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Thursday, February 02, 2012

Art Shots: Face or Fiction?

Meet at the Babylonian Lion, Ancient Galleries

7:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Face or Fiction? Portraiture in the Ancient World

Kathryn Howley, a student in the Egyptology PhD program (Brown University), will discuss how portraiture in the ancient world can tell us so much more than just what a person looked like. Explore art and design through gallery talks spanning centuries and cultures from the perspective of student artists and art historians.

Thursday, February 02, 2012

Music Thursdays - Slippery Sneakers Band

RISD Museum

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Warm up the cold winter night with the high-energy Cajun/Zydeco sound of Slippery Sneakers! The Providence Journal declared: "Sounds like it should be blared from the speakers of a classic car!" Enjoy the Music in the Grand Gallery, a cash bar, and a chance to explore the Museum Galleries.

For more information about the band, visit: slipperysneakers.com

Music Thursdays are free with Museum admission.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Community Music Works Concert

RISD Museum, Grand Gallery

RISD Museum of Art

RISD Museum

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Start them young! Interactive tours with read-aloud story time and gallery activities for children ages 3–5 and their parents or caregivers. No two tours are the same; come for them all. Free with admission; space is limited.

Meet at Farago Entrance, 224 Benefit Street.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Family See + Sketch: Tales of Colonial Home

RISD Museum

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Enjoy a close look at a work of art together through lively discussion, followed by sketching and activities in the galleries. All materials provided. Talks are 30 minutes; ages 6+. Meet at Farago Entrance, 224 Benefit Street

Friday, December 09, 2011

Double Take: Madame Récamier

European Gallery

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Specialists from various fields offer differing views on single objects and stimulate thinking about social context, artistic interpretation, and the ever-evolving meaning of objects. Sculptor Joseph Chinard’s marble bust of Juliette Récamier (1777–1849) portrays the renowned hostess of post-revolutionary French literary and political society. Daniel Harkett, RISD Assistant Professor of History of Art + Visual Culture, along with stone carver Tracy Mahaffey, discuss 19th-century image production. Free with museum admission.

Thursday, December 08, 2011

Art Shots: Heads Up

Meet at the Babylonian Lion, Ancient Galleries

7:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Investigate objects from visual and cultural perspectives with Marianna Williams (BFA Painting '12). Consider how spiritual and physical experiences relate to each. Explore art and design through gallery talks spanning centuries and cultures from the perspective of student artists and art historians. Free with Museum admission.

Thursday, December 08, 2011

Late Thursdays!

Museum Galleries

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The RISD Museum and risd|works are now open until 9 p.m. every Thursday! Enjoy free admission every third Thursday of the month.

Thursday, December 08, 2011

Art + Design Lab for High School Students

RISD Museum

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Sunday, December 04, 2011

Annual Holiday Celebration

Museum Galleries

1:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Join us for the RISD Museum’s holiday party! The celebration includes live music from Vox Carolers, the French American School of Rhode Island and the Quaker Notes and Versatones from Moses Brown School. Guests can also listen to storytellers Len Cabral and Katie Latimer, visit with Santa, make an origami project and enjoy refreshments. The Museum is open and free to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 pm. Sponsored by the RISD Museum Associates.

Thursday, December 01, 2011

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Open Studio: Super Heroes + Mythical Beasts

RISD Museum

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

After visiting the galleries, are you inspired to make art of your own? Express your self with drop-in artmaking for all ages. All materials provided. Meet at Fain Education Classroom on 3rd floor.

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Family See + Sketch: Warp + Weaves

RISD Museum

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Open Studio: Personal Timelines

RISD Museum

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

After visiting the galleries, are you inspired to make art of your own? Express your self with drop-in artmaking for all ages. All materials provided. Meet at Fain Education Classroom on 3rd floor.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Course: Making Art History - SOLD OUT!

Museum Galleries

10:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Saturdays, November 19; December 3 + 17

Consider medieval sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, and panel painting in terms of historical context and fabrication. Handling materials, using tools, and sampling techniques through which the works were realized provides a unique opportunity to understand their makers. Museum Educators Sarah Laperle and Paul Carpentier delve deeply into the purposes specific objects served, and participants experiment with a range of materials from egg tempera to gold leaf. Museum members: $180; non-members: $200. Limited space; registration required. Click here to pre-register or call 401 709 8402.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Gallery Conversation: Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear

Lower Farago Gallery

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

A conversation about media and sensationalism with artist Nancy Chunn and Christopher Lydon, host of Radio Open Source. Chunn’s allegorical painting series re-imagines the folk fable of Chicken Little to illustrate contemporary issues — environmental disasters, healthcare, crime — and comment on exploitive media coverage. Free.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Art Shots: Heads Up

Meet at the Babylonian Lion, Ancient Galleries

7:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Explore art and design through gallery talks spanning centuries and cultures from the perspective of student artists and art historians. Investigate objects from visual and cultural perspectives with Marianna Williams (BFA Painting '12). Consider how spiritual and physical experiences relate to each. Free.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Screening: ‘Into Eternity’

Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

Talk: Dutch Delft

Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Join Dawn Odell, Assistant Professor of Art History at Lewis & Clark College, in an illustrated lecture on the use of Chinese Export Porcelain in decorating Dutch interiors. Free; presented by the Pottery and Porcelain Club.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Double Take: Venetian Openings

Upper Farago Gallery

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Specialists from various fields offer differing views on single objects and stimulate thinking about social context, artistic interpretation, and the ever-evolving meaning of objects. Porcelain — its properties and history — play a part in the ceramic sculpture Venetian Openings by Kate Blacklock (RISD MFA ‘87, Ceramics/Sculpture), on view in Building Blocks. Joining Blacklock in conversation is Kristen Costa Francoeur, Assistant Curator, Newport Restoration Foundation. Free with museum admission.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

RISD Museum

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Sunday, November 06, 2011

Premiere Screening: NetWorks 2011 Artist Video Portraits

Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

1:30 PM - 4:00 PM

This series devoted to showcasing work of selected contemporary Rhode Island visual artists premieres its fourth season of documentary videos. The two-hour screening is followed by a reception with the artists, filmmaker Richard Goulis, and series producer Joseph Chazan. Watch this 44 sec. video promo. FREE. Artists include:

Andrew Moon Bain, RISD BFA Sculpture ‘98

Nilton Cardenas

Barnaby Evans

Nancy Friese, RISD Professor, Teaching + Learning in Art + Design

Philip Jameson

Shawn Kenney, RISD BFA Illustration + Painting ‘93

Scott Lapham, RISD BFA Photo ‘90

Janet Prip, RISD BFA Sculpture ’74

Andrew Raftery, RISD Professor, Printmaking

Duane Slick, RISD Professor, Painting

Esther Solondz, RISD MFA Photo ’80

Mark Taber

Laura Travis, RISD Continuing Education Instructor

Sunday, November 06, 2011

"18th-Century Worcester Porcelains: from Chinoiserie to Ruins"

The Worcester porcelain factory was established in 1751 by a consortium of shareholders including Dr John Wall. At first its productions were strongly marked by Chinese, and occasionally Japanese, influence. It soon developed its own style, however, and remained in business throughout the 18th century and beyond, responding continually to changes in fashion, as well as to events such as the marriage of King George III and Queen Charlotte. The longest-lasting of all English porcelain factories, it made a wide range of pieces, some as special orders. The lecture, based on the world-famous collection at the British Museum, shows why and how the Worcester porcelain factory became so successful and how it reflects the taste of its time.

Dr Aileen Dawson FSA, curator in the Department of Prehistory and Europe, British Museum, was educated at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford. She has worked at the National Trust, Waddesdon Manor (the Rothschild Collection), Buckinghamshire, the Ceramics Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the British Museum, London, where she is responsible for collections dating from 1660-1800, principally ceramics and glass. She has published widely, and lectured in the USA, Europe and Australia. Her book ‘The Art of Worcester Porcelain’ was published by British Museum Press in 2007.

Sponsored by the Pottery and Porcelain Club. Free and open to the public.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Tours for Tots: Leaves + Trees

RISD Museum

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Meet at Farago Entrance, 224 Benefit Street.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER (THIS CLASS IS CURRENTLY FULL, A WAIT-LIST IS AVAILABLE)

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Double Take: Home on the Run

Upper Farago Gallery

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Specialists from various fields offer differing views on single objects and stimulate thinking about social context, artistic interpretation, and the ever-evolving meaning of objects. Access to affordable space has a significant role in artists’ ability to work. Join artist and RISD alumnus Brian Chippendale (Printmaking) in conversation with RISD Architecture Professor Kyna Leski about Chippendale’s Home on the Run, on view in Building Blocks. Free with museum admission.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Family See + Sketch: The Artist Explorer

RISD Museum

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Enjoy a close look at a work of art together through lively discussion, followed by sketching and activities in the galleries. All materials provided. Talks are 30 minutes; ages 6+.

Meet at Farago Entrance, 224 Benefit Street

Friday, October 14, 2011

Artist Talk: Canal No. 13

Chace Center Galleries

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

Sculptor Garth Evans, Head of Sculpture at the New York Studio School, discusses his practice, current work, and his geometric plywood piece, Canal No. 13, which is on view in Made in the UK. Free with museum admission.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Art Shots: Frameworks: Seeing Outside the Box

Meet at the Babylonian Lion, Ancient Galleries

7:00 PM - 7:30 PM

This art historical tour with Carrie Swan, PhD Candidate in Archaeology (Brown University), 2012, examines the changing form and function of the picture frame, and explores its relationship with the artwork it encloses. Explore art and design through gallery talks spanning centuries and cultures from the perspective of student artists and art historians. Free with Museum admission.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Talk: Art School Rules: A Year in the Locked Room

Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

In 1969, a group of faculty at Saint Martins School of Art in London initiated an alternative to the conventions of art school and quickly achieved notoriety. Dispensing with evaluations or deadlines, and with limited communication, the “A” Course has become legendary. Gareth Jones, RISD Foundation Studies Professor, and Garth Evans, Head of Sculpture at the New York Studio School, discuss their roles in the program. A short film depicting the start of the “A” Course will be screened. Co-sponsored by RISD’s Teaching + Learning in Art + Design Department. Free with museum admission. Reservations recommended, email reservations@risd.edu.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Museum After Dark: College Night

Museum Galleries

6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

The RISD Museum After Dark: College Night

Thursday, October 13, 2011, 6–10pm

A night at the Museum for college faculty and students throughout the region. Performances, talks, and art-making create opportunities to get to know the collections and each other. Free admission with college ID

Local Fare + Live Music

6–9:30 pm | Grand Gallery, 5^th fl

Ruthy, Moonshine and the Ruckus Boys| 6-7:30 pm

A mix of folk, americana, bluegrass, and rock is performed by Elena Flores (RISD Graphic Design ’12), Geof Lynn (RISD Illustration ‘13) and Melanie Steinway (RISD Illustration ’12), with Reilly O'Graham and Greg Mallozi.

Celadour| 7:30-9 pm

Alternative/indie-type music with Erica Ehrenbard (RISD Sculpture ’12), Melanie Steinway, (RISD Illustration ’12) + Sarah Louise Neal (RISD Sculpture ’13)

The Locked Room

6:30-8 pm | Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium

In 1969, a group of faculty at Saint Martins School of Art in London initiated an alternative to the convention of art education and quickly achieved notoriety. Dispensing with student evaluations or deadlines, and with limited verbal communication, the “A” Course has become legendary. Gareth Jones, RISD Foundations Professor, and Garth Evans, Head of Sculpture at the New York Studio School, discuss their roles conceiving, structuring, and realizing the program. A short film depicting the start of the “A” Course will be screened. This program is presented in conjunction with the Make in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection. Co-sponsored by RISD’s Teaching + Learning in Art + Design Department.

Screening: RISD Student Films

6–10 pm | Danforth Hall

This compilation of RISD Film/Animation/Video student work showcases an eclectic mix of stories and visuals. Check out short films from the next generation of filmmakers and animators. Co-sponsored by RISD’s Film, Animation, + Video Department.

Hands-On Art

6–9:30 pm | Museum galleries

All materials provided, no experience necessary.

Retro Postcard Production | Fain Gallery, 3^rd fl

Café Sketching | Grand Gallery, 5^th fl

Art Shots: Frameworks: Seeing Outside the Box

7-7:30 pm | Meet at Farago Entrance, 4^th fl, Benefit St

This art historical tour with Carrie Swan, PhD Candidate in Archaeology, Brown University, ‘12, examines the changing form and function of the picture frame, and explores its relationship with the artwork it encloses.

Work in Process: Etching

7:30–8:30 pm | Works on Paper Gallery, 3^rd fl

Join RISD student, Lisa Signorini (RISD Printmaking ‘13), for a conversation in Jacques Callot and the Baroque Print about the processes and techniques she uses to create her art.

Work in Process: Jewelry

7:30–8:30 pm | Ancient Galleries, 5^th fl

Join RISD student, Kate Furman (RISD Jewelry ‘12) to look at her jewelry designs, tools and techniques juxtaposed with ancient forms of personal adornment.

Spoken Word

8-8:30 pm | Grand Gallery, 5^th fl

Poets Jess X Chen (RISD FAV ‘13), Ramsey Jeremie (Brown University ‘12) + Tim Natividad (Brown University ‘12) perform their work.

Sound/Movement Installations

8-8:20 pm | Moore Terrace, 2^nd fl outside Chace Center

Jacob Richman (Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments, Brown University, PhD ‘13) with Kirsten Volness + Josh Lantzy (RISD MFA Arch ‘10) create The Infinite Space Between, a sound installation responding to dance and movement.

8:30-9 pm | Stairwell Gallery, 4^th fl

Bevin Kelley (Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments, Brown University, PhD ‘15) performs a new site specific, audio/visual work designed to inhabit a particular stair-well-ian spacetime location within the museum.

Performance9-9:45 pm | Grand Gallery, 5th fl
Brown University acting students perform two works inspired by art in the museum’s collection.
#1 - Boxes, 2005, Photograph, Laurie Simmons
Alex Ashe, Katie Ann Rushton, Sidhi Gosain, Agi Dubi, + Amy LaCount

#2 - The Salon d'Or, Homburg, 1871, Oil on canvas, William Powell Frith
Becca Wolinsky, Hayward Leach, Harrison Chad, Jesse McGleughlin, Jenna Spencer, + Alex von Reyn

Art Shots: Face or Fiction? Portraiture in the Ancient World

9-9:30pm | Meet at the Babylonian Lion, 5^th fl

Kathryn Howley, a student in the Egyptology PhD program (Brown University), will discuss how portraiture in the ancient world can tell us so much more than just what a person looked like.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Screening: RISD Student Films: Best Of

Danforth Lecture Hall

6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

A compilation of student work from the RISD Film/Animation/Video (FAV) Department showcases an eclectic mix of stories and visuals. Check out short films from the next generation of filmmakers and animators. Co-sponsored by RISD’s FAV Department; free with Museum admission.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Late Thursdays!

Museum Galleries

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The RISD Museum and risd|works are now open until 9 p.m. every Thursday! Enjoy free admission every third Thursday of the month.

Saturday, October 08, 2011

Family Art + Design Lab: 6-9 year olds and adult companions

RISD Museum

10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

A museum and studio course for 6-9 year olds and their adult companions; exploring works of art in the galleries, followed by artmaking in the studio. The fall lab, Multimedia: Tools + Techniques, investigates a variety of artistic methods from ancient times to the present through gallery experiences and time in the studio. $125 per series of 5 sessions; space is limited. Call 401-454-6674 or email museumyouth@risd.edu to register.

