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The Centennial Women were a group formed to raise funds for Rhode Island's exhibit at the Centennial Exposition in 1876. The group had $1,675 left over after the exposition, and, inspired by foreign exhibits on design and interior decorating, Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf persuaded the group to donate the money to found what would become the Rhode Island School of Design. The school was incorporated in 1877 and opened its doors the following fall. Metcalf directed the school until her death in 1895. Her daughter, Eliza Greene Metcalf Radeke, then took over until her death in 1931.
The Rhode Island General Assembly ratified n Act to Incorporate the Rhode Island School of Design on March 22, 1877. or the purpose of aiding in the cultivation of the arts of design. Over the next 129 years, the following original by-laws set forth these following primary objectives:
First. The instruction of artisans in drawing, painting, modeling, and designing, that they may successfully apply the principles of Art to the requirements of trade and manufacture.
Second. The systematic training of students in the practice of Art, in order that they may understand its principles, give instruction to others, or become artists.
Third. The general advancement of public Art Education, by the exhibition of works of Art and of Art school studies, and by lectures on Art.
Ranking
2010 Graduate School Rank by US News and World Report
1. Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI
2. Yale University New Haven, CT
3. School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL
4. Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield Hills, MI
5. Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, MD
6. Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA
7. California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA
8. Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh , PA
9. University of Californiaos Angeles Los Angeles, CA
10. Alfred University-New York State College of Ceramics Alfred, NY
11. Art Center College of Design Pasadena, CA
12. California College of the Arts San Francisco, CA
Programs of Study
Apparel Design - B.F.A.
Architecture - B.F.A./B.Arch, M.Arch
Ceramics - B.F.A., M.F.A.
Digital + Media - M.F.A.
Film/Animation/Video - B.F.A.
Furniture Design - B.F.A., M.F.A.
Glass - B.F.A., M.F.A.
Graphic Design - B.F.A., B.G.D., M.F.A.
Illustration - B.F.A.
Industrial Design - B.F.A., B.I.D., M.I.D.
Interior Architecture - B.F.A., B.I.A., M.I.A.
Jewelry/Metalsmithing - B.F.A., M.F.A.
Landscape Architecture - M.L.A.
Painting - B.F.A., M.F.A.
Photography - B.F.A., M.F.A.
Printmaking - B.F.A., M.F.A.
Sculpture - B.F.A., M.F.A.
Teaching & Learning in Art & Design - M.F.A.
Textiles - B.F.A., M.F.A.
Concentrations
Concentrations at RISD do not confer a degree, they act as minors and require extra courses in the chosen field.
History, Philosophy, Social Sciences
English
Art History
Athletics
Athletics are not the focus of campus life, but do provide school spirit. RISD sports have fluctuated over the years with the RISD archives containing photos of football, baseball, and basketball teams spanning the very early 20th century. Yearbooks and alumni reveal the RISD Student Association funded basketball teams throughout the 1950s and 1960s that were called the 'Nads'. An ice hockey team formed soon after using the same name, 'Nads'. The ice hockey team played through the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s with little record of other athletics. In 2000, a new basketball team was formed under the name 'Balls' to complement the ice hockey team, each with its own slogan: "When the heat is on, the Balls stick together", and "Go Nads" (deliberately sounding like "gonads"). Currently, these are the two most active and organized sports teams at RISD, with basketball the only sport played at varsity-level competition. Together, both teams provide a rally ground for students, faculty, administration, and staff alike. Intramural level teams round out the offering in rock climbing, men's and women's soccer, volleyball, frisbee, flag football, skiing and snowboarding.
In 2001, the Nads created the infamous, and unofficial mascot, "Scrotie," a man-sized penis wearing a red cape. RISD students claim Cooper Union and Pratt Institute as their archrivals in sporting events, and the two hold an annual basketball match in both Providence and New York.
RISD Museum
The development of the Rhode Island School of Design and its museum is tied to Rhode Island emergence after the Civil War as the most heavily industrialized state in the Union and to the growing desire for better design in manufacturing. With the region prosperity based on the production of silverware, jewelry, machine tools, steam engines, files, screws, and textiles, leading manufacturers as well as civic leaders felt the need for industrial-arts education and exposure to examples of fine art. Even before the war, the Rhode Island Art Association, chartered in 1854, determined o establish in Providence a permanent Art Museum and Gallery of the Arts and Design. In the absence of either state funding or private donations, however, the creation of a design school and art museum in Rhode Island did not occur until 1877. Faced with a choice between erecting a drinking fountain in Roger Williams Park or founding a school of designhe latter proposed by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf (18301895)he Rhode Island Women Centennial Commission in that year voted to establish the Rhode Island School of Design by allocating to it the modest $1,675 remaining from its fund-raising for the Women Pavilion at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
CHARTER RISD Act of Incorporation listed three objectivesnstruction, career training, and he general advancement of public art education by the collection of and exhibition of works of art. The language of its revised (1893) charter expressed the school close alliance with industry: it sought to instruct rtisans in drawing, painting, modeling, and designing, that they may successfully apply the principles of Art to the requirements of trade and manufacture. From the outset, works of art served as models for instruction, first in classrooms and, as the collection grew, in a separate museum structure. Today, as throughout its history, the RISD Museum is an integral part of Rhode Island School of Design and the principal art museum for the city, state and southeastern New England.
