and a new installation – Sphericity (2009, fabric at the New Children’s Museum in ’86 coated with rabbit skin glue and pigment, 12" diameter) Steven Kenny IL (Huntly, VA) of tunneling work beneath the lardi.com; South Portland, ME) San Diego from July 13 to August 7. a few years, United Way stepped in with – earlier this spring at Nexus Foundation for Today’s showed paintings last winter in Jamie Boud IL (Brooklyn) ’87 city streets. exhibited mixed-media work funding, but we had to become a 501(c)(3) first Art in Philadelphia. Trine Bumiller PR (Denver) Cryptohematology: Secrets in my curated and designed a retro- last fall in Terrarium, a solo show helping the homeless Mask Parade Forest Animals, Allison Massari IL (allisonmas- and establish a space outside my house. Bloodline at 301 Gallery in Beverly, MA. exhibited work last winter in , a solo exhibition at the spective of Stephan Sprouse’s a children’s book illustrated sari.com; Tiburon, CA) exhibited Colorado Abstract, a group show Glass Garage Gallery in West work that was shown last winter and designed by Katharine work in February and March in Krysten Gossler PT (East So, what’s PSKS like now? at the Metropolitan State Hollywood, CA. at Deitch Projects in New York. ’80 Armstrong GD (Pacifica, CA), The Song, a solo show at Chris Providence) showed paintings Well, we’re the hub for homeless youth in College of Denver. was published last August by Winfield Gallery in Carmel, CA. in a fall ’08 exhibition at Seattle and we focus on education and Laraine Armenti PR (Ashland, Last fall Paola Page PT (Guiting Piggy Toes Press. Watermark Contemporary Art advocacy. Our center is self-governed, which MA) showed work in Icons + In January Renée Ridgway GL Power, England) had a solo show in East Providence, RI. means that when you come in you can’t tell Altars, a group exhibition held Lynne Deninger BArch (Amsterdam) was a featured titled IN THE LAPSe OF THE GODS last fall at the New Art Center in (Needham, MA), an associate presenter in “Beaver, Wampum, Sara Kellner PT (kellnercon- who’s staff and who isn’t. It’s very warm and ’79 Newton, MA. at The Gallery Soho in London. principal at Cannon Design, Hoes,” a public discussion about sulting.com; Houston) recently welcoming, and nothing is locked up, except Ana Flores PT (Wood River was recently named one of the the Dutch colonization of New led a DiverseWorks Development for the Xbox and the Wii. For the kids who Sculpture by T Barny SC ’82 Junction, RI) recently received top 10 architects in the region York City. The event took place Workshop, a strategic planning come here, this is their life, their family. (Healdsburg, CA) was on view an Audubon/Toyota Together- Madeleine Pydych Hopkins IL by Women’s Business Boston. at 16 Beaver St. in New York. session for Houston-area visual, last fall at Hunter Kirkland Green Fellowship to support her (Moody, ME) received a Best in literary and performing artists. How do you connect with teens struggling Contemporary in Santa Fe, NM. environmental education work Show – Acrylic award for her to survive on the street? So Yoon Lym PT (Wayne, NJ) at the Kettle Pond Visitor Center Lloyd Martin PT (North painting Rockland Harbor in the If you treat people with dignity, they’re going In July Carrie Gustafson ’94 PR (Arlington, MA) is exhibiting has exhibited paintings in several in Charlestown, RI. She and her Providence, RI) exhibited fall show of the Newburyport to respond. Our main goal isn’t to get them Nest (2008, 5 x 8.5") and other glass work at North Water recent shows, including As husband Gabriel Warren ’79 paintings last fall at Stephen [MA] Art Association. off the street (though when that happens it’s Gallery on Martha’s Vineyard. She also participated in the above as below, as within as without SC exhibited together in Notes Haller Gallery in New York. awesome); it’s to give them a sense of Frances Middendorf IL (Posta 2009 Smithsonian Craft Show, held in April at the National at Gallery Xpose in Englewood from the Earth at the Mystic [CT] Building Museum in Washington, DC. Stacy Jannis Tamerlani FAV Massa Martana, Italy) exhibited Cliffs, NJ and group shows self-esteem, of validation – what any human Art Center. (Silver Spring, MD) produced drawings last fall in Picturing the at the Paterson [NJ] Museum and being wants. Last year Kathy Hodge PT* a variety of interactive elements Poems of Cesare Pavese, a solo the College of St. Elizabeth in Isn’t this kind of work incredibly draining? (Riverside, RI) was an artist-in- and videos for the new Grammy show at the National Arts Club Morristown, NJ. Yes and no. I can’t see myself doing anything residence at Mesa Verde National Museum in Los Angeles. in New York. Last fall Josiah McElheny GL Park, CO – her seventh residency else right now. It keeps me young. I like the Lawrence and Sharon (Seattle) exhibited two groups in US national parks. In the fall fact that it’s fluid, that every day is different Tarantino TX (tarantinostudio. of sculpture exploring the origins she showed paintings at Gail Larissa Nowicki ’93 GD (NYC) and that it’s very, very human. com) recently received pre- of the universe: The End of the Dark Cahalan Gallery in Providence. exhibited mixed-media pieces servation awards from the AIA Ages at Andrea Rosen Gallery in including Narrative I (2007; Dan Perruzzi BArch New Jersey and the Frank Lloyd New York and Island Universe at used book pages printed Spring 2009 Spring 2009 Spring (Weymouth, MA) recently Wright Building Conservancy before 1975; 28 3/4 x 23") White Cube in London. The The above portraits of several teens involved with became a partner in the Boston for the 20-year restoration of in Illiterature, a winter show chrome, glass and electric-light PSKS were taken as part of a performance art/ architecture firm Margulies their Frank Lloyd Wright home at Arena 1 Gallery in Santa pieces were featured in the New documentary project known as Endurance. Shown

