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public engagement associates
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Over the course of the 2008 and 2009 academic years, seven artists, activists and educators visited RISD
as Public Engagement Associates. Associates visit RISD for a short residency, including a public presentation, a colloquium
with faculty and focused time with students. The Office works with Associates should they want to expand or tailor their participation,
or undertake a special project as part of their residency.
This program is possible through the generous funding of Learn & Serve America and the Rhode Island Campus Compact.
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15 January -
21 February 2008 & 27-29 April 2009
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| Reading of the Wishing Wall, 21 February |
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Pam Hall is an interdisciplinary artist working across, and sometimes in between, the boundaries
of medium and discipline.
She makes visual art, constructs installations, works with language, and is engaged in film,
video, and most recently, performance. She works alone (inside and outside of her studios), and collaborates with others (sometimes
individuals, sometimes communities). Based in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, she travels extensively to pursue the creation
and presentation of her work, and to teach graduate students in the U.S. Her work has been shown throughout Canada and internationally.
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| Leon Johnson presenting to Use of Space:Place of Campus seminar. |
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Leon Johnson is a convergent media artist and
educator, born and raised in Cape Town
South Africa. He is the proprietor of
The Long Bell Press, founding member of Creative
Material Group, and director-in-residence at The
Berwick Institute in Boston. He is the recipient of a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant and a Yaddo Residency
Fellowship. Leon has lectured at the Victoria and Albert
Museum and performed Empire Postcards:
My Colonial Father[s] in England and Toronto ('98) and Faust/Faustus: A Duet For Devils in the UK ('00). An intermedia collaboration with performer John Schmor and composer
Jeffrey Stolet, reMEMBERING WILDE, premiered in the
UK in the summer of 2002. His video
"Faust/Faustus in Deptford" was selected for the
Kunst Film Bienale, Cologne, Germany; and
the Raindance Film Festival, London.
He recently completed a new video, "FORTRESS/BOY/BRIDGE: my ear a nautilus". He will lead a workshop in Berlin this
summer for the Transart Institute, where he is faculty in Interdisciplinary Studio + Theory.
09-10 March 2009
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| Faust/Faustus: A Duet For Devils in the UK |
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| 10" x 8" Glass Ambrotype, 2000 |
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Visiting
Schedule
Interested parties should contact Susan Sakash at 401-427-6906
for more information.
Monday March 9th
9:30am -12:30pm Visiting scholar/artist, The Use of Space | The Place of Campus, a
research seminar with co-instructors Peter Hocking and Charlie Cannon
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch with students
2
- 6pm Studio visits with seniors or 2nd year grad
students
Tuesday, March 10th
On Tuesday, Leon will be joined by Tyler Denmead.
9:00am - 10:30am Morning coffee with
invited faculty.
11:30 - 1:00pm Lunch
1:10 - 4:00pm Visiting scholar/artist, Peter Hocking's From Studio to Situation class
5:00 -6:00pm Dinner dialogue
6:30 - 8pm Leon Johnson presentation on gallery work.
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Tyler Denmead started New Urban Arts, a nationally recognized arts studio for high school
students and emerging artists, as an undergraduate Brown University in 1997. He stepped down in 2007
to pursue a PhD at the University of Cambridge, researching the pedagogies of creative practitioners working in community,
health, and educational settings in the United Kingdom. His hope, which he continues to practice today, is to expand the role
of creativity in people's lives. Tyler currently resides in Cambridge England, where he studies Arts, Culture and Education
at the University of Cambridge. He is married to Katherine Campbell Miller. They have a daughter, Virginia Lynn.
Visiting Scholar Schedule
Tuesday March 10th
9:30am - 10:30am Morning coffee with invited faculty.
1:10 - 4:00pm Visiting scholar, Peter Hocking's
From Studio to Situation seminar
4:30 -6:30pm Open conversation with Peter Hocking and New
Urban Arts mentors and students (closed to New Urban Arts community)
Wednesday March 11th
1:10 - 4:10pm Visiting scholar, Christopher Ho's Competition, Collaboration, Collective graduate seminar
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| Nate Barchus (IL'10) works with New Urban Arts, summer 2009 |
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A swarm is coming! The Beehive Design Collective- a
non-profit, volunteer driven, political arts organization based in eastern Maine is headed to RISD. The group’s mission
is to “cross pollinate the grassroots” through the creation of images as an effective medium for deconstructing
and educating the public about complex geopolitical issues.
The bees create collaborative, hand-illustrated posters of dizzying intricacy which are patchwork “quilts”
of personal stories related to them in their travels by communities in the global south.
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Nayland Blake completed his Public Engagement Associate residency, 2-6 April 2008. 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.
Nayland Blake is an artist, curator, educator, writer and investigator who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
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| Blake works with graduate students during his residency |
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Erica makes video and installation work that 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 lived lives. "At its core my work
deals with the relationships between memory, nostalgia and meaning and how this complex web plays out socially, politically
and emotionally. At its most obvious, my work deals with issues that I am 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." Erica lives and works in Western NY. Her work has been shown in traditional and public art spaces locally
and around the world. She is the founder and director of the Evolutionary Girls Club, an international group of artists, scholars and activists.
Artist Web Site
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Ju-Pong Lin makes video art, knits cozy props, performs and
collects stories about everyday and imagined life, mothers two children, and
teaches Interdisciplinary Art at Goddard College. She is a Resident Artist
at the Perishable Theater and serves on the board of City Arts and CVS
Highlander Elementary School.
Ordinary stories of everyday people, neighborhoods, laundry, the chores of
everyday life, all that daily stuff of human existence, moves from periphery
to center in Ju-Pong Linıs interdisciplinary art practice. Through video
art, storytelling and story-exchange, knitting, ironing and occasional
drawing, she makes connections between spiritual revelation, political
struggle and scrubbing jam off the kitchen floor.
Story offers a way to reveal and to embrace contradiction, the
contradictions of a culture that lauds traditional family values yet
restricts how we love one another; a culture that raises motherhood on a
pedestal yet tolerates daily violence against women; a culture that
simultaneously perpetuates a fascination with the "other" and while obsessed
with securing its borders.
An immigrant who exchanged Taiwanese for U.S. citizenship over 25 years ago
and raised in the United States, Ju-Pong communicates haltingly with her
Taiwanese-speaking relatives. The word, ³family², conjures up contradictory
feelings of love, longing and grief. Ju-Pong makes art in sympathy with all
border-crossers. The border that hangs tenuously between art and life also
becomes permeable in her work as her stories weave between oral history and
fiction. Sharing authorship with participatory audiences, Ju-Pong stages
interactive experiences, keeping alive a commitment to making art more
accessible and integrated with daily life.
"Neighbor to Neighbor" Project Description (100 words) is a community-based
story project that brings together diverse communities by gathering and
weaving together the stories of people who live in them. Ju-Pong Lin travels
from neighborhood to neighborhood, ³pollinating² and growing stories. She
knits as she tells her own neighborhood stories and invites audience
participants to share their stories and memories of neighborhood. The rugs,
seat mats, blankets and other objects that she knits will be woven together
with the collected stories into an interactive stage performance.
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