Rochester Institute of Technology furniture design alumni David Short and George Dubinsky are returning to campus for a public guest lecture at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29, in Booth Hall, room 2631. The talk is sponsored by the furniture design program.
Short and Dubinsky are the founders of Edgewood Made, a designer and producer of high-quality furniture and home goods for the contemporary home.
Portfolio reviews and professional networking opportunities will be in the air when Rochester Institute of Technology hosts its 13th Creative Industry Day from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. March 29 in Gordon Field House.
Creative Industry Day — open to RIT students and alumni — is sponsored by RIT’s Office of Career Services and Cooperative Education in collaboration with the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences (CAD), the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences and RIT Alumni Relations. The portfolio-based event is designed “for creatives by creatives” and is geared toward CAD students.
CAD students are invited to join Interim CAD Dean Robin Cass for coffee and conversation in the Dean’s office — Booth Hall, room 2549 — from 10-11 a.m. on March 23.
Mind-blowing, large-format photographic prints by NASA astronaut Donald Pettit from the International Space Station are set to fill Rochester Institute of Technology’s University Gallery as “Portraits of a Planet: Photographer in Space” runs from March 19-April 28.
Pettit’s work provides stunning views of cities at night and planetary phenomena captured with time-lapse, long exposure and split-second timing.
The show’s reception is scheduled for 3-6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 22, in the gallery. Opening remarks will be given by Pettit and School of Photographic Arts and Sciences alumnus Peter A. Blacksberg ’75.
Anna Mlasowsky, an artist-in-residence at Sculpture Space in Utica, N.Y., is visiting Rochester Institute of Technology’s glass program for an artist talk. It is scheduled for 11 a.m. to noon Thursday, March 22, in Booth Hall, room 3634.
The entire RIT community is welcome to hear about Mlasowsky’s current work and practice.
Born in Germany, Mlasowsky uses emerging technologies and uncommon approaches to glass methodology to create experiment-driven sculptures, objects and video work influenced by glass’ material qualities. She has an international record of teaching, exhibiting and working in residence.
The design community is set to gather at Rochester Institute of Technology to discuss career paths, new industry products and designing for urban renewal in downtown Rochester.
RIT’s interior design program and the International Interior Design Association New York Chapter’s Rochester City Center are co-hosting “What’s Next?” from 5-8 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, in University Gallery. The event invites RIT School of Design students and alumni, along with design professionals, to explore job opportunities in the interior design field and what its future holds.
CAD staff are invited to join Interim CAD Dean Robin Cass for coffee and conversation in the Dean’s office — Booth Hall, room 2549 — from 10-11 a.m. on March 9.
College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at RIT alumnus Jason Blythe is scheduled to give a lecture from 3-5 p.m. Wednesday March 7 in University Gallery in the latest installment of the Fram Speaker Series.
Blythe is a user experience designer for Google who graduated from RIT with an MFA in computer graphics design (now visual communication design) in 2005. He also earned his BFA in graphic design from RIT in 2002.
For his presentation, Blythe will walk through the design process and complexity of the 2016 redesign of Google’s desktop search experience — a project he led and initiated. He is also slated to cover the research, data and design thinking that impacted the launch.
Please join the dean for a brief presentation about the upcoming renaming process for CAD. The presentation will be followed by an open-discussion session. It will take place in Carlson Auditorium (room 1125 in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science).
RIT’s glass program is hosting a make your own glass object fundraiser in which the public (18 years old and over) is invited to learn how to make a paperweight, marble or pendant in the hot shop or flame shop. Hands-on sessions are available from noon-5 p.m. on March 3 and 4, with each lasting an hour and costing $50. Proceeds support RIT glass students traveling to the annual Glass Art Society conference in May in Murano, Italy.
The sessions will take place in Booth Hall, rooms 3633 and 3730. For more information and registration, please email ritglassguild2017@gmail.com.