Timothy Sandiford – RISD Academic Affairs

Graduate Hooding + Commencement 2018

Written on May 29, 2018. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Updates from & for Faculty.

The Graduate Hooding Ceremony will take place on Friday, June 1 at the First Baptist Church in America, 75 North Main Street. This will be a combined ceremony for all graduate departments. Doors will open at 1:00 pm, and the program begins at 1:30...

Leski Contributes to Documentary on Met Opera House

Written on May 29, 2018. Posted in Announcements + Updates.

Kyna Leski (Professor, Architecture) was invited to contribute to a documentary on the creation of the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts. Her father architect Tadeusz ‘Tad’ Leski designed the concept for the iconic...

Professional Development Fund (Spring 2018) Awardees

Written on May 29, 2018. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Updates from & for Faculty.

Academic Affairs is pleased to announce the recipients for the Spring 2018 cycle of the Professional Development Fund. For more information on grants available to full and part-time RISD faculty members, click here. The total amount granted in this...

Bergstein Cited as Strong Mentor

Written on May 15, 2018. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

Mary Bergstein (Professor, History of Art + Visual Culture) was cited as a strong mentor for women in Andrianna Campbell’s profile in Women in the Arts in Frieze. Bergstein’s review of, Contemporary Master Drawings at Cade Tompkins Projects, was published...

Event: Everybody’s House, Rose Parks Project Symposium, 05/18/18

Written on May 15, 2018. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Architecture and Design.

RISD Interior Architecture and WaterFire Providence present Everybody’s House: a symposium on art, preservation, and memory inspired by, The Rosa Parks House Project, by Ryan Mendoza. Friday, May 18th from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the WaterFire...

Horenstein Premiers New Film

Written on May 15, 2018. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Fine Arts.

Henry Horenstein (Professor, Photography) recently premiered his new film, Partners, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Partners, is a documentary film incorporating clips from 13 interviews with couples who discuss how they met and how their relationships...

Crit Schedule Spring 2018 Now Avalible

Written on May 1, 2018. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Updates from & for Faculty.

Spring 2018 Crit Schedule The Spring crit schedule will be available for viewing to anybody with a risd.edu email; please click HERE to view the schedule. Please note that you must be logged in with your risd.edu email account in order to access the...

Graphic Design Academic Program Review Campus Visit

Written on May 1, 2018. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Architecture and Design.

Related to Graphic Design’s self-study, an Academic Program Review (APR) committee will visit RISD, May 21 through 23, 2018. The members are: Juliette Cezzar, Graphic Design APR Chair, Assistant Professor, Communication Design, The New School Rachel...

Sittenfeld Photo Essay Featured in New York Times

Written on May 1, 2018. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

Josephine Sittenfeld (Critic, History of Art + Visual Culture) was recently featured in the New York Times. Her new photo essay, Excavating My ’90s-Era Childhood Bedroom, shows images of the the items she encountered while clearing her childhood...

Better Featured in BostonVoyager Interview

Written on May 1, 2018. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Architecture and Design.

Hansy Better Barraza (Professor, Architecture) was recently interviewed in BostonVoyager. The article examines Better’s career pathway and her relationship to Boston, it also features a selection of her work.

Author: Timothy Sandiford