Events/Programs
Classes: Drawn from Art (2 spaces left!)
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
This series of four 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 10, 2009
Noontime Guided Tours
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
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Special Film Screening of "Karsh is History" with Director Joseph Hillel
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
KARSH IS HISTORY Canada/2009/Betacam/colour/52 min/English
Recipient of the Award for Best Canadian Film 2009, 27th Festival International du Film sur l’Art (FIFA), Montréal, the film presents a contemporary reflection, in images and music, on Yousuf Karsh's work and its place in the context of portrait photography history up to present. As 2009 is the 100th anniversary of his birth, the film commemorates the artist and his work. From its conception, photography has had a closer relationship with celebrity. In a sense you could say the emergence of photography coincides with the emergence of the public celebrity as an important part of everyday life. Meet the director Joseph Hillel and enjoy a lively discussion and Q&A following the screening. This event is suppported in part by Délégation du Québec à Boston , Société de Développement des Enterprises Culturelles Québec (sodec). The event is organized in partnership with the Brown University French Studies Department.
In conjunction with the exhibition Yousuf Karsh: Portraits of Artists now on view in the Tsiaras Gallery.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Gallery Night: Summer Concert
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Summer concert with one of
Friday, July 17, 2009
Classs: Drawn from 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 17, 2009
Noontime Guided Tours
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
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Last Day to View Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
The first exhibition to treat all facets of Breuer's work with equal weight, from the highly innovative furniture he produced as both a student and teacher at the famed Bauhaus, to the modest houses he created after moving to the United States, to the large-scale buildings he designed for major cities. Models, drawings, floorplans, photographs, video projections, and interactive computer terminals shed light on his long and varied architectural career in this exhibition, developed by the Vitra Design Museum in Germany.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Classes: Drawn from 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
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
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Free-For-All Saturday: From Ordinary to Extraordinary
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Held the last Saturday of the month, 11 am–4 pm. Admission and all activities are free! These programs offer fun for the entire family: a variety of hands-on workshops, performances, videos, and special gallery quests throughout the day. Refreshments, too. Stay half an hour or the whole afternoon. Children must be accompanied by an adult. For information, call 401 454-6674. Artists often use ordinary objects to create extraordinary things. Explore Shih Chieh Huang’s colorful laboratories of fantasy and see how a plastic bottle or highlighter can be turned into a spinning and twinkling work of art. Afterward, have fun and learn a little about physics at The Marriage of Art and Science, a performance by the Everett Dance Theatre.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Last Day to View Carl Ostendarp's "Pulled Up" exhibit
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Carl Ostendarp (American, b. 1961), known for paintings that respond to and take off from the history of late Modernist art, was invited to visit the Museum's storage spaces to select objects from the collection to be juxtaposed with his own works. His choices range from works by Odilon Redon, Jean Arp, and Joan Miro to Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, John Wesley, Ed Ruscha, and others. Ostendarp's style is characterized by simple biomorphic forms, words or images, and flat color that meres Pop, Color-field, and Minimalism into a profoundly deadpan but witty language of its own.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Last Day to View Yousuf Karsh: Portraits of Artists
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
This exhibition celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yousuf Karsh (Canadian, b. Armenia, 1908-2002), one of the most celebrated portrait photographers of the 20th Century. Throughout his long life, he photographed more than 15,000 individuals, among them such notable figures as Sir Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein. Artists and designers wer frequent subjects, and 25 of these portraits are the focus of this exhibition, which includes well-known images of Alexander Calder, Georgia O'Keefe, Pablo Picasso, and Frank Lloyd Wright. The photgraphs in Portraits of Artists have been promised as gifts to The RISD Museum by Estrellita Karsh, the artist's wife.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Last Day to View Facing Artists: Twentieth-Century Portraits from the Collection
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
This exhibition, intended to give context to the Yousuf Karsh photographs in the adjacent gallery, presents portraits of literary, performing, and visual artists by a broad range of 20th-century associated with the genre. Portraits are often collaborations between the maker and the sitter, and when they are the collaboration of two artists, the results can be quite exceptional. Works on view include Marlene Dietrich by Cecil Beaton, Stephen Spender by Lucien Freud, Brassai by Pablo Picasso, and Mick Jagger by Andy Warhol.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Classes: Drawn from 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 31, 2009
Noontime Guided Tours
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
Saturday, August 01, 2009
The RISD Museum is closed for the month of August
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
The RISD Museum reopens to the public
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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