(Re)tracing the Silver Seaweed: A Maker's Process

Lillian Webster College How To Student Voices Studio Notes Sustainability and the natural world Artist This salad spoon and fork set, made by the Gorham Manufacturing Company ca. 1885, is named after the coastal town of Narragansett, Rhode Island. Replete with intricately detailed shells, seaweed, and sea creatures—including small fish and tiny crabs—these two sea-encrusted utensils were my point of inspiration for a set of five brooches. In the following article I will describe some of the basic processes used to create my Narragansett-inspired jewelry

Exhibition Design

Intermission Portfolio In December of 2016 the RISD Museum needed to deinstall its European Galleries in order to renovate them. In order to keep the objects on view during this project and accommodate them after their removal, the museum decided to put them in the galleries dedicated to major, temporary exhibitions, titling it Intermission.

Analog Gifs

Alexandra Poterack College Happenings A student-run workshop generates quirky and creative digital animations.

From Flax To Finish

McKenzie Everett College How To Student Voices Embroidery samplers are inextricably linked to an image of colonial America: farmhouses waved sheets of linen like flags of surrender, with fields of flax extending beyond, as far as the eye could see, in a place where girls as young as seven were set to the task of stitching out alphabets and Bible verses. This is the picture of the age of homespun.

Egúngún

Mysteries Concealed in Magical Cloth Henry John Drewal Curator For Yorùbá-speaking peoples in West Africa, cloth is equated with their most precious possession, children.