risd views Perruzzi Architects. in Millstone, NJ. Monica, CA. York Times Magazine (9.26.08). here: Billy, Fish, Jessica and Raven. risd views 24 25 In June and July LA-based artist Marisa Murrow ’00 IL (marisamurrow.com) is ’96 showing Tahitian Terrace Marc Cavello FAV (marccavello. ’97 (2008, oil on canvas, 16 x 38") com; Lattingtown, NY) showed and other paintings at Carina work earlier this spring in This is As a choreographer and Cellars in Los Olivos, CA. the Free Underground, a solo movement artist, Ellen Godena exhibition at Pleiades Gallery in PT (oceanbody.com; Boston) New York. collaborated recently with composer Max Lord and visual A team from the Brooklyn artist Burns Maxey ’98 PT design/fabrication practice (Northampton, MA) on an ’99 Freecell (frcll.com) – Lauren experimental piece that was Crahan BArch, Brian Briggs performed at Mobius in Boston. Monitor, an installation by Noah BArch ’08 and John Hartmann Fischer SC (Brooklyn, NY), was – worked together to create Stack ’98 exhibited last fall at Claire Oliver Nelson Ryland PH (Brooklyn) to Fold, a cardboard installation Fine Art in New York. As a 12-year veteran at Nike, edited Stealing Lincoln’s Body, A chest trauma simulator Jane (Pallera) Savage ID that was included in the exhibi- a documentary about an 1876 developed by Ryan Scott Work by Evan Larson IL (Portland, OR) is currently tion The Art of Participation: 1950 plot to steal Abraham Lincoln’s Bardsley ID (Cambridge, MA) (Providence) was selected for to Now at SFMoMA. working on Considered Design, body and hold it for ransom. and his colleagues at CIMIT inclusion in The Best American the company’s green initiative. The two-hour special aired in Denham Fassett ID (Baltimore) was featured in War and Medicine, Comics 2008, edited by Lynda She had an article on “Design February on the History Channel. has launched the MbiraOracle a winter exhibition at the Barry. He has also been for the Real World” published Video Blog, a series of videos Wellcome Collection in London. published in the last three Arcade David Simon IL (Los Angeles) in (Spring ’08). (on YouTube) offering instruction American Illustration annuals. exhibited sculpture recently in A project by Stephanie Diamond Chris Mills IL (Upper Hutt, New Julie Clendenen Simpson TX on the traditional musical Dark Forest, a spring solo show PR (NYC) was included in Red Laura Evonne Steinman SC Zealand) served as visual effects instrument from Zimbabwe. He (juliesimpsonart.com; Olympia, at the Long Beach [CA] Museum Badge of Courage ReVisited, a show (Somerville, MA) recently took artist and supervisor on Blackspot, is also about to release his first WA) exhibited stitch paintings of Art. about Stephen Crane held last a new position as art teacher an independent feature film that book, The Little Mbira Book. in a small works show held last fall at the Newark [NJ] Arts at the Gifford School in Weston, has won spots in film festivals winter at Hallway Gallery in Sonya Sklaroff PT (sonya Chandler O’Leary ’03 IL (anagram-press.com) had her Tim Ratanapreuksel AP/MArch Council. Her solo project Framing MA, a school for children with around the world, including the Bellevue, WA. sklaroff.com; NYC) showed debut solo show in April at the University of Puget Sound in ’07 (Brooklyn) is showcasing his the Family was on view in October emotional and learning Strasbourg, Hamburg and Rhode paintings last fall in Lightscapes, Tacoma, WA, where she lives. Held at the university’s Collins design work with a new website: at Incident Report Viewing challenges. Island festivals. Carsten Stehr PT (Pasadena, an exhibition at the Gallery Memorial Library, To the Letter gathered her artist books, www.subject-object.net. Station in Hudson, NY. CA) showed work last summer at Steuben Glass in New York. works on paper, 2D textiles and letterpress prints, including Work by Mel Prest PT (San in Antanaklasis, a solo exhibition Prop Cake (2009, letterpress print from hand-lettered Dan Talbot PT (Providence) and Melania Lancy IL created Francisco) has been on view in at Mykonos [Greece] Municipality typography, 10 x 18"), shown here. The piece is part of her ’93 Lawrence Cromwell MFA ’99 the scenic design for a 50th several exhibitions recently, Art Gallery. ongoing series of Feminist Broadsides, a collaboration with Anna Alter ’97 IL (Jamaica As a designer for International Greetings USA, Christy PT/PR (Baltimore) exhibited anniversary production of The including a solo show at Gregory Nicole Cherubini CR Jessica Spring. Plain, MA) wrote and Cullen ’00 IL (Atlanta) created several designs that were (Brooklyn) received a fall 2008 new work last fall at the Chazan Birthday Party, presented last illustrated two new children’s picked up by Target for use on gift wrap and greeting Lind Gallery in Miami (April) ’92 grant from Art Matters to support Gallery in Providence. spring by Chicago’s Signal books: What Can You Do cards for the 2008 holiday season. One of the designs was and group shows at Pharmaka Arnor Bieltvedt PT (Pasadena, her travel to Guadalajara, Mexico Ensemble Theatre. with an Old Red Shoe? (Henry also selected for extensive promotional use, including on in Los Angeles and Cape Cod Karen Wise PH (KarenWise. CA) had a solo painting show last to research the production of Holt), an activity book about limited-edition Coca-Cola bottles and boxes. Community College in West Tania Eunyoung Cho PT com; Brooklyn, NY) was named Sari Welch PH (Tustin, CA) winter at the Beeldkracht Gallery reuse (one idea is pictured Barnstable, MA. traditional ceramic wares. (Seoul, South Korea) exhibited one of American Photo magazine’s was recently promoted to district in Scheemda, the Netherlands. here), and Abigail Spells Derek Gores IL (derekgores. paintings last summer in a solo top ten wedding photographers manager at Keystone Pacific Pro- (Knopf), a story of