Saturdays, October 8, 22; November 5, 19; December 3

10:30 am– 12:15 pm |

Meet at Farago Entrance, 224 Benefit Street

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS COURSE

Saturday, October 08, 2011

Art + Design Lab: 10-14 year olds

RISD Museum

10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

A museum and studio course for 10-14 year olds (just for them! no parents or guardians required); exploring works of art in the galleries, followed by artmaking in the studio. The fall lab, Multimedia: Tools + Techniques, investigates a variety of artistic methods from ancient times to the present through gallery experiences and time in the studio. $125 per series of 5 sessions; space is limited. Call 401-454-6674 or email museumyouth@risd.edu to register. Parent/guardian attendance in not required.

Saturdays, October 8, 22; November 5, 19; December 3

Family See + Sketch: Dancing with Degas

RISD Museum

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Enjoy a close look at a work of art together through lively discussion, followed by sketching and activities in the galleries. All materials provided. Talks are 30 minutes; ages 6+.

Meet at Farago Entrance, 224 Benefit Street

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Art Shots-$ then there's the graphics

Meet at the Babylonian Lion, Ancient Galleries

7:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Late Thursdays!

Museum Galleries

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The RISD Museum and risd|works are now open until 9 p.m. every Thursday! Enjoy free admission every third Thursday of the month.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Double Take: Soliman, Act 1

Buonanno Works on Paper and Tsiaras Photography Galleries

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Specialists from various fields offer differing views on single objects and stimulate thinking about social context, artistic interpretation, and the ever-evolving meaning of objects. Susan Doyle, RISD Assistant Professor of Illustration and Patricia Ybarra, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies, Brown University look at the dramatic perspectives in Jacques Callot and the Baroque Print.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Family Open House

Meet at Farago Entrance

1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Join us for an afternoon of art, fun and family programs at the RISD Museum of Art. Learn how to look at art together, meet our family artist-educators and sign up for our new Fall courses. Special gallery talks, open studios and more!

SCHEDULE

1pm – 5pm

All ages:

Open Studio: Explore the special exhibition Made in the UK with our all new Young Explorer’s Guide to Contemporary art and then visit the studio to make the guide all your own!

MEET: In the Fain Education Classroom, 3^rd floor

1:30pm

Ages 4+:

Family See + Sketch: What is a home? Brian Chippendale

MEET: At the Farago Entrance, 224 Benefit Street

2pm

Ages 3-5:

Tours for Tots: My Many Colored Days

MEET: At the Farago Entrance, 224 Benefit Street

For adults:

Works on Paper: Soliman, Act 1

Susan Doyle, RISD Assistant Professor of Illustration and Patricia Ybarra, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies, Brown University look at the dramatic perspectives in Jacques Callot and the Baroque Print.

MEET: In the exhibition Jacques Callot and the Baroque Print.

2:30pm

Ages 4+:

Family See + Sketch: Bodhisattva or Buddha?

MEET: At the Farago Entrance, 224 Benefit Street

3pm

Ages 3-5:

Tours for Tots: Seeing Feelings

MEET: At the Farago Entrance, 224 Benefit Street

All ages:

Work in Process: Etching

Join RISD student, Lisa Signorini (RISD Printmaking 2013), for a drop-in conversation in Jacques Callot and the Baroque Print about the processes and techniques she uses to create her art.

MEET: Drop in anytime between 3-4pm at the exhibition Jacques Callot and the Baroque Print

3:30pm

Ages 4+:

Family See + Sketch: Gods in the Home, Ancient Greek and Roman Galleries

MEET: At the Farago Entrance, 224 Benefit Street

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Screening + Conversation with Tony Cokes, New Media Artist

Danforth Lecture Hall

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Tony Cokes, New Media Artist and Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, will present videos from his “art critique series,” introducing his use of text-based animation and the series’ focus on the relationships between art production, art criticism and the market.

Free and open to the public. Professors are encouraged to invite their classes. As space is limited, reservations are recommended. Please RSVP to dwilde@risd.edu

In conjunction with the opening of Made in the U.K.: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection (on view at the RISD Museum’s Chace Center from September 23, 2011 – January 8, 2012), Cokes will screen shrinking.criticism, a text-animation drawn from excerpts of the essay “The Decline and Fall of Art Criticism” (1998) by British art historian Julian Stallabrass. (A copy of Stallabrass’ text can be found here.)

shrinking.criticism stems from Cokes’s collaboration with Andrew Perchuk (Assistant Director at the Getty Research Institute in L.A.) for the “Our Literal Speed” project at ZKM (Center for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe, Germany, 2008. A hybrid conference / festival / artist-talks series that examines performativity and mediation in art scholarship, with an emphasis on art and performance practices with scholarly or critical agendas, more information on “Our Literal Speed” can be found here. Biography For more information please see the artist’s faculty page at Brown University.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Art Shots-Life + Death in Egypt

Meet at the Babylonian Lion, Ancient Galleries

7:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Ritual and religion ruled daily life in ancient Egypt. Looking closely at objects in the Egyptian galleries, with Museum Educator, Mari Robles (RISD MA, Art + Design, 2012), participants will share stories, draw and discuss popular rites of passage. Explore art and design through gallery talks spanning centuries and cultures from the perspective of student artists and art historians. Free with Museum admission.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Late Thursdays!

Museum Galleries

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The RISD Museum and risd|works are now open until 9 p.m. every Thursday! Enjoy free admission every third Thursday of the month.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Member Preview Day: Made in the UK

Chace Center

10:00 AM - 9:00 PM

RISD Museum members enjoy a first look at our new, exciting exhibition of contemporary British art, Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection. Please bring your membership card for admittance.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Performance: 'Black Pus'

Moore Terrace

8:00 PM - 9:00 PM

This rock-noise music project by artist/musician/RISD alumnus Brian Chippendale includes drums, synthesizers, and vocal sound. “Be prepared to have your senses leave your body and obsessive/compulsive jitter overtake your reason in this buffet of freon electronic entropy,” advises Chippendale’s label, Load Records. Free; earplugs recommended for sensitive ears.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Work in Process: Etching

Museum Galleries

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Join RISD student, Lisa Signorini (RISD Printmaking 2013), for a conversation in Jacques Callot and the Baroque Print about the processes and techniques she uses to create her art.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Art Shots-This is 'Knot' Performance

Meet at the Babylonian Lion, Ancient Galleries

7:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Join RISD Museum Gallery Interpretation Fellow and Brown alumna (BA '10, MA '11) Hollis Mickey for a short discussion about the glittery knotted sculpture Zita and the place of gesture and performance in the work of Lynda Benglis. Explore art and design through gallery talks spanning centuries and cultures from the perspective of student artists and art historians. Free.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Screening: ‘Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings’

Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Artist Sol LeWitt redefined artmaking with his belief that the idea genearating a work of art is more important that its execution. This film focuses on the retrospective of LeWitt’s wall drawings at MASS MoCA, on view through 2033. LeWitt’s sculpture Six Towers is on view in Building Blocks. (2010/60 min./not rated) Free.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Screening: ‘Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City’

Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Few architects have had more impact on the American city than Daniel Burnham. His vision of a civilized city, during late 19th-century urban chaos, provided a framework for order. He built the first skyscrapers, directed construction of the 1893 World’s Fair, and created urban plans for Chicago and Washington, DC. (2010/60 min./not rated) Providence Preservation Society Executive Director James Hall introduces the film. Free; co-sponsored by the Providence Preservation Society in conjunction with its Sep. 16–17 symposium, Make No Little Plans: Visions for the City of Providence. Information: ppsri.org.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Hands-On Art

Museum Galleries

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Create your own art in the European galleries with the guidance of Museum Educator Paul Carpentier. Each session is inspired by works on view. All materials provided, no experience necessary. Free.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Late Thursdays!

Museum Galleries

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The RISD Museum and risd|works are now open until 9 p.m. every Thursday! Enjoy free admission every third Thursday of the month.

Thursday, September 08, 2011

Art Shots-Subjective Sight

Meet at the Babylonian Lion, Ancient Galleries

7:00 PM - 7:30 PM

The need to get the world down on paper is both immediate and ancient. Explore the challenges of flattening a 3-D world through a short discussion with Josephine Devanbu (BFA Painting, RISD 2015, BS Neuroscience, Brown 2015) focusing on Styeenwyck’s 16th century painting Interior of Aachen Cathedral and the strengths and limitations of linear perspective. Explore art and design through gallery talks spanning centuries and cultures from the perspective of student artists and art historians. Free with Museum admission.

Thursday, September 08, 2011

Late Thursdays!

Museum Galleries

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The RISD Museum and risd|works are now open until 9 p.m. every Thursday! Enjoy free admission every third Thursday of the month.

Thursday, September 01, 2011

Art Shots-A Lion's Heart

Meet at the Babylonian Lion, Ancient Galleries

7:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Through movement and discussion, Museum Educator, Mari Robles (RISD MA, Art + Design, 2012) reflects on the history and meanings associated with the enchanting Babylonian Lion. Explore art and design through gallery talks spanning centuries and cultures from the perspective of student artists and art historians. Free with Museum admission.

Thursday, September 01, 2011

Late Thursdays!

Museum Galleries

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The RISD Museum and risd|works are now open until 9 p.m. every Thursday! Enjoy free admission every third Thursday of the month.

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Family See + Sketch: Georges Lemmen

Meet at Farago Entrance

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Enjoy a close look at Thames Scene, the Elevator by Georges Lemmen through lively discussion, followed by

sketching in the galleries. All materials provided. Talks are 30 minutes; ages 6 and older. Free with

admission.

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Family Film Series: Art Behind the Scenes, Vol. 2

Metcalf Auditorium

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Magicians Penn & Teller host Behind the Scenes, the acclaimed, award-winning PBS children’s series that

features interviews with artists, including Julie Taymor, Carrie Mae Weems, and Nancy Graves. Behind the

Scenes brings the magic—and the mystery—of artistic creation to video by going behind the scenes to

discover the creative process. Space is limited, please arrive 10 minutes prior to showing; ages 6 and

older.

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Free Saturday

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Admission to the Museum is free to the public the last Saturday of every month, except December.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Family See + Sketch: Conrad Shawcross and Tavares Strachan

Meet at Farago Entrance

11:15 PM - 11:45 PM

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

free admission; all galleries open

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Gallery Talk: Jacques Callot and the Baroque Print

Buonanno Works on Paper and Tsiaras Photography Galleries

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Emily Peters explores the recurring themes and etching innovations in the work of this prolific and influential French artist, as seen in the exhibition 'Jacques

Callot and the Baroque Print.' Free with admission.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Open Studio: Tiny Exhibitions

Museum Galleries

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Visit the Open Studio for a mini-book making project that is the perfect way to exhibit your own drawings.

Express yourself with drop-in art making for all ages. All materials provided. Free with admission.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Family See + Sketch: Zig Zag Chair

Meet at Farago Entrance

11:15 PM - 11:45 PM

Enjoy a close look at the Zig Zag Chair by Gerrit Rietveld, and find out why the artist described the work as his

“designer’s joke” through lively discussion, followed by sketching in the galleries. All materials provided. All

materials provided. Talks are 30 minutes; ages 6 and older. Free with admission.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Family See + Sketch: Painted Impressions

Meet at Farago Entrance

11:15 AM - 11:45 PM

Enjoy a close look at a work of Impressionist art together as a family through lively discussion, followed by

sketching. All materials provided. Talks are 30 minutes; ages 6 and older. Free with admission.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Family Film Series: Art Behind the Scenes, Vol. 1

Metcalf Auditorium

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Magicians Penn & Teller host Behind the Scenes, the acclaimed, award-winning children’s PBS series that

features interviews with artists including David Hockney, Julie Taymor, Wayne Thiebaud, David Parsons,

Max Roach, and many others. Behind the Scenes brings the magic—and the mystery—of artistic creation to

video by going behind the scenes to discover the creative process. Space is limited, please arrive 10

minutes prior to showing; ages 6 and older.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Free Saturday

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Admission to the Museum is free to the public the last Saturday of every month, except December.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Open Studio: Building Blocks

Museum Galleries

Meet in Chace Center lobby

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Join gallery conversations exploring art and design from the perspective
of student artists and art historians.

Horace Ballard, Beautiful and Grotesque: Performance of Gender and Power in
Religious Art

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Open Studio

RISD Museum

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

After visiting the galleries are you inspired to make art of your own? Express yourself with drop-in artmaking for all ages. All materials provided. Free with admission.

Friday, May 27, 2011

Art + Design Lab for HS Students

RISD Museum

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

A free program for high school students who want to explore how art and design can provoke fresh ideas, elicit conversation, and stimulate creativity. Join us for afternoons at the museum that feature time in the the galleries, art making, film screenings and more. All are welcome, RSVP is appreciated. Email museumyouth@risd.edu to reserve your spot.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Music in the Museum

RISD Museum, Grand Gallery

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Brown University graduating senior Emily Arai (violin) presents a joint recital with Visiting Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages at Brown University Richard Muller (piano). They will perform music by Brahms, Dvorak and Gershwin.

Free with museum admission.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Music in the Museum

RISD Museum, Grand Gallery

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Brown University Music Students Ian Fields and Liz Connolly present and end of year recital featuring music by Kodaly, Hadyn, Shostakovich and Ravel.

Free with museum admission.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Music in the Museum

RISD Museum, Grand Gallery

Miss Lucy: Aesthetics, Disability and Collecting

Museum Galleries

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

The final lecture in the series, Altho’ I haven’t ears that hear…I do have eyes that see: Aesthetics, Disability, and Modernism’s “Renovation of Standards,” by scholar Gloria-Jean Masciarotte. Lecture begins at 12:30pm. Co-sponsored with VSA arts of Rhode Island and funded, in part, by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities. Sign Language Interpretation provided. Free. Limited seating. Reservations recommended, emailreservations@risd.edu.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Family See + Sketch: Owl Beaker

RISD Museum

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Enjoy a close look at this 16th century object de curiosite through lively discussion followed by sketching and activities in the galleries. All materials provided. Talks are 30 minutes. Ages 6 and up.

Friday, May 13, 2011

Music Friday

Main Gallery

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Enjoy live music by B-Hive, a B-52s tribute band, view Cocktail Culture, and
vie for best B-52s–inspired costume. The evening’s cash bar features special
cocktails, and festive cocktail food is provided by Marra Restaurant Group.
Members, RISD and Brown faculty, staff, and students with ID $5; non-
members $8. Attendees must be 21 or older. Enter through the Chace Center,
20 N. Main Street.

Friday, May 13, 2011

Art + Design Lab for HS Students

RISD Museum

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Friday, May 13, 2011

Gallery Talk: Cocktail Fashion

Chace Center Galleries

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Lorraine Howes, professor emerita of apparel design at RISD, explores fashion trends and styles through the 1920s to 1980s. RISD’s Apparel Design Department co-sponsors. Free with museum admission.

Sunday, May 08, 2011

Open Studio

RISD Museum

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

After visiting the galleries are you inspired to make art of your own? Express yourself with drop-in artmaking for all ages. All materials provided. Free with admission.

Friday, May 06, 2011

An Evening with Nicole Miller: A Fashionable Gala

Chace Center Galleries

6:30 PM - 10:30 PM

Join the Museum Associates for their annual fundraiser honoring fashion designer Nicole Miller (RISD
BFA 1973) and celebrating the Cocktail Culture exhibition. This Gala features Miller’s signature
margarita, a designer-influenced menu, and a live auction. Ticket prices start at $150. For more information contact Pam Kimel at 401-454-6505 or pkimel@risd.edu. See Of Note
for more information.

