Posts Tagged ‘RISD’
Retooling esoteric design education to rebuild sustainable, beautiful cities – David Brussat
by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer Photo: Student at Hector Guimard high school learn stone carving to help restore Notre-Dame. (NPR) National Public Radio reported three years ago that the need for stone carvers to help restore the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, in Paris, following its fire in 2019, has caused schools teaching…
Read MoreMorris Nathanson, arts community icon, passes away at 95 (updated)
Morris Nathanson, born in Providence, Rhode Island on September 9th, 1927, passed away peacefully on Saturday, September 17th, at the age of 95. Mr. Nathanson grew up in Pawtucket, and at the age of 17, enlisted in the Navy, where he served in the Pacific Theater as a medic aboard the LSD Catamount. Mr. Nathanson…
Read MoreRISD’s Huger Elliott (1910), on Providence – David Brussat
by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer Photo: Illustration from 1910 for design competition of Cove Basin near new State House. (AIAri) Architect Eric Daum recently passed along an illustration, above, done in 1910 by RISD president Huger Elliott. It expressed how the area of Providence between the new State House and downtown…
Read MoreART! The RISD Museum – Works in Process
by Nancy Thomas Photo: William Edgar Brigham, Study of Parrot on Perch, 1914. Gift of the Estate of William E. Brigham. RISD Museum, Providence The RISD Museum is a Rhode Island treasure. Whether it is going to events for the family, or visiting your favorite part of their standard collections, it is always worth a…
Read MoreTOP STORY: 1 down, 99 to go… Providence Fire Box Redux
Your favorite – and Top Story of the Week was “1 down, 99 to go…the refurbishing of Providence Fire Boxes – with Stages of Freedom and artist Dan Mitrovic. For twenty years, Ray Rickman, executive director of Stages of Freedom, has passed a dozen century-old fireboxes on his daily College Hill walks. All of them…
Read More1 down, 99 to go… Providence Fire Box Redux
For twenty years, Ray Rickman, executive director of Stages of Freedom, has passed a dozen century-old fireboxes on his daily College Hill walks. All of them are sadly caked with cracked and faded paint that masks their industrial beauty. Last winter, Ray got inspired to restore one of the boxes on Benefit Street as his…
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