The Annual RISD Apparel Show

POD teens from Central Falls High School, Davies Career and Technical High School and Woonsocket High School attended the apparel show. Congratulations to POD Alum, Carmela Wilkins, who was a model in the show!

Every spring RISDʼs Apparel Design students have an opportunity to drape, zipper and buckle their creations onto fabulous looking models, offering the perfect foil for showing the clothing to an admiring public. This yearʼs runway show will take place For an enthusiastic audience of RISD people and community members it is the first and best chance to get an up-close view of the fashion tastemakers and trendsetters of the future.

Work for each Collection is chosen by a panel of guest critics and represents specific assignments given to sophomores, juniors and seniors in Apparel Design. Seniors display their thesis projects — unified bodies of work that showcase professional-grade conceptual and technical skills; juniors focus on knitwear projects and coat collections; sophomore “innovatives" projects are created from nontraditional materials.

Field Trip to the Opening of the RISD Graduate Show

Featured Partnership

Rhode Island Partnerships for Success has a simple but bold mission: To leverage the educational assets of Rhode Island’s institutions of higher education to enhance PK-16 school-based partnerships that prepare students to realize their own goals in higher education, careers, and active citizenship. RISD Project Open Door has been chosen as a Featured Partnership. Read more at  http://ripartnerships.org/2013/04/26/increasing-access-to-art-design/

Design Connections Tours Hasbro Toy Company

Project Open Door designer-in-residence Bobbi Jarvis and her husband Brian Jarvis - a designer at Hasbro -  arranged for students from the William M. Davies Jr. Career & Technical High School participating in the RISD-based "Design Connections" class to tour the worldwide headquarters of the Hasbro toy company based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island this afternoon.

Design Connections at Hasbro

Exploring Indian Folk Art @ J. M. Walsh High School

Rohini Sen, RISD MA candidate in the Community Arts Education track is currently teaching a class at the Jaqueline M. Walsh School for Performing and VIsual Arts in Pawtucket based on Indian Folk Art as part of the POD-in-Schools program. The image below is of a piece of Madhubani work by Chamnan Ok. 

VISITING ARTIST

Randy Williams, an installation artist and educator from NYC, will be visiting with POD Portfolio students this Saturday!

To learn more about the artist visit his website at http://randywilliams.net/

In our community

The Pawtucket Arts Collaborative is sponsoring the Second Annual High School Art Students exhibition. The show will feature artwork by Pawtucket high school students. The Opening Reception is April 11 from 5:30-6:30 pm and will feature a panel discussion. On April 20 from 1-3 pm, two faculty from RISD will provide a portfolio review.

Only a few days left

Only a few days left to visit the Project Open Door Exhibition of High School Student Work at the Atrium Gallery @ 1 Capitol Hill. Congratulations to all our teens for receiving a citation from Rhode Island's Governor Chafee in recognition of their valuable contribution to the RISD Project Open Door Art Exhibition. More photos coming soon!

Atrium Gallery reception moments before the gallery filled with POD students, families, friends, artist, RISD faculty and other community supporters. February 2013

Installation Complete!

Exhibition of High School Student Work at the the Atrium @ 1 Capitol Hill is complete thanks to the help of Project Open Door's incredible RISD work study students; Jacques Achille, Matthew Menzies and Malevin Matos. 

Matthew Menzies, RISD student and Project Open Door work-study helping to install the show.

The Project Open Door Exhibition of High School Student Work will be on through March 15, 2013. Gallery hours are Monday- Friday, 8:30am- 4:30pm. Please join us as we celebrate the POD teens at the opening reception on February 21, 2013 from 5:30- 7:30pm. All are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served!

Fantastic POD Partners' Luncheon

Project Open Door held a POD Partners' luncheon on Saturday, January 26th. This was a wonderful two hour event and an opportunity for superintendents, principals, guidance counselors, after-school coordinators and arts instructors from all of our partnering schools to see their teens in action, to tour the studio and to learn more about RISD’s Project Open Door from Dr. Paul Sproll, Project Open Door's Director, and his staff over lunch. Thank you to all those who attended! We could not be more excited to have your support!

Afternoon at the MFA

POD teens touring the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Saturday, January 19, 2013. 

POD welcomes winter Artists-in-Residence

Portfolio 1 teens printmaking under the direction of Artist-in-Residence Johnny Adimando. January 12, 2013. 

Project Open Door would like to welcome back artist-in-residence Johnny Adimando! Johnny is the instructor for Project Open Door's Portfolio 1 class for RISD winter session. He is currently part-time faculty in the Printmaking Department at RISD and is an adjunct faculty at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA.  Johnny has taught as a Portfolio Instructor for Project Open Door in 2011-2012. More of his work can be viewed at www.johnnyadimando.com.