Thursday, May 05, 2011

Tours for Tots

RISD Museum

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Free Community Day: The Big Draw

RISD Museum

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

The RISD Museum’s Big Draw is back! Join us for a Free Community Day celebrating this internationally acclaimed campaign that celebrates drawing in its many forms through hands-on drawing for all. Bring your imagination and come make your mark!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

10 am-4 pm

Start your world class drawing collection at the Drawing Exchange booth

Draw your way through the Museum using unique materials and adventurous techniques. (This will include drawing with wire, making mono-prints, resist drawing, and more!)

Visit an art installation made by local artists that needs your participation

Visit the RISD Nature Lab and draw your favorite taxidermy animal or bug in a jar

Make your mark in the Museum's community sketch books

11 am, 2 pm, 3:30 pm

Take gallery tour that looks at drawing across time and cultures

11:30 am-12:30 pm, 1-2 pm, 3-4 pm

See artists demonstrate materials and techniques

1-3 pm

Enjoy figure drawing in the galleries

3-4 pm

Watch film shorts that show the power of drawing

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Art Shots

Meet in Chace Center lobby

12:00 AM - 11:55 PM

Join gallery conversations exploring art and design from the perspective
of student artists and art historians.

11 am | Morgan Bakerman, Caution — Objects May Be Closer Than They Seem:
Looking at Landscapes

2 pm | Katherine Meng, & then there’s the graphics

Friday, April 29, 2011

Art + Design Lab for HS Students

RISD Museum

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Ceramics Lecture: Michelle Erickson

Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, The RISD Museum

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Ceramic Artist Michelle Erickson follows up her morning ceramics demonstration with an illustrated lecture on her work. Erickson's work combines 17th and 18th century Colonial Amercian ceramic traditions with contemporary motifs to create exciting works of art. For more information about Michelle Erickson, visit www.michelleericksonceramics.com

Program is sponsored by the Pottery and Porcelain Club and is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Ceramics Demonstration: Michelle Erickson

Chace Center Lobby

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Ceramic Artist Michelle Erickson will present a full day program at RISD. For Erickson, the past, as embodied in tradition, and the present, in the form of modernity, are not mutually exclusive. She is known for fusing 17th and 18th century Colonial American ceramic traditions with contemporary motifs. In the morning, she will use the actual techniques used by the original Colonial potters to create a piece in the lobby of the Chace Center.

This program is presented by the Pottery and Porcelain Club and is free and open to the public.

For more information about Michelle Erickson, please visit www.michelleericksonceramics.com .

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Meet in Chace Center lobby

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Join gallery conversations exploring art and design from the perspective of student artists and art historians.

Museum Galleries

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

The second lecture in a series on Lucy Truman Aldrich (1869-1955), titled, My soul for a beautiful thing: Lucy Truman Aldrich and the Modernist Spirit of Collecting. Scholar Gloria-Jean Masciarotte focuses on Miss Lucy’s collecting philosophy.

See May 15 listing for final lecture. Sign language provided. FREE. Reservations recommended; email reservations@risd.edu.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Open Studio: Ancient Mosaics

RISD Museum

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

After visiting the ancient floor mosaic depicting the Roman god Bacchus, make a mosaic all your own using lots of tape and a good amount of patience. Express yourself with drop-in artmaking for all ages. All materials provided. Free with admission.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Family Film Series (Rescheduled to April 30)

RISD Museum

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Reschedule to April 30th

Enjoy live-action and animated short films that prompt engaging discussion for the whole family. Space is limited, please arrive 10 minutes prior to showing. Ages 4 and up. Free with admission.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Piano Concert

Grand Gallery, RISD Museum

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Family See + Sketch: Ray + Charles Eames

RISD Museum

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Enjoy a close look at a work of famed husband and wife design duo Ray and Charles Eames through lively discussion followed by sketching and activities in the galleries. All materials provided. Talks are 30 minutes. Ages 6 and up.

Friday, April 15, 2011

Art + Design Lab for HS Students

RISD Museum

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Members Opening for Cocktail Culture

Chace Center

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Don your favorite cocktail fashions and join us for this spirited celebration!
Enjoy live jazz and signature cocktails while you preview this groundbreaking
exhibition. For members and by invitation only.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Member Preview Day for Cocktail Culture

Chace Center

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

RISD Museum members enjoy a first look at the Museum’s newest
exhibition. Please bring your membership card for admittance.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Art Shots

Meet in Chace Center lobby

Family See + Sketch: Perseus and Andromeda

RISD Museum

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Enjoy a close look at the painting “Perseus and Andromeda” in the Early European galleries and find out how Ovid’s dramatic story comes to life in this vivid 16^th century painting through drawing and discussion. All materials provided. Talks are 30 minutes. Ages 6 and up. Free with admission.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Family Film Series: Blast From the Past “The Electric Company”

RISD Museum

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

From 1971-1977, the popular children’s series “The Electric Company” was a groovy show using sketch comedy and music to teach reading skills to elementary school children and starring familiar actors such as Morgan Freeman and Bill Crosby. Join us for a retro-throw back screening of “The Electric Company’s Greatest Hits and Bits”. Space is limited. Ages 6 and up. Free. 85 min.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Piano Concert

The RISD Museum, Grant Gallery

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Art Shots

Meet in Chace Center lobby

Open Studio: Take a Seat

RISD Museum

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Visit the museum's Pendleton House, which feature fascinating examples of American furniture from the past, drop into the studio to design the perfect chair for you. All materials provided. Free with admission. Meets in the Fain Classroom and Pendleton House.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Family See + Sketch: Carving and Subtraction

RISD Museum

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Enjoy a close look at the work of artist Rodin and explore sculpture through discussion and sketching. All materials provided. Talks are 30 minutes. Ages 6 and up. Free with admission.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Art + Design Lab for HS Students: The Painted Composition

RISD Museum

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

A free program for high school students who want to explore how art and design can provoke fresh ideas, elicit conversation, and stimulate creativity. This session focuses on painting and composition, with students discussing works in the collection and developing their own painted language. All are welcome, RSVP is appreciated. Email museumyouth@risd.edu to reserve your spot.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Late Thursday/Free Admission

Museum Galleries

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

All galleries open. Hands-on art, film screening, gallery talks, music + refreshments.

Hands-On Art: Sketching the Faculty Biennial

6-8pm | Chace Center Galleries

Sketch in the galleries with the guidance of an art educator. Free. All materials provided, no experience necessary.

Music in the Main Gallery

6:30–8:30pm | 5th floor

Enjoy RISD student band, Jam on Toast, a five-piece acoustic band, inspired by the sounds of rock, world music, and folk. A cash bar and refreshments available.

Providence Premiere Screening: Carbon Nation

Thursday, 6:30pm | Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

Solutions to climate change are featured in this documentary. From citizens operating on their own, to titans of industry revamping age-old business practices, these entrepreneurs, inventors, gamblers, and visionaries are rising to the challenge. The solutions are here: massive increases in energy efficiency; ever rising effectiveness of biofuels, wind, solar, tidal, and thermal power. (2010/82 min./Not rated) Free. Co-sponsored by RISD’s Respond|Design and Cable Car Cinema.

Art Shots: Kathryn Howley, Face or Fiction? Portraiture in the Ancient World

7pm | Gather in Chace Center lobby

Join gallery conversations exploring art and design spanning centuries and cultures from the perspective of student artists and art historians.

Sitings 2011 Opening: Museum as Medium

7pm | Gather in the Chace gallery, 3rd floor; artists’ remarks at 7:30pm

Installations by RISD students respond to the Museum’s architectural idiosyncrasies, collections, and habits of visitation. Winners of this year’s competition, Sinnae Choi (BFA Glass 2011) for her installation Pale Glass, and Yuki Kawae (Master of Interior Architecture 2013) for his installation Tree Tunnel, speak about their work. Co-sponsored by RISD’s Interior Architecture and Glass Departments.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Circuits of Production

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

The exhibit Collision raises issues surrounding artists-as-curators and DIY installations, Yvonne Force Villareal (RISD BFA 1988) and Doreen Remen (RISD BFA 1989), co-founders of Art Production Fund, discuss the rules of engagement and taking matters into your own hands. The conversation will be moderated by Ellen Driscoll, Department Head and Professor of RISD’s Sculpture Department with a response by guest curator of Collision Jackie Saccoccio (RISD BFA 1985). Co-sponsored by RISD’s Graduate Studies and Brown University’s Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Culture and Media Studies. Free. Reservations are recommended, contact reservations@risd.edu

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Family See + Sketch: Ann Agee

RISD Museum

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Enjoy a close look at the work of artist Ann Agee through discussion, figure drawing, gesture and an exploration of our everyday activities. All materials provided. Talks are 30 minutes. Ages 6 and up. Free with admission.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Music Friday

Main Gallery

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Enjoy the classic blues sound of Sit Down Baby and view the RISD Faculty
Biennial and the 20th-century galleries. Cash bar and food samples com-
pliments of Marra Restaurant Group. Members , RISD and Brown faculty,
staff and students with ID $5; non-members $8. Attendees must be 21
or older. Enter through the Chace Center, 20 N. Main Street.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Tours for Tots: Animals in Art

RISD Museum

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

In this session we will explore all the ways in which animals are depicted by artists across time and culture.

Start them young! Interactive tours with read-aloud story time and gallery activities for toddlers. No two tours are the same, come to them all. Ages 3-5 recommended. Free with admission, space is limited, please RSVP to museumyouth@risd.edu to reserve your spot. CLASS IS FULL, email for waitlist.

Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Florence Reed: Founder of Sustainable Harvest International

Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, The RISD Museum

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Florence Reed, Founder and President of Sustainable Harvest International, presents a lecture entitled "An Extraordinary Garden-Variety Solution to Poverty and Deforestation in Central America". The presentation begins with a look at the impacts of slash and burn agriculture and then focuses on Sustainable Harvest's model for reversing this trend and the far reaching impact of this approach. The lecture is sponsored by the Perrenial Planters and is free and open to the public.

Sunday, March 06, 2011

Gallery Talk: Changing Poses

Museum Galleries

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Since ancient times, models have been an essential tool for artists depicting the human figure. Through works by Rembrandt, Cassatt, Sargent, Picasso, and Warhol, Crawford Alexander Mann III, the Museum’s Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow, shares how models were a crucial component in the creation of prints, drawings, and photographs. Free with museum admission.

Sunday, March 06, 2011

Course: Modern + Contemporary Art - 2 seats left!

Museum Galleries

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Drawing inspiration from the Museum’s current exhibits and permanent collection, this course explores how artists and designers have expressed the human form in the modern and contemporary period. Taught by museum educator Sarah Laperle this course examines how treatment of the figure changes over time. Each class includes close observation and discussion of major artists and primary texts. Members $180, non-members $200. Space limited; pre-registration required. Call 401 709-8402.

Sunday, March 06, 2011

Open Studio

RISD Museum

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

After visiting the galleries are you inspired to make art of your own? Express yourself with drop-in artmaking for all ages. All materials provided. Free with admission.

Saturday, March 05, 2011

Power Drawing: Professional Development

Meet in Chace Center lobby

1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

A workshop for cultural educators, community organizers, teachers and artists that shares methods, prompts, and techniques for making drawing a medium for learning and expression across a variety of settings. We will explore the concepts of gesture, line, copying and self portraiture. Participants will develop personalized plans for using drawing in the classroom, individual artistic practice and community events, including hosting your own Big Draw event. The Big Draw at RISD is an annual celebration and exploration of drawing as Perception, Invention, Action and Community. The workshop is led by practicing artists, educators and RISD Alumni Aja Blanc and Andrew Oesch. $25, space is limited, please call 401-454-6674 to register.

Saturday, March 05, 2011

Building Creative Connections: Professional Development

Meet in Chace Center lobby

9:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Art and design across time and cultures offer a means to explore concepts and content relevant to curriculum and skill development. Learn to use works of art and design in your classroom teaching through written exercises and dynamic discussions that deepen students’ abilities to describe, analyze, and interpret art, texts, and events. For teachers of art, English Language Arts and social studies. For information, contact Mariani Lefas-Tetenes at 401 454-6552 or mlefast@risd.edu. Fee $25. Limited seating. To register call 401 709-8402.

Friday, March 04, 2011

Art + Design Lab for HS Students: the poetics of painting

RISD Museum

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

This workshop explores the poetics of painting and how artists use paint as a medium for personal expression.

Art + Design Lab for HS Students is a free program for high school students who want to explore how art and design can provoke fresh ideas, elicit conversation, and stimulate creativity. Join us for afternoons at the museum that feature time in the galleries, art making, film screenings and more. All are welcome. RSVP is appreciated. Email museum youth@risd.edu to reserve your spot as space is limited.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

RISD Museum

1:20 PM - 1:55 PM

Intro to Experimental Films/Tape Art

Any age that dares. / apx. 30 mins

PCFF proudly presents this reel of short experimental films that were submitted or invited to our 2011 festival. These films are a wide assortment of animation, live action and musicals. They may perplex, puzzle, entertain or even bother you.

(Tickets may be picked up in the lobby of the Chace Center of the RISD Museum on the day of the screening only)

Sunday, February 20, 2011

PCFF Screening: Gus Outdoors: Lizard Town

RISD Museum

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

All ages. / Director Sean Nightingale, (USA, 2010) / digital projection / 30 mins.

He’s baaack! After last year’s acclaimed film Gull Island Gus has returned in full form with his latest nature series installment. This time it is a quest to the Bahamas to meet some of the country’s many spectacular creatures. Children will be captivated as Gus explores the pristine islands in search of lizards, iguanas and snakes. To cool off, Gus plunges into the gem-like-water and snorkels with the beautiful sea-creatures. Gus Outdoors is an adventurous mix of animal identification and personal encounters that delivers an entertaining, yet educational presentation that will give children a tremendous respect for nature.

(Tickets may be picked up in the lobby of the Chace Center of the RISD Museum on the day of the screening only)

Sunday, February 20, 2011

PCFF Screening: Your Shorts Are Showing

RISD Museum

10:15 AM - 11:25 AM

Your Shorts Are Showin' Elementary Edition. PCFF proudly presents this reel of shorts that were submitted or invited to our 2011 festival. These films are a wide assortment of animation, live action, musicals and narratives. Some of these film makers are as young as YOU! All ages. Film apx. 55 mins. (Tickets may be picked up in the lobby of the Chace Center of the RISD Museum on the day of the screening only)

Saturday, February 19, 2011

PCFF Screening: Your Shorts Are Showing

RISD Museum

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Your Shorts are Showing Preschool Edition. PCFF proudly presents this reel of shorts that were submitted or invited to our 2011 festival. These films are a wide assortment of animation, live action, musicals and narratives. Some of these film makers are as young as YOU! All ages. Film apx. 55 mins. (Tickets may be picked up in the lobby of the Chace Center of the RISD Museum on the day of the screening only)

Saturday, February 19, 2011

PCFF Screening: Gus Outdoors: Lizard Town

RISD Museum

RISD Museum

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

PCFF Opening Night kicks off with a reception and festivities at 6pm, followed by a screening of Eleanor's Secret at 7pm. Tickets are $15 Adult/$10 Child and may be purchased in advance by visiting pcffri.org.

Film and reception in Chace Lobby of museum.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Late Thursday/Free Admission

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

All galleries open.