friendship Last fall Julie Rabun BArch Elizabeth Bristow IL show at Gallery Artside in Seoul. ’95 for 2008. perty Management in Irvine, CA. and spelling bees. (Knoxville, TN) was awarded com; Melbourne, FL) had two ’90 (Brooklyn) has joined the pieces selected for Manifest Hope, ’91 tenure and promoted to associate Creating both traditional wooden Intrigues, a solo exhibition by photography staff of The New York an exhibition in Washington, Peter Barrett PT (barrettart. professor of graphic design at marionettes and experimental Amelia Biewald PT (Brooklyn), Drawings and etchings by Times as a picture editor. She DC that coincided with the com; Woodstock, NY) showed Carson-Newman College in puppets, Marie T. Keller IL was on view last fall at Magnan Jennifer Daltry IL, prints by was previously a features picture new work last fall in (In)Finities, Jefferson City, TN, and in 2007 Obama inauguration. His work (Keene, NH) developed a puppet Projects in New York. Amelia Hankin MFA ’06 PR editor for The Hartford Courant. a solo exhibition at KMOCA in she was presented with the was also included in Robot Love, show titled Be Brave, Robotcˇku! and photographs by Alice Costume designer Danny Kingston, NY. college’s Award for Creativity. As a designer for Fluke a winter show at 321 Agency in for the Teatrotocˇ street festival O’Neill ’06 PR were exhibited Melbourne, FL. Glicker ID (West Hollywood, Electronics, Matthew held last summer in Prague. Franklin Einspruch IL together in Emerging Artists, Last summer Michael Rich IL CA) was nominated for an Marzynski BID recently Marney Lieberman SC (Roslindale, MA) exhibited work a winter show at Providence’s (Providence) exhibited recent Stephanie Schechter ID Academy Award and a Costume collaborated with Josh last fall in The Importance of Chazan Gallery. drawings and paintings at Old (Brooktondale, NY) showed (Providence) organized and Designers Guild (CDG) award Kornfeld ’95 ID on the design What We Care About, a solo show Spouter Gallery in Nantucket, MA. works on paper in Collaboration: showed work in Variations on a for his work on the 2008 film Chris Eboch PH (chriseboch. of a new electronic test device; at Common Sense Gallery in Contraptions, a spring show with Theme, a mixed-media exhibition Milk. His previous honors include com; Socorro, NM) is the author Michael Riley GD, creative he also worked with Anthony Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. poet Victoria Boynton at the held last fall at the Warwick [RI] a CDG award for Transamerica of two new biographies for director at Shine in Los Angeles, Pannozzo ’91 ID on a suite High Watermark Salo[o]n in Museum of Art. (2006). After six years of intermittent young readers: Jesse Owens: Young created two music videos for of surgical instruments, which Hancock, NY. recording at his home in Marfa, Record Breaker and Milton Hershey: Madagascar 2 and recently was recognized with an IDEA/ Jennifer Shaw PH (jennifer- Jeffrey Hantman PR (Oakland, TX, Pat Keesey PT released Young Chocolatier (both published produced a package of promo- Business Week Gold Award. ’94 shaw.net; New Orleans) exhibited CA) will be an artist-in-residence his first EP, The Marfa Demos, last in 2008 by Simon & Schuster tional spots for Cartoon Matthew and Hannah (Brown) photographs last fall in Sanctuary, for a month this year at Djerassi After illustrating several year on Lodog Records. and written under the name Network’s new animated show Marzynski BArch ’93, an a group show at SoHo Photo in Woodside, CA; last year he children’s books, Paul Carrick M.M. Eboch). The Misadventures of Flapjack. architect, live in Seattle with Gallery in New York. completed a residency at the Kathleen Judge PT (Chicago) IL (Boston) has just had his first their two sons. KALA Institute in Berkeley, CA. curated Exquisite City/Exquisite Last summer Christopher The Elsie Side Table created book published as both writer Jennifer Uhrhane PH Windows, a “fantasy city” of Henderson BArch, president by Andrew Rumpler ID (nine Guy Jeff Nelson GD (gjnelson. and illustrator. In Watch Out for (detailphoto.com; Jamaica Plain, Amy Putansu TX (Waynesville, Spring 2009 Spring miniature cardboard houses of StudioAD in Providence, storiesfurniture.com; NYC) com; Watertown, MA) recently Wolfgang (2009, Charlesbridge), MA) exhibited photographs NC) recently became a full-time 2009 Spring created by more than 40 artists. completed a $37 million renova- was featured in a recent created a new website for three robot brothers take the of New Orleans and Mexico last fiber instructor in the Professional The houses were on view last tion to the Hyatt Regency in “New and Notable” issue of William Henry furniture place of the three little pigs in summer at New Leaf Flores in Crafts department at Haywood

risd views fall at Chicago’s Viaduct Theater. Newport, RI. I.D. magazine. (mywilliamhenry.com). a retelling of the classic tale. Jamaica Plain, MA. Community College in Clyde, NC. risd views 26 27 Benjamin Koch PT (Brooklyn) Hayley Morris ’08 FAV won the Grand and Jessica Frelinghuysen PR Jury Award for Best Animated Short at the Slamdance Film Festival for Undone, her (MI) exhibited work in ARAC@ RISD senior degree project. The six-minute AAM: Anderson Ranch Arts Center stop-motion animation revolves around an When Innovation Studio (pp 14–17) alumni marked its 10th at the Aspen [CO] Art Museum, elderly man fishing and struggling to hold anniversary in April, they also celebrated the approach to a juried show on view last fall. progressive, sustainable design that increasingly more on to the objects he captures – a metaphor alumni are pursuing. The following three examples illustrate for the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Delia Kovac PR (Providence) a growing trend. showed new works last winter Consider Canadian in The Making, a solo show at designer Dawn Danby ’00 AS220 in Providence.

