By: Katie Dominy on April 18, 2012
Next week sees the Department of Furniture Design, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Milan at Ventura Lambrate with Transformations, projects that rework everyday objects into new innovative pieces.
With a mix of MFA and BFA 2012/13 graduates, the pieces created in Transformations are visually striking and it takes a while to work out what they are made from. ARTS THREAD investigates.
StarTribune – travel
Article by: Gail Rosenblum, Start Tribune
Updated April 21, 2012 – 11:15 AM
This Rhode Island city sparkles with surprises, including culinary treats, fascinating history and bonfires on the water.
Sundown was an hour away, but already it was hard to find a place on the grassy knoll above the river. Middle-aged couples, parents maneuvering strollers down a wide stairway, young lovers and teens traveling in packs staked out their ground and waited for the summer’s biggest event to begin.
Fireworks? In a fashion.
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BLOUIN ARTINFO
IN THE AIR
Art News & Gossip
April 23, 2012, 12:17 pm
They were told to OBEY and they obeyed! Rhode Island School of Design student Julian Marshall’s 25-minute thesis film recreating the early life of street artist provocateur Shepard Fairey has been funded on Kickstarter in just four days to the tune of $32,000, thanks to legions of Fairey fans and art aficionados alike, plus a little help from this Web site. Read the rest of this entry »
The Huffington Post
02/22/2012, 6:27 pm
John Maeda is a world-renowned artist and graphic designer; he’s also a computer scientist and an electrical engineer. He’s a recipient of the National Design Award and has work in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
He’s also president of the most prestigious art and design school in the world: The Rhode Island School of Design.
I met John in the lobby of his hotel a few hours before his scheduled appearance at the Seattle RISD Alumni Club meeting. Here is an abbreviated version of our hour-long conversation.
By Kimberley Donoghue
PBN Web Editor
John Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design since June 2008, thinks innovation is the answer to the U.S.’ economic woes and that art plays an integral role in that equation.
What’s the difference between an ordinary MP3 player and an iPod? Art and design, he says.
That’s why Maeda, U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin, along with other local organizations, are fighting to add an “A” to the science, engineering, technology and mathematics federal agenda – STEM to STEAM. Read the rest of this entry »
By Denise Perreault
PBN Staff Writer
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A pair of Rhode Island School of Design graduates recently completed an accelerator/incubator facility on Providence’s West Side for design professionals, a potential prototype for a similar development in the city’s nascent Knowledge District. Read the rest of this entry »
By Kimberley Donoghue
PBN Web Editor
Twitter: @kdonog
PROVIDENCE – Entrepreneurs are pressed for time so why not kill two birds – fitness and brainstorming – with one stone?
The “Jogging with John” group began in July 2008 when John Maeda was appointed president of the Rhode Island School of Design. Steve Cronin, president and CEO of Mercury Print and Mail in Pawtucket, approached Maeda after a speaking event. Read the rest of this entry »
The acronym STEM—shorthand for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—has quickly taken hold in education policy circles, but some experts in the arts community and beyond suggest it may be missing another initial to make the combination more powerful. The idea? Move from STEM to STEAM, with an A for the arts. Read the rest of this entry »
AMY J. BARRY, Special to The Day
Publication: The Day
Published 11/20/2011 12:00 AM
Updated 11/18/2011 03:26 PM
The illustrations in the new children’s book, “The Legend of Hobbomock: The Sleeping Giant,” earned Old Lyme native Jesse Bonelli, an “A”-quite literally.
A senior at Rhode Island School of Design (RISDE) where he’s majoring in illustration, Bonelli completed the pictures for the book last winter as an independent study, so he could devote the time to creating the 14 full-color oil paintings while keeping up with his rigorous studies.
Written by Jason Marchi of Guilford, a journalist and published poet, “The Legend of Hobbomock” is Marchi’s interpretation of a Native-American legend about how a group of hills in Hamden came to look like a giant sleeping on his back. Read the rest of this entry »
The small, private college in upstate New York recently teamed up with Starfish Retention Solutions to institute an electronic “flagging” system that allows a student’s instructors, adviser and other officials to keep each other apprised if the student begins to fall behind on grades, attendance, health or financial aid forms, or any other obligations the student needs to fulfill to stay enrolled. Read the rest of this entry »
