risd | Department of Teaching + Learning in Art + Design

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

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

During his sabbatical leave from RISD, TLAD Professor Dr. Paul Sproll was invited to submit a contribution to an edition of ARCADE - "a Seattle-based nonprofit that creates opportunities — in print, in the community and online — for sharing ideas about design, culture and the built environment." RISD's STEAM Club is the features editor for ARCADE Issue 31.2 Putting Art and Design at the Center of STEM. Professor Sproll's contribution is entitled "STEM to STEAM: Consequence's,

The Department alumni identified here will be giving presentations at the 2013 National Art Education Association (NAEA) Convention in Fort Worth, Texas, March 7-11. These presentations were the result of a competitive, juried, peer-reviewed selection process. Amy Charleroy, MA (Associate Director, Office of Academic Initiatives at the College Board, New York) Julia Einstein, MAT (Assistant Director of Family and Studio Learning, Portland Museum of Art, ME) Michelle Grohe, MA

It's been a great year for Dubai-based alumna Saba Qizilbash, MA 04, who has been shortlised for the United Arab Emirates International Emerging Artist Award. #alumni #news

Professor Nancy Friese, who developed and teaches TLAD's sequence of Collegiate Teaching courses open to graduate students from all RISD disciplines, is represented in a show entitled Double Legacy at the Cade Tompkins Projects gallery, Providence from January 19th to February 23rd. #news

Saba Qizilbash, now living and working in Dubai and who graduated in 2004 with her MA in Art + Design Education with a focus on Community Arts Education, is represented in an exhibition entitled Contemporary Art from Pakistan at the cuadro gallery in Dubai. "Saba Qizilbash’s series explores the idea of clothes as a second skin, loaded with cultural, political, social, and even religious connotations. By removing the figurative representation, Saba reinforces the idea that wha

Ian Torney, MAE '92 who is on the visual arts faculty and is Nesto Gallery Director at Milton Academy, Massachusetts recently shared with us the following notification "Dear fellow artists, patrons, colleagues, and friends - I am writing to let all know that I have a new painting in the exhibit "Objectified" that opens with a reception 6:00 to 9:00 PM this coming Friday January 4th at Lesley University's Washburn Hall Gallery, 10 Phillips Place, Cambridge, MA (five minutes f

Forbes House Museum Director, Robin Tagliaferri, MA '01 will give a talk onJanuary 9th, 2013 at Milton Public Library, MA about her recent trip to China, where she visited Shanghai, Nanchang, the Fuliang County, Jingdezhen and Beijing. The ten day trip included attendance at the Second Seminar on Chinese Export Porcelain of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, sponsored by Professor Yu Chunming and Nanchang University. The seminar was held from October 18-25, and included presenters

Teens enrolled in Project Open Door, the college access program housed and facilitated in theDepartment of Teaching + Learning in Art + Design, had their work in creating ornaments for the National Christmas Tree Display in Washington DC featured on RISD's website at http://www.risd.edu/About/News/Decorating_the_Capitol/ Congratulations to Project Open Door's Associate Director, Christina Miles, MAT '11 and Angell Fellow, Jenn Hercman, MA '12 for all the work they did in guid