PROVIDENCE — He was carved nearly 1,000 years ago from the wood of a giant cryptomeria, a type of cypress native to Japan. Since then, he’s been worshiped as a god, survived a devastating fire, endured a lengthy ocean voyage and delighted generations of Rhode Island art lovers.
Still, there’s a good chance the majestic “Buddha Dainichi Nyorai” — better known as the RISD Museum’s big wooden Buddha — has never had it so good.
In an email to RISD faculty, Board Chair Michael Spalter has announced that the search for a new president is underway.
The board has appointed an 11-member search committee, which includes representatives from the RISD Museum, the faculty and the board of trustees.
The university has hired executive search firm Isaacson Miller to help with the search.
RISD’s former President John Maeda stepped down unexpectedly in the middle of the academic year to take a venture capital job in Silicon Valley.
PROVIDENCE – Every year, the Rhode Island School of Design graduates another batch of seniors from its film-animation-video Department.
Some of the alumni? Seth MacFarlane and Gus Van Sant to name a few.
Imagine being the bull in a bullfight, tormented by a matador.
That’s the perspective RISD senior Lynn Kim gives in her animated short “Toro”.
“There’s quite a bit of sensory overload that’s happening. And a lot of the film actually focuses quite a bit on that, what you perceive, what you might see as the bull, and what you might feel as the bull,” Kim said.
PROVIDENCE — The outpouring of support for Central Falls, the first city in state history to go through federal bankruptcy, has continued to blossom.
On Tuesday, urban studies and design students from the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University unveiled the “Central Falls Comprehensive Master Plan,” to transform the 1.3-square-mile urban landscape into a picturesque oasis dotted with scores of trees, bikeways and gardens.
The plans are so ambitious it’s hard to imagine that the state’s most densely populated city with 19,400 residents wouldn’t soon become a very different place.