Remember Rusty Dawg, who appeared in last years video about RISD By Design?  Well, here he is enjoying the alumni sale during the weekend along with a few friends.  Thanks to Erminio Pinque ‘83 IL and Big Nazo!

Recently Etsy, the popular online retailer of handmake and vintage items, took a tour of RISD’s amazing Nature Lab and put together this video - “There’s No Place Like Here,” the latest in their series.    You can check out the Nature Lab yourself during RISD by Design– on Saturday, October 10th The Nature Lab will host an open house and session, Drawing from Nature, where you can take charcoal and paper and do your own drawing from their wonderful array of specimens.

I know it seems a bit early to have a late addition, but this one is too fabulous to wait to advertise!

Friday, October 3rd at 3:30pm

Gallery Talk on West & West: New Works by Joe Deal
The RISD Museum, 3rd Floor, Radeke Building

Join RISD Curator Jan Howard in the Bill and Nancy Tsiaras Gallery for a talk on this new body of work, featuring beautiful photographs from Kansas and Nebraska along the 6th Principal Meridian which was used to grid off real estate in that region.

Many of you recently received an email from us announcing RISD’s new Facebook page and Twitter feed…..We know not all of you are interested in joining Facebook or tweeting, but for those who are, there’s more!

There are many reunion year (and other) classes who have created Facebook pages of their own that you can join to reconnect and plan for October.  Additionally, if you don’t see one for your year, we’d love you to create one!  Just shoot us an email and we can advertise it here and on our own RISD Alumni Association Facebook page.

The classes that have pages are listed by their titles, below:

1982:  RISD Classes of 1982-1990
1983:  RISD Classes of 1982-1990
1984:  RISD Class of 1984, Classes of 1982-1990
1985:  RISD Classes of 1982-1990
1986:  RISD Classes of 1982-1990
1987:  RISD Classes of 1982-1990
1988:  RISD 88-90, RISD Classes of 1982-1990
1989:  RISD Class of ‘89…yes it’s 20 years, RISD 88-90, RISD Classes of 1982-1990
1990:  RISD 88-90, RISD class of 1990-ish, RISD Classes of 1982-1990
1993:  RISD Class of ‘93
1995:  RISD ‘95
2001:  Rhode Island School of Design - Class of 2001
2007:  RISD Class of ‘07
2008:  RISD Class of 2008

If you know of a class page that is not listed here, please let us know!

Greetings, classmates:

Can you believe that it is 45 years since we graduated from RISD? And we haven’t even aged, or “matured.” Have we?

This will be a big year for us and RISD is planning some special events and activities to make our 45^th reunion memorable. There have been some amazing and wonderful additions to the campus in the last few years and we will have a special tour of them, planned just for us. Remember the Metcalf parking lot? Well, it has been replaced by The Chace Center, a fabulous building designed by world-renowned architect Rafael Moneo. It houses classrooms and studio space, an enlarged RISD museum including a space for special exhibits, a magnificent student gallery, an auditorium, and RISD Works, the place to shop for alumni-designed goodies.

The library and dorms are housed in the former Hospital Trust Bank building across the river, now The Roger Mandle Living and Learning Center. The new library is very impressive and has won a number of architectural awards. It looks like one of the coffered reading rooms in the NY Public Library. And the ten floors above are now beautifully designed dorms and apartments for students. The big alumni sale will take place on Benefit Street on Saturday. And, on Saturday evening, there will be a great dinner party for our class. The weekend will also give you a chance to meet our dynamic new president, John Maeda.

This is just a taste! Much more is being planned. We are looking forward to seeing you all, and to reminiscing and talking about what we have been doing all these years.

We hope to see you soon at RISD!

Joan Kokkins Herron ’64 Graphic Design

Stuart Murphy ’64 Illustration