ID, who earned an MBA in A Man Screaming is Not a Dancing Correspondences, a show of recent Sustainable Business from Bear, a film shot and produced drawings by Alexis Mahon IL the Bainbridge Graduate ’00 by Banks Griffin FAV (NYC), (Brookline, MA), was on view Institute in 2007. She’s was screened at the Prospect 1 last fall at Steven Zevitas Gallery Stonehenge Rising, a solo show an integral member of New Orleans biennial last winter. in Boston. of work by Amy Chan PT the Green Corridor initiative, which generates (Richmond, VA), was on view Work by Misako Inaoka IL Sonjie Solomon ID (Brooklyn) green redevelopment on the US-Canadian last fall at Carroll and Sons Art (Kyoto City, Japan) was included showed sculptural work in Five border, and is a co-developer of Beeline, an Gallery in Boston. in three exhibitions last year: Bay Elements, a group show held last award-winning, eco-efficient food distribution Area Now 5 at Yerba Buena Center summer at Ch’i Contemporary Marisa Dipaola PT (Manahawk- system. Danby also co-wrote WorldChanging: for the Arts in San Francisco, a Fine Art in Brooklyn. in, NJ) exhibited work in the summer group show at Stephen A User’s Guide to the 21st Century (2006), Providence Art Windows event, on Wirtz Gallery (also San Francisco) ’03 a book embraced by global warming activists view this spring in windows in and Cantocore at Ping Pong Space Al Gore and Laurie David, along with critics downtown Providence. Jane Kim PR (crowsneststudio. in Guangzhou, China. for Business Week and The New Yorker, among net; Oakland, CA) showed Joe Gebbia ID (San Francisco) Justin Gebhard BArch (Exton, others. Her consultancy Aylanto (aylanto.com) Peter Quintin SC runs Sincera drawings in Delineations, a winter and Brian Chesky ’04 ID PA) has branched out from his Christina Rodriguez IL Glass (sinceraglass.com), a exhibition at Ad Hoc Art in (Marina Del Rey, CA) have is built on the belief that design isn’t just architecture practice and into (christinarodriguez.com; “green” glass tile and architec- Brooklyn; from February to May launched AirBed & Breakfast ’07 about objects and having “too much stuff,” she puppet performance, including Stillwater, MN) created the tural objects business in East she was an artist in residence at (airbedandbreakfast.com), a says. “I’m interested in tool-sharing, co-op the recent piece Polio Jitterbug illustrations for The Wishing Tree, As the recipient of a second-year Providence, RI. the San Francisco dump. service that allows travelers to structures, providing people with things they with the Puppet Lab at St. Ann’s a children’s book written by fellowship from the Fine Arts Mary Redman and published last book budget rooms with locals don’t necessarily need to own.” Warehouse in Brooklyn. He was Kristian Rangel BGD (avanzare. Natalie Marchant ID Work Center, Meghan Gordon year by Elva Resa Publishing. rather than at hotels. involved as a writer, puppeteer com; The Woodlands, TX) (Brooklyn) and Bart Jansen, PT (NYC) lived and worked in Supported by an award from the Xeric Ecolect (www. and designer/builder. and his brother David recently design partners in the studio Loren Klein GD (Burke, VA) Provincetown, MA from October Jennifer Rolfsema BGD Foundation, Corinne Mucha ’05 IL (maiden ecolect.net), a web BACON (thebaconsite.com), launched iGiphts (igiphts.com), (Providence) exhibited paintings recently launched Walkie Talkie ’08 to April ’09. Painter Tom Grady IL (tomgrady housefly.com) of Chicago recently released company that com- exhibited the Full Package Clock – a new application for the Apple last summer at CreativeChica (walkietalkietees.com), a com- her first graphic novel,My Alaskan Summer – studio.com; Worcester, MA) is Celeste Rapone IL (Wayne, NJ) bines “ecology” and iPhone that allows users to a DIY clock made of repurposed pany offering “funny tees for the story of a summer she spent working one of the Twenty Artists of gallery in Pawtucket, RI. exhibited oil paintings last fall in “intellect” to help designers spec sustainable exchange virtual gifts. packaging materials – in a funny people.” and living in Alaska after graduating from Worcester featured in a new book Vacation Bible School, a solo show winter show at Printed Matter Sculptures, drawings and RISD. A reviewer for TheDailyCrossHatch.com materials, is also focused on tool-sharing. by Scott Erb. GeoBiographies, a photography at Phoenix Gallery in New York. ’02 Inc. in New York. photography by Hanna Sandin said the book of “sweet, meandering drawings Founded by Matt Grigsby ’05 ID and Joe GL series by Stephanie Lempert She was the 2008 winner of the Haavard Homstvedt IL (Brooklyn, NY) were and stories” is “something markedly indie (NYC) Yayoi Asoma PT Peace Gebbia ’05 GD/ID, the company grew from Last fall , a solo show of painting GL (NYC), was on view last Phoenix Gallery Fellowship. and personal and funny.” exhibited paintings, sculptures, exhibited last summer at A.I.R. (Chappaqua, NY) had a solo and ceramics by Tiffany Pollack designing a sustainable future their own frustration with “aggravating Gallery in New York. winter at Claire Oliver Gallery drawings and a large-scale in- Kate Sanders-Fleming PT internet scavenger hunts” that slowed the show of paintings at Cue Art PT (Brooklyn), was on view in New York. stallation last fall in The Close-In, Foundation in New York. last fall at the Union Gallery in (Providence) exhibited new design process and yielded few practical ’04 Seven recent FAV grads a solo show at Perry Rubinstein Michael Lyons IL (michael paintings last fall in Simple New York. celebrated a big win at the 2008 results. So they created Ecolect to spur Gallery in New York. Paintings by Ian Clyde GD Creating Buddhas: The Making lyonsstudio.com; NYC) showed Moments, a solo show at Gail Ottawa International Animation dialogue among architects, designers and (Manchester, MA) were on view and Meaning of Fabric Thangkas, watercolors at Odegard Miami Cahalan Gallery in Providence. Jennifer Lewis IL (Boston) last