FACILITY The Museum is composed of five buildings on a sloping city block between Main and Benefit Streets on the historic East Side of Providence. The first public galleries were created in 1893 in the Waterman building, which today highlights 19th century American paintings and changing exhibitions. Pendleton House, the country first Museum wing devoted to the display of American decorative arts, was built in 1906 as a replica of the Federal-style residence of Charles L. Pendleton. The Eliza G. Radeke building was added in 1926 and houses permanent collection galleries, from Egyptian and Ancient art, through Impressionism, to 20th century art and design. The Daphne Farago wing, erected in 1993, exhibits contemporary art and provides the Benefit Street entrance to the Museum. In 2008, the Chace Center opened with 6000 square feet for special exhibitions and a Museum entrance on Main Street.
TODAY The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, also known as the RISD Museum, is Rhode Island leading museum of fine and decorative art, housing a collection of 84,000 objects of international significance. It is southeastern New England only comprehensive art museum and is accredited by the American Association of Museums. The RISD Museum strives to be a vital cultural resource by educating and inspiring a wide variety of audiences: families and individuals, scholars and researchers, artists and designers, and students of all ages. The Museum maintains an active program of exhibitions, lectures, tours, workshops and publications dedicated to the interpretation of art and design from diverse cultures ranging from ancient times to the present.
risd|works
All of the items at risd|works are designed and made by Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) alumni and faculty.
Located in historic Providence, RI, RISD ranks among the world's leading colleges of art and design. Each year 2,300 undergraduate and graduate students study with 450 full- and part-time faculty members. RISD awards bachelor's and master's degrees in 19 art and design disciplines and proudly recognizes its 22,000 alumni: artists and designers who are making a positive impact on our world.
risd|works encourages you to look at familiar things in a new way: behind every item featured - from mass-produced objects to fine art - is the mind and hand of a RISD artist.
All profits from risd|works sales are returned to Rhode Island School of Design for use in furthering its mission. Selling housewares, jewelry, fashion accessories, books and other gifts, the shop carries the work of RISD (pronounced RIZZ-dee) alumni and faculty. This is no standard university store, since the school, founded in 1877, has graduated the glass artist Dale Chihuly, the film director Gus Van Sant and the fashion designer Nicole Miller, among other notables, and had innovative faculty members like the Cuisinart inventor Marc Harrison.
Alumni who haven returned to Providence since risd/works opened in 2001 often don know about it, forcing Matthew Johnson, who manages the store, to sleuth for wares at trade shows by asking designers he likes the odd question, here did you go to school? The shop buys wholesale, then donates the proceeds from its retail sales to the university scholarship fund.
RISD's President: John Maeda
John Maeda is a world-renowned artist, graphic designer, computer scientist and educator whose career reflects his philosophy of humanizing technology. For more than a decade, he has worked to integrate technology, education and the arts into a 21st-century synthesis of creativity and innovation.
Maeda's early work redefined the use of electronic media as a tool for expression by combining skilled computer programming with sensitivity to traditional artistic concerns. This work helped to develop the interactive motion graphics that are prevalent on the web today. A pioneering voice for simplicity in the digital age, he also initiated the Design by Numbers project, a global initiative to teach computer programming to visual artists through a freely available, custom software system he designed.
As a digital artist, Maeda has exhibited in well-received one-man shows in London, New York and Paris. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Cartier Foundation in Paris. In the design realm, he is a trustee of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and has developed advanced projects for major corporations such as Cartier, Google, Philips, Reebok and Samsung, among others.
In 2008 Maeda was named one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century by Esquire magazine. In 2001 he earned the National Design Award in the US; in 2002, the Mainichi Design Prize in Japan; and in 2005, the Raymond Loewy Foundation Prize in Germany.
A former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Maeda taught media arts and sciences there for 12 years and served as associate director of research at the MIT Media Lab. He has published four books, including his 480-page retrospective MAEDA@MEDIA and his most recent, The Laws of Simplicity, which has been translated into 14 languages. Maeda has lectured widely, including at Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, the Royal College of Art, Stanford and UCLA; at the Centre Pompidou, TED conferences and Walker Art Center; and for corporations such as Herman Miller, Sony, Steelcase, Toshiba and Yahoo!.
A native of Seattle, Maeda earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT, followed by a PhD in Design Science from the University of Tsukuba Institute of Art and Design in Japan and an MBA from Arizona State University.
