Hello, RISD!
It's been a busy summer at the Center for Arts & Language (A&L), and we can't wait to share some news. But first, for anyone new to RISD and/or A&L ...
What We're All About
A&L honors the power of language to shape our work, ideas, beliefs, selves, and engagement with others. A&L's staff and tutors provide (free!) peer tutoring for all RISD students in written, spoken, visual, and multilingual communication; workshops and events; and self-study guides. We are also the headquarters for v.1 (volume-1.org), RISD's student-led publication.
Visit us on the second floor of the Fleet Library (take the second set of elevators, past the café). We are open Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm, with additional tutoring hours nights and weekends. Students can come for tutoring, faculty for collaboration, and anyone is welcome to write, read, draw, think, ask questions, or just relax in our communal space.
New This Fall
—Two new self-guided workshops on Communication Skills and Research Practices. These Canvas-based workshops are available to students and faculty for their open use anytime year-round.
—A workshops and events calendar, including an info session on the Communication Skills workshops on September 21.
—Our Brave Space poster, which features our tutors' self-created guidelines for inclusive dialogue.
—A centralized Multilingual Learners Hub, where multilingual students seeking English-language and curricular support can find our offerings in one place.
—"Language partner sessions" for students who want to practice English language skills with a peer tutor. (Sign up for peer tutoring as usual and check the language partner box.)
Peer Tutoring Kicks Off
It was a joy to launch the tutoring season on Sunday, when we all gathered at A&L for our first meeting ...
and tried out a language-partner activity in which one person describes an image while others draw what they hear …
Thanks for reading, keep an eye on our homepage for announcements throughout the year, reach out anytime, and we can't wait to see you around.
Happy fall!
All of us at A&L