Wish you were here . . .

Elena Varshavskaya College Studio Notes In the fall of 2014, RISD art history students curated an exhibition comparing Tokaido Road views by artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858). That exhibition is now on view in the Museum.

Interview with artist Steffani Jemison

A. Will Brown Curator Studio Notes Artist Curatorial assistant of contemporary art A. Will Brown interviews artist Steffani Jemison about her film *Maniac Chase* (2009), *Escaped Lunatic* (2010–2011) and Personal (2014)

Substitutions

Shawn Greenlee College Studio Notes Artist Composer Shawn Greenlee's experimental sound work Substitutions is inspired by the Chinese lithophone in the RISD Museum's Asian art collection

American Drawings and Watercolors

Eastman Johnson's Child in Bed Maureen C. O’Brien Curator Drawing Eastman Johnson was raised in Maine in a family of eight children, and as a young teenager was employed as a dry goods clerk. When he was about 15, he traveled to Boston and worked in the lithography shop of J. H. Bufford, where he was exposed to techniques that improved his boyhood aptitude for drawing.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Albert Bierstadt's Landscape on the Rhine Maureen C. O’Brien Curator Drawing Albert Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany, but came to the United States with his family in 1832 and settled with them in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Although details of his early artistic training are unknown, by 1850 he advertised himself as a teacher of “an improved system of monochromatic painting.”

American Drawings and Watercolors

Edwin Austin Abbey's Old Peasant Woman Maureen C. O’Brien Curator Drawing Curator Maureen C. O'Brien discusses American drawings and watercolors in the RISD Museum collection

The Care and Preservation of Art Composed of Plastic

Ingrid Neuman Conservation Sustainability and the natural world RISD Museum conservator Ingrid Neuman discusses the challenges in caring for objects made from this ubiquitous material