summer in a solo show at Architecture degree projects Festival. Chosen by an inter- builders who are interested in sharing infor- Courtney A. Martin ’06 IL a film byIsadora Gabrielle during Art Basel Miami 2008. and Amanda Clarke ’03 IL New work by Stephen Truax national jury as the winner in mation about alternative materials. Grigsby Lynn [MA] Arts. (c-a-martin.com; Somerville, Leidenfrost SC (Madison, WI), by Jesse Honsa BArch, Evita (Cambridge, MA) exhibited new PT (NYC) was on view last the school category, RISD’s Yumul BArch and Robert and Gebbia both say that a trip to the Rhode MA) has illustrated her first was screened in January at ’06 work together in Sweet Meats Susie Ghahremani IL (San winter in Hermine Ford Two New reel featured the work of children’s book: Ballots for the Pacific Asia Museum in Highsmith MArch ’08 were Island landfill as part of theirManufacturing and Sour Grapes, a winter show Diego) exhibited paintings and Renata Fenton ID (Lake Elmo, Paintings, a show at Norte Maar Andy Cahill, Gretta Johnson, Belva, with text by Sudipta Pasadena, CA. selected for a fall exhibition Techniques studio at RISD opened their a 3D exhibit last summer in The MN) and Enrique Lomnitz ID at Space 242 in Boston. Bardhan-Quallen (2008, Gallery in Brooklyn. at the Royal Institute of British Andrew Mailliard, Hayley eyes to “the negative impacts of design” Wild Life, a show at GR2 Gallery Abrams Books for Young Natalia Nakazawa PT (NYC) were runners-up in the Morris, Narimitsu Ozaki, Erica Saladino GD (Providence) Architects in London and inclu- and “forever changed” their approach. in Los Angeles. Chronicle Books Readers). The book tells the (San Francisco) co-curated and 2008 Next Generation com- ’08 Greta Scheing and Emma drew on her experience as sion in an accompanying book. recently launched a stationery true story of a woman’s run exhibited work in Raff lesia petition sponsored by Metropolis Tripp (all ’08 FAV). a conservation technician at Several students and recent James Minola ’07 ID, collection featuring her artwork. for the US presidency in 1884. Remix: A Corpse Flower Anthology, magazine. As part of the 23rd International Brown University’s John Hay alumni had work selected for Chelsea Green MID a winter mixed-media show Biennial of Graphic Design held ’09 Library to put together the Brandon Herman PH Illustration West 47, a spring ’07, Brit Kleinman ’07 at PLAySPACE Gallery in in 2008, interrupted – a degree exhibition Adventures in (BrandonHermanLand.com; show organized by the Society Katrina Vonnegut FD won first ID and Sami Nerenberg ’07 ID (pp 10–13) also San Francisco. project by Jaekyung Jung GD Los Angeles) has shown work of Illustrators LA: Phil Ashworth prize in the 2008 Billes Product Boxmaking, which was shown (Cambridge, MA) – was exhibited left RISD with their eyes open, convinced that in several recent exhibitions, ’08 IL, Becca Barnet ’09 IL, Design Competition for her at the library last summer. Jewelry by Laura Su IL at the Moravian Gallery in Brno, “it is within our grasp to design a more including Fake at the Museo de Lauren Henderson ’09 IL, Kate Cradle Chair. (Elmhurst, NY) was featured in Czech Republic. sustainable future” – a goal they have set for ’01 Be Ecochic’s runway show, which Arte Contem_poraneo in Leon, Pfeiffer ’08 IL, Sophy Tuttle Both Amy Fries PH/TX and their design studio Grain (www.graindesign. kicked off fall ’08 Fashion Week Spain; It Ain’t Fair at O.H.W.O.W. ’08 IL and Jing Wei ’08 IL Kyle Marshall AR is spending Middle School Is Worse Than JooHyun Lee JM have won com). In addition to offering research and during Art Basel Miami; and A Trip were among the artists selected. the 2008-09 year teaching in Meatloaf (2007, Atheneum), in New York. 2009 Windgate Fellowships Down (False) Memory Lane at the American Samoa as a volunteer design services (systems, strategy, communi- a young adult novel illustrated As one of six designers chosen to to help further their work. ’05 Lexington Club in San Francisco. with WorldTeach, a nonprofit cations and more), they plan to develop and by Elicia Castaldi IL (NYC), was participate in the Chicago Fashion Each artist will use her $15,000 organization that places teachers market eco-sensitive products such as their named one of New York Public The performance art band Bobo Rich, Brilliant, Willing, the Incubator ’09, Catherine Furio award to study abroad. While in developing countries. very first, calledTy – a recycled and recyclable Library’s top 100 children’s – a.k.a. Phil Cote PT, Drew NYC design collective made ’08 AP hopes to launch her own Amy plans to apprenctice with shower curtain made of the PVC-free plastic books of 2007. Other honors Gillespie PT and Nick Payne up of Theo Richardson FD, line, FURIO, with guidance from Laura Shirreff TX (Providence) designers in four European Spring 2009 Spring 2009 Spring typically used for milk jugs. for the book include a National PT – curated a multimedia group Charlie Brill FD and Alex the full-year entrepreneurial exhibited work last fall in countries, JooHyun will Parenting Publications Gold exhibition titled Bobo’s on 27th Williamson FD, was featured assistance program. She recently Exploring Space, a three-person participate in a Jewelry Design Award and a starred review in last summer at the New York in a recent I.D. magazine survey modeled her own designs on ABC show held at the Krause Gallery in Scandinavia summer program

risd views Publishers Weekly. gallery Foxy Production. of top emerging designers. 7 Chicago News. in Providence. in Denmark. risd views 28 29 Carrie Lee Schwartz MFA GL por ’83 (Folsom, LA) was among the international art educators Jamie Walker MFA CR selected to present work in The (Seattle), a professor of ceramics means by which we find our way: at the University of Washington, Observations on design, a 2008 was one of seven winners project at the Waikato Institute When The Learning of the university’s Distinguished of Technology in Hamilton, Community, a public Teaching Award for 2008. New Zealand. charter school in Central Falls, RI, first ’84 ’94 contacted designer Jim Kociuba MAE (Auburn, Bill Allen MFA PT/PR recently Laurencia Strauss NH) exhibited paintings of took a new position as head ear+h wa+er + sky MLA ’07 in early wetlands in , of interactive development at