Art Shot: Anna Marie Pangilinan, Dramatic Episodes in Art

Family See + Sketch: Kutch Quilts from South Asia

RISD Museum

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Enjoy a close look at a Kutch quilt from South Asia, exploring pattern and quilting techniques through lively discussion followed by sketching and activities in the galleries. All materials provided. Talks are 30 minutes. Ages 6 and up. Free with admission.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Family Film Series: Paddle to the Sea (1966)

RISD Museum

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Filmed at Lake Nipigon, Canada “Paddle to the Sea” follows a small wooden canoe, carved by a young boy, as it it travels a great journey from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic ocean. 28 minutes. Space is limited, please arrive 10 minutes prior to showing. Ages 4 and up.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Art Shots

Meet in Chace Center lobby

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Join gallery conversations exploring art and design spanning centuries and cultures from the perspective of student artists and art historians. Free.

Katherine Meng, & then there’s the graphics

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Art + Design Lab, 10-14 yrs old

RISD Museum

2:00 PM - 3:45 PM

A museum and studio course for children and their adult companions that explores works of art in the galleries followed by artmaking in the studio.

Course title: The Artistic Practice, 10-14 year olds

Course overview: Focus on painting, installation + collaborative artmaking in contemporary art.

Dates: Every other Saturday from Jan 29-March 26

Call 401-454-6674 or email museumyouth@risd.edu to register

Cost $125 per class series, members receive %10 discount

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Art Shots

Meet in Chace Center lobby

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Join gallery conversations exploring art and design spanning centuries and cultures from the perspective of student artists and art historians. Free.

Horace Ballard, Beautiful and Grotesque: Performance of Gender and Power in Religious Art

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Art + Design Lab, 6-9 year olds

RISD Museum

10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

A museum and studio course for children and their adult companions that explores works of art in the galleries followed by artmaking in the studio.

Course title: The Artistic Practice for 6-9 year olds

Course overview: Focus on painting, installation + collaborative artmaking in contemporary art.

Dates: Every other Saturday from Jan 29-March 26

Call 401-454-6674 or email museumyouth@risd.edu to register

Cost $125 per class series, members receive %10 discount

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Tours for Tots: Experience Color

RISD Museum

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Start them young! An interactive tour exploring color and mood that begins with read-aloud story time. No two tours are the same, come to them all. For children aged 5 and younger. Free with admission, space is limited, please ~~RSVP to museumyouth@risd.edu to reserve your spot.~~ CLASS IS FULL, please check calendar to RSVP for future sessions.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Open Studio: Collaging it Together

RISD Museum

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Drop-in to the Open Studio to create a large communal paper collage in the Fain Education Classroom. Express yourself with drop-in artmaking for all ages. All materials provided. Free with admission.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Family See + Sketch: Medieval Art + Architecture

RISD Museum

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Enjoy a close look at a work of art from the newly reinstalled Medieval galleries through lively discussion followed by sketching and activities in the galleries. All materials provided. Talks are 30 minutes. Ages 6 and up. Free with admission.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Late Thursday/Screening + Art Shots Talk

Museum Galleries

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Free admission, all galleries open

Screening: Last Train Home

6:30-8pm | Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

This film, a New York Times Critics’ Pick, documents the chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey from China’s cities to home villages for the New Year’s holiday. This mass exodus is the world’s largest human migration—an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Watch trailer here. (2010/85 min./not rated). Co-sponsored by RISD’s Respond|Design and Cable Car Cinema. Free and open to all.

Art Shot: Anna Marie Pangilinan, Dramatic Episodes in Art

7pm | Meet in Chace Center Lobby

Join gallery conversations exploring art and design spanning centuries and cultures from the perspective of student artists and art historians.

Late Thursday, March 17, welcomes back Hands-On Art, music, and refreshments.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Music Friday

Main Gallery

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Come in out of the cold and enjoy an evening of art, music, and refreshments.

This month features the high-energy funk, soul, and blues sound

of Sauce, featuring Chelsey Lau, winner of the Providence Phoenix 2009

Best Female Vocalist award. The reopened European galleries in the

Radeke Building are featured, with a cash bar in the Main Gallery and food

samples compliments of Marra Restaurant Group.

Members, RISD and Brown faculty, staff and students with ID $5;
non-members $8. Attendees must be 21 and over. Enter through the
Chace Center.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

RI Wind Ensemble

RISD Auditorium

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

The RISD Museum and the Rhode Island Wind Ensemble collaborate to

bring you an afternoon of music. This concert will feature more than 40

musicians playing a variety of works, including some with a holiday theme.

Admission to this benefit for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank is

free, but we ask that all attendees bring a non-perishable food item.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Free Teen Film Night

RISD Museum

4:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Pizza and a film—just for teens and always free! Program begins with pizza and refreshments, movie to follow with films that will get you thinking and talking. Meet in the Chace Lobby.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Double Take/Aphrodite Bronze

Radeke Galleries, 5th Fl

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

Consider a bronze statue of Aphrodite from the point of view of Rebecca More, professor in the Department of History, Brown University, and Dean Snyder, professor of sculpture, RISD. This cross-disciplinary conversation stimulates thinking about social context and artistic process, reception and interpretation, and the ever-evolving meanings of objects.

Sunday, December 05, 2010

Annual Holiday Celebration

Museum galleries

1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Schedule of Events

1 – 4 pm Visit with Santa Claus, Porcelain Gallery

1 – 1:30 pm The chorus from the French American school sings in French and English, Main Gallery

1:30 – 1:45 pm Stroll the galleries with VOX, Victorian Street Carolers beginning in the Chace Center lobby

1:45 – 2:30 pm Enjoy the performance of seasonal favorites performed by VOX, Main Gallery

2 – 3 pm Storyteller Keith Munslow entertains visitors of all ages with his winter tales, Metcalf Auditorium

2:30 – 3 pm The Higher Keys, an a capella group from Brown University, performs, Danforth Room

3 – 3:30 pm The children’s choir from St. Luke’s Church in East Greenwich sings, Main Gallery

3:30 – 4 pm Well-known Rhode Island storyteller Carolyn Martino performs, Danforth Room

4 – 4:30 pm The St. Luke’s Handbell Choir performs, Metcalf auditorium

4 – 4:30 pm Harmonic Motion, an a capella group of RISD and Brown students sings, Main Gallery

Please enter through the Chace Center at 20 north main street.

Museum memberships make great holiday gifts and will be available for sale during the party.

Visit risd | works which offers objects and art designed by RISD faculty and alumni. Museum members receive a 10% discount on all purchases.

The Museum's annual holiday party is sponsored by the RISD Museum Associates.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Family See + Sketch

RISD Museum

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Families enjoy a closer look at a work of art together through lively discussion followed by sketching and activities in the galleries. All materials provided. Talks are 30 minutes. Ages 6 and up recommended. No registeration needed, just drop in! Meet in the Chace Lobby.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Family Film Series

RISD Museum

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

The RISD Museum of Art + Providence Children’s Film Festival present:

Family Film Series @ The RISD Museum

Show starts @ 2:30pm | Metcalf Auditorium

No tickets needed, but space is limited.

JOURNEYS NEAR + FAR

Animated and live action films for all ages.

Featuring:

GUS OUTDOORS: LIZARD TOWN (28 mins)

PARALLELOSTORY (2 mins)

LOST AND FOUND (24 mins)

www.risdmuseum.org

Celebrate this collective installation by a group of 17 artists. Remarks at 6:30pm by painter + guest curator Jackie Saccoccio (RISD BFA 1985) precede a 7-7:30pm performance by Black Lake, a New York-based art and music collaborative project. Formed by Slink Moss and Susan Jennings, this duo performs original music and sound pieces while incorporating sculptures as percussive instruments.

Hands-On Art 6–8pm | Museum galleries

Sketch in the galleries with the guidance of an art educator. All materials provided, no experience necessary.

Screening: Black Orpheus 6:30pm | Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

This retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice Greek legend is set against Rio de Janeiro's madness during Carnival. Orpheus, a trolley conductor and musician, is engaged to Mira but in love with Eurydice. A vengeful Mira and Eurydice’s ex-lover, costumed as Death, pursue Orpheus and his new paramour through the feverish Carnival night. This film earned an Oscar for best foreign language film. (1959/107 min./not rated/In Portuguese with English subtitles). Co-sponsored by Cable Car Cinema.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Lecture: English Art Pottery, Victorian Decoration

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Collector Nicholas Johnson speaks about his interest in English art pottery.

Presented by the Pottery and Porcelain Club.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Screening: Waste Land

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

2:00 PM - 3:40 PM

wastelandmovie.com

World-renowned artist Vik Muniz embarks on one of the most inspired collaborations of his career, joining creative forces with Brazilian catadores -- garbage pickers who mine treasure from the towering trash heaps of Rio's Jardim Gramacho landfill. In this 2010 Sundance award-winning documentary, the catadores prove to be unique and surprising individuals in their own right, waxing philosophic as they impart a valuable lesson about what society discards. (2010/100 min./not rated) Co-sponsored by RISD Respond/Design + Cable Car Cinema.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Double Take/Dionysus Bacchus Mosaic

Radeke Galleries, 5th Fl

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Consider a Roman floor mosaic fragment from the point of view of Rebecca Molholt, assistant professor of history of art and architecture, Brown University, and Liliane Wong, professor of interior architecture, RISD. This cross-disciplinary conversation stimulates thinking about social context and artistic process, reception and interpretation, and the ever-evolving meanings of objects.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Family See + Sketch

RISD Museum

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Family Open Studio

RISD Museum

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Friday, November 12, 2010

Music Friday

Main Gallery

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

On the second Friday of the month, the Museum opens its doors for an

evening of art, music, and refreshments. Enjoy the classic honky-tonk and

vintage twang sounds of Girl Howdy. Featured exhibitions are Lynda Benglis

in the Chace Center galleries and newly reinstalled European galleries in the

Radeke Building. Cash bar in the Main Gallery with food samplings compliments

of Marra Restaurant Group.

Members, RISD and Brown faculty, staff and students with ID $5;
non-members $8
Attendees must be 21 and over. Enter through the
Chace Center.

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Gallery Talk: Berthe Morisot’s Child in a Red Apron

Impressionist Gallery

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Join curator of painting and sculpture Maureen O’Brien for a discussion

on the recent acquisition of Berthe Morisot’s Child in a Red Apron (L’Enfant

au tablier rouge), 1886. The subject of Eduard Manet’s Le Repos, Morisot was

a founding member of the Impressionist circle, and her work irrevocably

altered the direction of French painting in the late 19th century. Radeke
Society only event. For more information please call 401 454-6321.

Sunday, November 07, 2010

Family Open Studio

RISD Museum

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Saturday, November 06, 2010

Family See + Sketch

RISD Museum

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Lecture: Past Imperfect: Archeology and War in Iraq and Afghanistan

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

C. Brian Rose, professor of Classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania and president of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), shares his work preserving ancient sites from looting, excessive development, and destruction during times of war. He also discusses his introduction of a cultural heritage training program for U.S. troops deploying to the Middle East. Co-sponsored by the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University and the Narragansett Society, the RI Chapter of AIA. Free and open to all, but reserved tickets are recommended. Email reservations@risd.edu or call 401 709-8402.

Monday, November 01, 2010

Mere Folle: Film and discussion with the filmmaker

Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

"Mère Folle" ("Crazy Mother")

2010, 120 mins., Color, Multi-lingual with English subtitles

If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Françoise Davoine, Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real as one of her patients, Ariste, dies. Davoine is abducted and put on trial by mediaeval fools and through the course of one hellish night - across several centuries and countries – must argue her case for exoneration.

RISD Museum

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Grow creatively together and learn how to bring a love of art and art making into your family through a special workshop at The RISD Museum of Art. The Artful Family workshop begins with strategies, tips and inspiration for making art part of your every family life while children spend time in the art studio. The second half of the workshop brings children and their adults together in the galleries and art studio to practice what we learn. Join us for this opportunity for creativity, discovery and meaningful time spent together.

Recommended for parents with children ages 6-11. $10 per person for member, $15 per person otherwise. Advance registration is required and space is limited. Please call 401-454-6674 or email ablanc@risd.edu to register. Refreshments are included

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Museum After Dark: College Night

Museum galleries

6:00 PM - 11:00 PM

A night at the Museum for college students throughout the region. Performances, talks, and sketching create opportunities to get to know the collections and each other.

Screening: RISD Student Films

6–10pm | Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium

This compilation of RISD Film/Animation/Video student work showcases an eclectic mix of stories and visuals. Check out short films from the next generation of filmmakers and animators. Co-sponsored by RISD’s Film, Animation, + Video Department.

Hands-On Art

6–10pm | Museum galleries

Collaborative Mural using handmade block prints | Fain Gallery, 3^rd fl

Café Sketching | Grand Gallery, 5^th fl

Figure Drawing | Upper Farago, 6^th fl

Drawing Exchange | Chace Center lobby, 1^st fl

All materials provided, no experience necessary.

Many Moons

Thursday, 7pm | Lower Farago

The moon, Earth’s only satellite, has been a source of mystery and wonder since the beginning of history. Scientists have studied the moon’s physical characteristics for millennia, and artists and writers have been inspired by its powerful presence. Brown University planetary geologist Carle Pieters and artist Tristin Lowe discuss the moon in front of Lowe's Lunacy, a huge white felt version of the satellite, currently on view. Co-sponsored by the RISD Sculpture Department.

Artist Material Cart

7:30–8 + 8:30–9pm | Ancient Art Gallery, 5^th fl

RISD glass major, Elisabeth Schubel shares materials, tools, and techniques used in making blown glass objects.

Spoken Word Poetry: Project V.O.I.C.E.

8–8:30pm | Grand Gallery, 5^th fl

Entertaining, inspiring, and educational, Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye (Brown University, ‘10) perform powerful Spoken Word Poetry.

Art Shots/Lynda Benglis

9pm | Meet in Chace Center lobby

Lynda Benglis’s pioneering and challenging works question the rigors of Modernism and Minimalism by merging material, form, and content. Hollis Mickey (Brown University, MA candidate in performance studies, 2011) leads an engaging gallery talk through this retrospective of Benglis’s work.

Performance Art

Ongoing | Museum galleries

9–9:30pm | Program Gallery, 6^th fl

Members of RISD’s Performance Club celebrate this art form with situations involving time, space, physicality, and the audience.

Local Fare + Live Music

6–10:30pm | Grand Gallery, 5^th fl

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Late Thursday/Free Admission

Museum galleries

5:00 PM - 11:00 PM

All galleries open until 11pm! Free admission! Programs are free!

Take gallery exploration into your own hands. Enjoy live music with wine at our cash bar. Exercise your artistic potential with optional coaching.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Educators' Open House

Museum galleries

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Relax with colleagues + refreshments. Encounter art from Ancient Egypt to today. Explore the new Greek, Roman and European Galleries. Discover connections between art and design and your subject areas. Learn about K-12 School Visits, Dig the Museum program for Providence Public Schools, Teacher Resources, and Professional Development opportunities.

Remarks by John Maeda, President, RISD - 4:30pm

Let us know you are coming! Please email teachers@risd.edu

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Lecture: Unspoken: Lynda Benglis and the Limits of Art Criticism

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

What issues regarding contemporary art lie beyond the legitimate boundaries of art criticism? Richard Meyer, associate professor of art history and director of The Contemporary Project and Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Program at the University of Southern California, is the author of important articles on Lynda Benglis. In this talk, he will discuss privacy, the art market, and the role of the dealer within the creative process. Co-sponsored by History of Art + Visual Culture and the Division of Liberal Arts, RISD. Free and open to all, but reserved tickets are recommended. Email reservations@risd.edu or call 401 709-8402.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Premiere Screening: NetWorks 2010 Artist Video Portraits

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

NetWorks 2010, a series devoted to showcasing work of selected contemporary Rhode Island visual artists, premieres their third season of documentary videos. This year’s screening runs two hours and is followed by a reception with the artists, filmmaker Richard Goulis, and the series producer, Dr. Joseph Chazan. Co-sponsored by AS220. This event is free and open to all.

