Jay Coogan received a BA from Brown University and an MFA from Hunter College. He taught sculpture and was department chair, dean of fine arts, associate provost, and provost at Rhode Island School of Design. He followed that becoming president of Minneapolis College of Art and Design and president of IYRS School of Technology and […]

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Kyna Leski is a Professor of Architecture at The Rhode Island School of Design who has served as Department Head, Graduate Director and Head of RISD’s European Honors Program in Rome; as well as being a Visiting Professor at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China. She has played a formative role in the […]

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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Jessica Deane Rosner primarily works on paper with ink, gouache, watercolor and pencils to create labor intensive, intricate drawings. Within every series and across media that include paper, thread, and text, she strives for control allowing mistakes and accidents to remain visible, […]

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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Anthony Russo is freelance illustrator. His clients include the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Esquire, Random House, LA Times, Vanity Fair etc. Original NetWorks Catalogue Bio: Anthony Russo graduated from the University of Rhode […]

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A multi-faceted artist and musician, Andrew Moon Bain was born in 1974 in Texas and grew up in the Pacific Northwest, playing classical music in the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra. Since receiving a BFA in sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design, Bain has become an active part of the Providence arts community as […]

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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: American, 1927-2012, Providence illustrator and painter, former RISD professor Original NetWorks Catalogue Bio: Born in 1927 to Greek immigrant parents in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Thomas Sgouros is a fifty year veteran of the Rhode Island School of Design Department of Illustration, where he […]

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