t 2008, it was with an intriguing challenge: a winter solo show at the BooneOakley, an advertising to transform a parking lot into a verdant play- Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery agency in Charlotte, NC. in Portsmouth, NH. ground and outdoor classroom. The Learning

folio ’95 Community, a high-performing elementary Soleil (Honduras mahogany and Macassar ’87 school in a high-poverty neighborhood, ebony, 30" h x 42" diameter), a table Shahzia Sikander MFA PT/PR Kate Blacklock MFA designed and built by R. Thomas Tedrowe Work by (NYC) chose and interpreted attributes its success to rigorous academic CR Loren Chen MAE ’89 MFA ’81 FD (tedrowefurniture.com), is , and works from the Cooper-Hewitt’s standards and outstanding parental support. additions Paul Eshelman MFA ’81 CR featured in the book 500 Tables (May 2009, collection for the exhibition Inspired by the school’s pedagogy, Strauss Lark Books) by Andrew Glasgow. From June was included in Our Cups Runneth A daughter, Petra Emilia Brown, Shahzia Sikander Selects: Works worked closely with students, teachers, 20 to November 1 four of his pieces will Over, a show of ceramic cups to Lisa and Jason Brown from the Permanent Collection, administrators and parents to create a design be on view at the Indiana State Museum in held last winter at the Society MFA ’99 SC on August 28, 2008. which continues at the museum built on their ideas. Making it in the Midwest: Artists Who Chose of Arts and Crafts, Boston. Her sister Isabel Sofia is 3. to Stay. In addition to building furniture through September 7. Most of the funding and initial planning for the Knoxville, TN. in his Brown County, IN studio, Tom teaches ’90 at Herron School of Art. ’96 playground came from the students them- A son, Theo Samuel Nistler, John Mullin MFA PH (Los John P. McCormack MFA FD selves. In 2006 second grader Jason Diaz to Tim and Meryl (Ettinger) Angeles) exhibited photographs (San Francisco) and his work founded a Student Playground Committee and Nistler MArch ’02 on August 5, Mortal Traces last winter in , were profiled in “The Ultimate a year later fourth grader Bernardo Garcia 2008. His big brother Ellery is 3. a solo show at Carl Berg Gallery Crosscut Sled,” the cover story wrote a persuasive letter to Lowe’s, the Boston, MA. in Los Angeles. for the July/August ’08 issue national home store chain, requesting turf to of Fine Woodworking magazine. notes ’91 cover the asphalt where they attempted to play without skinning their knees. Garcia’s let- ’75 Jenna Spevack MFA PT/PR graduate In February Judy Gelles MFA ’63 (Brooklyn), Maribel Tapia ter reached the desk of an executive vice Grant Johnson MFA FAV (San PH (Philadelphia) exhibited ’79 Calderón MFA ’97 PT/PR president, who invited the school to apply for Martha Armstrong MAE Francisco) exhibited environ- photography in Thinking Small, (Brooklyn) and Bruce Busby funding, and in 2008 Lowe’s awarded The (Hatfield, MA) exhibited mental art last fall in Welcome to Paul Mindell MAT (Norwalk, a group show at Philadelphia’s MFA ’97 SC (Oakland, CA) Learning Community $110,000 to build a new paintings in two solo shows the Future, a solo show at Canessa CT) is one of 100 semi-finalists Pentimenti Gallery. showed work together last winter playground. last fall and winter: Up to Now Gallery in San Francisco. in the Smithsonian Institution’s Emi Ozawa MFA FD (Provi- in an exhibition at Hendershot at Gross McCleaf Gallery Outwin Boochever Portrait dence), Ashley Jameson Gallery in New York. Jonathan When Strauss joined the project, she was in Philadelphia and Vermont ’77 Competition 2009. Finalists will Eriksmoen MFA ’00 FD Gough MFA ’98 PT/PR was given two years’ worth of notes and ideas Landscapes and Winter Still Lifes be announced in June. Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT, (Oakland, CA) and Matthias the show’s curator. from the Student Playground Committee, at the Oxbow Gallery in an exhibition of work created Pliessnig ’03 FD (Philadelphia) built on democracy playground along with other carefully collected informa- Northampton, MA. ’80 by Jenny Holzer MFA PT since were among the artists exhibiting tion from her clients – all 400 of them. She the ’90s, is on view through Work by Stephen Petegorsky in Craft in America: Focus on Wood, ’69 embraced and expanded the democratic MFA PH (Florence, MA) was news of masters’ program alumni program of masters’ news the end of May at the Whitney a winter show at the Society design process by interviewing kindergartners Work by Perci Chester MAT Museum in New York. included in A Tribute to Polaroid, of Arts and Crafts in Boston. (Minneapolis) was featured a group exhibition held last about their feelings on play, asking staff and in a two-person show last fall ’78 fall at SoHo Photo Gallery in ’93 students to build imaginative models of their at Parish Gallery Georgetown New York. ideal playground and participating in class- Laurence Young MAE/MFA Janet Frankovic MFA CR in Washington, DC. room writing projects. “Design sense doesn’t ’79 (laurenceyoung.com; Linda King Ferguson MAE (Tahlequah, OK) contributed Provincetown, MA) exhibited (Au Train, MI) has been awarded work to The Fine Art of Drawing, only come from a privileged education,” ’71 last summer in Obscuring the Line, a residency at the Ragdale a fall exhibition at the Museum Strauss says. “It’s important to honor what Roy Ditosti MFA PH (Stow, a solo show at Alden Gallery Foundation for the winter/spring of Fine Arts at Florida State people have to contribute.” Synthesizing all MA) exhibited photographs last in Provincetown, MA. ’09 season. University in Tallahassee. the suggestions, she deftly transformed the fall in a solo show