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Project Open Door, the college access program at RISD for urban teens, which is housed in the Department of Teaching + Learning in Art + Design and which is also a professional practice site for MA students studying Community Arts Education, provides Rhode Island high school students with some remarkable opportunities, such as working with photographer and Project Open Door artist-in-residence Jo Sittenfeld and having their photographs exhibited in a RISD gallery alongside th

Congratulations to Melissa Rivera, MAT '05 who has recently been receiving a good number of accolades for her work; the latest being RAW Honolulu Visual Artist of the Year. #alumni #news

Barbara Voccola, MAT '94, an art teacher at Cranston High School West, received theRhode Island Art Education Association's (RIAEA) 2012 High School Art Educator Awardat a reception held at the Wickford Art Association's gallery in North Kingstown on Friday, October 19th. It was testimony to the impact that Barbara has had on the students she has taught over the years that so many of her alumni and their parents attended the ceremony to celebrate this well-deserved recognitio

We are very pleased to announce that TLAD's Associate Professor John Chamberlin is to receive the Rhode Island Art Education Association's (RIAEA) 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award at RIAEA's Rhode Island Art Educator of the Year Awards ceremonies hosted by the Wickford Art Association on Friday, October 19th. #news

This summer and with the generous support of the Surdna Foundation, the Department of Teaching + Learning in Art + Design convened a week-long Studio Institute for Rhode Island's K-12 art teachers. This professional development studio program centered on the theme [Re] Envisioning Drawing. Participants guided, by RISD facultyNancy Friese and Nancy Skolos together with guest faculty Jane Masters, worked in private studios and small groups focusing on drawing and color, drawing

Two of the three panelists in the second episode of the public television series Art RIhave TLAD connections. On a panel moderated by Martina Windels, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Director of Education at the RISD Museum are joined by TLAD Professor Dr. Paul Sproll, and TLAD alumna and Executive Director of CityArts Barbara Wong, MA '95. In the program broadcast mid-week on Rhode Island PBS, cable Channel 8 and to be re-broadcast this Sunday (09/16) at 9:30am the "three art educators i

A solo show by Doug Dammarell, MA '95 entitled Landscape & Spectacle opens at the Frodel Gallery, West Sound Academy, Poulsbo, WA on September 20th. Doug is a visual arts intructor at North Kitsap High School and at the District's Parent Assisted Learning Program. #alumni #news #exhibition

Milisa Galazzi, MA '96 just posted the following news on the Department's Facebook Group: "I am pleased to share that the international paint manufacturing company, R&F, has named me Artist of the Month. Special thanks to Laura Moriarty, Gallery Director, and her team, who conducted a wonderful interview creating a terrific post Together withKristin Heynen, RISD MA and MAT, this past winter we gave a talk at the NAEA Conference in NYC about conceptual artmaking using encaust

Alysa Holland Short, MA '04, who while at RISD pursued the Community Arts Education track, shares some great news about a position with YouthBuild Providence. "I just wanted to let you know about an exciting teaching project that I am starting next month. YouthBuild Providence has hired me to create an art education program as part of their multiple pathways educational initiative. Over the summer, the Providence School Board passed YBP's performance contract and approved the

Here is an example what happened when RISD's Department of Teaching + Learning in Art + Design partnered with Project Open Door, RISD's Department of Ceramics, and Hope High School - a Providence public school http://www.risd.edu/About/News/Clay_in_Context/ #news