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Paul Scott: New American Scenery

Happenings Studio Notes Sustainability and the natural world Artist
Two people looking at a painting of a palm tree

Look at Art. Get Paid.

Happenings Artist

Forty-one people who don’t visit art museums visit the RISD Museum as paid guest critics of the art and institution.

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Conversation / Ruffles, Repair & Ritual

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Happenings Artist

A new Chrome Extension brings the voices of first-time visitors into conversation with the RISD Museum’s voice.

Painting of a misty riverbank reflecting lush trees and a cloudy sky, all painted with soft, small brushstrokes blending blues, greens, pinks, and purples.

Museum Weather Website

Objects illustrate weather conditions
College Happenings Student Voices Artist

Website that uses the weather to make programmatic selections from the RISD Museum based on conditions, first in Providence, then in a city of the user’s choosing. The goal was to give museum-goers a tangible point of access to art, and to make unexpected groupings of objects.

group of flatware with hand placing serving spoon into frame

Critical Encounters: Recordings

Designing Innovation
College Curator Happenings

Recorded on 05.03.19.

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Decolonizing Design, Imagining Alternative Futures

College Happenings Sustainability and the natural world
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Making Meaning from a Fragmented Past: 1897 and the Creative Process

Happenings How did this get here? Artist

A Counter Monument FUBU

Performance Documentation
Happenings Artist

In this durational performance, artist Becci Davis attempted to repair the ancestral wounds of American history, through a series of deliberate gestures.

Break Pot: Benefit Street

Performed on 11.08.2018
Happenings Artist

Amy Lee Sanford, a Cambodian-American artist, evokes individual, social, and cultural repair in this powerful performance.

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Artists Talk: Freedom of Speech and Expression

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2018 Silver Memorial Lecture: Paola Antonelli

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Entr'acte

College Happenings Student Voices

Analog Gifs

College Happenings

A student-run workshop generates quirky and creative digital animations.

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Artist Fellow / James Falzone Performs Panfried

Artist Happenings
CMW Fellow Shawn LeSure performing by the Dainichi Buddha

Four Contemplations: A Composition Commemorating the Restored Dainichi Buddha

Happenings Studio Notes Artist

Community MusicWorks commissioned composer and vocalist Ken Ueno to write Four Contemplations for the restoration and rededication of RISD Museum's Dainichi Buddha.

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