NetWorks 2010 Artists:

Ben Anderson; Leslie Bostrom; Coral Bourgeois; Donna Bruton; Daniel Clayman; Yizhak Elyashiv; Malcolm Grear; Erminio Pinque, Kenn Speiser; Wendy Wahl; MacDonald Wright; Agustín Patiño

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Family Open Studio

RISD Museum

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Course: From Ancient Greece to Renaissance Italy

Museum Galleries

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

October 16 + 30, November 6 + 20Saturdays, 1:30–3pmTaught by museum educator Sarah Laperle this course offers an introduction to art and visual culture from ancient Greece through the European Renaissance. Close study of sculpture, coins, jewelry, mosaics, and paintings in the galleries provide a keen understanding of cultural and historical contexts.
About Sarah Laperle (BA, Fine Arts, University of Iowa; MA, Art History, San Diego State University): Laperle has taught at the San Diego Museum of Art, worked in the Registration Department at The RISD Museum, and spent four years as an instructor in the Art History Department at UMass Dartmouth. She is currently an educator for ‘Dig the Museum! Building Cultural Connections’ at The RISD Museum and teaches art history in RISD’s pre-college summer program.
Space is limited; pre-registration required. Members $180, non-members $200. To register, contact Visitor Services at 401 709-8402.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Free Teen Film Night

RISD Museum

4:00 PM - 7:30 PM

FREE Teen Film Night - just for teens! (Ages 14-18) Join us for pizza at 4pm, with the movie "Be Kind Rewind" by writer/director Michel Gondry. No need to sign-up, just drop by!

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Poems and Pictures: A MuseoLibrary Discussion Group

RISD Museum + Providence Athenaeum

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Thursdays, Oct. 14, 28 + Nov. 4, 18 + Dec. 9, 5:30–7pmOffered in collaboration by the Providence Athenaeum and The RISD Museum, this course explores ekphrasis, or the literary presentation of visual art, and works of art inspired by poetry. Brief readings span Ovid to Keats and include 20th-century poetry by Auden and William Carlos Williams, among many others. Discussions are led by Dr. Rhoda L. Flaxman, who recently retired from teaching 19th-century literature and art history at Wheaton College and Brown University. Sessions will alternate between the Athenaeum and Museum.
Space is limited; pre-registration required. Members of either the Museum or Athenaeum $225 (sorry, no additional discount for members of both organizations), non-members $250. To register, contact Visitor Services 401 709-8402.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Art Shots/Lynda Benglis

Meet in Chace Center lobby

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Lynda Benglis’s pioneering and challenging works questions the rigors of Modernism and Minimalism by merging material, form and content. Hollis Mickey (Brown University, MA candidate in performance studies, 2011) leads an engaging gallery talk through this retrospective of Benglis’s work. Free with museum admission.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Family See + Sketch

RISD Museum

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Saturday, October 09, 2010

Family Open Studio

RISD Museum

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The fall series Family Open Studio will explore the telling of short stories through hand drawn comics, story boarding, filming and scripting. We will be taking characters from our imaginations and the museum's collection to create a repository of movies sets and locations to make short comics and movies. Telling epic and mundane journeys, returning participants can pick up where they left off, and newcomers can always jump right in.

Friday, October 08, 2010

Music Friday

Main Gallery

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

As part of the city-wide celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Infusion Experience brings its Latin jazz sound to Music Friday, Cash bar, with refreshments courtesy of Marra Restaurant Group. Featured exhibition: Lynda Benglis. Members $5, non-members $8. Attendees must be 21 or over. Entrance will be through the Chace Center

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Gail Silver Memorial Lecture: Dave Hickey

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

6:15 PM - 8:30 PM

Dave Hickey, Graduate School De-Aesthetisized

Dave Hickey is known for his thought-provoking commentary on contemporary art and culture. His writings have appeared in Rolling Stone, Art in America, Artforum, Harper's Magazine, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times, and he is the author of the influential books The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty and Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Hickey is as engaging as a speaker as he is in print. Free and open to all, but reserved tickets are required. Email reservations@risd.edu or call 401 709-8402.

Tickets to the lecture at the Metcalf Auditorium are sold out, however, the event will be simulcast in the RISD Auditorium. Seating will be available on a first come, first served basis.

Sunday, October 03, 2010

Piano Music in The Main Gallery

The RISD Museum

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Brown University student Benjamin Nacar presents an encore piano performance including works by Beethoven (Sonata no. 28 in A major), Chopin (Ballade no. 4 in F minor) and Bizet/Horowitz (Carmen Fantasie) in the Main Gallery, surrounded by European paintings from the Museum's permanent collection.

Free with museum admission.

Sunday, October 03, 2010

Family Open Studio

RISD Museum

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Saturday, October 02, 2010

Art + Design Lab: Family Workshops (10-14 year olds)

RISD Museum

2:00 PM - 3:45 PM

This Fall the RISD Museum is offering a series of all new family workshops. Art + Design Lab will bring art making into the museum for an in-depth engagement with the artistic process. In our first series, The Creative Foundations of Art, children and their adults will be exposed to a wide variety of art making techniques, tools and design concepts. Families work together in the studio and galleries, receiving a broad foundation in the visual arts through art interpretation, drawing, painting, design, printmaking, sculpture and more. Workshops are offered for 6-9 year olds and 10-14 year olds and their adults. There are five sessions total in the series, running twice a month on Saturdays.

$125 for the series, 5 sessions total (10% discount for family members)

10-14 year olds

2pm-3:45pm Saturdays: October 2, 16, 30 + November 13, December 4

Call 401-454-6674 for more information or to register.

Saturday, October 02, 2010

Family See + Sketch

RISD Museum

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Saturday, October 02, 2010

Art + Design Lab: Family Workshops (6-9 year olds)

RISD Museum

10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

$125 for the series, 5 sessions total (10% discount for family members)

For 6-9 year olds

10:30am-12:15pm Saturdays: October 2, 16, 30 + November 13, December 4

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Artist Gallery Walk-Through

Chace Galleries

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

As part of the opening celebration, join artist Lynda Benglis and curator Judith Tannenbaum for a closer look at the Lynda Benglis exhibition.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Tours for Tots

RISD Museum

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM

The RISD Museum of Art now offers a new program for children ages 3-5 years old. Tours for Tots is a series of interactive tours for kids and their adults that explore art through activities such as storytelling, imaginative play and art making. Our first Tours for Tots series will focus on engaging the senses in art – through sight, sound, and touch. Children will learn about shapes, textures, and pattern through age appropriate activities that help them grow developmentally and creatively.

$85 for the series, 5 sessions total (10% discount for family members)

10:15am-11am Thursdays: September 30, October 14, 28, November 11, December 2

Call 401-454-6674 for more information or to register.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Piano Performance in The Main Gallery

The RISD Museum

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Enjoy a program of piano music performed by Brown University student Benjamin Nacar including works by Beethoven (Sonata no. 28 in A major), Chopin (Ballade no. 4 in F minor) and Bizet/Horowitz (Carmen Fantasie) in the Main Gallery, surrounded by European paintings from the Museum's permanent collection.

Free with museum admission.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Family See + Sketch

RISD Museum

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Double Take/Greek Vase

Radeke Galleries, 5th Fl

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Consider a Greek vase from the point of view of Linda Sormin, associate professor of ceramics, RISD, and Mary Hollinshead, associate professor of art history, University of Rhode Island. This cross-disciplinary conversation stimulates thinking about social context and artistic process, reception and interpretation, and the ever-evolving meanings of objects. Free and open to all.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

RISD Museum Community Day: Reopening Antiquity

RISD Museum

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

A special community day to celebrate the opening of the newly reinstalled Greek and Roman galleries with a day exploring the uses of objects from antiquity, as well as related myths and history.

Admission is free all day, all are welcome.

11-4pm: Young Explorers Guide to Ancient Greek + Roman Art

11:30, 12:30, 3:30pm: Family See + Sketch - short discussions and sketching in front of a work of art for families

11:30, 12:30, 3:30pm: Artist Materials Talks - RISD student ceramicists present 30 min. talks in the galleries connecting their work to ancient objects

2pm: Double Take Gallery talk with Professors Linda Sormin and Mary Hollinshead

2pm: Family Feature Film, Disney’s Hercules. Rated G, 93 minutes. The son of the Greek Gods Zeus and Hera is stripped of his immortality as an infant and must become a true hero in order to reclaim it. Recommended for ages 5 and up. Open seating, space is limited.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

The Art of Fair Use

Spalter New Media Gallery + Danforth Lecture Hall, 3rd Fl

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Siebren Versteeg’s work takes form from an infinite flow of images downloaded from the Internet to monitors in the gallery space. He uses commercial databases to investigate our media-saturated world in which the real and the virtual have become intertwined. Versteeg and Steve McDonald, RISD’s general counsel, discuss when and how artists may incorporate others’ works in their own, and the ever-evolving terrain of authorship, copyright, and fair use. Co-sponsored by RISD’s Digital Media Department. Free and open to all.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Screening: Beautiful Losers

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Filmmaker Aaron Rose’s documentary explores the vibrant world of a group of underground artists involved in graffiti, skateboarding, and music in New York during the early 1990s. What begins as outsider art soon influences fashion, film, and pop culture. Interviews with Harmony Korine, Margaret Kilgallen, Ed Templeton, Shepard Fairey (RISD BFA 1992), Thomas Campbell, and others. (2008/90 min./not rated) Co-sponsored by Cable Car Cinema. Free and open to all.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Hands-On Art

Museum galleries

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Sketch in the galleries with the guidance of art educator, Paul Carpentier. All materials provided, no experience necessary. Free and open to all.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Late Thursday/Free Admission

Museum Galleries

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

All galleries open until 9pm! Free admission! Programs are free!Take gallery exploration into your own hands. Enjoy live music with wine at our cash bar. Exercise your artistic potential with optional coaching. Watch award-winning, independent documentaries focused on art and culture.
Hands-On Art6–8pm | Museum galleriesDuring free Museum hours, draw in the galleries with the guidance of an art educator. All materials provided, no experience necessary.
Music in the Main Gallery6:30-8pm
Enjoy the Latin jazz sounds of guitarist Steve DeConti and percussionist Jesus Andujar. Cash bar and snacks.

The Art of Fair Use6:30pm | Spalter New Media Gallery + Danforth Lecture HallSiebren Versteeg’s work takes form from an infinite flow of images downloaded from the Internet to monitors in the gallery space. He uses commercial databases to investigate our media-saturated world in which the real and the virtual have become intertwined. Versteeg and Steve McDonald, RISD’s general counsel, discuss when and how artists may incorporate others’ works in their own, and the ever-evolving terrain of authorship, copyright, and fair use. Co-sponsored by RISD’s Digital Media Department.

Screening: Beautiful Losers6:30pm | Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace CenterFilmmaker Aaron Rose’s documentary explores the vibrant world of a group of underground artists involved in graffiti, skateboarding, and music in New York during the early 1990s. What begins as outsider art soon influences fashion, film, and pop culture. Interviews with Harmony Korine, Margaret Kilgallen, Ed Templeton, Shepard Fairey (RISD BFA 1992), Thomas Campbell, and others. (2008/90 min./not rated) Co-sponsored by Cable Car Cinema.

Friday, September 10, 2010

Music Friday

The RISD Museum

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Music Friday returns with the rockabilly sounds of The Cobra-Matics. View selected galleries in the museum, enjoy music in the Main Gallery, along with a cash bar and food samplings courtesy of Marra Restaurant Group. Featured exhibition: Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor.

Museum members: $5, non-members: $8. Attendees must be over 21. Enter through the Chace Center.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Summer Hours

Museum

12:00 AM - 11:55 PM

Closed the month of August. The Museum reopens Sept 1.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

The Museum is closed in August. Please join us when we re-open on September 1st.

12:00 AM - 11:55 PM

The Museum is closed in August. We will re-open to the public on Wednesday, September 1st. Please plan to visit us then to see exciting new exhibitions, programs and the newly renovated Ancient and Medieval Galleries.

Thursday, August 05, 2010

The Museum will re-open on September 1st.

12:00 AM - 11:55 PM

The Museum will re-open to the public on Wednesday, September 1st. Please plan to visit us then to see exciting new exhibitions, programs and the newly renovated Ancient and Medieval Galleries.

Saturday, July 31, 2010

RISD Museum Family Open Studio: Picturing Photography

RISD Museum

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Visit the special exhibition “Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor” at the RISD Museum. Explore how distant lands appear familiar and the familiar becomes unknown in photographs that capture timeless places, sacred sites, and the beauty of light. After visiting the exhibition, make a sun print in the Family Open Studio that represents something sacred to you and enjoy sketching in the exhibition. Admission is free all day. Family Open studio is from 1pm-4pm, Family See + Sketch at 2:30pm. Call 401-454-6674 for more information.

(Last Saturdays of the month are free admission, 10am-5pm)

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Last Day to See Mountains and Rivers: Scenic Views of Japan

RISD Museum of Art

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Beginning in the early 19th century, landscape evolved into a popular theme in Japanese printmaking. This subject matter, drawn from older painting traditions, was transferred to the medium of woodblock printing, where richer, more innovative thematic content appeared. This exhibition will highlight depictions of famous places (meisho), including selections from the Museum's complete set of Hiroshige's Yukaidy (Eastern Sea Route) prints and Hokusai's series of the "Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji."

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Dan Butterworth’s Marionettes

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Local puppeteer Dan Butterworth brings his marionettes to The RISD
Museum. Dan and his intricately hand-carved puppets have performed in
movies, operas, classical music festivals, and on TV specials, and his troupe
has performed in Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Sponsored by The
Art League of Rhode Island in conjunction with The Art of Excellence exhibition.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Lecture: Dessert in the Desert

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Artist, designer, independent curator, and former “first lady of RISD” Gayle
Mandle (RISD MFA ’97) returns to Providence from Qatar to discuss life and
art in her new home. Sponsored by The Art League of Rhode Island.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Gallery Talk: Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Jan Howard, Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, discusses Linda Connor's (RISD BFA '67) photographic concerns and process.

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Gallery Talk: The Art League of Rhode Island: The Art of Excellence

Waterman Gallery

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Join Tom Sgouros (RISD BFA ’50) and other artists featured in the exhibition
as they discuss their work.
Music and refreshments in the Main Gallery: K.C. Moaners, folk and
blues musicians, 6:30 – 8 pm

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Screening: Rembrandt J’accuse

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

6:30 PM - 8:10 PM

Filmmaker Peter Greenaway’s documentary brings art to life by meticulously
examining Rembrandt’s group portrait Night Watch, searching for clues to
a murder and the motives of the characters depicted. Greenaway weaves
in the social history of 17th-century Amsterdam as he unravels secret
messages and a conspiracy that involves everyone in the painting
(2008/100 min./not rated).

