Announcements + Updates – Page 2 – RISD Academic Affairs

Yeadon’s Sketchbooks Acquired by CCA

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

The Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) in Montréal has acquired the four Prix de Rome sketchbooks completed by Peter Yeadon (Professor, Interior Architecture) in 2000. The four books will be added to the CCA’s substantial archival holdings, which...

Schneider Publishes on Mass Timber

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

Brett Schneider (Assistant Professor, Architecture) published, The Art and Craft of Mass Timber, in the Spring/Summer issue of the Harvard Design Magazine titled, Into the Woods. The issue “treks into the woods to come to terms with its precarious...

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...

Petraits to present at QQML in Chania, Greece

Written on May 15, 2018. Posted in Library.

Ellen Petraits (Research & Instruction Librarian) will present a paper at the international conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries in Chania, Crete. Her paper details a qualitative art and design research assessment chart...

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...

Yeadon Wins London International Creative Award

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

Peter Yeadon (Professor, Interior Architecture) and two collaborators has just received an award at the 2017 London International Creative Competition. Thousands of submissions were reviewed by the jury, which awarded an Honorable Mention to Yeadon,...

Cardini & Yeadon’s Black Flamingo Launches at ICFF

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

Paolo Cardini (Associate Professor, Industrial Design) and Peter Yeadon (Professor, Interior Architecture) will be launch an elegant new chair designed by them at the upcoming International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City. The designers...

Schiff at Cambridge University Conference

Written on May 1, 2018. Posted in Liberal Arts.

Karen Schiff (Lecturer, History of Art + Visual Culture), presented a paper at Jesus College, Cambridge University, about the marbled leaf in the novel, Tristram Shandy. Her paper, Revitalizing Humanity through ‘Reading’ the Marbled Page, offered new...