Division of Fine Arts – RISD Academic Affairs

Fine Arts Division Commencement Celebration

Written on May 27, 2014. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Fine Arts.

The Fine Arts Division: Ceramics, Film/Animation/Video, Glass, Illustration, Jewelry & Metalsmithing, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Textiles invites you to its Commencement Celebration for Graduating Students and their families. Friday,...

Dean of Fine Arts Finalist Lectures

Written on May 8, 2013. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Fine Arts.

Artist Practice Seminar & Lecture Scheduled

Written on April 12, 2013. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Fine Arts.

Two evenings with Annabeth Rosen have been scheduled, sponsored by the Division of Fine Arts, Ceramics and Textiles. After Graduation: What, Where, How, With Whom? Rosen, joined by RISD Fine Arts faculty, will lead a discussion on the opportunities...

Reiko Nireki visiting faculty from Japan

Written on February 18, 2013. Posted in Fine Arts, Updates from & for Faculty.

Reiko Mikami Nireki is visiting from Japan during the Spring 2013 semester as part of RISD’s J1 visa Exchange Visitor’s Program. Reiko is serving as a Critic in the Printmaking Department where she is teaching a course on Japanese papermaking....

Collins: “Touching the Void” Exhibition Opening

Written on February 5, 2013. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Fine Arts.

“Touching the Void,” an installation by Liz Collins that explores consumption through knit garments and sculpture, opens at the Textile Arts Center, February 15, 2013. “Touching the Void” seamlessly presents wearable experiments...

Bert Beaver passes away

Written on January 8, 2013. Posted in Fine Arts, Updates from & for Faculty.

Professor Emeritus Albert Preston Beaver died in New Hampshire on 12/18/2012. Bert was born July 11, 1921 in Calgary, Alberta. He graduated from the Provincial Institute of Technology in Calgary in 1946 and the Institute of Design, Chicago in 1948...

Doyle Presents on “A Selected History of Western Illustration”

Written on December 21, 2012. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Fine Arts.

On November 29, 2012, Susan Doyle (Assistant Professor / Chief Critic, European Honors Program / Illustration) made a spot-survey of the history of western illustration from illuminated books/ early printed books through approximately 2000 AD, at...

Rachel Berwick receives Joan Mitchell Foundation grant

Written on December 19, 2012. Posted in Fine Arts, Uncategorized.

Rachel Berwick (Professor, Glass) is a recipient of of a $25,000 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant for 2013. The grant program was established in 1993 to acknowledge painters and sculptors creating work of exceptional quality through...

Knitting Nation at MoMA

Written on November 14, 2012. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Fine Arts.

Liz Collins Studio is proud to announce an exciting reiteration of the KNITTING NATION project. KNITTING NATION Phase 10: Domestic Swarming will be staged at MoMA Studio: Common Senses, as a response to Fritz Haeg’s Domestic Integrities rug. Artist...

Mallozzi Film to Air on PBS World

Written on November 14, 2012. Posted in Fine Arts.

My Louisiana Love, a film edited and co-produced by Julie Mallozzi (FAV), will air on PBS World as part of the America Reframed series. The film tells the story of a young woman’s quest to find a place in her Native American community as it reels...

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