RISD Glass
RISD Glass

RISD Glass Department

 
 
 
 
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RISD GLASS SPRING ‘19 EXHIBITIONS

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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

 
 
Come see what the seniors have been up to at their thesis show! On view until June 1st!
Glass Graduate Biennial opens on Thursday! Come by Sol Koffler to check it out.
Related Non-Objects, a show by the Second-Year graduate students of RISD Glass, opens tonight! Come by 47 Rathbone for some artwork and conversation.
This Wednesday, Dave Hardy (Brown, BA ‘92, Yale MFA, Skowhegan ‘04) will be speaking as part of the Glass department’s Visiting Artist series–
We are delighted to welcome Visiting Artist Jina Valentine to the RISD campus and hope to see you tomorrow at one or both of her events. Jina Valentine will give a talk tomorrow on her interdisciplinary practice which activates conversations on sociopolitical critique, text as image, papermaking, oral history archiving, and humanizing big data. We hope to see you there!
7 pm this Wednesday the 30th! Come to the fourth floor in metcalf for some hot glass, hot pizza, and a hotnight!
Check your inboxes– Glass student Mays Albaik (MFA GL ‘19) and her recipe for making a person is in your recent issue of @risd1877 XYZ magazine.
Glass faculty and RISD Provost Fine Arts Fellow Jen Bervin’s “River” (2018) appears on @artforum ‘s critics’ picks! On view until January 27.
RISD Glass Alum Maia Chao (MFA ‘17) is in the news today!
Glass faculty and alum Katie Bullock (MFA ‘16) highlighted in Art New England’s 10 Emerging Artists list!
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 !