Announcements + Updates – RISD Academic Affairs

2019 Sabbatical Presentations

Written on March 28, 2019. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Events, Sabbatical Lectures.

Sabbatical presentations provide a forum for faculty returning from sabbatical leave to share discoveries, insights, and new work with the community. We invite you to attend informal presentations and learn more about the ways our faculty are...

De-Centering the Classroom | Patricia Barbeito, Dean of Faculty

Written on March 19, 2019. Posted in Announcements + Updates.

In 1963, soon after the Birmingham Church Bombing, James Baldwin exhorted a group of educators to “attempt to correct so many generations of bad faith and cruelty” in the classroom. He not only pointed to the necessity to rectify the lack of representation...

Re-Design | Damian White, Dean of Liberal Arts

Written on March 5, 2019. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

I began to seriously study environmental questions in 1991. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on the insights William Morris and André Gorz offered for thinking through what was then known as “the new politics of ecology.” I had some further vague notion...

CRIT SCHEDULES

Written on November 15, 2018. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Critiques.

The crit schedule becomes available one month prior to crit week in the Fall and Spring semesters. The schedule is available for viewing to anybody in Google Apps for Education (GAE) with a risd.edu email. Please note that as each division/department...

Convocation 2018 | Daniel Cavicchi, Provost

Written on September 11, 2018. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Provost.

Naivité “The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.” –Emily Dickinson, 1876 I remember when I was a brand new undergraduate, at Cornell University, in the 1980s. I was painfully shy and overwhelmed by the whole college experience, but I was...

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...

Nelson to Lecture at fPet Conference in DC

Written on May 29, 2018. Posted in Architecture and Design.

Erik Nelson (Critic, Architecture) will lecture at the Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology (fPet) at the University of Maryland, College Park at the end of May. As an engineer working with wood—specifically, designing wood buildings— Nelson...

Peltz’ work featured in two exhibitions

Written on May 29, 2018. Posted in Fine Arts.

Daniel Peltz’ (Professor, Film Animation Video) multi-year artistic research project, Performing Labour, is featured in two ongoing exhibitions: ‘Performing Labour’ at the Norrköpings Konstmuseum in Sweden, curated by Helena Scragg,...

Horii Workshops and Lectures in China

Written on May 29, 2018. Posted in Foundation Studies.

Ken Horii (Professor, Experimental & Foundation Studies) will conduct a drawing workshop for graduate students in Hangzhou, China at the China Academy of Art International MFA Program in June 2018, and a Modular Design workshop for design undergrads...