tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83218033313852475922026-04-30T13:01:17.687-07:00Pete Hockinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07302525385748713779noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321803331385247592.post-8357742930851842192009-07-04T14:15:00.001-07:002009-07-08T07:40:24.135-07:00

Photos by Elizabeth White, Julia Sherman, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Susan Sakash and Rob CrowleyFurther musings on the July 1st presentation can be found here.

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Some avid RISD | Public Engagement blog readers might remember the Armadillo Project, an MIT-sponsored repurposing of a FEMA trailer, from the Tricks of the Eye exhibition earlier this spring.Last week, MIT professor and Armadillo project coordinator Jae Rhim Lee, passed off the keys to the trailer to an AMAZING arts group based out of Pasadena, CA called Side Street Projects. In a nutshell Side

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THURSDAY, JUNE 18 FROM 5-8PMat the RISD | Public Engagement GalleryIN RISD’S CIT BUILDING, 169 WEYBOSETT STREET, 2ND FloorProject Open Door and RISD | Public Engagement invite you to the opening of DEEP DOCUMENTATION, a multimedia installation by local teaching artist and documentarian Jori Ketten resulting from Ketten's participation in a year-long RISD Project Open Door classroom.Deep

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A couple of weeks ago, Peter was interviewed on behalf of New Urban Arts by the editors at Design Sponge.The guest blog article was published over the long weekend:http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009/05/peter-hocking-new-urban-arts.html

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RiverzEdge Arts Project (Woonsocket) seeks:Landscape Design Project Supervisorand Mural Project SupervisorStart Date: 6/22/2009 (temporary summer positions)Must have BA or BFA. Ideal for recent graduates in Landscape Architecture and Painting. For more information, contact the Office at 401-427-6906.

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Last Wednesday, a group of RISD staff, faculty and administrators gathered to celebrate the accomplishments of the Nelson Mandela: Honoring His Legacy initiative.2008-2009 marked the first attempt to build a cross-campus dialogue around a specific theme, working with students, faculty and staff to integrate these conversations into the classroom and extracurricular activities. A full report of

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Micaelan Davis ( MFA ‘09 FURN)In the envelope: I have never been one for concluding statements; even my physical work resists being neatly summed up. I see each piece as a moment in time, a specimen of work performed and ideas made real, a stop on the continuum of its evolution. I look at each piece and see the next step I would take or the next piece I would design. I am a gray thinker who

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More encouraging opinions in today's ProJo editorial section.Tuesday, May 12th2:30pm, State House (Senate Lounge on the 2nd Floor)Today is your final opportunity to have your voice be heard at a public hearing onpotential changes to the state's public art funding. The Senate will vote on futurepublic art allotments next week.

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The Manifesto Project: A one evening exhibition of 11 RISD grad students’ work for the seminar Contemporary Production PracticesTuesday, May 12 from 6-8pm in the CIT Building, 2nd floorInstructor: Liz Collins Students: Micaelan Davis (MFA ‘09 FURN), Debra Folz (MFA ’10 FURN), Mary Gagne (MFA ‘10 TX), Martin Goebel (MFA ’10 FURN), Phillip Grass (MFA ’10 FURN), Peter Hedstrom (MFA ’10 FURN), Minwon

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A nice feature on the Providence Journal website about the artists at RISD's Project Open Door...http://www.projo.com/video/?nvid=359540&shu=1

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I just got back from testifying at the Senate Hearing for revisions to the state's 1% for Art program. In my testimony, I made reference to the letter written by President Maeda and presented to the committee by Liz Keithline of RISCA. Little did I know that most people had already read the letter in today's Providence Journal!You too can read the letter here.My main points were pretty simple:1)

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Applications due June 1stRISD | Public Engagement seeks candidates for an AmeriCorps*VISTA position that will run from 30 July 2009 to 29 July 2010. This AmeriCorps*VISTA position is sponsored through the Rhode Island Campus Compact and will be placed at Rhode Island School of Design. The VISTA member will work closely with the director of RISD | Public Engagement to advance the strategic goals

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I just returned from a conversation around collaborative research at RISD, which was sponsored by the Landscape Architecture Department in honor of the 10th anniversary of Innovation Studio. These past few weeks have seen a congregation of thoughts and actions around the ways in which RISD as a community is stepping up to the social, political and design challenges of our times. Some of these

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Yesterday the Providence Journal ran an article about the Senate Review of the state's current 1% for Art policy.You can read the full article here. The likelihood of this review is a revision to the policy but hopefully in the favor of making a shift towards directing some portion of those funds to more community-based temporary public art projects. At the recent hearing, senators frequently

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The next two days are going to be jam-packed with events surrounding David Orr's visit to RISD.Once again, Respond|Design has pulled together a timely and compelling series of conversations about the intersection between art/design and sustainability both globally as well as here on the RISD campus!David Orr is Professor and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College. He is

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After viewing Jane D. Marsching's video/sound installation, NOAA Webcam 2005, RISD students in Christopher Ho's Competition, Collaboration, and Collective class discussed the desire to communicate social, environmental concerns with the quest for aesthetically compelling imagery. How, they wondered, do artists walk the line between creative ambiguity and wanting their art to be a call to action?

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The Tricks of the Eye exhibition evolved out of a number of conversations between our office and other departments & offices on campus on how best to foster discussions around publicly engaged art practices at RISD. Given the intense project-driven nature of studio practice and students' busy schedules, I proposed that we create an exhibit that would connect classroom learning to examples of

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Organized by AREA Chicago and Creative Time, Inc. this online interview project features the responses of Chicago artists and art administrators to questions related to connecting art to social justice movements, building local audiences and social networks, and sharing economic resources. Many of the people interviewed for this project were part of the Art & Activism retreat that I attended

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2009 Public Engagement Associate, Leon Johnson, will be giving a talk on the intersection of his creative and pedagogical practices on Tuesday March 10th at 6:30pm at the Office of Public Engagement (CIT Building, 2nd Floor).For more information, please visit Leon's page on our website. You can also check out documentation from two of his recent projects in the Tricks of the Eye exhibition.

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Unweaving Common Threads through Discussion Join us Thursday, Feb. 5th from 6:30pm - 8:30pm at The Center for Integrative Technology (169 Weybosset St, Providence, 2nd Floor) for week three of the four week series Common Threads: From Vietnam to Iraq. Mike Ritz of

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Note: This blog posting is LONG overdue. My desire to keep a daily blog report during the Janaury 9-11th Art and Activism retreat was more than a little overly ambitious. Not only was the retreat incredibly intense and full, but it took me a good couple of weeks just to let all of what happened sift through in my brain...so here is a condensed version of the report back.A telling moment:

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What makes for a positive critique? Students were asked this question by the facilitators of the Liz Lerman Critical Response Workshop, which was held yesterday in RISD's Tap Room, hosted by the Office of Student Life. The responses from the 30 students at the afternoon workshop were illuminating:Critiques work when:- the people critiquing have an idea of the original intent- the criticism is

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The first time I had been exposed to a liberal arts professor who directly asked us to produce studio work instead of writing a final paper was this fall with Nicole Merola in "Investigating Water: Connecting to Narragansett Bay."  While always being assumed by students and faculty alike, the thought of responding to liberal arts courses with studio work had never been directly initiated by a

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