at artSTRAND existing blacktop into a dramatically undulat- gallery in Provincetown, MA. ing world where students explore and take Paul Jacklitch MFA ’85 PR risks safely. The completed space is impres- ’72 won a Guru Award for Best In sive beyond its obvious beauty and functional- Show at the 2008 Photoshop 10 Plus 5 Cocoons, an installation World convention in Las ity because Strauss’ design philosophy and the by Muriel Angelil MAE (Ames- Vegas. Modern Jackpot Casino Sarah Dillard MAE ’85 (sarah entire process dovetailed with the Learning bury, MA), was included in a fall (UltraChrome print, 20 x 30"), dillard.com; Waitsfield, VT) Community’s mission: to build a better world ’08 exhibition at Maudslay State the winning digital print from wrote and illustrated Perfectly by empowering others to use their voices – Park in Newburyport, MA. a series of HDR photographs Arugula (2009, Sterling), and then listening when they do. he took at the Neon Boneyard the story of a control-freak ’74 in Las Vegas, was published hedgehog who learns that — Delia Kovac ’02 PR in a recent issue of Photoshop loosening up can be a lot more Photographs by Arno Rafael User magazine. Paul is a fun. Sarah has written and Spring 2009 Spring Minkkinen MFA PH 2009 Spring (Andover, professor and chair of the illustrated several other MA) were featured in In Print, Department of Art and Art children’s books, including a fall solo show at Robert Klein History at Baldwin-Wallace Tightrope Poppy the High-

risd views Gallery in Boston. College in Berea, OH. Wire Pig and Follow the Bunny. risd views 30 31 readers’ views Natalia Almada MFA ’01 PH (Brooklyn) received the Best Director Award for US Documentary Film at Sundance 2009 for her filmEl General. The film is a personalized account of 100 years of Mexican history, focusing on Last summer Chelsea Green Natalia’s great-grandfather Plutarco MID Elías Calles, who was president of (see also p. 28; Bainbridge Mexico during the revolutionary era. Island, WA) led Re+Vision: Design Your (Neighbor)hood (designyour blog heaven online overload acronyms explained hood.blogspot.com), a Seattle current majors Art Museum program that I am so glad there is a RISD blog I wanted to take a minute to give introduced teens to urban design [our.risd.edu] that gives me the a little feedback about your online AP Apparel Design and public art. latest about RISD and its alumni.... publication e-views. It is beautiful and AR Architecture CR Ceramics ’08 Keep it up! as informative as the hard copy. But DM Digital + Media I spend half my workday online. I’m Michael Radyk MFA TX Loren Klein ’05 GD FAV Film/Animation/Video slammed with e-mail and solicita- (Athens, GA) won a Visionary Burke, VA FD Furniture Design Award of Excellence for his tions. It’s all I can do to get through GD Graphic Design woven piece Komako 1 in Craft my regular e-mail, my online career a chore to read GL Glass Forms 2008: The 14th International and my teaching commitments. Juried Exhibition of Contemporary IA Interior Architecture I just received the fall issue [of Craft. Works by 93 artists were I love to curl up with the paper ID Industrial Design In Other’s Words, an exhibition risd views] and have a few comments. selected for the event, which was version of risd views at lunch or IL Illustration held last fall at the University of The first is a question: Do we actually Massachusetts – Amherst, featured held at the Wayne [PA] Art dinner and read at my leisure – JM Jewelry + Metalsmithing Center last winter. give a degree in Graphic Design? work by Adam Eckstrom MFA reveling in reproductions of student LA Landscape Architecture Secondly, does anyone over the age Douglas Jones MFA ’92 FD and Kim Kulow-Jones PT, Greg Hopkins MFA PT, and alumni work. But online it PH Photography ’11 MFA ’92 FD (randomorbitstudio.com) recently of our typical graduates ever try to Matthew Monk MFA ’91 GD, needs to be crammed into my work PT Painting completed Boat Bench (2009; mahogany, milk Asya Palatova MFA ’04 CR Arielle Assouline-Lichten read , actually one of the periodicals? schedule. So I tend to skip over PR Printmaking paint, brass screws; 60 x 17 x 19"), a commission Serena Perrone MFA ’06 PR MArch ’00 , and Wayne Congar, SC Sculpture for the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa At only 66, I find the lack of contrast it in favor of ‘must-read’ e-mails. Beata Stepien-Liu MFA PT, partners in labRAD (labrad.com), Michele Jaquis MFA SC Fe; it was included in the museum’s exhibition TX Textiles Scott Thorpe MFA GD, Lauren won third prize in the White and the over-use of drop-out type, recently took a new position as A Chair for All Reasons, along with two of their I find more and more that the Was MFA ’04 SC and curators House Redux competition the multiple typefaces and the tiny former majors assistant professor and coor- other pieces. Doug teaches woodworking at curators I deal with avoid online Christine Gallagher MFA GD, sponsored by The Storefront for fonts make the text so difficult AD Advertising Design dinator for the Artists, Community Santa Fe Community College. publications and solicitations – easy Image courtesy of the Museum of International Folk Art Claudia Middendorf MFA GD Art and Architecture. want AE Art + Design Education and Teaching program at Otis to read that I don’t to read it. access has given way to information and Susie Nielsen MFA GD. MD Machine Design College of Art and Design in LA. From the point of view of texture Adam Eckstrom and Lauren Was overload and snail mail has returned Her documentary RECOVERED: and color, I guess that the pages TC Textile Chemistry also curated WORD UP, a show as the venue of choice. I’m sure the Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum ’03 To Reach (2008, painted steel, as laid out look OK, but they are TE Textile Engineering ’97 at NYC’s Broadway Gallery that e-version of views is less expensive and Back has been screened 102 x 40 x 40") and another Nick Hollibaugh MFA FD included pieces by