On Friday, September 27, from 11 AM - 2PM, A&L welcomes RISD students, faculty, and staff to visit our new space, learn about what we do, and be part of a collective experiment in activating the methods we use to help students in your written, spoken, and visual projects at RISD and beyond . . .
H101 Formal Analysis Workshops
H101 Formal Analysis Paper: Overview and Q+A
Monday, September 23, 4:30-5:30 PM
Tuesday, September 24, 9:00-10:00 AM
A&L, 15 West/Fleet Library, 2nd floor
(take the elevators in the lobby, to the right of Portfolio Café)
Your first H101 paper assignment—the formal analysis—may be entirely new to you. Your H101 professor will guide you through the conventions, but you may want to learn more. In this workshop, we’ll review the essentials and the finer points of this cornerstone of art history writing, share approaches for looking, describing, and analyzing, and raise and answer questions together. Presented by: Jen Liese
Fall Workshops: English for Art & Design
Multilingual learners: this semester’s workshop series will focus on listening and pronunciation skills using a variety of art-related video and audio resources. Join us to improve your understanding of lectures as well as your own clarity in public speaking. Facilitated by Maya Krinsky, Assistant Director, Multilingual Learning
Tuesdays, 4:30-6:00 PM
September 17, 24; October 1, 8, 15
in A&L’s new home: 2nd floor of 15 West/Fleet Library (take the elevators to the right of the Portfolio Café)
Questions/registration: multilingual@risd.edu
A Room of Everyone's Own (with a View)
Last week, A&L crossed the river: from the College Building to the Fleet Library, from a cozy corner to a spacious oasis. We’re on the Library’s second floor: take the 15 West lobby elevators to 2 and make a right. We can’t wait to welcome you. Stop by or make an appointment anytime, and don’t miss our grand “Opening & Happening” on Friday, September 20, from 11-2, during which we’ll attempt to activate all our modes of communicating and thinking and doing at once. More on that soon …
Looking for us?
A&L is moving to a beautiful new space in the Fleet Library this summer!
We’re not sure of the move date yet. In the meantime, we will be in and out of the College Building office, and sometimes in the Library’s Macaulay Room.
Please e-mail if you’re looking for us:
Jen: jliese@risd.edu
Meredith: mbarrett01@risd.edu
Maya: mkrinsky01@risd.edu
Thanks and happy summer!
Join the Black Lunch Table
Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Wednesday, March 13, 1:15pm–4:00pm
RISD Fleet Library, 15 Westminster St, Providence, Picture Collection, 2nd floor
Free, lunch and snacks provided by SEI, RSVP to jbervinl@risd.edu
The Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Edit-a-thons mobilize the creation and improvement of a site-specific set of Wikipedia articles that pertain to the lives and works of Black artists. No prior knowledge of editing is required! BLT will provide a short introduction to the platform and will provide assistance throughout the event. All writing levels welcome. No prior knowledge of Wikipedia editing is required. Please bring your laptop and feel free to bring a friend!
RISD Glass Visiting Artist Jina Valentine will give an artist lecture on her work in Chace Center, RISD Museum afterwards at 4:30pm. The Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is sponsored in collaboration with the Brown Arts Initiative, RISD Office of Social Equity & Inclusion, RISD Division of Fine Arts, and RISD Library.
The Black Lunch Table is an ongoing collaboration between artists Jina Valentine and Heather Hart which intends to fill holes in the documentation of contemporary art history.
Spring Workshops! English for Art & Design
Looking to improve your writing and speaking in English for class, critique, presentations, and studio visits?
Join Maya Krinsky, Assistant Director for Multilingual Learning, for informal weekly workshops this March.
Sundays, March 3, 10, 17, and 24
10 AM - 12 PM
in A&L (College Building, room 240)
E-mail multilingual@risd.edu with any questions or to register (appreciated but not required)
v.1 went LIVE!
What a cozy scene in Carr Haus last week, as v.1 (volume-1.org) authors read aloud, reflected on process, and basked in the glow of lights, hot chocolate, and good conversation.
Tiger Dingsun reads from “The Unbearable Whiteness of Being (A Graphic Designer),” while the crowd reads along.
Olive Godlee prepares to read “Bread Day” after passing around a fresh-baked loaf.
Mike Fink shares wisdom from his 50+ years of writing, publishing, and teaching writers at RISD.
Mays Albaik’s finale performance: “How to Make a Person: A Recipe.”
v.1 is going LIVE!
v.1, RISD’s student publication, is on the stands and going live, this Thursday night.
Writing in the New Year
The Creative Independent—an inspiring source of professional and personal guidance for artists, designers, and “creatives”—has issued a wonderful tool for the New Year: Synchronicity, an online worksheet of writing prompts designed to provoke “synchronicity between creative practice and life” in the year ahead. Give it a try, and if you like, come share your responses with an A&L tutor. Writing + talking —> doing and being!
The Stakes of Criticism
Coming up this Thursday/Friday right here at RISD …
v.1 Info Session this Sunday
v.1 is having its first info session of the year this Sunday. Anyone with something ready to share or just an ambiguous spark of interest is welcome!
