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Tricks of the Eye

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Common Threads

(Re)Viewing City

UPCOMING: March 5th - April 3rd

Tricks of the Eye: History and Memory in a Shifting Social Landscape

Ask to remember. Invite to act.

RISD|Public Engagement is pleased to host the Tricks of the Eye exhibit from March 5th through April 3rd, 2009 on the 2nd Floor of the RISD Graduate School Building (CIT, 169 Weybosset Street, Providence, RI).

The exhibition highlights the ways that local and national artists respond to the shifting landscapes that backdrop and underline our actions and intentions. Viewed together, the documentation of these at projects foster a vibrant learning environment for the RISD community to develop an expanded horizon of what it means to make socially- and publicly-engaged artwork.

Throughout the spring semester, the Office of Public Engagement will work with RISD faculty to incorporate the artworks featured in the exhibition into the related courses.

As a learning exhibition, Tricks of the Eye encourages submissions of interactive documentation or documentation that invites multiple methods of engagement from the viewer. These include web presentations, printed material, 2-D and 3-D models, ephemera from the original artwork, etc.

In addition, RISD Public Engagement is programming a series of discussions throughout the month around emergent and interconnected themes, featuring presentations by exhibition artists, informal panels, and class visits.

Artists include:

220 Glimpses of Utopia, John Malpede and the Los Angeles Poverty Department; Arctic Listening Post, Jane D. Marsching; reMEMBERING WILDE and BLUE HAMMER, Leon Johnson; the Meyers Bitter Survey, the National Bitter Melon Council, Knitting Nation, Liz Collins; Voices and Visions, Holly Ewald; NY Times Special Edition, Steve Lambert; the Celebrate Peoples' History Print Project, Josh MacPhee and the Just Seeds Collective; Just Fish, Pam Hall; Navigating Between Home and Exile, Sheryl Mendez; and THE MIT FEMA Timeline and Trailer Project, Jae Rhim Lee.

This exhibition is co-sponsored by RISD | Public Engagement and the Nelson Mandela: Honoring His Legacy initiative.

Common Threads: From Vietnam to Iraq

The Office of Public Engagement, in collaboration with the Swearer Center for Public Service (Brown University) and the Genesis Center, is currently hosting a one month exhibition of Hmong pa n’daus from several private collections, some of which were originally created inside refugee camps during the years following the flight on foot from Laos.

Many of these elaborate hand-sewn cloth panels took months and years to complete and are embroidered story cloths (some 8’ long) which illustrate the Hmong migration out of Laos and into Rhode Island.

Coinciding with the exhition is a four-week series of public events to raise awareness of the parallels among displaced populations during and after wartime through storytelling using various audio/visual methods. The series includes four distinct Thursday evening events free-of-charge (donation suggested at the door) at The Center for Integrated Technology at 169 Weybosset St, Providence, Rhode Island.

For photos related to this exhibit, please visit here.






		Exhibits Current Tricks of the Eye Past Common Threads (Re)Viewing City						UPCOMING: March 5th - April 3rd Tricks of the Eye: History and Memory in a Shifting Social Landscape Ask to remember. Invite to act. RISD\|Public Engagement is pleased to host the Tricks of the Eye exhibit from March 5th through April 3rd, 2009 on the 2nd Floor of the RISD Graduate School Building (CIT, 169 Weybosset Street, Providence, RI). The exhibition highlights the ways that local and national artists respond to the shifting landscapes that backdrop and underline our actions and intentions. Viewed together, the documentation of these at projects foster a vibrant learning environment for the RISD community to develop an expanded horizon of what it means to make socially- and publicly-engaged artwork. Throughout the spring semester, the Office of Public Engagement will work with RISD faculty to incorporate the artworks featured in the exhibition into the related courses. As a learning exhibition, Tricks of the Eye encourages submissions of interactive documentation or documentation that invites multiple methods of engagement from the viewer. These include web presentations, printed material, 2-D and 3-D models, ephemera from the original artwork, etc. In addition, RISD Public Engagement is programming a series of discussions throughout the month around emergent and interconnected themes, featuring presentations by exhibition artists, informal panels, and class visits. Artists include: 220 Glimpses of Utopia, John Malpede and the Los Angeles Poverty Department; Arctic Listening Post, Jane D. Marsching; reMEMBERING WILDE and BLUE HAMMER, Leon Johnson; the Meyers Bitter Survey, the National Bitter Melon Council, Knitting Nation, Liz Collins; Voices and Visions, Holly Ewald; NY Times Special Edition, Steve Lambert; the Celebrate Peoples' History Print Project, Josh MacPhee and the Just Seeds Collective; Just Fish, Pam Hall; Navigating Between Home and Exile, Sheryl Mendez; and THE MIT FEMA Timeline and Trailer Project, Jae Rhim Lee. This exhibition is co-sponsored by RISD \| Public Engagement and the Nelson Mandela: Honoring His Legacy initiative. *Common Threads: From Vietnam to Iraq* The Office of Public Engagement, in collaboration with the Swearer Center for Public Service (Brown University) and the Genesis Center, is currently hosting a one month exhibition of Hmong pa n’daus from several private collections, some of which were originally created inside refugee camps during the years following the flight on foot from Laos. Many of these elaborate hand-sewn cloth panels took months and years to complete and are embroidered story cloths (some 8’ long) which illustrate the Hmong migration out of Laos and into Rhode Island. Coinciding with the exhition is a four-week series of public events to raise awareness of the parallels among displaced populations during and after wartime through storytelling using various audio/visual methods. The series includes four distinct Thursday evening events free-of-charge (donation suggested at the door) at The Center for Integrated Technology at 169 Weybosset St, Providence, Rhode Island. For photos related to this exhibit, please visit here.



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