Greg Hopkins, neither welcoming to read nor fifth-year bachelor’s degrees Nermin Kura MFA CR (Pro- at a number of conferences and sculpture created by Hongsock [to produce and distribute] and has and RISD Furniture Design/ Jeff Barnett-Winsby MFA particularly legible…. The “portfolio” BArch Architecture vi_dence) exhibited ceramic work theaters in the US. Lee MFA ’03 JM (Providence), a broader application. Plus, paper has Foundation Studies Critic ’06 PH, Colby Bird MFA ’04 BGD Graphic Design last fall in the 10th anniversary are now permanent installa- section of awards and obits is a become a luxury the ‘green’ economy Joshua Enck MFA FD won show at Galleri Apel in Istanbul, Susan Working MFA FD PH and Amanda Lechner tions on the rooftop terrace notable exception. BID Industrial Design a recent competition to design will not tolerate. But if you were Turkey. (Snowmass Village, CO), a wood MFA ’05 PT. of the Vilcek Foundation in BIA Interior Architecture and mixed-media artist as well as a sculpture for a public spot in New York. The work – his I am sorry to seem so negative, but to get rid of the printed magazine Greg Hopkins MFA PT BLA Landscape Architecture ’98 director of the Furniture Design Pawtucket, RI. Canter and Shed first large-scale commission – the readability and friendliness of altogether, I would miss it. will consist of a pair of painted (Brooklyn) exhibited paintings reflects the foundation’s master’s degrees and Woodworking program at risd views is consistently unappealing. Roberto Rovira MLA (Coral in two recent solo shows: mission to honor the achieve- Val Hird ’78 PT Anderson Ranch, was the subject metal structures rising 16' and 18' MA Art Education (formerly MAE) Gables, FL) showed work last Distractions at Galleria Glance ments of immigrants in the US. Last time [Fall 2008] the cover was of the cover story for the August above the street. Burlington, VT MArch Architecture summer in Banned & Recovered, in Turin, Italy and Sub Rosa so anonymous that I almost tossed 2008 issue of Woodwork magazine. MAT Teaching a group exhibition at the San Where Animals E-Mail, a piece at Sloan Fine Art in New York. it directly into the recycling bin Francisco Center for the Book by jecca MFA PH (NYC), was MFA Fine Arts ’02 Della Reams MFA TX recently because I could not identify it as and the African American included in the summer ’08 ’04 MID Industrial Design accepted a position as assistant something I wanted. Museum and Library. Paula Bryan MFA TX exhibition It’s Not Easy at Exit MIA Interior Architecture Alissia Melka-Teichroew MID professor of fashion design (Arlington, VA) exhibited 3D Art in New York. MLA Landscape Architecture (www.alissiamt.com; Brooklyn) at Virginia Commonwealth Now I am going to breathe, and add ’99 textile work last fall in Rare John Cross Neumann MID that I do like hearing what is up and continuing education Specimens, a solo show at the showed design wares (which University School of the Arts’ Two public art projects proposed (Portland, OR) was the lead only wish that the production values Arlington [VA] Arts Center. she produces through her com- campus in Doha, Qatar. CEC Continuing Education by Kana Tanaka MFA GL designer for the Motorola pany BY:AMT) last summer at made the reading a pleasure rather Certificate (kanatanaka.com; Richmond, CA) In March and April Robert VU204, a phone model intro- Houston’s Peel Gallery. ’07 than a chore. attended RISD, but no have won recent competitions: Ladislas Derr MFA PH duced last fall through North * John Baca MFA DM, Jacob degree awarded a renovation project for the (Columbus, OH) showed American wireless carriers. ’05 Jotham Bailey ’64 TX Goble MFA PT, Christopher FS enrolled for Foundation Scottsdale [AZ] Center for Structures and Strictures, a group Studies only For Such a Time as This: Remem- As part of the Delaware Center Robbins MFA DM and Rachelle South Orange, NJ Performing Arts, and a children’s of three video performances, bering Vietnam, a multimedia for the Contemporary Arts Beaudoin MFA DM showed activity deck for the Lafayette at Jack the Pelican Presents in installation by adrienne noelle (DCCA) Art & Community Visual work in the Queens [NY] [CA] Library and Learning Center. New York. He has also exhibited werge MFA PH (South Bend, Arts Residency Program, Ta n ya Museum of Art’s International 4 recently in The Mirror Stage Luke Walden MFA PH IN), was on view last winter Aguiñiga MFA FD (Los Angeles) (January – April), as part of at the Independent Museum of (Portland, OR) is a co-author at the Figge Art Museum in worked with high school seniors Douglas Paulson’s Anti-Fascist Contemporary Art in Limassol, of The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Davenport, IA. She was recently in Wilmington, DE last fall to Culture Club. For the 13th Pancevo Cyprus and the 2008 Freewaves Fall of America’s First Prison for awarded a Nikon Vision create furnishings featuring hair Biennial, held last fall in Serbia, Festival in LA. Drug Addicts, published last year Scholarship from the Santa Fe styling techniques traditionally John, Jacob and Christopher Spring 2009 Spring by Abrams. The book details Jane Hesser MFA PH Photographic Workshops, used by African-American exhibited solo works and 2009 Spring the 40-year history (1935-75) (Providence) exhibited photo- which supported her partici- women. The project culminated collaborated on the project of a federal treatment facility in graphs in a winter show at pation in a week-long digital in an exhibition at the DCCA Aftermath of a watercolor by

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october 9–11, 2009 alumni, reunion + parents’ weekend risd by design 09

Return to RISD from Friday, October 9 - Sunday, October 11 for connect a weekend full of people you want to see, artwork and other relax visual stimuli galore, and interesting things to do. recharge travel + lodging suggestions: www.risd.edu/rbd more program info: rbd.risd.edu

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