Those who can’t make it are welcome to send a pitch (100 words or less) or query anytime and the editors will respond within a week. v.1 invites proposals in any genre, on any topic, and for any platform (poster, web, newspaper ...).
Visit volume-1.org to learn more.
Email: v1@risd.edu.
Last Chance for HIGHLIGHTS
HIGHLIGHTS: The RISD Graduate Thesis Book, an exhibition of 37 theses highlighting exemplary approaches to research, writing, and design, is up for just two more days—through Sunday, October 7, at Sol Koffler Gallery (CIT/169 Weybosset).
Here’s what people have been saying in the visitor book ...
"So strong, so important, so beautifully executed!"
"Makes me excited to tackle my own future thesis."
"Fantastic show! The more undergraduates who see this [too], the better."
"A resource every working artist should have access to."
"A strong display of the innovative thinking that will change the world."
”♡ Highlights”
We ♡ watching visitors dig in to the books and even do some writing in the space …
Once the show comes down, the thesis books will be back in the Library, and the accompanying Book of Thesis Books will soon be distributed around campus. Here’s an excerpt including the introduction and one thesis from each of the five categories (academic thesis, monograph, project document, mosaic essay, and artist’s book). We’re looking at print-on-demand options, so stay tuned or contact jliese@risd.edu if you’d like a copy.
Grad Thesis Book Workshops
A&L and the Fleet Library welcome grads to our series of Fall workshops—an opportunity to come together across departments to imagine and develop the possibilities for your thesis book.
Workshops are on Thursday nights from 7-9 PM, on the 2nd floor of the Fleet Library (take the elevators to the right of Portfolio cafe), in room 228.
September 27
Process Matters: Angela Lorenz Opens Her Archives
October 25
Artistic Research: Reading the Literature with Ellen Petraits
November 15
Evolving Thesis Language: Anne West Guides Writing Prompts
November 29
Form for Content: Imagining Book Design with Marcus Peabody
See e-mail invitations for details about each workshop.
Open to grads in all programs, thesis year or not.
Come to one or to all.
Please contact Jen Liese (jliese@risd.edu) to RSVP (helpful but not required) or with any questions.
We’re posting here just after our first workshop with artist Angela Lorenz, who shared some of her incredible artist’s books and her extensive process archive … thanks, Angela!
English for Art & Design Workshops and Drop-in Hours
Multilingual learners: advance your English for academic purposes in art and design. Workshop topics include vocabulary development, speaking about your work, and reading and writing assignments.
5-week workshop series:
SUNDAYS 10 am – 12 pm
September 23, 30; Oct. 7, 14, 21
Drop-in for one-to-one or small-group meetings:
Weekly drop-in hours:
WEDNESDAYS 12 - 1 pm
All at A&L (College Building 240), facilitated by A&L's Assistant Director for Multilingual Learning, Maya Krinsky.
Questions or registration e-mail: multilingual@risd.edu
HIGHLIGHTS: The RISD Grad Thesis Book
All graduate students at RISD write, design, and submit a Master’s thesis book—a lasting record of their work, process, research, and ideas. HIGHLIGHTS features 37 recent Master’s thesis books that are exemplary both overall and for their “highlights”—particular qualities of research, writing, documentation, and design. It accompanies the publication of the first Book of Thesis Books, a guide in which annotations illuminate the many virtues of each book. The exhibition focuses on some of the most salient highlights themselves, extracting them out of the books’ pages and onto the walls and pedestals for close study. (The thesis books are there, too, of course, so stay and read awhile.)
Curated by the Center for Arts & Language, with generous support from the Graduate Commons.
September 4 – October 7, 2018
Sol Koffler Gallery
169 Weybosset Street (CIT)
Open daily 12 – 8 PM
v.1 Is Out and About!
Out ... on the streets (find it at the Grad Show and foyers and tabletops everywhere)
About ... evolving nature, understanding the world, biting ponies, and so much more
v.1, RISD’s graduate-student publication, launched in 2016 with a mission “to represent an interdisciplinary community of conversation that surfaces and documents ideas, themes, discussions, debates, work, and aspirations of graduate study while they are still fresh ... and contribute to the wider public discourse around art and design.”
v.1’s form and content were always meant to change (it’s always “volume 1”). It’s been a perfect-bound journal, a newspaper, and a website (volume-1.org). We’ve made podcasts, posters, and live publishing events. Next fall, it will change in a new way: it will become a publication by and for both graduate and undergraduate students.
Keep an eye out for calls for submissions in September; or if you can’t wait, stop by A&L or e-mail v1@risd.edu.
THAD's Spring Lectures
Theory and History of Art and Design (THAD, formerly known as HAVC) is running two inspired series of lectures this spring. See the schedule here, and don't miss the Art History Research Colloquium keynote, coming up this week.
Two Summer Opportunities in Art Writing and Publishing
Two summer residency opportunities, both with April 29 application deadlines:
Triple Canopy's Publication Intensive: a two-week series of workshops for writers, editors, designers, and publishers focused on "networked forms of production and circulation," based both in New York and here at the RISD Museum.
The Islands: a two-part, six-week residency for art writers and artist-writers—including those working in criticism, poetry, and experimental forms—that takes place on remote Fogo Island and urban Toronto Island.
As always, A&L's tutors are here to support your application-writing process.
