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FUTURE BY DESIGN CAMPAIGN TOPS GOAL!
FUTURE BY DESIGN
CAMPAIGN TOPS GOAL!
Soon after I arrived at RISD in 1993, I real-
ized there is little that can't be accomplished
here if we come together as a community to
do it. Our students, faculty, staff and trustees
are thinkers and doers people who know
how to create things from nothing but brilliant
ideas. So, when we conceived of the $85-
million
Future by Design
campaign to keep
RISD
on a trajectory of progress, I trusted
that somehow, together, we would accom-
plish our goal.
Thanks to the thousands of you who con-
tributed so generously in whatever way
you could, we have succeeded in more ways
than one. RISD has aced its rst comprehen-
sive fundraising effort to date one of the
largest campaigns ever undertaken by an
independent college of art and design. After
eight challenging years and much hard work
by our Institutional Advancement staff and
hundreds of volunteers, we have raised
$87.7
million via the campaign and another
$11.6
million in government grants, gifts in
kind and bequest expectancies. This brings
the grand total in new outside funding to
$99.3
million an incredible accomplishment
due in large part to the extraordinary
commitment of our Board of Trustees and
Museum Board of Governors.
The close of the campaign marks more than
a nancial milestone, however; it signals
a strong endorsement of our vision for
RISD
, set forth at the outset of the campaign.
As a catalyst for funding this vision, the
campaign attracted new support to help us
redene RISDs role both in the local land-
scape and the global exchange of ideas. It
inspired us to work together to achieve
shared goals, which we carefully articulated
after much discussion as a community. And
at the most basic level, it helped every mem-
ber of our community to better understand
the fundamental role of philanthropy in fuel-
ing our future.
This special edition of
risd views focuses
on how we expect this inux of $99.3 million
to make RISD more open and accessible to
members of the RISD and regional communi-
ties. In embarking on this path in 1998, we
set out to fortify our scholarship endowments,
enhance the museum as an educational and
community resource, improve access to
central resources, add on-campus housing
and promote opportunities for collaboration,
both on campus and off. We also wanted to
provide new and better places for students,
faculty and other members of the community
to come together to exchange ideas, share
experiences and show their work. The addi-
tion of the Fleet Library at RISD, which
we will dedicate in October during RISD by
Design weekend, and the Chace Center and
related renovations now in progress, will
complete our vision for a more connected
and user-friendly campus integrated with
downtown Providence (pages 4 9). The com-
pletion of the Chace Center will also further
our goal of a more vibrant and energized
museum, which is already well on its way
thanks in part to important funding in support
of our contemporary art program (10 17).
And with the addition of almost $12 million
in new scholarship funds, RISD can begin to
offer aid to more gifted students who have
been denied access due to cost (18 22).
Please join us on Saturday, October 7, at
4:30
pm to celebrate the successful completion
of the
Future by Design
campaign through
the dedication of one of its key accomplish-
ments: the new Fleet Library at RISD, located
at 15 Westminster Street in Providence.
James Billington, Americas Librarian of Con-
gress, will join us to speak about the regional
impact of our stunning new facility and
Jenny Holzer MFA 77 PT
will participate
with
For RISD, projections of selected poetry
and her own writings on the façade of the
15
West building. The Holzer projections will
take place after sundown on Saturday as
part of the nale celebration, with different
versions screened on Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday evenings prior to her delivery of the
Gail Silver Memorial Lecture in the RISD
Auditorium on Wednesday, October 11.
Now that we can celebrate the success
of the
Future by Design
together, I am confi-
dent that we will also surmount new chal-
lenges in the years ahead. After all, RISD is
a creative organism, incapable of stasis. Just
as we have managed to set a new standard
for philanthropic support of our efforts,
we will move forward with renewed energy
and commitment to making this place
the best it can be for the next generation
of aspiring artists and designers. Thank
you for your continued support.
