| |  | August 2022 | Hi neighbors, It’s that time of year again, we are officially preparing the RISD campus to welcome students back for the 2022 Fall Semester. The start of the year is always a special time on campus, and adding to that excitement this year are plans for the official inauguration of our 18th president Crystal Williams. In this month’s email, you will find information about move-in, and the inauguration, as well as stories of what our students and alumni have been up to over the summer, both locally and globally. In addition, we share important information about health protocols and guidance as we, as a larger community, continue to monitor international health situations. As always, our goal with this correspondence is to keep you informed about, and engaged with, our on-campus community. Please feel free to connect with us if you have any questions, concerns, or feedback. We would also love to reach more neighbors! Encourage those around you to join the email list or forward this email to anyone you think would be interested in receiving periodic updates. See you in the neighborhood! In community, Bethany Costello, Executive Director Claudeline Chery, Assistant Director RISD Center for Community Partnerships | | | Fall Move In Dates RISD has already begun welcoming students to campus! First Generation to College Students arrived Wednesday, August 18th for an intensive, two-week experience specifically designed for those whose parents did not attend or complete college. The program allows for these students to expand their artistic and academic skills, explore their social identities, and build community with students, faculty, and staff before the semester officially begins. The remaining first-year students will move in on a staggered schedule beginning Wednesday, August 31 through Sunday, September 4th. And finally, returning students will also move in on a staggered schedule between Monday, September 5th, and Wednesday, September 7th. There are some street and lane closures planned around this move-in schedule including: Sept 1st Sept 4th Closure of the left lane of Waterman Avenue (between Benefit and Prospect Streets) Closure of the left lane of Angell Street ( (between Benefit and Prospect Streets) Prospect Street (between Angel Street and Waterman Avenue) will become a one way street with the traffic flowing from Waterman Avenue to Angel Street
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Further details can be found here.
| Health Updates RISD remains committed to keeping the entire RISD community—students, faculty, staff, and our neighbors alike—informed on policies, procedures, and safeguards regarding local, regional and national public health situations including COVID and the recent outbreak of monkeypox (MPV). COVID-19
COVID protocols for the Fall Semester include: Vaccination—including booster—is required for students and highly encouraged for employees. Campus remains “mask friendly”, to anyone who prefers to continue to wear a mask on campus, however it is not required for individuals in campus buildings except at Student Health Services, where masking will continue to be required. The institution will provide non-symptomatic open testing to all RISD community members (faculty, staff, and students) throughout the month of September.
For update-to-date information, visit covid.risd.edu Monkeypox RISD is closely monitoring the current Monkeypox outbreak in conjunction with our health consultants, Keeling & Associates.
| | Inauguration Weekend October 7–8 RISD invites you to join in the celebration and official inauguration of President Crystal Williams. The two-day event will include the historic investiture of RISD's 18th president, a community celebration, performances, panel discussions, special Open Studios, free admission to the RISD Museum, a celebratory Waterfire, as well as the fall RISD Craft alumni and student sale. Watch for additional information in the days ahead. Read more. | |  | New Downtown Mural Has Ties to RISD
Local artist Kameko Branchaud, ‘14 MA Art Education alum, who uses the artist name of Fu’una, has her latest project found in arched niches at 35 Weybosset Street in Providence. Titled 401: After Winter Spring Must Come, the large-scale and multi-part painting was sponsored by The Avenue Concept, which commissions a new artist to paint the space each year. Read more. | | RISD Global Dozens of RISD students have found a fun way to explore living and studying an unfamiliar culture this summer. While bonding with fellow artists and designers, students participated in RISD Global’s immersive, three-week travel courses in Europe. Find out more. | RISD Career Center |Fulbright Awardees RISD’s Career Center proudly supported seven artists and designers in sending them out into the world to ask questions, learn, engage, collaborate, innovate and make this planet a better place for everyone. Current students and alums will fan out across Europe and Asia, partaking in the 2022-23 Fulbright US Student Program. Read More. RISD Career Center | Summer Internships More than 400 current RISD students worked as paid interns across the country and beyond this summer, interning with design firms, nonprofits, publishing companies, and more. Read more. |  | Continuing Ed | Advanced Program Online Registration opens August 2 for fall and spring terms of our online intensive for change makers: Advanced Program Online. led by professionally practicing instructors, learn to manage time and self-motivate, and develop a portfolio of concepts, sketches, and finished pieces that can be included in or inform your college application. Read more. |  | RISD Museum | Four Hundred Years of Drawing Drawing Closer invites us to consider how and why drawings were created, paying special attention to the materials they were made of and to the functions they served both in the artist’s studio and in the world outside it. Seven distinct but interrelated sections explore media and techniques such as pen, chalk, ink wash, and watercolor, as well as some of the traditional purposes of drawing, including observation, invention, preparation, and amusement. Now until September 4. Read more. | |  | WHAT'S NEW: VISUAL + MATERIAL RESOURCE CENTER (VMRC) The Color Lab pigment collection display has moved from the wall in 30 North Main Street to Fleet Library, where it joins other Color Lab materials now housed in the VMRC (M-F, 9 am-4:30 pm). Learn more. | RISD In the NewsBArch ’85 Alum Michael Maltzan’s 6th Street Viaduct addresses mistakes of LA’s past in The Los Angeles Times. Providence Business News reports Providence Riverwalk and Waterplace Park will get $7.8M for accessibility and resiliency upgrades. Cultured profiles MFA Media+Design ’15 Alum Xin Liu on making work that explores why the seemingly impossible is possible. Faculty member, Michael Lye ’96 ID shares with Scientific American how NASA’s, “new suits by Axiom and Collins will fit a much wider variety.” Covered in Providence Monthly, President Crystal Williams Begins a New Era in the Arts. | |  | | |
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