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MLK 2026: \u3cem\u3eLegacy in Harmony\u3c/em\u3e Concert: The Marian Anderson String Quartet
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On January 14th, 2026 RISD will welcome Marian Anderson String Quartet, the headline performers of our MLK 2026 centerpiece event, to deliver a concert in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. Of music and its power, Dr. King wrote that “When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth, which flow through [their] instrument.” Through their performance, Marian Anderson String Quartet aims to inspire artists, designers, and justice seekers to continue advancing causes of democracy for all. Legacy in Harmony will be preceded by a community gathering from 5–5:45 pm in the common room of the Chace Center. The gathering is open to RISD students, faculty, and staff.
About Marian Anderson String Quartet
Founded in 1989 and named after the legendary contralto, the Marian Anderson String Quartet won the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Competition in 1991, becoming the first African-American ensemble in history to win a classical music competition. The quartet’s artistic endeavors have taken them to Alice Tully Hall, the Corcoran Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Kilbourn Hall, and the Chateau Cantanac-Brown in Bordeaux, France.
Its distinguished history also includes performances ranging from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to Washington, D.C.\u27s Kennedy Center, and residencies/speaking engagements spanning from The National Gallery of Art and TedxBlinnCollege to Brown University\u27s Heimark inaugural artists-in-residence at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.
As recipients of the prestigious Guarneri String Quartet Award and Residency from Chamber Music America (CMA), the quartet utilized its award toward outreach and engagement with inner-city youth. Driven by their belief in the power of education, it performs in venues ranging from museums to soup kitchens and churches to prisons.
Watch: Marian Anderson String Quartet at TEDx Blinn Collegehttps://digitalcommons.risd.edu/studentaffairs_MLK_posters/1071/thumbnail.jp
Writing from the Rift: Queer Temporality and the Refusal of Resolution
No full textThis thesis develops a phenomenological method for reading speculative literature as a site where queer ecological temporality is experienced rather than explained. Working with Annihilation (2014) by Jeff VanderMeer, The Day of the Triffids (1951) by John Wyndham, and Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (2020) by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the project treats reading as a bodily practice shaped by forms of attention. Texts are not interpreted for stable meaning and instead I remain with moments where resolution is withheld. The work is informed by a Marxist attention to how capitalist time organizes labor, productivity, and value, and how ecological disruption exposes the limits of those temporal logics. The methodology chapter establishes phenomenological reading and phenomenological writing as related by distinct practices. Reading is defined as an attentional practice that stays with sensation prior to conceptual capture, while writing is framed a formal refusal of closure that resists chrononormative expectations. Fragmentation and return are articulated as methodological commitments rather than stylistic choices.
Chapter One, “Queer Ecological Temporalities,” examines how ecological time disrupts linear, capitalist temporality frameworks. Through close readings of environment and landscape in Annihilation, infrastructural collapse in The Day of the Triffids, and breath-based relation in Undrowned, the chapter shows how ecological systems persist through accumulation and endurance without the expectation of progress. Ecological time is framed as materially incompatible with human schedules of productivity and mastery, revealing queerness not as metaphor but as temporal condition enacted by ecological relations themselves. Chapter Two, “Disorientation,” focuses on how these texts produce temporal misalignment at the level of the body. Drawing on queer phenomenology and crip temporal theory, the chapter analyzes moments of un-naming, epistemic breakdown, and the removal of orienting devices such as clocks, maps, and stable categories. Disorientation is treated not as a problem to be resolved but as a sustained condition that makes dominant temporal forms perceptible. Reading becomes an embodied negotiation with uncertainty, where attention replaces explanation. Chapter Three, “Refusal,” develops refusal as a queer and crip temporal practice. Through sustained attention to breath and non-productivity the chapter traces how these texts withdraw from demands for futurity. Refusal appears as a reorganization of rhythm and pace—most explicitly in Undrowned’s breath-based pedagogy, but also in Annihilation’s rejection of mastery and The Day of the Triffid’s suspension of recovery narratives.