Roger Mandle,
president
collaborating for success
F U T U R E B Y D E S I G N F I N A L F I G U R E S
*
purpose
amount raised
the risd campus
$ 34,841,677
scholarship funds
$ 11,745,238
faculty/curatorial endowments
$ 3,243,185
academic/museum programs
$ 17,458,604
technology needs
$ 631,000
general operating support
$ 14,884,700
other
$ 4,902,632
T O T A L C A M P A I G N F U N D S
$ 87,707,036
gifts in kind
$ 1,720,338
documented bequest expectancies
$ 575,000
government grants
$ 9,288,989
TOTA L OV E R A L L
$ 99,291,363
24
hillside
whats up on campus
28
association news
RISD alumni association
30
published
new works in print
31
portfolio
news of alumni
publishing director
Liz ONeil
editor
Liisa Silander
production coordinator
Elizabeth Eddins 00 GD
contributing designers
Nikki (Juen) Attias 98 GD
Elizabeth Eddins 00 GD
contributing writers
Anna Cousins
Michael Eatough
Susan Saccoccia
Liisa Silander
cover photos
David OConnor
e-mail risdviews@risd.edu
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phone 401 454-6349
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Volume 17, Number 4, October 2006
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inside
departments
features
2
bold move pays off
Author/illustrator
David Macaulay 69 AR
understands the
way things work, and as national campaign chair for the
Future
by Design
fundraising effort, learned much about the power
of shared ideals.
4
towards a new heart of campus
New campaign-funded facilities such as the CIT, 15 West, the Fleet
Library at RISD and on the horizon, the Chace Center, are beginning
to pull the campus and the RISD community together in a more
cohesive and comfortable manner.
10
fresh finds: celebrating the new
The addition of the museum's first-ever Contemporary Art
Department, made possible by funding from the late art collector
Richard Brown Baker, has expanded museum programming to
include breakthrough exhibitions such as Wunderground, a fall show
highlighting Providence's underground art scene.
18
opening the door more
Both donors and the students beneting from endowed scholar-
ships recognize the importance of outside funding to opening
access to talented students of any means.
acronyms explained
current majors
AP
Apparel Design
AE
Art + Design Education
AR
Architecture
CR
Ceramics
DM
Digital + Media
FAV
Film/Animation/Video
FD
Furniture Design
GD
Graphic Design
GL
Glass
IA
Interior Architecture
ID
Industrial Design
IL
Illustration
JM
Jewelry + Metalsmithing
LA
Landscape Architecture
PH
Photography
PT
Painting
PR
Printmaking
SC
Sculpture
TX
Textiles
former majors
AD
Advertising Design
MD
Machine Design
TC
Textile Chemistry
TE
Textile Engineering
fth-year bachelors degrees
BAR
Architecture
BGD
Graphic Design
BID
Industrial Design
BIA
Interior Architecture
BLA
Landscape Architecture
masters degrees
MA
Arts in Art Education
(formerly MAE)
MAR
Architecture
MAT
Arts in Teaching
MFA
Fine Arts
MID
Industrial Design
MIA
Interior Architecture
MLA
Landscape Architecture
continuing education
CEC
Continuing Education
Certicate
* attended RISD, but no
degree awarded
submissions
Please submit information for
risd views and
e-views by e-mailing risdviews@risd.edu. If you
would like to include imagery for consideration
or suggest potential story ideas, e-mail the editor
at lsilande@risd.edu (note: the first letter in
this address is an L).
e-views is sent mid-month
throughout the academic year to readers who
have provided RISD with an e-mail address and
is archived online at www.risd.edu/eviews.cfm.
Alumni who wish to update their address (e-mail
and/or postal) should do so online at www.risd.edu/
alumni_directory.cfm; other readers may e-mail
the editor. The next two issues of the magazine
will be published in January and May 2007.
* These gures reect the total funds raised during the
Future by Design
campaign (July 1, 1998 to June 30, 2006).
Although the last three items listed are excluded from ofcial
campaign reporting, the gures do represent new resources
brought in as a result of campaign fundraising efforts. create
faculty and students I studied with at
RISD with who I am, why I do what I do
and the way I do it.
Raising $87.