

MA Alumna Newport Art Museum's Director of Education
Kameko Branchaud MA 2014 is after stints at the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City and the Peabody Essex Museum now spearheading as its Director of Education the overhaul of the Newport Art Museum's Education programming. Kameko is committed to inclusivity in programming as she describes here in an interview reported in a recent edition of Rhode Island State Council on the Art's RISCA online RISCA: What is one thing you think the art community in Rhode


Salima Hashami MA '90 awarded an honorary doctorate
Salima Hashami a renown Pakistani artist and RISD MA alumna who was awarded an honorary doctorate from Bath Spa University was featured recently in its alumni magazine. Salima who graduated from RISD in 1990 the same year that TLAD's Department Head Dr. Paul Sproll joined the faculty. An interesting set of coincidences surround both Salima and Dr. Sproll - both were trained in the UK at the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham , which would later become Bath Spa University. And addit