RISD Project Open Door

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FirstWorks

CALL FOR STUDENT SUBMISSIONS!
Winners receive 2 tickets to FirstWorks’ presentation of Angélique Kidjo Remain in Light!

FirstWorks is calling Providence Public School Students to tell us what Raising Your Voice means to you.

To enter: Send your response to the question “What does it mean to Raise Your Voice?” to [email protected] with the question as the subject line. Submissions can be as short as a sentence or as long as a page, creative responses (poems, photographs, song clips, videos) are encouraged! Be sure to include your name, grade, and school to make your entry eligible to win.

One winner will be selected per school. Each winning submission will be displayed on FirstWorks’ social media pages. Winners receive 2 tickets to see Angelique Kidjo raise her voice at the Vets on February 22nd at 8pm.

Part of FirstWorks’ “Raise Your Voice” initiative designed to amplify diverse voices and celebrate differences through the performing arts. For more information visit first-works.org

Providence Public Schools Providence City Council

Carter Roger Williams Scholarship - Roger Williams Initiative

findingrogerwilliams.com Resources about Roger Williams and his teachings to establish a sense of place, awareness, and pride for all Rhode Islanders.

RISCA - Rhode Island State Council on the Arts

Hey POD teens- Would be awesome to see POD represented on this RI Teen Arts Assembly! Check it out for more info and reach out to POD staff if you have any questions, would like help applying!

The Rhode Island Teen Arts Assembly is a group of 10-15 student leaders who collaborate with the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts to advise the Education Program on initiatives and youth involvement, to
represent Arts Education and the creative sector at events throughout the State, and to develop creative
skills, leadership experience, and opportunities for their peers to engage with the arts. Applications for the RI Teen Arts Assembly are due January 3rd

The Rhode Island Teen Arts Assembly is a group of 10-15 student leaders who collaborate with the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts to advise the Education Program on initiatives and youth involvement, to
represent Arts Education and the creative sector at events throughout the State, and to develop creative
skills, leadership experience, and opportunities for their peers to engage with the arts. Applications for the RI Teen Arts Assembly are due January 3rd.

Apply to be the next RI Youth Poetry Ambassador!

POD TEENS INTERESTED IN POETRY-
Rhode Island Poet Laureate, Tina Cane, and Rhode Island Center for the Book, are partnering to launch the Rhode Island Youth Poetry Ambassador initiative. This program seeks to establish a youth poetry advocate position to be filled by a high school student (grades 9-12) who resides in the state of Rhode Island. It will be filled on an annual basis. Deadline to apply is December 15th!

ribook.org About the Youth Poetry Ambassador Initiative- The Center partners with the Rhode Island Poet Laureate to select a RI high school student to serve as a youth poetry advocate to bring more poetry to …

RISCA - Rhode Island State Council on the Arts

POD Teens- check out this leadership opportunity!

Application for Appointment to the Rhode Island Teen Arts Assembly Due January 3rd, 2020! The Rhode Island Teen Arts Assembly is a group of 10-15 student leaders who collaborate with RISCA to advise the Education Program on initiatives and youth involvement, to represent Arts Education and the creative sector at events throughout the State, and to develop creative skills, leadership experience, and opportunities for their peers to engage with the arts.

How to Prepare an Art Portfolio for Art School Admission | Art Prof: Create & Critique

artprof.org Art Prof Art School Portfolio Video Course

Hey POD teens!
Check out this event about preparing to apply to design colleges!

Join us THIS SATURDAY for the first session of Explore Design, a FREE workshop series for creative RI teens offered by DownCity Design and DESIGNxRI. Learn more about the process of applying to college design programs, featuring guests from College Visions and a panel of current college students. Register now for this and future Explore Design workshops, at: https://www.downcitydesign.org/exploredesign

RISD Project Open Door

Creative Workforce Development Applications Open

POD alums- check this out!

risca.online This fall, RISCA is piloting a semester long workforce development program. Modeled as a three credit college course, 9 participants in three arts disciplines (fashion, visual art, and music) will …

FOR POD TEENS + ALUMS- Check out our schedule for summer field trips and sign up by emailing [email protected], and/or check your email for more details Yay for summer! 😀

HELLO FRIENDS OF POD!
EXHIBITION TONIGHT!

