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Eminent TLAD Alumna Speaks in Dubai

Eminent TLAD Alumna Speaks in Dubai

It is with great delight that we can announce an event at the American University in Dubai that brings together two Department of Teaching + Learning in Art + Design alumnae - Saba Quizilbash (MA 2004) and Salima Hasmi (MA) 1990. Saba, who is an adjunct faculty member in American University's Department of Visual Communication invited Salima to give a presentation there entitled "Art and Activism in Contemporary Pakistani Art" on March 19th. Professor Hashmi is an artist, edu

MATs @ the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

MATs @ the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Left to Right, Michelle Cheng, MA ’10; Kameko Branchaud, MA '14, Dr. Paul Sproll I was, for a number of years, a member of the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s Education Committee as well as an adviser to its Summer Design Institute for teachers, so knowing I would be teaching the 2015 MAT Wintersession course, Design Education Studio Workshop, I reached out to the Cooper-Hewitt to see if it would be possible for my class to visit, especially as the Cooper-Hewitt ha

MA Alumna at The White House

MA Alumna at The White House

Congratulations to Barbara Wong MA '95 Executive Director of CityArts Providence who was at the White House on Monday, November 10th to accept from First Lady, Michelle Obama a 2014 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award in recognition for the extraordinary work carried out at CityArts - a Southside Providence community-based arts center. In the First Lady's opening remarks at this ceremony the she spoke of how the awardees were "changing the trajectory" the lives o

MA ALUMNA REBECCA BRADLEY RECIPIENT OF 2014 EMERGING LEADER AWARD

MA ALUMNA REBECCA BRADLEY RECIPIENT OF 2014 EMERGING LEADER AWARD

Congratulations to Rebecca Bradley, MA '10 who was one of just four recipients of the 2014 Emerging Leader Award presented at the 14th Annual Kennedy Center Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability Conference, August 1-4 in Chicago. Rebecca is Accessibility Coordinator for Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco. Rebecca's professional practice in museums activates a great deal of the research conducted while at RISD and which culminated in her MA thesis entitled "Art for All: An

ELENA CALDERON PATINO, MA '09 APPOINTED TO LATINO ORGANIZATION'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS

ELENA CALDERON PATINO, MA '09 APPOINTED TO LATINO ORGANIZATION'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Wonderful news about TLAD MA '09 alumna Elena Calderon Patino appeared in Sunday's (07.27.14)Providence Journal, which reported that "Elena Calderon Patino, of Providence has been appointed to the board of directors of The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, the nation's only multidisciplinary Latino arts service organization. Patino, director of the community arts program at Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, has been dedicated for many years to the promot

MA ALUMNUS COLLABORATES WITH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO CREATE A MURAL

MA ALUMNUS COLLABORATES WITH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO CREATE A MURAL

Artist-in-Residence and MA alumnus Munir Mohammed puts the final touches to a mural he created together with a band of 5 student "apprentices" at the William M. Davies Jr. Career & Technical High School as part of a Project Open Door residency at the school. The mural was developed around the school's motto of "Respect, Responsibility and Ready to Succeed." All the figures featured in the mural are actual Davies students. Project Open Door is a college access program housed i

PROFESSOR SPROLL ACCEPTS INVITATION TO WORK WITH MAT '97 ALUMNA

“STEAM : Art + Design as a Catalyst for Creative Thinking” Paul Sproll, Professor and Department Head of Teaching + Learning in Art + Design was invited by MAT ’97 alumna Heidi Targee-Heid, a coordinating teacher at Stone Magnet Middle School in Melbourne, Florida to run a two-day professional development workshop for teachers June 5th & 6th. Professor Sproll’s workshop “STEAM: Art + Design as a Catalyst for Creative Thinking” introduced teachers to ideas and strategies that

CLARA LIEU LEARN CREATE TEACH

Aaron Chang, MAT '04, who is now an assistant principal in a California high school, was the first person to suggest I ought read Clara Lieu's book "Learn, Create, Teach: A Guide To Building a Creative Life" and as a result of his recommendation I bought the book, invited Clara to teach in Project Open Door - our college access program for urban teens - and to give this Spring semester talk in the Chace Auditorium, RISD Museum to TLAD graduate students and the RISD Community.

