Jane South – RISD Academic Affairs

South Appointed Chair of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute

Written on May 16, 2017. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Fine Arts.

Jane South (Assistant Professor, Film Animation Video) was recently appointed to the Chair of the Fine Arts Department at the Pratt Institute. The current Chair of Fine Arts, Deborah Bright, said of South “Jane South has an impressive background...

Exhibition: FRACTURED

Written on September 17, 2015. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Fine Arts, Foundation Studies.

The group exhibition of works on paper, Fractured looks at fractured space through the lens of structure, optics, and narrative and how those constructions or deconstructions create new meaning, new perceptions, and new truths. At the Helen Day Art...

Welcome new faculty and term appointments

Written on July 21, 2015. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Architecture and Design, Fine Arts, Foundation Studies, Graduate Studies, Liberal Arts.

Academic Affairs is pleased to welcome these new faculty and term appointments to RISD. Thank you to the search committees for their considerable time and effort this year. Full-time Appointments: Apparel Design Gwen van den Eijnde, Assistant Professor Neil...

“The Magic Box” performances

Written on April 6, 2015. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Research.

As part of the newly launched Robert L. Turner Theatrical and Performance Design initiative, students collaborated with the Providence Ballet Theatre company to design sets and costumes that support an original ballet. Students worked with RISD faculty...

South’s “Performing the Artifact” blog

Written on February 19, 2015. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Fine Arts.

“Performing the Artifact”, a blog that documents the ongoing work of Jane South (Critic, Sculpture) as the 2015 RISD Andrew W. Mellon Teaching Fellow, is now live at http://performingtheartifact.blogspot.com/. Part 1, “Staging Still...

2015 Mellon Teaching Fellow selected

Written on December 9, 2014. Posted in Announcements + Updates.

Congratulations to Jane South (Critic, Sculpture) for being selected as a Mellon Teaching Fellow for 2015 as part of a collaborative project, Assemblages, between The RISD Museum and Brown University’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology funded...

Turner-funded “Check Your Vernacular” launched

Written on September 30, 2014. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Fine Arts.

Dirty Looks NYC celebrates the release of the Angela Dufresne (Assistant Professor, Painting) and Jane South (Critic, Sculpture) publication – CHECK YOUR VERNACULAR– at Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair with a performance and screening...

Turner Award recipients announced

Written on April 29, 2014. Posted in Announcements + Updates.

Congratulations to the 2015 Turner Award recipients: Angela Dufresne (Painting) and Jane South (Critic, Sculpture) will collaborate on the course Tableaux and/of Performativity in the fall semester. In the spring Avishek Ganguly (Literary Arts + Studies)...

2014 Award & 2015 Deadline – Turner Theatrical and Performance Design Project

Written on October 28, 2013. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Architecture and Design, Fine Arts, Opportunities.

The Robert Turner Theatrical and Performance Design Project at RISD was established to support the teaching of interdisciplinary courses that integrate various elements of theatrical and performance design. 2014 Turner Award Congratulations to Jane...

South: Floor / Ceiling

Written on March 28, 2013. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Fine Arts.

An exhibition of work by Jane South (Critic, Sculpture) has opened at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Conn. South’s practice has consistently engaged space in an architectural manner, drawing in three dimensions with paper. Combining...

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