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Gallery Night-Open Late/Free Admission

The RISD Museum of Art

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Programs

6-8pm - Drop-In Figure Drawing - Main Gallery
Sketch from a live model in the gallery. Receive one-on-one instruction from a professional artist/educator. Materials are provided; no experience is necessary.
6:30-8pm - Music + Refreshments - Main Gallery
Bluegrass band, K.C. Moaners perform.
6:30-8:10pm Screening: Rembrandt J’accuse
Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center
Filmmaker Peter Greenaway's essayistic documentary brings art to life by meticulously examining Rembrandt's group portrait Night Watch, searching for clues to murder and the motives of the 34 characters depicted. Greenaway weaves in the social history of the 17th-century city as he unravels secret messages never noticed before and a conspiracy that involves everyone in the painting (2008/100 minutes/not rated).

Saturday, July 03, 2010

Last Day to See Pat Steir: Drawing Out of Line

Chace Center

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Friday, July 02, 2010

Exhibition Opening: Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor

Linda and Vincent Buonanno Works on Paper Gallery

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

This artist-designed installation of 76 photographs presents more than 30 years of work created as by Linda Connor (BFA 1967), who traveled the world in search of sacred spaces.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Rhode Island Children’s Chorus

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

This group, founded in 2003, has sung with many adult choruses in the
region and is featured on Bill Harley’s children’s album I Wanna Play,
nominated for a 2007 Grammy Award.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

RISD Museum Family Program: Body Language

RISD Museum

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

The Hive Archive presents Body Language, a RISD Museum family workshop inspired by the current exhibition, The Figure: Contemporary Works from the Collection. Join artists from The Hive Archive for an interactive drawing installation for all ages, 1pm-4pm. (Last Saturdays are free and open to the public, 10am-5pm.)

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Gallery Night-Gallery Talk, Art Class, Film

Museum

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

All galleries open until 9pm! Free admission! All programs are free!

5:30pm Gallery Talk, Upper Farago, 6^th Floor

Alice Neel’s intimate portraits of friends, family, poets and artists are known for their expressionistic use of line and color and emotional intensity. In 1967 Nancy Selvage sat for the artist and reflects on the experience 43 years later in front of Neel’s portrait of her.

6-8pm Drop-in Art Lesson, Radeke Garden

Watercolor by the fountain in the garden! Receive one-on-one instruction from a professional artist/educator. Materials are provided; no experience is necessary.

6:30-8pm Screening: Alice Neel, Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium

Director Andrew Neel looks at the life and work of his grandmother, Alice Neel (1900-1984), one of the 20th century’s best portrait artists. This intimate documentary uses interviews, photos and art to detail her struggles as a woman artist, single mother, and painter who defied convention. The enigmatic Alice sparked a revival of the genre by producing portraits that unmasked her subjects, who included Andy Warhol, poet Allen Ginsberg and other notables. (USA/2008/81 min./not rated). Co-sponsored by Cable Car Cinema.

6:30-8pm Music in the Radeke Garden

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Visit The Primacy of Paper: Recent Works from the Collection

Linda and Vincent Buonanno Works on Paper Gallery

12:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Contemporary drawings and prints can function as key components of an artist’s practice, and in recent years works on paper have come to challenge the primacy of painting and sculpture. This selection, intended to complement the exhibition Pat Steir: Drawing Out of Line, features recent works by Shahzia Sikander, Julie Mehretu, Kiki Smith, Sol LeWitt, and others for whom the act and process of drawing plays a key role in the creation or rejection of meaning.

Sunday, June 06, 2010

Last Day to see Rapid Gestures: Waterfalls in British Romantic Art

RISD Museum

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Rapid Gestures: Waterfalls in British Romantic Art showcases the variety of materials, colors, lines and brushstrokes artists used to portray these boisterous features of the natural world. Drawn from the Museum's rich collection of 18th-and 19th- century British watercolors and sketches, this exhibition offers the rare opportunity to compare works by J.M.W. Turner, including his magnificent Dazio Grande (1843), with depictions by contemporaries such as John Ruskin, John Constable, Edward Lear, and John Robert Cozens.

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Visit Pat Steir: Drawing Out of Line

Chace Center, 2nd Floor

12:00 AM - 11:55 PM

A major figure in American art since the 1970s, Pat Steir has created some of the most ambitious and challenging drawings of the late 20th century. Organized by RISD Jan Howard and independent curator Susan Harris, Pat Steir: Drawing Out of Line presents forty years of Steir's work in a survey that focuses on the artist's exploration of the vocabulary of drawing. The exhibition begins with a recreation of her wall drawing Self-Portrait: An Installation, first created for the New Museum in New York (1987). In the 4,000 square-foot gallery of the Museum, drawings on paper, dramatically varied in scale, are presented and set in relationship to her paintings and prints. Her piece from 1985,Untitled (Long Wave Drawing), measuring at 5 x 15' (collection of the Museum of Modern Art), is a prime example of how Steir challenges the notion of drawing, both in scale and in ambition.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

RISD Museum Family Program: Picturing Stories

The RISD Museum of Art

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Family Film Series 1:15pm + 3pm showings
Jungle Beat: I Want to Break Free. 2004. Zimbabwe. Directed by Brent Dawes.
The Mantis Parable. 2005.USA. Directed by Josh Staub.
Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears.1984. USA. Directed by Gene Deitch.

Film screenings are first come, first served and doors open 15 minutes prior to show time.

Family Gallery Talks 1:30pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm
Enjoy a closer look at a work of art, get lively with discussion and make drawings about what you see. Talks are 20 minutes each.

Family Open Studio 1-4pm
After exploring the galleries are you inspired to create art of your own? Express yourself in the Family Open Studio, all materials are provided!

Family programs are designed for children ages 4 to 11. Museum and program admission are free the last Saturday of every month.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Catering is Closed

12:00 AM - 11:55 PM

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

During the heady years of the 1970s and ’80s, the New York City art
scene was abuzz with a new spirit, and photographer Robert Map-
plethorpe and curator-collector Sam Wagstaff were at the center of it.
In this documentary, punk poetess Patti Smith reflects on the
relationship all three shared and the fertile artistic environment that
resulted (not rated, but for mature audiences). Co-sponsored by
Cable Car Cinema and Café.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Gallery Night-Museum open late + free

Museum

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

All galleries open until 9pm! Free admission! All programs are free!

6-8pm Drop-in Art Lesson, Upper Farago, 6^th Floor

Draw from a live model in the exhibit, The Figure, while receiving one-on-one instruction from a professional artist/educator. Materials are provided; no experience is necessary.

6:30-7:45pm Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe, Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium

During the heady years of the 1970s and 80s, the New York City art scene was abuzz with a new spirit, and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and curator-collector Sam Wagstaff were at the center of it. In this documentary, punk poetess Patti Smith reflects on the relationship all three shared and the fertile artistic environment that resulted. (USA/2007/76min./not rated, but for mature audiences) Co-sponsored by Cable Car Cinema.

6:30-8pm Music in the Main Gallery – Debra Mann on piano

7-7:30pm Art Shots From Converted Barns to Museum Galleries: Experimentation and Development in 20th-Century Art

These engaging gallery talks focus on individual works of art from the perspective of student artists and art historians. This discussion is led by Brown University student Montana Blanco. Meet in the Chace Center lobby.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Tuesday Talk: Museum as Muse

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Artists and designers delve into The RISD Museum’s costume and textile storage to mine historical references and exemplary craftsmanship. Held in conjunction with the exhibitions Queen of the Insects and Designing Tradition, this series explores how work of the past generates new work.
RISD alumni Anna Gitelson-Kahn (MFA 2009) and Joe Segal (MFA 2009) reflect on their use of historic textiles from the Museum’s collection to create new work.
Fee: $15 per lecture, non-members; FREE to museum members + members of the RISD and Brown communities with ID. To register, contact Deb Clemons at 401 454-6530 or dclemons@risd.edu.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Community MusicWorks concert

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Enjoy a chamber music concert by the Providence String Quartet,
quartet-in-residence for Community MusicWorks, joined by the CMW
Fellows Quartet and internationally renowned violist Kim Kashkashian.
The program will include works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Bela Bartok,
and Johannes Brahms. Admission is $25, members; $35, non-members;
Community MusicWorks benefactor admission, $50 (includes preferred
seating). Reservations recommended. For information or to purchase
tickets, call Community MusicWorks 401 861-5650.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Costume Society of America symposium

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The RISD Museum and the Northeastern Region of the Costume Society
of America present this one-day symposium The Museum Unbuttoned:
Costume and Textile Collections in the 21st Century. The day’s program will
focus on the changing role of fashion and textile collections in the new
millennium, how objects are displayed and studied, and how museums
are working to keep historic garments and textiles relevant and dynamic
for contemporary audiences.

Preregistration is required. Cost is $55 per person before April 25 and $60 after April 25. Fee includes all sessions and lunch.

For registration information, contact Jessica Urick at jurick@newportmansions.org.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Music Friday

RISD Museum

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

This month, the local favorite and nationally-known Slippery Sneakers
band brings its upbeat Zydeco sound to the Main Gallery. Enter through
the Chace Center at 20 North Main Street. Admission is $5, members;
$8, non-members. Attendees must be 21 or over.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Lecture Series: Curating Contemporary Art with Debra Singer

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Curating Contemporary Art: Perspectives on Practice

Debra Singer, Executive Director and Chief Curator, The Kitchen

Co-sponsored by the Department of Modern Culture and Media and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities at Brown University, the Graduate Studies Division at RISD, and The RISD Museum.

Free and open to the public.

Sunday, May 09, 2010

Last Day to see Queen of the Insects: The Art of the Butterfly

RISD Museum of Art

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Always fashionable, the butterfly motif has adorned a wide variety of objects, from porcelain and prints to jewelry and textiles. Objects from the Museum's costume and textiles collections- including a luminous 19th-century Chinese hand-painted summer robe, a ca. 1905 embroidered silk gown from the famed Japanese retailer Lida Takashimaya, and a gossamer 1970s printed chiffon dress designed by Hanae Mori- serve to illustrate the universal impulse to capture the fleeting art of the butterfly. Juxtaposed with its usage in Western design, the traditional symbolism of the butterfly in Asian art will be explored and decoded as a design inspiration and as a material in itself.

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Lecture Series: Curating Contemporary Art with Helen Molesworth

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Curating Contemporary Art: Perspectives on Practice

Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator, ICA Boston

Co-sponsored by the Department of Modern Culture and Media and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities at Brown University, the Graduate Studies Division at RISD, and The RISD Museum.

Next, and final date, is May 11. Free and open to the public.

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Visit Pat Steir: Drawing Out of Line

Chace Center, 2nd Floor

12:00 AM - 11:55 PM

Saturday, May 01, 2010

Le Cirque pour L'Art

RISD Museum

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Join the Museum Associates for a fun, circus-themed evening!
For more information or to purchase tickets, please contact Pam Kimel
at 401 454-6505 or pkimel@risd.edu.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Lecture Series: Curating Contemporary Art

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Curating Contemporary Art: Perspectives on Practice

Dara Greenwald, Artist and Independent Curator

Co-sponsored by the Department of Modern Culture and Media and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities at Brown University, the Graduate Studies Division at RISD, and The RISD Museum.

Other dates May 4 and May 11. Free and open to the public.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Poetry Reading with Anne Waldman

Chace Gallery

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Poet Anne Waldman, described in the New York Times as “the fastest, wisest woman to run with the wolves in some time,” will read from her poems related to the work of Pat Steir and other visual artists. Waldman is poet, professor, performer, cultural activist, and the author of more than 40 books and small-press editions of poetry and poetics. With Allen Ginsberg, she co-founded of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, in 1974. Co-sponsored by the RISD English department and the Division of Liberal Arts.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

The Big Draw

RISD Museum

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

The Big Draw at The RISD Museum is a celebration of drawing for all. Bring your imagination and come make your mark!

Join us for engaging drawing activities on the walls, in the galleries, and beyond. Let your drawing come out of the box. After making your mark in the museum, experience a collaborative performance by the youth dance troupe JUMP! and Lynne Harlow, explore the litany of lines in Pat Steir’s work or draw from puffer fish and ferns in the RISD Nature Lab.

11-4pm

Drawing on the Walls - Who says you can’t draw on the walls? Join us for drawing exercises that explore the physical space around you.

Take it to the Floor - Let the museum be your muse. Explore the galleries through the eyes of an artist and make your own response to the lines, dots, and dashes that bring a work of art to life.

Be a naturalist - Drawing from models helps artists develop their eye for observation and detail. At the RISD Nature Lab, our models range from furry and winged, to the poisonous and slimy.

Drawing Exchange - Visit the RISD Museum Drawing Exchange booth at the student sale on Benefit street and take home a work of art in exchange for a drawing made by you.

2pm

Visual artist Lynne Harlow and JUMP! Dance Company will present Postscript, a performance exploring the intersection of drawing and dance.

1 + 3pm

Drawing out of Line - Join us for an introduction to the exhibition Pat Steir: Drawing Out of Line and explore how the artist challenges the notion of drawing in scale and ambition.

Food and refreshments provided throughout the day by Tim Hortons.

Support for The Big Draw is provided in part by the Providence Tourism Council and Tim Hortons.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

European Copies of Turkish Ceramics : The Sincerest Form of Flattery

Danforth Lecture Hall

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Walter Denny, professor of Art History at the University of Massachu-
setts at Amherst and a renowned expert in the art and architecture of
the Islamic world, will speak on the European fascination with the style,
technique and imagery of Ottoman ceramics. This lecture is presented
by the Pottery and Porcelain Club.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Lecture Series: Curating Contemporary Art

List Art Center, Rm 120, Brown University,

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Curating Contemporary Art: Perspectives on Practice

RISD Museum of Art

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Free Film Screening: Art & Copy

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

An official selection for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, this documen-
tary reveals some of the most influential advertising campaigns and
creators of our time – people responsible for “Just Do It,” “I Love NY,”
“Got Milk,” and “Think Different,” who have profoundly impacted our
culture, yet are virtually unknown outside their industry. (USA/86min./Not rate) Co-sponsored
by Cable Car Cinema and Café.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Rapid Gestures : Waterfalls in British Romantic Art

Porcelain Gallery

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Looking at watercolors and drawings by J.M.W. Turner, John Constable
and their contemporaries, Crawford Alexander Mann III, the Museum’s
Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow, discusses the importance of
waterfalls within British Romantic landscape painting.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Paintings and Pages: A Gallery Book Group

RISD Museum of Art

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Balzac and Manet, Byron and Delacroix, Thackeray and Firth. Make connections between great novels and stunning paintings in this 3 session, monthly gallery book group. Dates: April 15, May 20, + June 17. To prepare for each monthly session, participants read an assigned text and then explore the intersections of novels and paintings in lively discussions led by retired Brown professor Rhoda Flaxman. We will discuss not only similarities and differences in content (what is being depicted), but also in form (how it is being expressed). Members, $120; Non-members, $200; Fee does not include books. Space is limited, pre-registration is required. Contact Deb Clemons at 401 454-6530 or dclemons@risd.edu.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Gallery Night

RISD Museum

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Take gallery exploration into your own hands. Enjoy live music with wine
at our cash bar. Exercise your artistic potential with optional coaching.
Watch award-winning, independent documentaries and shorts focused
on art and culture.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Tuesday Talks: Museum as Muse

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

Chace Center, 2nd Floor

12:00 AM - 11:55 PM

Friday, April 02, 2010

Prov Athenaeum Salon-Pat Steir: Reflecting on Rilke

Prov Athenaeum, 251 Benefit Street

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

RISD Museum’s Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Jan Howard and Aurea founding members Consuelo Sherba, Chuck Sherba, and Nigel Gore in a conversation about Rilke as muse and mixing art forms at the Providence Athenaeum.