BRIAN HUTCHESON MAT '07 RECEIVES NOMINATION

"He teaches drawing, gorilla art techniques and digital storytelling..." Congratulations to Brian Hutcheson, MAT '07 on his recent nomination by the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation for the 2014 Foundation of Art Award "Most days you can find Brian at the Charles Wright Academy, where he teaches drawing, gorilla art techniques and digital storytelling, among other creative topics. He also established a Martlet Press at Charles Wright Academy, a letterpress and book arts p

MA ALUMNA COLLABORATES WITH RISD'S DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

MA ALUMNA COLLABORATES WITH RISD'S DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

Maria Joana Santos, MA '12, who attended RISD as a Fulbright Scholar and is now Director of Education at Carpe Diem - Arte-e-Pesquisa, a contemporary art center in Lisbon Portugal, took the initiative to invite RISD's Department of Interior Architecture to join her in a collaborative project that involved RISD faculty and students developing a conceptual site-specific installation at Carpe Diem's home in the Palacio Pombal. #alumni #news

BRIAN HUTCHESON MAT '07 INVITES HIS STUDENTS TO REFLECT

BRIAN HUTCHESON MAT '07 INVITES HIS STUDENTS TO REFLECT

MAT alum Brian Hutcheson's venture into socially engaged artistic practice with his students at the Charles Wright Academy, Tacoma, Washington was covered recently by his local newspaper The News Tribune. In a truly creative project, Brian invited his students to post cylindrical paper tubes on which they wrote their prayers, hopes, and dreams into an installation of hexagonal slots that he had designed and built. The project culminated in the burying of the tubes in school g

MA ALUMNA ACCEPTS PROJECT COORDINATOR POSTION AT THE AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND

Bridget Skenadore, MA '12 has just shared the great news that she has just accepted the position of Native Arts and Culture Project Coordinator with the American Indian College Fund's Office of Research and Sponsored Programs in Denver, Colorado. Bridget tells us that she is very excited because she will be "working closely with tribes from the Midwest in helping restore Native art forms. Just like our languages, our traditional art forms need help from completely disappearin

NEWLY HIRED RISD TLAD 2010 MAS

Rebecca Davidson, MA Art & Design Education (2010) has just shared the news that she recently joined the Virgina Museum of Contemporary Art as Manager of School and Educator Programs. Additionally, Michelle Cheng, MA Art & Design Education (2010) has just been hired as Manager of Professional Development by the Cooper-Hewitt Smithonian National Design Museum, where among other respoonsibilities she will oversee theSmithsonian Design Institute. #news #alumni

MA ALUMNA SHARES FOOD IN DUBAI

MA ALUMNA SHARES FOOD IN DUBAI

Saba Qizilbash, MA '04 (Community Arts Education track) has never lost her commitment to community-based work and matters of social justice. In Dubai, where she now lives and works, Saba with the support of a group of friends bridge the social divide and distribute food and essential supplies to construction workers. Saba writes: "Mums Who Share came together as a collective in 2008. What began as an initiative of two friends to share food with manual workers in the newly dev

MA ALUMNA AWARDED $300,000 INNOVATION FELLOWSHIP

MA ALUMNA AWARDED $300,000 INNOVATION FELLOWSHIP

Adrienne Gagnon, MA 2008 (Community Arts Education track), Execuitive Director of Downcity Design, was one of two individuals, the other Lynn Taylor, MD, to recently be awarded a 2013 Innovation Fellowship each worth $300,000 from the Rhode Island Foundation. Adrienne Gagnon (right) "Adrienne's project, Innovation by Design, will help foster the next generation of Rhode Island innovators by bringing the transformative tools of “design thinking” to students across the state. H

MAT ALUMANAE PUBLISHED IN SCHOOLARTS MAGAZINE

MAT ALUMANAE PUBLISHED IN SCHOOLARTS MAGAZINE

Congratulations to Sarabeth Berk, MAT '06and Kristy Scher, MAT '07 on having articles published in the April issue ofSchoolArts Magazine that is devoted to matters of ecology. Sarabeth's article "Garden Gone Wild" describes the problem-solving involved in the design and creation of a "children's float for [a] local Independence Day parade." In her article entitled "The Tote Bag Awareness Project," Kristy describes an innovative project in which her students created designs th

TLAD ALUMNA TO RECEIVE RISD ALUMNI AWARD

TLAD ALUMNA TO RECEIVE RISD ALUMNI AWARD

It has just been announced that TLAD Alumna Tamara Kaplan MA/MAT '00 is to be presented with the RISD Alumni Association's 2013 Art and Education Award at Commencement ceremonies in June. The award recognizes Tamara's longtime commitment to working with teens at New Urban Arts - a Providence-based non-profit that runs a highly successful mentoring program for young artists. #alumni #news

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