Portfolio 2 teens working with Artist-in-Residence Robin Wiseman. January 12, 2013.

Project Open Door would like to welcome artist-in-residence Robin Wiseman! Wiseman is the instructor for Project Open Door's Portfolio 2 class for RISD winter session. He has taught at RISD, RIC and Brandeis University. Besides RISD|CE, he currently teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art. Wiseman has received a Church Award in teaching, and his work has appeared in galleries and shows throughout New England.

Design Connections Fall Review

Congratulations to the Design Connections teens who presented incredible concepts and designs at their final review!  To see a sampleing of student presentations click here and scroll down to Design Profiles.

Industrial Designer Bobbi Jarvis with Davies Career & Technical High School teens at the end of term review.

END OF TERM Portfolio review

Portfolio 2 students mounted their work for review by  RISD faculty member and Project Open Door artist-in-residence Masha Ryskin. Their work included explorations, investigations and completed pieces from the term. More images of student work are available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/risdpod/

Yolibel, Portfolio 2 Teen

ACCESS at the RED EYE GALLERY

Photographer and educator Jo Sittenfeld has curated a photography show at Rhode Island School of Design's (RISD) RED EYE GALLERY. This exhibition showcases the work of her RISD and Brown University students as well her students from the Charles E. Shea Jr. Senior High School in Pawtucket, Rhode Island where Jo has just completed a Project Open Door artist's residency.  “As I’ve taught them [my Shea students] about photography and tried to pass on the knowledge I’ve gained as an artist, I’ve continually been inspired by my students"  said Jo; "I am wowed by their fresh, intimate approach to photographing the lives of their families, friends and surroundings. Their excitement for photography regularly reminds me why I decided to devote my life to this medium."

ACCESS at the RED EYE GALLERY, 4th Floor RISD Design Center, 30 NORTH MAIN, PROVIDENCE RI. December 13, 2012 – February 7, 2013. Be sure to check out Photographs from the Opening Reception at http://www.flickr.com/photos/risdpod/

Pod announces winter Artist-in-Residencies

Internet Art Design

Mike Russo, Artist-in-Residence

The Internet Art Design class at RISD's Project Open Door is an opportunity to take a close look at the contemporary world of Digital Media art being made on the Interent by many different artists and learn from their techniques.  Students taking this class will begin a studio practice of making art that is hosted on the Internet through learning programs and software such as photoshop, illustrator, iMovie and basic programing languages. This class is about using new technology to make provocative artwork that lives on the Internet. This class should be of an interest to any student concerned with learning how to make digital images with new programs, students wanting to establish a new medium to create visual masterpieces, students curious about the future and science of communication or finally a student just looking to have fun through creating with new technology. 

Create + Respond: Site Specific Installation

Rachel Stern, Aritist-in-Residence

The Create + Respond class at RISD's Project Open Door is an opportunity to take your artwork to a new scale! In this class we will create work which responds to and interacts with whole spaces.  Draw, sculpt, paint, photograph, and try new creative ideas to turn any space into a work of art!

POD in the Nation's Capitol

Pathway of Peace. The National Christmas Tree and 56 smaller trees--one for each state, the five territories, and the District of Columbia--serve as the focal point for a number of events at Ellipse National Park. Together, the 57 trees form the Pathway of Peace. Sponsoring organizations in each state and territory provide the tree decorations. RISD Project Open Door teens created ornaments to represent the Ocean State. 

Young Photographers at the RISD Museum

Jo Sittenfeld, Project Open Door Artist-in-Residence led POD's Young Photographers on a tour of the current exhibit America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now at the RISD Museum. As a practicing photographer, Jo had the opportunity to show teens her own work exhibited as part of the show. 

 To learn more about Project Open Door's Young Photographers Program click here http://risdprojectopendoor.com/artists-in-residence/.  America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now, on at the RISD Museum through Sunday, January 13, 2013. 

Teens Design Toys for Toddlers

A group of teens from William M. Davies, Jr. Career & Technical High School in Lincoln, Rhode Island imagined, designed and created toys for toddlers! In this video industrial designer and inventor Bobbi Jarvis takes the viewer through the design process featuring the work of the William M. Davies, Jr. Career & Technical High School teens who participated in RISD Project Open Door's Design Connections program in the Spring of 2012.

To learn more about Project Open Door's Design Connections program  visit http://risdprojectopendoor.com/design-connections/.

Dyeing 101 Workshop

Karen Lee,  RISD Textile Major/POD Amgen Fellow led a Saturday afternoon Dyeing 101 Workshop for Project Open Door teens. 

Karen introduce the students to the different dyes including natural, MX dyes, acid dyes, and disperse dyes.  She taught teens various techniques of dyeing including ombre effects, resist, beaching out, folding/shibori esque.