Jan Howard’s exhibition (organized with independent curator Susan Harris), Pat Steir: Drawing Out of Line, is a 40-year survey focusing on Steir’s exploration of the vocabulary of drawing. Reflecting on Rilke, Part II, is Aurea’s meditation through music, prose, and poetry, on the work of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whom Pat Steir has cited as one inspiration for her work. Join us for a conversation about how artists are inspired by work in media outside their own, and how they bring those influences and inspirations to their own art. Free and open to the public! Sponsor: risdworks, risdworks.com

Reflecting on Rilke, Part 1 will be presented, also free of charge, at Brown University’s Grant Recital Hall, on Monday, April 12. On Sunday, April 18, at 3pm, Aurea will present Reflecting on Rilke, Part II at The RISD Museum. More on Aurea: aureaensemble.org and the Providence Athenaeum - providenceathenaeum.org.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Last Day to see Avish Khebrehzadeh: Backyard and other stories

RISD Museum

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Avish Khebrehzadeh's (Iranian, b. 1969) hand-drawn animations and large-scale drawings are praised for their poetic sensibility and dreamy, timeless atmosphere achieved through the most economical means. Their usual motifs—human figures performing simple activities, iconic animals, and excerpts of nature against neutral backgrounds—are made of elemental shapes which are softly drawn with just a pencil, olive oil, and resin. The artist's inspiration stems from childhood memories, everyday life, literature, and art history. The contemplative and somewhat mysterious nature of Khebrehzadeh’s work allows for a variety of readings and invites the viewer's participation though his/ her own imagination. Along with the selection of Khebrehzadeh's single channel videos, the exhibition will include Backyard (2005-06), a large-scale video projection on a three panel drawing from the Museum collection.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Free for all Saturday: Everyday Marvels

RISD Museum of Art, Chace Lobby

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Most of the objects that we use in our daily lives have been designed by someone. Many we take for granted. In this session, we explore revolutionary objects that have changed the way we interact with the world around us. Come be an inventor and designer!

Free-for-all Saturdays: Gallery explorations, hands-on art workshops, performances, and film screenings offer engaging ways for children and adults to discover art and design in RISD Museum’s collection and special exhibitions. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Held the last Saturday of the month, free all day.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Lecture: Commentaries in Clay, Staffordshire Figures, 1810–35

RISD Museum of Art, The Danforth Lecture Hall

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

As a child living in England, Myrna Schkolne was first introduced to ceramic collectibles at the Portobello Road market, and a hobby became a lifelong passion. In 2006 she published People, Pastimes, Passions and Pleasures: Staffordshire Figures 1810–1835. This lecture is presented by the Pottery and Porcelain Club.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Uncertain Contracts: Nato Thompson, Abigail Satinsky + Patricia Phillips in Conversation

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

On the occasion of the exhibition Carey Young: Uncertain Contracts, chief curator of Creative Time, Nato Thompson presents highlights of his curatorial work, followed by responses from and conversation with RISD's dean of graduate studies, Patricia Phillips, and Abigail Satinksy, John Nicholas Brown Center public humanities fellow and founding member of InCUBATE. Co-sponsored by the Department of Modern Culture and Media and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities at Brown University, the Graduate Studies Division at RISD, and The RISD Museum.

Free to RISD and Brown communities and RISD Museum members with ID. Free with museum admission.

Creative Time is a nonprofit organization that commissions and presents public art projects of all disciplines. InCUBATE is a research institute and artist residency program dedicated to exploring new approaches to arts administration and arts funding.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Art Shots: Reflections: Looking Back at Portraiture through the Ages

Chace Lobby

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

These engaging 30-minute gallery talks focus on individual works of art from the perspective of student artists and art historians. This discussion is led by Brown University student Megan Boomer and RISD’s Marlene Frontera (BFA 2010). Meet in the Chace Center lobby.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

RISD Museum of Art

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

We invite members to take advantage of this fantastic opportunity to enrich your Museum experience! Enjoy an afternoon reception followed by a brief tour of key objects with one of our renowned curators. This event is open to all Museum members. For more information, please contact Kristen Powich at 401 454-6321.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Music Friday

RISD Museum of Art

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Listen to the Occidental Gypsy Jazz Quartet swing their gypsy sound to music by masters of the style, including Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. View the special exhibition Pat Steir: Drawing out of Line and enjoy music, refreshments, and a cash bar in the Main Gallery. Enter through the Chace Center. Admission is $10, non-members; $5, members. Attendees must be over 21.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Exhibition Opens - The Figure: Contemporary Works from the Collection

RISD Museum of Art

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The human figure, one of the oldest motifs in the history of art, seems to be an inexhaustable source of inspiration for contemporary artists. The theme is presented here in a range of mediums and approaches, including painting, printmaking, sculpture, video, and needlework. Some artists represented in the exhibition use themselves as subject matter while others work with live models, photographs, or personal memory as a starting point. The selection of objects includes a number of recent acquisitions that are being exhibited at the museum for the first time, including works by Tom Friedman, Tracey Emin, Keith Coventry, Judy Glantzman, Ryan Trecartin/Lizzie Fitch, Allison Newsome, and Grayson Perry, among others.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

SOLD OUT-Drawings Lessons 2: Pat Steir + Julie Mehretu

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Pat Steir and Julie Mehretu (RISD MFA 1997) will discuss how drawing became the basis of their work in all media. Susan Harris, co-curator for Pat Steir: Drawing Out of Line, will then moderate a conversation on the view of drawing during the period when each of the artists came to prominence, with a special focus on issues specific to women artists of their respective generations. Co-sponsored by the Painting departments at Brown University and RISD and the Foundation Studies Division at RISD. Fee: $5 Museum members; $10, non-members. Advance tickets can be purchased by contacting Visitor Services 401.709.8402.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Gallery Talk: Drawing Out of Line

Chace Center

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Independent curator Susan Harris and RISD Museum Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Jan Howard discuss the exhibition in the galleries.

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Tuesday Talks Series: Museum as Muse

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Artists and designers delve into The RISD Museum’s costume and textile storage to mine historical references and exemplary craftsmanship. Held in conjunction with the exhibitions Queen of the Insects and Designing Tradition, this series explores how work of the past generates new work. Master dyer Joan Morris merges painting, printing, gilding, and shaped-resist dyeing in her work, while artist Jane Masters uses traditional embroidery and wallpaper patterns as her inspiration. Fee: $15 per lecture, non-members ($35 for the 3-lecture series); free to members. Other dates for the series are April 13 + May 18. For more information or to register, contact Deb Clemons at 401 454-6530 or dclemons@risd.edu.

Sunday, March 07, 2010

Art Shots: Presence through Process

Meet in the Chace Center Lobby

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Diverse photographic processes from the latter half of the 20th century capture the poetics and politics of the human figure. Brown University’s Mazie Harris and RISD’s Isaac Wingfield (MFA 2010), student curators of this exhibit, discuss varied conceptual and technical strategies used by the artists as well as their perspectives on artists and historians working with museum collections. Meet in Chace Center lobby.

Thursday, March 04, 2010

Visit Gorham Silver in Pendleton House

Pendleton House (6th Floor)

12:00 AM - 11:55 PM

Visit the Pendleton house today.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Conversation: Pat Steir and Kathan Brown, Drawing Lessons #1

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Pat Steir joins in conversation with Kathan Brown, founding director of San Francisco’s Crown Point Press, one of the most prestigious print shops in the country. Steir has made prints at Crown Point since 1977, giving Brown incomparable insight into Steir’s working process. RISD Museum curator Jan Howard moderates this discussion about how prints took on the role of drawings for Steir. Co-sponsored by RISD’s Printmaking Department.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Art Shots: From Converted Barns to Museum Galleries: Experimentation and Development in 20th-Century Art

Meet in the Chace Lobby

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

These engaging gallery talks focus on individual works of art from the perspective of student artists and art historians. This discussion is led by Brown University students Reina Shibata and Montana Blanco.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Last Day to see Nature/Artifice: Contemporary Works from the Collection

RISD Museum

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The relationship between nature and artifice, reality and fiction, is central to a selection of contemporary paintings, sculpture, and video in the Museum’s collection. In some cases, natural materials - a lemon, thistles, or rocks, for example - are placed in artful arrangements or altered to extend their significance. Conversely, manufactured materials - ranging from audiotape to flip-flop sandals - may be configured to resemble natural phenomena such as a cascading waterfall or the Caribbean Sea. A number of the featured works were acquired recently and are being exhibited for the first time.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Free-for-All Saturday: Animate This!

RISD Museum of Art, Chace Lobby

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Join us for free hours between 10am-5pm, with special programming for children and adults alike from 1pm-4pm. All are welcome as we explore the special exhibition "Avish Khebrehzadeh: Backyard and other stories" and learn about different animation techniques, from traditional hand drawn animation to computer-generated imagery. Bring your own animated character to life through a story or drawing and spend time in the galleries. Film screenings of animated shorts at 2pm + 3pm. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Sitings 2010: Museum as Action

RISD Museum of Art

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Sitings 2010: Museum as Action is a competition that invites student responses to the Museum's architectural idiosyncracies, collection, and habits of visitation. This year's winning artists are Celeste Wilson (BFA 2010), for her installation Untitled in the Associates Bridge, and Lee Johnson and Benjamin Peterson (both MFA 2011), for their installation Column in the Salter Media Gallery. New York- based artist Spencer Finch (MFA 1989) juried the competition.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Artist Lecture: Providence to Prudence: Art Expressions in Clay

RISD Museum of Art, The Danforth Lecture Hall

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Ceramic artist and sculptor Allison Newsome discusses how her work addresses issues of the environment and human interaction. She currently teaches at Harvard University and the Boston Museum School for the Arts. This lecture is presented by the Pottery and Porcelain Club.

Friday, February 19, 2010

Exhibition Opens - Pat Steir: Drawing Out of Line

RISD Museum of Art

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Pat Steir has been a major figure in American art since the 1970s, creating some of the most ambitious and challenging drawings of the late 20th century. Drawing Out of Line presents 40 years of her work, focusing on her exploration of the vocabulary of drawing. Introduced with a recreation of her wall drawing Self-Portrait: An Installation, first created for the New Museum in New York in 1987, this survey presents her drwaings on paper, which are dramatically varied in scale, in relation to her paintings and prints.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Screening: Networks 2009 Artist Video Portraits

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

NetWorks 2009 films showcase the work of selected contemporary Rhode Island visual artists. This is an ongoing project that supports and documents artists, and was developed by Dr. Joseph Chazan and Umberto Crenca of AS220.

Artists featured in the video portraits include: Steven Easton, Stephen Brownell, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Nicole Chesney, Bob Dilworth, Astrid, Umberto Crenca, Tony Ramos, James Reynolds, William Schaff, Neal Walsh, and Thomas Sgouros.

Free and open to the public.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Gallery Night-Museum galleries open until 9pm

RISD Museum of Art

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

All the galleries open; free admission 5-9pm.

Member Preview Day for Pat Steir: Drawing Out of Line, 10am-9pm

Join us next month, March 18 for our usual Gallery Night activities - adult drop-in art class (free, all supplies provided, no experience necessary), refreshments + music in the Main Gallery.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

A Grand Tour: Introduction to Art History II

The RISD Museum of Art

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Explore the history of art, from the 18th century to the present day, in the galleries of The RISD Museum with specialist curators. Each of the four monthly Sunday sessions will include a discussion of major artists and primary texts. Dates: February 14, March 14, April 11, + May 16. Pre-registration required. Members, $180; non-members, $220 (includes readings). To register, contact Deb Clemons at 401 454-6530 or dclemons@risd.edu.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

POSTPONED-Sold Out-Power Drawing: Professional Development

RISD Museum of Art

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Workshop POSTPONED - new date announced the week of 2/15

This one-day workshop for cultural educators, community organizers, and teachers shares personalized plans for making drawing a medium for learning across a variety of settings. Led by Eileen Adams, director of the Campaign for Drawing, the workshop will explore the concepts of gesture, line, copying, and self portraiture. Participants will develop drawing activities and learn how to plan a Big Draw at their sites. SOLD OUT; Fee $25 includes all workshop supplies and lunch; seating limited; pre-registration required.

If you would like to be put on a wait list contact Deborah Clemons at dclemons@risd.edu or 401.454.6530.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Providence Athenaeum's Salon-Queen of the Insects: The Art of the Butterfly

Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit Street, Providence

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Always fashionable, the butterfly motif has adorned a wide variety of design objects, from porcelain to prints to jewelry. RISD Museum Costume and Textiles Assistant Curator Laurie Brewer, whose specialty is ecological fashion history, got her inspiration for this show from the Victorian use of butterfly wings in jewelry design. Among topics she will discuss at her Salon are Victorian era exotic, naturalist, and historical representations of the butterfly; ecology and the use of animal materials in fashion history; the romance of the butterfly in western and eastern design, and the journeys enfolded in the history of the exhibit, from the journey a collector would take to capture a specimen, to the travel a book takes to enter a collection. This latter is significant because Laurie took a journey of her own in curating the show, crossing Benefit Street to work with Athenaeum Collections Librarian Kate Wodehouse to find images and quotes from our rare and special collections for her exhibit. Free and open to the public.

For more information, www.providenceathenaeum.org.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Lecture: Lijiang Studio and the World Heritage Beer Garden Picnic

RISD Museum, Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

In 2004 Jay Brown founded Lijiang Studio, an arts practice based in a rural farming village in southwest China’s Yunnan Province. Since then, Lijiang Studio has facilitated and produced about 80 residencies and 25 exhibitions in urban, rural, domestic, public, and private settings. These events are co-curated with the artists involved and with members of that local community. Highlights include Jianghu Mobile Video, Kunming, 2005, To Raise One Question After Another, Beijing 2007, Another China, Berlin 2007, World Heritage Beer Garden Picnic, Lashihai, 2008. Before Lijiang Studio, Jay worked at the Nature Conservancy’s China Program, based in Yunnan and at various museums including the National Palace Musuem in Taipei and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Jay graduated from Princeton University in 2001 with a degree in Art History and certifcate in East Asian Studies.

Co-sponsored by RISD Museum and Graduate Studies and the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. This lecture is free and open to the public.

Sunday, February 07, 2010

Piano Recital

The RISD Museum, Main Gallery

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Benjamin Nacar (Brown University '12) presents an encore performance of classical piano music featuring works by Chopin, Bach and Beethoven.

Free with museum admission.

Sunday, February 07, 2010

15th Annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Celebrate the life and work of this cultural icon and writer. Guest reader Jamele Adams, poet and associate dean of student life at Brandeis University, gives a special presentation. Jazz music by Daniel Ian Smith accompanies the readings, which are followed by a reception. This program is presented in coordination with Anne Edmonds Clanton.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Piano Recital

The RISD Museum, Main Gallery

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Benjamin Nacar (Brown '12) presents a program of classical piano music including works by Bach, Chopin and Beethoven.

Free with museum admission.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Free-For-All Saturday: Land, Sea, and Sky

The RISD Museum

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Butterflies dancing on dresses, mountains on teapots, rivers crossing paper - the natural world is everywhere in art. Come explore distant lands and familiar creatures through costume, animation, prints and watercolors. During this day-long event for all ages, engage in unexpected ways with works of art, unleash your creativity in workshops, and participate in performances. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Last Saturday of the month, free

Gallery exploration, hands-on art workshops, performances, and film screenings offer engaging ways for children and adults to discover art and design in The RISD Museum’s collections and special exhibitions. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Gallery Night

RISD Museum

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

No special Gallery Night activities are planned for January, but the Museum is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Lecture: Numbered Jun Ware: An Introduction to the Problems of Connoisseurship and Dating

RISD Museum

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM

Robert D. Mowry, the Alan J. Dworsky curator of Chinese art at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University, discusses scholarly controversies related to these exquisitely glazed and beautiful forms, which are prized as some of the most compelling ceramics ever made. Presented by the Pottery and Porcelain Club.

