Dale Broholm – RISD Academic Affairs

Broholm in “Wicked Local”

Written on January 17, 2014. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Architecture and Design.

The work of Dale Broholm (Senior Critic, Furniture Design) was the focus of an article this month in “Wicked Local: Wellesley.” The article features a recent project, a pair of lamps inspired by old-fashioned architectural structures. The...

Broholm Awarded Artist Fellowship in Crafts

Written on February 15, 2013. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Architecture and Design.

Dale Broholm (Senior Critic, Furniture Design) has been awarded an Artist Fellowship in Crafts from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for the 2013-2014 granting cycle. The Artist Fellowships provide direct, unrestricted support to Massachusetts artists...

Echoes of a 'Place of the Elms' in RISD’s Witness Tree Project

Written on August 31, 2012. Posted in Architecture and Design, Updates from & for Faculty.

Eighteen months ago, a nearly 200-year old elm succumbed to Dutch Elm Disease in Brookline, Mass. This particular tree was especially beloved as a fixture on the property of famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who used American elms in...

Broholm and Cavicchi to speak on Witness Tree Project

Written on January 11, 2012. Posted in Architecture and Design, Liberal Arts, Uncategorized.

Dale Broholm (Senior Critic, Furniture) and Dan Cavicchi (Assc. Professor, HPSS) will speak at the upcoming Organization of American Historians Annual Conference on the Witness Tree Project. The Project, now in its third year, features a collaboration...

Broholm and Cavicchi's "Witness Tree Project" volume 3

Written on April 5, 2011. Posted in Architecture and Design, Liberal Arts, Uncategorized, Updates from & for Faculty.

For the past two years Dale Broholm (Senior Critic) and Dan Cavicchi (Assc. Professor, HPSS) have run the “Witness Tree Project” together. The course has taken them and their students to the eastern shore of Maryland and to Long Island...

The Witness Tree Project Exhibition

Written on March 8, 2010. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Architecture and Design, Liberal Arts.

Students and faculty in RISD’s “Witness Tree Project” course and the Hampton National Historic Site have collaborated on a project involving the creation of objects from the former State Champion, a falling pecan tree. Also known...