Please join us tonight, Friday, May 24th between 5pm-8pm in the POD Studio (355 South Water Street, Providence, RI 02903) as we celebrate the end of the year and the amazing art work that teens in our Saturday Portfolio program have created this year. We are so proud and excited to share their hard work and impressive talents with the community in this annual end-of-year Exhibition. If you've ever been curious to learn more about Project Open Door or wanted to show your support for your students and other creative youth, this is a great time to stop by!
Exhibition is open to the public and refreshments will be provided! Hope to see you!

POD is looking for a part-time Program Assistant! See the link below for more details. We hope to hear from you!

https://careers.risd.edu/postings/2064?fbclid=IwAR235NFJncThehTP_C-wov0ftI0hpAOSaaPD7MB3KQs-3UObtStkxLAJ5Uk

Carter Roger Williams Initiative

Now accepting applications for the 2019 Carter Roger Williams Scholarship for Rhode Island high school seniors. Learn more and apply here by February 12. https://bit.ly/2ekv4qs

POD Fall Newsletter

Check out what's been going on at POD in our Fall Newsletter!

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Two new photo albums up from POD's summer programming so far! Check out images from both our Hasbro Summer Design Studio and our field trip + Watercolor workshop at Tillinghast farm!

Hasbro:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/risdProjectOpenDoor/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1620801808048910

RISD Beach:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/risdProjectOpenDoor/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1620777424718015

Photo Credit: Scott Lapham

Photo Credit: Scott Lapham

Looking back on an amazing week-long studio course with Hasbro at Project Open Door that took place in late July. Each morning Hasbro designers came to the POD studio to share their story and their professional work. Through presentations, demonstrations, design challenges and interactions with designers, POD teens uncovered the entire design process, from brainstorming and sketching to making it real and presenting. In the afternoons, teens worked with these new found skills to create their own toy or game design. By the end of the week each student had developed their very own product with a story behind it and presented it to the group. Their presentations and final products were truly impressive. We even fit in a tour of Hasbro!

Many many thanks to everyone at the Hasbro team who took the time to share their passion for their work, and to Chrisitne Enos, POD's teaching artist who guided the teens in their own making journey. Can't wait for next year!

(Images credited to Scott Latham as indicated, all others are form POD staff)

Check out some images from POD's annual summertime trip to the RISD's Tillinghast farm for a watercolor workshop and beach picnic. What a fun day with an awesome group!

Congrats to POD teens Danny and Keegan for surviving and thriving In RISDs PreCollege program!! Some beautiful charcoal drawings they created in their drawing foundations courses!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmBZNPmHqVj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

RISD Project Open Door's cover photo

Photography 101 - The College Crusade of Rhode Island

Check out this story from The College Crusade of Rhode Island about a recent workshop with Project Open Door! Crusaders worked all week on the RISD campus with local photographer and teaching artist Scott Lapham learning about photography! Click the link for more details and to see the online photo album put together by College Crusade. :)

http://thecollegecrusade.org/tccri/photography-101/

thecollegecrusade.org Story by Patience Adegboyega ’16 Did you know you can make a camera out of cardboard and tape? For a week at the Rhode Island School of Design, high school Crusaders attending RISD’s Project Open Door learned the science behind the cameras they carry around through their smartphones and other de...

Check out more info on the RISD museum's Summer Teen Intensive. This is an amazing opportunity for creative teens who have a passion for arts and culture. Applications accepted until May 14!

Attention teens (and guardians of teens, and people with teen friends)! Applications for our Summer Teen Intensive are closing soon!

This free 11-day intensive program will be a series of over 30 workshops where everyone is teaching and everyone is learning. Artists, Museum Staff, teen program participants, and other creative individuals will lead workshops in response to the museum's collection. Themes could range from knot tying to science fiction.

