RISD Glass
RISD Glass

RISD Glass Department

 
 
 
 
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RISD GLASS TRIENNIAL

Woods Gerry Gallery, 62 Prospect St.
Oct 18th – Oct 28th

 

RISD Glass initiated Hotnights as a means of cultivating a greater understanding of glass and its significance to an array of disciplines. Through a series of hot shop demonstrations, projects, and workshops, Glass faculty and students partner with the larger community to research and experiment the intersection between glass and its ubiquitous presence in the world. Hotnights has led to significant developments combining emerging digital fabrication technologies with traditional glass processes, investigations of optical properties of glass and light, and has collaborated with student groups to assist in the fabrication of ambitious cross-disciplinary projects amongst others.

 
Research Initiatives
Making Meaning

FALL '18

In this studio/seminar, co-taught by a RISD artist and a Brown historian, we will examine how material attains meaning. Through demonstrations, workshops, lectures, and hands-on making, we will explore instruments used to understand materials in 16th and 17th-century Europe (e.g. microscopes, alchemical alembics, printed books). We will also consider how those devices have inspired contemporary art practice. Final projects, which may take a variety of forms, will interrogate the relationship between matter and the devices used to understand it.
Optics Research

SPRING '18

This research group was organized around the theoretical and technological aspects of Optics with an emphasis on its relationship to Glass. We explored the implications of Optics in realms such as; projection, magnification, perception, imaging, as well as, its role in media. Both historical and contemporary content and approaches were encouraged. The group met weekly for discussion, lectures, "hands-on" experiments and material investigations. While lectures and demonstrations were conducted by faculty and special visitors, the direction of our research from week to week was driven by the research that the group brought forth.
Alchemy Research

FALL '17

This was a semester long research study group focused on Alchemy and Glass. As a discipline and a material, Glass is inherently connected to Alchemy. Their combined histories have shaped our understanding of the relationship between material and meaning, the role of process in art and science and, ultimately, the ways in which making shapes knowledge. One of the goals of this research group was to explore the conceptual and material potential of Alchemy through Glass. Our research combined the examination of practical, theoretical and historical texts along with "hands-on" experiments in Glass Department Shops. The group met weekly for discussions, research presentations, lectures and working/lab sessions. As the semester progresses the direction of our research was determined by the materials brought forth by the group.

Highlights from the studios

Featured
Last day of Fall term
Dec 14
Last day of Fall term
 
 
Head of department Rachel Berwick’s contribution to Project Atalanta! #Repost @projectatalanta ・・・ 46. TWO EAGLES COME TOGETHER, ONE FROM THE EAST, ONE FROM THE WEST. … … In Emblem 46 #Zeus is poised to release two #Eagles, one to the East and one the West. Like the Sun, the Eagles will follow a longitudinal trajectory moving in opposite directions as they “circle” the earth, eventually finding their way back to one another. Where the pair collides marks the center of the earth, the middle, the navel, and there they turn to stone, or so the story goes. Birds’ ability to fly allows them to leave the earth, spanning the distance between earth and sky: the liminal space where sun rise and sunset mark the beginning and end of each day. #Birds have an extraordinary ability to navigate, using the stars, the angle of the sun, and even magnetism. As we strive to unlock the secrets of bird navigation, we continue to look to nature as a means of learning about the world and our place within it. It’s worth noting, too, that Maier completed Atalanta Fugiens in 1617, the same year that Robert Fludd completed Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia (The Metaphysical, Physical, and Technical History of the Two Worlds, the Major as well as the Minor). Fludd’s work with the microcosm and the macrocosm examines the systems of the universe that extend from the center of the earth out to the stars. … … Post by @rberwick1, artist … … #projectatalanta #fuguefriday #atalantagram #atalantafugiens #thephilosophersstone #earlymusic #earlyprintedbooks #alchemy #michaelmaier #brownuniversitylibrary #robertfludd #birds #zeus #microcosm #macrocosm
Catch RISD Glass’s faculty Chris Taylor work at the @thealdrich !
@_piramide_ (BFA ‘20) @r_e_l_eisen (BFA ‘20) and Bee Mitchell (BFA ‘20)
Few more days! Open until the 28th. In this photo: @ipekkosova ‘s (MFA ‘18) @maysalbeik ‘s (MFA ‘19) @woojin778 (BFA ‘21) @g.raskin ‘s (BFA ‘21) @shiqi_wuu ‘s (Postbac ‘19)
In this photo: Raghvi Bhatia’s (BFA ’19) “Samudra Manthan”. Kelly Eriksen’s (BFA ’19) “Exit the Third”. And an untitled video installation by Tianyi Yu (BFA ‘20.)
Thank you to everyone who came out yesterday! The show is on until the 28th.
Today! 6-7:30 pm at 62 Prospect Street, Woods Gerry Gallery! Come by, grab a snack, say hi, look at what we’ve been up to in the past three years.
Tomorrow! 6 pm!
New displays in process!
A find from today’s glass office purge (Watch out for the Glass department back in Woods Gerry in a couple of weeks!)
Today in Making/Meaning, we’re exploring the glass department’s new Optics Lab.
Wednesday the 26th, 4:30 pm, Chase Center Auditorium! Jen Bervin, this year’s RISD Provost Fine Arts Fellow, hosted by the Glass Department will give a talk. Open to all!