Friday, January 15, 2010

The Primacy of Paper: Recent works from the collection

The RISD Museum

12:00 AM - 11:55 PM

Opening January 15 in the Linda and Vincent Buonanno Works on Paper Gallery. Contemporary drawings and prints can function as key components of an artist’s practice, and in recent years, works on paper have come to challenge the primacy of painting and sculpture. This selection, intended to complement the exhibition Pat Steir: Drawing Out of Line, features recent works by Shahzia Sikander, Julie Mehretu (MFA 1997), Kiki Smith, Sol LeWitt, and others for whom the act and process of drawing plays a key role in the creation or rejection of meaning.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Presence through Process

The RISD Museum

Curator Conversation: Indonesian Textiles

Asian Textile Gallery, Radeke Building

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Inger Elliot, the author of Batik: Fabled Cloth of Java and founder and president of China Seas, Inc., the award-winning fabric-design firm, talks with Joanne Ingersoll, curator of costume and textiles.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Piano Recital at The RISD Museum

The RISD Museum, Main Gallery

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Join us today for an encore piano recital performed by Benjamin Nacar (Brown '12) to celebrate the birthday of Glenn Gould. Gould (1932-1982) was one of the best known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th Century, known especially for his performances of the work of Johan Sebastian Bach. Nacar's recital will feature The Goldberg Variations by Bach and Movement #1: Allegro of Beethoven's Symphony #6.

The recital is free with museum admission.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Piano Recital at The RISD Museum

The RISD Museum, Main Gallery

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Join us for a Piano Recital in the Main Gallery presented by Benjamin Nacar (Brown '12) to celebrate the birthday of legendary pianist Glenn Gould. Glenn Gould (1932-1982) was one of the best known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th Century, known especially for his performances of the work of Johan Sebastian Bach. Nacar's recital will feature The Goldberg Variations by Bach and Movement #1: Allegro of Beethoven's Symphony #6.

The recital is free with museum admission.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

The Nineteenth Century on Canvas and Paper

Museum

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

This “book and image” gallery seminar, led by professor Rhoda Flaxman, explores relationships between the visual arts and literature of the nineteenth century. To prepare for each monthly session (Sept. 17, Oct. 15 + Nov. 19), participants will read a novel or selection of poetry, then meet in the gallery to discuss analogies and relationships between word and picture as regards both content and form. Members, $120; non-members, $200; Fee does not include books. Space is limited, registration is required before September 4. To register, contact Deborah Clemons at 401 454-6530 or dclemons@risd.edu.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Noontime Guided Tours

RISD Museum of Art

12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

Docent-led 30-minute tours present special exhibitions and Museum highlights; free with Museum admission. Tours begin in the lobby of the Chace Center.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Classes: Drawn from Art

RISD Museum of Art

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

This series of drawing and mixed-media classes encourages participants to explore objects in the galleries for inspiration then respond with a variety of materials, including ink, collage, and papers. Dates: July 10, 17, 24, + 31. Adults only, all levels welcome. Fee for the series (includes some materials): $85 members; $145 non-members. Space is limited and pre-registration is required; please contact Deb Clemons at dclemons@risd.edu or 401 454-6530.

Friday, July 24, 2009

Noontime Guided Tours

RISD Museum of Art

12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

Docent-led 30-minute tours present special exhibitions and Museum highlights; free with Museum admission. Tours begin in the lobby of the Chace Center.

Friday, July 24, 2009

RISD Museum of Art

12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

Docent-led 30-minute tours present special exhibitions and Museum highlights; free with Museum admission. Tour begins in the lobby of the Chace Center.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Last Day to View Sitings 2009

RISD Museum

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Celebrate the winners of the Museum’s annual student competition for site-specific installations:

Jill Allyn Peterson MID 2009

Better Reflectivity

Museum truck

Laura Swanson MFA Photography 2010 and Gregory Kuball

TOGETHER together

Radeke Garden

Sponsored by the Artist’s Development Fund of the Rhode Island Foundation.

Saturday, May 30, 2009

FREE-FOR-ALL SATURDAY: Portraiture

Chace Center

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Visit the galleries for inspiration, then create your own collage portraits. The generosity of Letitia and John Carter and The Carter Fund for Museum Education provide significant ongoing support for outreach programs at The RISD Museum. Admission and all activities are free! These programs offer fun for the entire family: a variety of hands-on workshops, performances, videos, refreshments and special gallery quests throughout the day. Children must be accompanied by an adult. For information, call 401 454-6674 or visit www.risdmuseum.org.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Hands-On Class: Introduction to Batik-SOLD OUT

Lisle Room

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Roll up your sleeves and work with wax-resist and dyes to create your own batik design on fabric. Instructor Mo Kelman (see Gallery Night listing, May 21) walks students through basic contemporary batik techniques. Fee (materials included): Museum members, $20; nonmembers, $40. Space is limited and pre-registration required. As this event is currently SOLD OUT please contact Deb Clemons, 401 454-6530 or dclemons@risd.edu to be added to a wait list or for future workshops.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Artist Demonstration: Batik

Chace Center

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Fiber artist Mo Kelman demonstrates materials and techniques used in contemporary batik. From 6 to 8 pm, enjoy jazz by the Rick Costa Trio.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

GALLERY NIGHT

Chace Center

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Join our drop-in workshop For Adults Only: a free art lesson anytime between 6 and 8 pm! Receive one-on-one instruction from a professional artist/educator. Materials are provided; no experience is necessary. From 6 to 8:30 pm, enjoy a drink at our cash wine bar. At 7 pm, you may take a visita guiada en Espa–ol/guided tour in Spanish. We also offer a 7 pm gallery tour for the public. Meet in the Chace Center for either choice.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

RISD Museum

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Last Day to View Multi-Part Arts: Contemporary Works from the Collection

RISD Museum

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Friday, April 17, 2009

Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture

RISD Museum

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Artists Speak: RISD’s Respond|Design

MICHAEL P. METCALF AUDITORIUM

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

This program, organized by RISD students representing Respond|Design, an interdisciplinary forum for students and faculty interested in how design can respond to the critical issues of our day, focuses on design and sustainability. Enjoy music and refreshments in the Chace Center Lobby from 5:30 to 7 pm.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Gallery Talk: Breuer's Design + Architecture

CHACE CENTER GALLERIES

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

RISD Museum assistant director James Brayton Hall (MLA 1994) discusses the furniture and architectural designs of Marcel Breuer and the materials he used.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

GALLERY NIGHT

Chace Center

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Join our drop-in workshop For Adults Only: a free art lesson anytime between 5:30 and 8 pm! Receive one-on-one instruction from a professional artist/educator. Materials are provided; no experience is necessary. From 6 to 8:30 pm, enjoy a drink at our cash wine bar. At 7 pm, you may take a visita guiada en Espa–ol/guided tour in Spanish. We also offer a 7 pm gallery tour for the public. Meet in the Chace Center lobby for either choice.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Opening Celebration for Marcel Breuer: Architecture and Design

Chace Center

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

RISD faculty, staff, students and Museum members are invited to this celebration and first look at this exhibition. Dress in your most Bauhaus-inspired attire for this party featuring music, refreshments, and cash bar. Hors d'oeuvres by NYLO Hotel Loft Restaurant in Warwick. Beer complements of Newport Storm.

Eliza Radeke Society members are invited to a special preview tour with RISD architecture professor and principal of 3SIX0 Architects Chris Bardt at 5:30 pm.

Friday, April 10, 2009

Music Friday

Chace Center

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Superchief Trio returns with their energetic blend of swing, New Orleans R&B, and boogie woogie. Featuring Keith Munslow on piano, Pam Murray on trombone, and John Cote on drums, this group is always a crowd favorite. Attendees must be 21 years or older. Members, $5; nonmembers, $8. Music Fridays are supported by the Providence Tourism Council. Media sponsor: Providence Phoenix

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Tuesday Talk: The History of Costume

MICHAEL P. METCALF AUDITORIUM, CHACE CENTER

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Lorraine Howes, RISD professor emeriti of apparel design, discusses how clothing in a portrait can give clues about significant historical and cultural influences. $15 per lecture for nonmembers or $35 for the 3-lecture series; free to members. To register, contact Deb Clemons at 401 454-6530 or dclemons@risd.edu.

Sunday, April 05, 2009

SUNDAY FAMILY WORKSHOP: Indian Sculpture

Chace Center

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Learn about the Hindu god Siva in the Indian Sculpture Gallery, then use clay to model a sculpture of Siva in a ring of fire. These workshops, for families with children ages 5 to 12, combine gallery and studio experience. Learn about art in the Museum, then create a related artwork using a range of media. Workshops are held between 3 and 4:30 pm. Tickets are required; $15 each for adults and children (which includes admission), members pay $5 each. Advance tickets are available through ArtTix RI call 401 621-6123, purchase online at http://arttixri.com, or visit their box office at 155 Westminster Street between noon and 6 pm, Monday through Friday. For more information, call 401 454-6674 or visit www.risdmuseum.org.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

FREE-FOR-ALL SATURDAY: Create a Mural

Sunday, March 08, 2009

Gallery Talk: RISD Faculty Biennial

CHACE CENTER GALLERIES

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Join Mark Moscone, Director of On-Campus Exhibitions, with Linda Sormin (Ceramics), Thomas Wedell (Graphic Design) and Gina Gregorio (Textiles) for a gallery talk through this showcase of faculty talent that informs RISD's creative academic environment.

Sunday, March 08, 2009

SUNDAY FAMILY WORKSHOP: Painted Still Life

Chace Center

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Study 20th-century still-life paintings in the gallery, then create a still-life picture using tempera paint. These workshops, for families with children ages 5 to 12, combine gallery and studio experience. Learn about art in the Museum, then create a related artwork using a range of media. Workshops are held between 3 and 4:30 pm. Tickets are required; $15 each for adults and children (which includes admission), members pay $5 each. Advance tickets are available through ArtTix RI call 401 621-6123, purchase online at http://arttixri.com, or visit their box office at 155 Westminster Street between noon and 6 pm, Monday through Friday. For more information, call 401 454-6674 or visit www.risdmuseum.org.

Saturday, March 07, 2009

Hands-On Class: Figure It Out!

Chace Center Lobby

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Friday, March 06, 2009

Shih Chieh Huang/ Connected: Ejected before disconnecting

RISD Museum

12:00 AM - 11:55 PM

Shih Chieh Huang (Taiwanese, b. 1975) describes his work as an "interchanging process between people and space." He creates colorful and playful installations that encourage viewer interaction through his combinations of everday objects such as electronic appliances, toys, plastic bags, and containers with motion sensors, computer parts, and video footage. Huang's installations contain numerous kinetic components which are constantly in flux, producing elegant and strange results.

Friday, March 06, 2009

The Lure of Ink: Japanese Monochrome Prints and Books

RISD Museum

12:00 AM - 11:55 PM

The earliest Japanese woodblock-printed books and single-sheet prints were monochromatic. Even after the technique of color woodblock printing had fully developed in the mid-18th century, artists continued to produce one-color works, some of which were dependent on the Japanese painting tradition. This exhibition examines the variety of printed effects that could be achieved in monochrome printmaking, including book illustration.

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Artist Lecture: Video in Person: Shih Chieh Huang

MICHAEL P. METCALF AUDITORIUM

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

In this lecture, Shih Chieh Huang discusses his work colorful, playful installations that use sound, movement, and everyday objects as he seeks to interact with viewers.

Friday, February 27, 2009

Sitings 2009 Opening Celebration

Museum

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Celebrate the winners of the Museum’s annual student competition for site-specific installations:

Jill Allyn Peterson MID 2009

Better Reflectivity

Museum truck

Laura Swanson MFA Photography 2010 and Gregory Kuball

TOGETHER together

Radeke Garden

Sponsored by the Artist’s Development Fund of the Rhode Island Foundation.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Artist Talk: Jim Dow

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Photographer Jim Dow (BFA 1965, MFA 1968) shares his experiences as Harry Callahan’s student and discusses the influences of Callahan and Walker Evans on his own work.

Saturday, November 01, 2008

It’s All in the Details: Architectural Tour

Meet in the Chace Center lobby

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Are color palettes, material, and texture choices your thing? Get the insider’s scoop on the Chace Center’s exterior and interior details with a one-hour tour led by James Brayton Hall (RISD MLA '94), one of the Museum’s assistant directors. Free with Museum admission. Meet in the Chace Center lobby.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Thirty-Third Annual Gail Silver Memorial Lecture: David Macaulay

RISD Auditorium, Canal Way, Providence

6:15 PM - 8:15 PM

Author/artist David Macaulay (RISD BArch 1969; former RISD faculty) presents this year's Gail Silver Memorial Lecture. His books, including The New Way Things Work, Cathedral, Ship, Rome Antics, and Mosque, have demystified the workings and origins of everything from simple gadgets to elaborate architectural structures. They have won him a gold and two silver Caldecott medals, not to mention a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2006. His soon-to-be-released book, The Way We Work, explores the human body. The lecture is free and open to all.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

American Architecture: Lecture by Martin Filler CANCELED -- Film Screening Still On

Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture, 1983 (60 min.) looks at the practices of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Frank Gehry, Michael Graves and Peter Eisenman, in 1982, at the height of the architectural postmodernist period. The architects show and discuss their projects both in their offices and on location. All protégés of Philip Johnson (who appears as commentator), these architects rejected European modernism in favor of innovative directions. Their work has made architectural history and has since influenced many other architects. The screening is free and open to the public. The lecture by architect critic Martin Filler, originally scheduled to follow the screening, has been canceled.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Chihuly Exhibit

Chace Center

10:00 AM - 10:00 PM

Saturday, September 27, 2008

The Chace Center: Now Open!

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

From the beginning, the Chace Center was created for people — to be a crossroads where students, faculty, staff, alumni and museum visitors from the general public all come together. With its unpretentious design, it melds student and museum exhibition galleries, an auditorium and other public venues with studios, classrooms and collection conservation areas, creating a welcoming center where art is made, studied and enjoyed.

The Chace Center — named by Jane Chace Carroll, Malcolm “Kim” Chace and Eliot Chace Nolen in honor of their parents, the late Malcolm and Beatrice “Happy” Oenslager Chace — was one of several key projects realized through RISD’s $104-million "Future by Design" campaign, the largest comprehensive fundraising effort ever undertaken here. But the stunning facility is much more than a fundraising success; it is an effective design solution for a complex site and an important expression of the growing cultural vitality of the city. It is also the bold outcome of a vision shared by RISD’s Board of Trustees; former President Roger Mandle, along with provosts and museum directors from 1998 to the present; the Chace family and other key donors to this project; and its architect José Rafael Moneo.

Since the beginning of his involvement in 2001, Moneo made eloquent use of the language of architecture to unite disparate activities and architectural styles into a coherent whole. His design of this 43,000-sf LEED-certified structure resolves issues of circulation, cross-pollination and public access, not to mention optimization of space and light. And it does so while offering picture-perfect views and reinforcing RISD’s core values of environmental sensitivity, academic excellence, community engagement and arts advocacy.

Synthesizing the creativity and exploration at the heart of the studio experience, the Chace Center offers both a literal and a figurative front door to RISD and all it has to offer.

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