Twenty-one young photographers from non-profit programs at New Urban Arts and AS220's Broad Street Studio gathered at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum yesterday to present work created in response to a current exhibition, entitled "Honky Tonk Portraits of Country Music 1972-1981: Photographs ...
Human trafficking, AIDS and capital punishment are among the global issues tackled by the six documentary and feature films in this year's Human Rights Film Festival.
Award-winning author Chang-rae Lee read from his 2004 novel "Aloft" and spoke about his identity as a Korean-American writer last night as part of the University's observation of Asian/American History Month.
The Herald interviewed award-winning author, Chang-rae Lee yesterday, who came to the University as part of Asian American History Month. Lee's debut novel, "Native Speaker," won the Pen/Hemingway Award and the National Book Award in 1995.He followed that up with "A Gesture Life," which was released ...
Documentary filmmaker Deborah Scranton '84 provides a rare view into the day-to-day realities of the Iraq war in her film "The War Tapes," which she screened as part of the Watson Institute's War, Peace and the Media Screening Series Wednesday night.
Documentary filmmaker Robert Stone screened his 2004 film "Guerrilla: the Taking of Patty Hearst" Wednesday night as part of the Watson Institute's War, Peace and the Media Screening Series. Stone said the "intersection of mass media and terrorism (in the film) is a parable of the post-9/11 world."
Thanks to a $225,000 grant from the Surdna Foundation, a philanthropic group founded in 1917 by New York Rep. John Emory Andrus, RISD will embark on a three-year partnership with local high schools that aims to bring the arts to minority students.
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