|
|
Rhode Island School of Design's Office of Public Engagement works with faculty,students, alumni, and community partners to connect art, design and scholarship
with the public good.
|
the basics
|
|
get involved
|
|
blogs & networks
|
|
curriculum
|
|
sustainability
|
|
public art
|
| |
|
get involved
______________________
|
|
Subscribe!
Join our new Facebook Group!
View our Community Partners page to learn about opportunities to be involved in Providence.
Our blog lists service opportunities, events, program documentation, and news. Subscribe to our feed.
Or join our mailing list and get a weekly update of public engagement opportunities and resources.
|
|
respond | design
RESPOND|DESIGN is an interdisciplinary forum for RISD students and faculty interested in how design can respond to the critical issues of
our day. RESPOND|DESIGN meets weekly, in the old library on Tuesdays from 11:30 to 12:30. Please join us as we are currently
working on some exciting projects.
|
|
RISDpedia
RISDpedia is a collaborative website who serves to document all the products and materials found around RISD, and how to use them.
|
|
who are we now?
providence portraits
Who lives, works, uses, hangs out in Downcity Providnece, today? This project will explore this question, foster conversation,
and build community...
|
|
risd.tv
RISD.tv hosts an online laboratory for pedagogical experimentation and research into the possibilities of non-linear, networked
video production.
|
|
risd Project Open Door
Project Open Door provides free programs for low-income high school students with a budding passion for art and design. Teens
use RISD studios, museum and library as they work with faculty, staff,professional artists and college mentors to develop
a portfolio for application to college. Daily after-school classes are offered at RISD and at partner schools for students
from participating urban high schools. Students attend classes from 1 to 4 days a week.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
what's new
_________________________________
|
|
Rhode Island Community Jobs
Rhode Island Community Jobs (RICOMJOB) is a public e-mail announcement list that seeks to connect non-profit and public interest
employers in the state with individuals seeking paid work that makes a difference in our communities. Anyone can join the
list or post a paid position to the list.
Rhode Island Community Jobs is a free service supported by the Rhode Island Campus Compact and the Swearer Center for Public
Service at Brown University.
|
|
AmeriCorps*VISTA Position
at RISD | Public Engagement
RISD | Public Engagement is seeking candidates for an AmeriCorps*VISTA position that will run from 30 July 2008 to 29 July
2009. This AmeriCorps*VISTA position is sponsored through the Rhode Island Campus Compact and will work closely with the director
of RISD | Public Engagement to advance the strategic goals of the Office.
|
|
Art and healing; RISD program wins international award
[From the 16 April on-line edition of the Providence Journal]A Rhode Island School of Design course that pairs fine
arts students with young psychiatric patients has won an international award.
|
|
Public Engagement Associate: Erica Eaton
RISD Public Engagement welcomes it's third Public Engagement Associate, Erica Eaton. Erica will be on campus from Friday,
11 April through Tuesday, 15 April.
Erica Eaton is and artist and teacher based in Rochester, NY. In her own words, her work attempts to make the familiar strange
and the strange familiar. She is fascinated with how people make meaning, and how that meaning is applied in our lives. At
its core her work deals with the relationships between memory, nostalgia and meaning and how this complex web plays out socially,
politically and emotionally. At it's most obvious, her work deals with issues that she is passionate and curious about:
race, gender, sexual orientation, class, mass amnesia the effects of new technologies on our collective consciousness and
visions for creating new possibilities. More about Erica's work can be found at: http://ericaeaton.com
|
|
Public Engagement Associate:
Nayland Blake
|
| Blake works with graduate students during his residency |
Nayland Blake completed his Public Engagement Associate residency, 2-6 April. By working with students in the graduate seminar,
From Studio to Situation, and conducting studio visits with graduate Sculpture students, Blake opened conversations
about intimate and public impulses in contemporary practice.
