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COMMUNITY 3 £ ART I<t> "a> g 8(D — <D PROJECT o a> a> Qi CALENDAR of ART EVENTS May— June 193 7 Volume Four Number Five The Helen Adelaide Rowe Metcalf building is the THE RHODE ISLAND offices for the Departments of Mechanical Design, Arch­ latest addition to the Rhode Island School of Design itecture, and Interior Design. and extends from North Main Street up the hill to SCHOOL OF DESIGN Unit No. 2 extends from the archway east to that sec­ Benefit Street, bordering the north side of College tion upon which the panel of Fine Arts, by Lee Lawrie, Street. Following the devoted interest and the personal has just been completed, and has its entrance opposite energy of his mother, Helen Adelaide Rowe Metcalf, the Court House. Here, the special touches of color and of his sister, Eliza Metcalf Radeke, Stephen O. become red, which is as it should be, for in these studios Metcalf, for many years treasurer of the Corporation, and classrooms much of the life and vitality of the School generously adds this building in memory of his mother. must vibrate. Here students learn the technical and the The new building is laid out in three closely related intellectual demands of drawing and painting, and their units, a procedure imposed by the peculiar character of history, and a more fluent use of the mother tongue (for the plot of ground on which it stands. all students must continue their studies in English). The large painting and drawing studios are undoubt­ Unit No. I is that portion of the building situated at edly as fine as those to be found in any schools of art the Main Street end, extending east to a point where the the world over. Each is equipped with a large soapstone upper portion assumes a different floor level just west sink, and wall sockets for flexible special lighting as of the Archway. Special color notes of green in certain needed. Walls are of cinder block, having comparatively of the rooms and on stairways are used for no particular fine grain surfaces in order to insure a reasonably smooth reason unless green symbolizes fruitfulness and hope for plane. At different levels wood strips are placed for the aesthetic future of our community. On the first and hanging backgrounds, illustrative material, or students' second floors in this section of the building are the Executive head, the Dean, the business management, the work. School's new administrative offices, including the Presi­ Registrar, the Superintendent of Buildings, and the dent's and Trustees'; the latter room has a natural Community Art Project have offices in this section. In this unit is the two story sculpture studio having a pine wood trim, wainscoting, and an old fireplace Immediately above on the third, fourth, and fifth working balcony on three sides, and equipped with tracks mantel from the Manning House which was razed. The levels is a series of drafting rooms, classrooms, and and chain hoists for handling stone and other heavy material in any part of the studio. Here, also, are the also, is a second old mantel (taken from one of the old Nebraska State Capitol, and at the entrance of the newly equipped carpenter and painting shops where buildings) scraped down to give it its natural pine color. R. C. A. Building, Rockefeller Center, New York. museum cases and other school equipment are made A rest room, coat room, and lavatory complete the The color note on the stairways in Unit No. 3 is blue, and finished by experienced cabinet makers and painters. arrangements. symbol of truth and education. The exterior entrance doors to each unit will also employ these colors, although There is one area on the north side of Unit No. 2 which On the opposite end of Unit No. 3, at the corner of emphasis on colors should not be given too serious atten­ has a movable partition wall a little west of the middle. College and Benefit Streets, is the soft gray green Men's tion as a slight variety is all that is intended in so long In the larger side, there will be fixed seats for class lec­ Faculty room, architecturally a duplicate of the women's a building. ture purposes, accommodating about 150 students. By room. Here the old fireplace is reproduced. Both rooms moving the partition, at least 75 more seats may be are to be furnished later by friends of the school. Happily, the architect, F. Ellis Jackson, of Jackson, installed as occasion demands. Otherwise, this smaller Robertson and Adams, designed the Court House on Above the library, there are studios for the Depart­ room will be used for studio purposes. the opposite side of College Street, and his admirable ment of Graphic Arts and the wonderfully iighted design for the new School building is in beautiful har­ Unit No. 3 with entrance on Benefit Street has three monitor on top is to be used for etching and block mony with it. rooms of unusual distinction. The first is the 40 x 71 foot printing. From the plaza at the foot of the hill, the view looking Library with balcony and teakwood cases. An arched On the north end of Unit No. 3, next to Memorial by these two structures—toward the handsome Beckwith ceiling gives the room a spacious appearance, while Hall, are two limestone panels, one typifying "Industrial house, now the home of the Providence Handicraft alcoves on the main floor and on the mezzanine above Arts," nearer Benefit Street, and the other, "Liberal Club, the classical Athenaeum opposite, the John Hay add to its attractiveness. West of this main reference Arts," just west of the first one. Mr. Fred Pfeiffer, master Library and, just beyond the fine old English elms, room are workroom, slide and picture room, office, and craftsman from Cleveland, Ohio, carved the three pan­ beautiful old University Hall on Brown University Cam­ metal stacks. The library has a capacity of about 40,000 els from exact size plaster models made by Lee Lawrie, pus—is one of the most attractive to be found anywhere, volumes. The present number is between 15,000 and internationally known sculptor, other examples of whose and the School of Design can truthfully say that no other 20,000. work are to be seen in the Law Library at Cornell, institution designed for its particular purpose is more The other two special rooms are for the Faculty. The the reredos of St. Thomas' Church, New York, the Hark- adequately and beautifully housed and equipped than Women's Faculty room is at the right as one enters from ness Memorial Tower and Archway, Yale University, the this one. Benefit Street and is painted in a rich yellow tone. Here, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C., the ROYAL B. FARNUM. EXHIBITIONS OUTSIDE OF RHODE ISLAND CALENDAR EXHIBITIONS IN RHODE ISLAND New Haven, Conn., Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University Sunday, May 2 Faunce House Art Gallery, Brown University Music Week: Male Chorus Program. Sayles Hall, Brown Apr. 27-May 15—Portrait Drawings of Members of the Boston To May 15—Selections from American Index of Design. University, 4:00 P. M. Symphony Orchestra by Gerome Brush. May2-June 6—Early English Water-colors. Music Week: Recital by Joseph Paul Smith, Baritone, of New May 17-29—Brown Camera Club Exhibition. May 14-22—Exhibition of Architectural Competition Drawings York. Sayles Hall, Brown University, 8:15 P. M. June 8-22—Facsimile Reproductions of Drawings by Degas. for New York World's Fair. Monday, May 3 John Hay Library, Brown University May 17-22—Exhibition of Drawings Submitted in This Year's Music Week: All Club Program. Sayles Hall, Brown University, May 1-31—Silver Cup presented to Peter Baumgras, Artist. Rome Collaborative Competition. 8:15 P. M. Lincoln Collection. Basement Studio Group presents a dramatic reading of Act June 1-30—Special Collections of Brown University Library. June 17-30—Students' Work. 5 of "Measure for Measure" by Shakespeare followed by a School Gallery of the Rhode Island School of Design June 17-30—Recent Accessions. talk by Mrs. J. Perry Evans on "The Women of Shakespeare". May 1-8—Exhibition of Amateur Photography. Tea. 80 Benefit Street, 8:10 P. M. May 10-15—Exhibition of Jewelry Designs. Andover, Mass., Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy Tuesday, May 4 May 26-June 23—Annual Exhibition of Students' Work. To May 16—Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators Music Week: High School Chorus, directed by Dr. Walter H. Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design (lent by Museum of Modern Art). Butterfield. Central High School, 8:15 P. M. To May 9—Swedish Handicraft. Mayl6-June20—Federal Art Projects in New England: A Wednesday, May 5 To May I I—Exhibition of Aldrich Collection of Japanese Summary.