Past Presidents
E. Roger Mandle 1993-2008
Louis A. Fazzano 1992-1993 (interim president)
Thomas F. Schutte 1983-1992
Lee Hall 1975-1983
Talbot Rantoul 1969-1975
Donald M. Lay, Jr. 1968-1969 (interim president)
Albert Bush-Brown 1962-1968
John R. Frazier 1955-1962
Max W. Sullivan 1947-1955
Helen Metcalf Danforth 1931-1947
Eliza Greene Metcalf Radeke 1913-1931
Isaac Comstock Bates 1907-1913
William Carey Poland 1896-1907
Herbert Warren Ladd 1891-1896
Alfred Henry Littlefield June 1127, 1890 (resigned)
Royal Chapin Taft 1888-1890
Claudius Buchanan Farnsworth 1877-1888
Campus Dining
Students will always, always complain about school food because anyone eating the same thing every day for every meal is bound to get sick of it. However, if you ask freshmen in the first month of school, theyl tell you how great the food is. It diverse, there are usually vegetarian options and vegan options, it accessible, it tasty, and it healthy. Many of the cooks are Johnson & Wales graduates or interns, so there is a certain culinary flair to most dishes. Also, to give some perspective, the Met, which is the main dining center, caters most school functions, so the administration must think the food is good. Most of the food in the Met is sold by weight, so you get what you pay for, and youe not charged for a eal if you just want to come in and get an apple and a drink. Except for Carr Haus, the food is fairly expensive for kids who are not on the meal plan, but if you are, it will give you enough points to eat comfortably. The Met also takes special care in trying to accommodate the foods that students may miss from home. There is always a suggestion box so that students may make requests or submit recipes.
There are four meal-plan options. Freshmen are required to purchase the largest plan, which is good and bad. No one wants to run out of money for food; however, most kids can eat enough to use their points, and the school only gives back a small percentage of what left if it more than $100. Many kids who have extra money end up paying for their few friends who have run out, and there are plenty of creative ways to use points. Sometimes, students bring in baked goods for the last day of classes as a celebration, and some give food to shelters.
Academics
Academics at RISD are based on a number of variables, two being what major you choose and whether you decide to oncentrate in a liberal-arts field. The differences in majors have to do with departmental budgets and resources, individual faculty members, and overall departmental philosophy. Each major has a different number of required major credits, with some allowing students to take more classes outside their major and others almost taking up a student entire studio course load. Regardless of major, studio classes are almost always challenging and enriching, and they demand all of a student resources to complete them successfully.
The faculty is the driving force behind RISD strenuous and exciting classes. It is safe to say that while there may be the odd professor that does not meet what the high-standard students expect from their faculty, professors at RISD are professional, knowledgeable, and dedicated to their students and their field. When it comes to liberal arts, students may oncentrate, which is similar to having a minor, in English, art history, or HPSS (history, philosophy,and social science). These concentrators, which put more effort into their liberal-arts experience, tend to produce students who come away more satisfied with their classes because their academic study interacts more with their studio study, bringing it to a higher level. While it true that some liberal-arts courses may not be as rigorous, nearly all seminar courses, among others, are just as challenging as an equivalent class at almost any liberal arts university.
RISD educates students to engage with and challenge the contemporary landscape of art and design through hands-on, studio-based learning in a critical and informed environment. The college is known for the depth and breadth of its academic programs, which are organized into five divisions: Foundation Studies, Liberal Arts, Fine Arts, Architecture and Design, and Graduate Studies. A core and defining characteristic of RISD undergraduate program is Foundation Studies, an intensive and demanding investigation undertaken by all first-year students into three studio areas: drawing, two-dimensional design and three-dimensional design. Required Liberal Arts courses provide students with a broad background in literary, historical and cultural studies, and help build reading and writing abilities as well as analytical and critical skills. Beginning in the sophomore year, students pursue studio majors that enable them to further develop creative, critical and conceptual thinking skills through in-depth exploration of specific media and materials.
Faculty
As professional artists and designers themselves, RISD 150 full-time and 350 adjunct faculty members approach art education in an exceptionally effective manner. These teachers are amongst the best in the world. They build relationships of deep trust with students, inspiring them to push beyond their own expectations to redefine problems and question traditional methods as they learn to see and think in new ways. RISD professors emphasize the creative process through rigorous studio courses, and as part of this process, they offer critical feedback that motivates students to create innovative work of strong conceptual value.
Faculty with Terminal Degree 85% Full-Time Faculty 145 Student-Faculty Ratio 8:1 Average Course Load 1215 credits
The Home Test
The Rhode Island School of Design (abbreviated RISD, ) is a fine arts and design college located in Providence, Rhode Island. It was founded in 1877 and is currently located at the base of College Hill and contiguous with the Brown University campus. The two institutions share social, academic, and community resources and offer joint courses. RISD is widely considered to be the best fine arts and design school in the nation (US News Ranked RISD as # 1 Fine Arts Program in the Country). Applicants must complete RISD's infamous "hometest" three drawing assignments including the legendary bike drawing.
History
The Centennial Women were a group formed to raise funds for Rhode Island's exhibit at the Centennial Exposition in 1876. The group had $1,675 left over after the exposition, and, inspired by foreign exhibits on design and interior decorating, Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf persuaded the group to donate the money to found what would become the Rhode Island School of Design. The school was incorporated in 1877 and opened its doors the following fall. Metcalf directed the school until her death in 1895. Her daughter, Eliza Greene Metcalf Radeke, then to