|
|
Hall Inaugurates Associates Program
|
| Reading of the Wishing Wall, 21 February |
Between 15 January and 21 February 2008, Pam Hall inaugurated RISD's Public Engagement Associate program...
|
|
Spring Public Engagement Courses
A listing of spring public engagement courses is avaliable.
|
|
Respond | Design Wintersession Course
Over Wintersession 2008, eleven graduate students participated in an inquiry course on carbon neutrality at RISD (sponsored
by Graduate Studies and the Office of Public Engagement). The course developed a draft proposal on how RISD can begin the
process of significantly reducing carbon emissions within our community.
|
|
Public Engagement Associates
Artist-Activist Residency Series Welcomes Pam Hall.
A new program at RISD is bringing a series of artist-activists to campus for residencies focused on creative exchange with
the community. Coordinated through RISD’s Office of Public Engagement, the Public Engagement Associates residency series
begins this winter with Pam Hall, an interdisciplinary installation / performance artist based in Newfoundland. On January
17 Hall will create a site-specific installation at Brown/RISD Hillel (80 Brown Street, Providence); the piece will lay the
foundation for her residency at RISD from February 18-23. During that week Hall will work with faculty and students and give
a public talk at the community arts nonprofit New Urban Arts. The Public Engagement Associates series continues throughout
the spring with visits from Nayland Blake, Ju-Pong Lin and Erica Eaton.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
this summer
_________________________________
|
|
| FAX 2007 students on a walking tour of Providence |
Fusion Arts Exchange
RISD has received funding for a second year of the Fusion Arts Exchange Program.
|
coming up
_________________________________
|
Blood, Oil, and Water:
a social justice art exhibit
RISD Public Engagement is currently seeking RISD students to serve as members of a Brown-RISD development team to conceptualize
and fabricate a social justice art exhibit that will ultimately travel the country as an educational tool. The focus of this
installation is to educate the general public about the biosocial and geopolitical implications of oil extraction in the Ecuadorian
Amazon and raise awareness about the impact of the oil industry on the people who live where oil is found. This collection,
tentatively called "Blood, Oil, and Water" will use multiple artistic techniques, primarily sculptural, in order
to explore how oil is extracted and interpret the legacy it leaves. This project will run from September-May 2008, possibly
beyond, and will offer academic credit for participating RISD students and will consist of bi-monthly meetings with multiple
project advisors as well as well as bi-weekly studio hours, to be scheduled at the convenience of all participating students.
For more information about this project or to get involved, contact: Pete Hocking, phocking@risd.edu or Ben Colburn, benjamin_colburn@brown.edu
|
|
community profile
_________________________________
|
|
New Urban Arts
New Urban Arts is nationally recognized interdisciplinary arts studio for high school students and emerging artists in Providence, Rhode
Island.
Our mission is to build a vital community that empowers young people to develop a creative practice they can sustain throughout
their lives. We provide studio, exhibition space, and mentoring for young artists who explore the visual, performing, and
literary arts through yearlong free out-of-school programs. Founded in 1997, New Urban Arts serves 125 high school students
in the Providence Public High Schools and 15 artists each year. We have been named one of fifty premiere arts and youth development
programs in the country for four consecutive years.
|
|
from the director
_________________________________
|
|
The up-coming spring semester promises to be an exciting time for public engagement at RISD. With the inauguration of the
Public Engagement Associates program, the results of this winter session’s Respond | Design sustainability seminar being
implemented, the convening of our advisory board, the continuation of Who Are We Now, and our on-going work with New Urban
Arts all underway, the Office is making connections across and between the RISD and Providence communities.
When I began this job last summer I didn’t realize how exciting and transformational this work would be. I’ve
been inspired, energized and, indeed, challenged by the many students and faculty I’ve been privileged to speak with
– not only to clearly define the mission of public engagement at RISD, but to imagine what I might be.
I’m looking forward to the coming months – both for what the Office will be doing and for what we’ll all
be learning about this work.
Pete Hocking, director
27 February 2008
|
|
|
|
