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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

TLAD Faculty Help Shape the Future of Two New Providence High Schools

"The new schools 'will be unlike anything the district has ever done before...'" TLAD faculty Professor Paul Sproll and Senior Lecturer Janice DeFrances began work this month as members of the High School Design Advisory Group for two Carnegie High Schools that will be co-located in Fall 2015 in two existing Providence public high schools – Hope High School and Mt. Pleasant High School. According to the news release, the new schools “will be unlike anything the district (PPSD

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

TLAD WELL REPRESENTED IN RHODE ISLAND ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION'S ANNUAL AWARDS

TLAD WELL REPRESENTED IN RHODE ISLAND ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION'S ANNUAL AWARDS

RISD's Department of Teaching + Learning in Art + Design was very well represented at the recent Rhode Island Art Education Association's (RIAEA) 2015 awards ceremony and reception. Kurt Van Dexter (MAT '00) received the High School Art Educator award as well as overall 2015 Art Educator of the Year award and Paul Carpentier (MAT '97) received the Elementary School Art Educator award. Dr. Paul Sproll, TLAD, Department Head, received RIAEA's 2015 Distinguished Friend award. #n

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

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

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

TLAD INVITES SHAHZIA SIKANDER TO TALK AT RISD

TLAD FACULTY & ALUMNI ARE PRESENTERS @ NAEA CONVENTION

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

TLAD HOSTS RISE-NEGMA

TLAD HOSTS RISE-NEGMA

On Thursday November 14th, TLAD hosted three finalists - Educate Me, Helm, and Maddad - from a competition organized by RISE-NEGMA a 501(c)(3) non profit organization that was established after the January 25th Egyptian Uprising, when a group of seven Egyptian-American and Egyptian prfofessionals from the Harvard and MIT community got together and asked the simple questions : "What can we do to move ideas to action on the ground, for a brighter future for Egypt?" RISE (Re-thi

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

ARTIST RESIDENCY MURAL INSTALLED

Artist-in-Residence and photographer Jo Sittenfeld collaborated with teens in a Project Open Door after-school program at Shea High School in Pawtucket to produce some extraordinary images. The photographs have now been installed as a mural in the Department of Teaching + Learning in Art + Design's reception area in the CIT Building at RISD. The collaboration between Jo and the Shea teens led to the work being exhibited at the Atrium Gallery of the Rhode Island Statehouse and

2ND TEACHERS' STUDIO INSTITUTE @ RISD

2ND TEACHERS' STUDIO INSTITUTE @ RISD

The 2nd Teachers' Studio Institute (TSI) entitled Grand Scale is scheduled to take place at RISD fromJuly 22nd - July 27th. This year, Rhode Island K-12 art teachers, some of whom are TLAD alumni, will be joined by a number of alums that are teaching out-of-state. The Institute is directed by Dr. Paul Sproll, TLAD's Head of Department; its three artists-in-residence are David Frazer, Nancy Friese, and Jane Masters. The Institute culminates in an exhibition of teachers' work

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

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