Adjunct Faculty Member Denny Moers’ work is one of approximately 150 works over 150 years to be included in a major Rhode Island School of Design exhibition, America in View: Landscape Photography from 1865 to Now, on display from Friday, September 21, 2012 through Sunday, January 13, 2013 at the RISD Museum, Providence. The museum describes:

“A broad panorama of our country's topographies and correlating narratives, America in View reveals a nation's ambitions and failings, beauty and loss, politics and personal stories…Ranging from 19th-century albumen prints documenting the pristine drama of the Western landscape to contemporary digital images that construct newly imagined visions of post-industrial America—the show is drawn primarily from the Museum’s collection.”

Jeffrey Silverthorne’s photographic work is being exhibited in two exhibitions in Paris this Fall 2012. The first opens on September 14 and runs through October 20 at the Galerie VU' as part of a three person exhibition including works by Bernard Faucon and Christer Stromholm, centering on Spirituality, which draws from Silverthorne’s work Silent Fires, 1982-84, and Letters From the Dead House, 1986-94. The second exhibition is at Paris Photo with Galerie VU' at the Grand Palais in mid November.

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.

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.