No art-making experience is necessary--we are looking for intellectually curious students who would like to think about the creative potential of museums.

Apply now: bit.ly/2I1E3eL

The College Crusade of Rhode Island

Check out this post from The College Crusade of Rhode Island about our April School Vacation photography program with Scott Lapham, Photograhipc Imaging! Thanks for sharing- we love working with Crusaders!

Our high school students had a great week at RISD Project Open Door's photography workshop > here's the cool stuff they did: https://myalbum.com/album/4QuXfxB6Ne5S

Light Drawings!

Check out some images from Photographic Imaging, POD's April School Vacation Week Studio workshop with the College Crusade of Rhode Island. Here are some examples of light drawings, balloon popping and digital city collages that the teens created from this awesome week. (All Photos from Scott Lapham)

More info:
Led by local photographer, youth mentor and Project Open Door (POD) Teaching Artist Scott Lapham, Crusade teens embarked on a fun filled artistic and scientific journey designed to encourage creative exploration of our world. Daily workshops brought teens to a better understanding of the science behind photography and provide an introduction to the natural and pre-photographic phenomenon of the Camera Obscura. Other exercises encouraged team work as teens to learned technical components of photography, such as shutter speed and lighting. Teens were also challenged to explore and interact with the city and people of Providence by using both their hard technical photo skills and their soft social skills. In collaboration with the RISD Nature Lab, teens also learned about the urban food chain in Providence and were able to photograph taxidermy specimens and then digitally collage their images together in photoshop!

Senior Portfolio: Copper Tooling

Senior Portfolio: Gel Prints

RISD Project Open Door

Check out some images from the POD Alumni Exhibition!
What a great night! Thanks so much to everyone who helped prepare the show, everyone who joined us that evening and especially all the alums who exhibited work!

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1444705005658592.1073741896.281701071958997&type=1&l=de8d16f0f0

(All photographs were taken by Tianqiutao Chen)

***This year we had over 20 POD alumni exhibit some of their recent work, representing schools like Rhode Island College, Rhode Island School of Design, Community College of Rhode Island, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, University of Rhode Island and Brown University. Many of these alums are studying art and design, majors vary from architecture and printmaking to graphic design and sculpture, while others are pursuing degrees such as public policy, engineering, education and more! We are so proud of and impressed by all of our POD alums and it was such a special night to have so many of them, accompanied and supported by friends and family, back in the studio to celebrate their recent work and creative accomplishments. Congrats to all!! ***

POD draws creative teens from public high schools in Rhode Island's urban core cities to participate in free art and design programming.

Photo Credit: Tianqiutao Chen

What an amazing time we had at the opening of our second Project Open Door Alumni Exhibition!

This year we had over 20 POD alumni exhibit some of their recent work, representing schools like Rhode Island College, Rhode Island School of Design, Community College of Rhode Island, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, University of Rhode Island and Brown University. Many of these alums are studying art and design, majors vary from architecture and printmaking to graphic design and sculpture, while others are pursuing degrees such as public policy, engineering, education and more!

We are so proud of and impressed by all of our POD alums and it was such a special night to have so many of them, accompanied and supported by friends and family, back in the studio to celebrate their recent work and creative accomplishments.

(All photographs were taken by Tianqiutao Chen)

ALUMNI SHOW IS TONIGHT!
Hope to see you all in the POD Studio 6pm-8pm :)

Creating Artist Books

RISD Project Open Door, Caran d'Ache Crayon Drawing, 24" x 18" on black charcoal paper.

***POD HOLIDAY PARTY****

This Friday 4pm-6pm in the POD studio!

Come join us and in the holiday spirit with holiday music, food and crafts! Lots of food and all POD teens, friends and alums are welcome! See you all Friday! ❄️☃️❄️❄️❄️❄️

(Open studios from 3-6 as usual too, so you can still come in and work, take pictures of your work, work on your applications + portfolios for college + precollege, etc! )

Senior Portfolio: Balsa Wood Sculptures

Senior Portfolio: Balsa Wood Sculptures

Senior Portfolio: Balsa Wood Sculptures