Join us as we explore the wide wide world of graphic design and its relationship to other design disciplines.
Doug Scott’s design work has won awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Society of Typographic Arts, Boston Hatch Awards, New York Art Directors Club, Boston Art Directors Club, Broadcast Designers Association and Bookbuilders of Boston. He has been a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts since 1974 and served on its national board of directors from 1989–1992. He currently runs a design practice doing book and identity design, and is consulting Art Director of Davis Publications, an art education publisher in Worcester, Massachusetts. Scott teaches graphic design, exhibition design, typography and graphic design history at the RISD and teaches graphic design and design history at the Yale School of Art. He has also taught at UMASS/Dartmouth, Northeastern, RIC and Connecticut College.
14th Annual Mary L. Heuser Lecture featuring Sháńdíín Brown
RISD Museum Henry Luce Curatorial Fellow for Native American Art, Sháńdíín Brown (Diné), discusses the museum’s Native American Art collection history, new acquisitions, and upcoming exhibitions. The Henry Luce Curatorial Fellowship is the first full-time position at RISD Museum dedicated exclusively to the Native North American Art collection. About 1,000 objects make up the Native North American Art collection, with a diverse array of Tribal Nations represented. Sháńdíín is a jeweler, Native American Art professional, and citizen of the Navajo Nation.
The architectural response to the concept of community has always been much broader than shelter. But, as we’ve learned to live with each other lately in new ways at the intersection of political upheaval and a post-pandemic malaise, can architecture adequately respond? This is a talk about “intentional communities” and why the choices we make in living together can enrich the values of the communities we choose. Via Zoom, registration required.
A young watchman at Providence’s Prison made a resolution to keep a daily diary in 1867. He recorded his work with the men and women incarcerated there; but, unlike today, the watchmen lived in the prison as well. What can we learn about Rhode Island history from his words? Dr. Grefe will explore the ways records and documents can illuminate how working-class Providence looked and felt in the 19th century.
“After twenty-eight years of desire and determination, I have visited Africa, the land of my forefathers.” So wrote Lida Clanton Broner, an African-American resident of Newark, New Jersey, on her return from a South African journey, funded by savings from a lifetime of work as a domestic and hairstylist. Broner’s trip was motivated by a sense of ancestral heritage, but also her anti-colonialist activism. Her collection was subsequently exhibited in the US in the 1940s, against the broader backdrop of pan-Africanist ideology and the emerging civil rights movement. Dr. Clarke will share her groundbreaking research on Broner’s extraordinary story, which animates the experiences of both South Africans and African Americans during a time of struggle and oppression.