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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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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.

"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

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