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Denny Moers is recipient of 2013 RISCA Fellowship in Photography

September 10th, 2012 by dalexander

Visual Arts Studies Adjunct Faculty Denny Moers has received a 2013 Rhode Island State Council for the Arts (RISCA) Fellowship in Photography. 

Comments from the awards reviewers included:

Michael Rich promoted to Professor of Art

September 10th, 2012 by dalexander

Michael Rich has been promoted to Professor of Art beginning in 2012/13. Rich has taught at Roger Williams University since 2000, and been an outstanding teacher as well as an artist whose work has been the subject of one person and group shows in the US and abroad in Nantucket, Newport, New York, Los Angeles, Fayetteville, the Biennale. Rich is represented by Sotheby’s Artlink International. He also serves as Visual Arts Studies Program Coordinator.

Professor Luis Carranza to speak at 3rd AULA Latin American Architecture Symposium

September 10th, 2012 by dalexander

Professor Luis E. Carranza will be moderating a session entitled "Mexamerica" at AULA's (Architecture and Urbanism in Las Americas) third symposium, The New Mexico (September 13-16, 2012) at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM. The session will focus on Latino built environments in the U.S. during an era of changing demographic realities.  Carranza is a founding member of AULA's editorial board since its inception in 1999. Carranza’s 2010 book Architecture as Revolution: Episodes in the History of Modern Mexico was published by the University of Texas Press.

Preservation Education: Sharing Best Practices and Finding Common Ground conference led by Jeremy Wells held in Providence September 8-9, 2012

September 10th, 2012 by dalexander

This conference held at the Biltmore Hotel, Providence September 8-9, 2012 is designed to bring higher education leaders in historic environment programs together from across the globe to present their research, discuss these questions, and begin to offer answers that will produce better historic environment specialists and further define educators’ roles and responsibilities in the greater professional and public arena. The goal of the conference is to share best practices, current research, and the metrics of academic and professional activities in the field that can help to inform higher education institutions and organizations that provide curriculum guidance and pedagogical practices to historic environment programs. The conference features an extensive list of co-sponsors including the University of Georgia, Clemson University, the College of Charleston, and the University of Florida.