Stories about studios + projects
Message in a Bottle
Using thousands of recycled water and milk bottles, Professor and Head of SculptureEllen Driscoll has created an ambitious new work of public art for Providence’s waterfront.
Alum Wins Guggenheim for Body-Generated Art
This spring Janine Antoni MFA 89 SC joined the diverse group of 180 artists, scientists and scholars who won a prestigious 2011Guggenheim Fellowship.
Sitings 13
On Thursday, March 21, the student artists who won the RISD Museum’s Sitings 2013 competition discussed their inspiration and their process at an opening reception to celebrate their new work.
Back to the Source
Now that Taylor Baldwin 05 SC has joined the full-time faculty in Sculpture, he says that it’s “surreal” to be back on campus working with professors he learned from as an undergraduate.
Maharam Fellows Work for Social Change
It wouldn’t be wise to poke holes in the plastic-wrapped package now on its way to Blake Hiltunen MFA 14 SC.
Making Magic
Last week students in RISD’s first theatrical design studio – co-taught by Sculpture Critic Jane South and Interior Architecture Critic Michael McGarty, who also teaches in the Theatre Arts department at Brown – offered a backstage peek inside The Magic Box, an all-new ballet that will premiere in Providence this spring.
Visualizing the Unseen
Now that she has retired from teaching at Northern Virginia Community College, sculptor and lecturer Rebecca Kamen MFA 78 SC is doing anything but slowing down.
3D Printing Comes Home
Janos Stone 98 SC believes in putting the creative powers of technology into the hands of the common man (and woman and child).
Snyder Wins a Guggenheim
Last week Professor Dean Snyder, head of the Sculpture department, learned that he is one of 175 scholars, artists and scientists in the US and Canada to earn a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship to support further work in their fields.