The project concludes with an “inconclusion” that extends this refusal into the form of the thesis itself. There is no argument that is synthesized into a final position. The work remains open, treating unfinishedness as an ethical and temporal stance. By writing from within The Rift, my thesis offers phenomenological reading as a practice of staying with time as it is lived—queer and unknown
12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists\u27 Book Contest 2026 Poster
No full textOpening reception and award ceremony Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 6:30pm, Fleet Library, 1st Floor Main Reading Room. Juror: Gabrielle Reed.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/bookcontest12th2026/1000/thumbnail.jp
12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists\u27 Book Contest 2026 Virtual Awards Reception
No full textRecording of the 12th Baker & Whitehill Annual Student Artists\u27 Book Contest 2026 Virtual Award Reception, held via zoom Wednesday, February 25th, 2026 at 6:30pm. Hosted by Fleet Library Director Aliza Leventhal, Special Collections Librarian Claudia Covert, guest juror Gabrielle Reed, President of the New England Chapter of the American Printing History Association (APHA) Jordan Goffin, Special Collections Lead Reader Services Assitant Alison Beaudette, and Special Collections Instruction and Outreach Lbrarian Angela DiVeglia. Award winning entreis and honorable mentions annouced!https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/bookcontest12th2026/1060/thumbnail.jp
MLK 2026: \u3cem\u3eLegacy in Harmony\u3c/em\u3e Concert: The Marian Anderson String Quartet
No full textTicket Registration (free!)
On January 14th, 2026 RISD will welcome Marian Anderson String Quartet, the headline performers of our MLK 2026 centerpiece event, to deliver a concert in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. Of music and its power, Dr. King wrote that “When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth, which flow through [their] instrument.” Through their performance, Marian Anderson String Quartet aims to inspire artists, designers, and justice seekers to continue advancing causes of democracy for all. Legacy in Harmony will be preceded by a community gathering from 5–5:45 pm in the common room of the Chace Center. The gathering is open to RISD students, faculty, and staff.
About Marian Anderson String Quartet
Founded in 1989 and named after the legendary contralto, the Marian Anderson String Quartet won the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Competition in 1991, becoming the first African-American ensemble in history to win a classical music competition. The quartet’s artistic endeavors have taken them to Alice Tully Hall, the Corcoran Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Kilbourn Hall, and the Chateau Cantanac-Brown in Bordeaux, France.
Its distinguished history also includes performances ranging from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to Washington, D.C.\u27s Kennedy Center, and residencies/speaking engagements spanning from The National Gallery of Art and TedxBlinnCollege to Brown University\u27s Heimark inaugural artists-in-residence at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.
As recipients of the prestigious Guarneri String Quartet Award and Residency from Chamber Music America (CMA), the quartet utilized its award toward outreach and engagement with inner-city youth. Driven by their belief in the power of education, it performs in venues ranging from museums to soup kitchens and churches to prisons.
Watch: Marian Anderson String Quartet at TEDx Blinn Collegehttps://digitalcommons.risd.edu/studentaffairs_MLK_posters/1072/thumbnail.jp
Within Boundaries: Collecting and Exhibiting Chinese Contemporary Art in M+, Hong Kong
No full textThis thesis investigates how M+, Hong Kong’s museum of twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual culture, collects and exhibits Chinese contemporary art under political and institutional constraint. It argues that M+ operates through adaptive autonomy, a condition in which curatorial and educational strategies transform limitation into method. By analyzing the museum’s formation, exhibition practices, and comparison with other Asian institutions such as the Asia Culture Center in South Korea, the Power Station of Art in China, and the National Gallery Singapore, the study reveals how M+ sustains visibility of Chinese contemporary art with political sensitive topic through 绥靖 (Sui Jing; subtle appeasement) rather than open critique. These gestures, while ensuring survival, also expose the fragility of institutional agency in Hong Kong’s current cultural and political landscape. The thesis concludes that M+ must continue to raise visibility and foster regional solidarity, maintaining dialogues and critical engagements even when direct dissent on social issues that threaten the stability of the authority becomes strictly restricted
MLK 2026: \u3cem\u3eLegacy in Harmony\u3c/em\u3e Concert: The Marian Anderson String Quartet
No full textTicket Registration (free!)
On January 14th, 2026 RISD will welcome Marian Anderson String Quartet, the headline performers of our MLK 2026 centerpiece event, to deliver a concert in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. Of music and its power, Dr. King wrote that “When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth, which flow through [their] instrument.” Through their performance, Marian Anderson String Quartet aims to inspire artists, designers, and justice seekers to continue advancing causes of democracy for all. Legacy in Harmony will be preceded by a community gathering from 5–5:45 pm in the common room of the Chace Center. The gathering is open to RISD students, faculty, and staff.
About Marian Anderson String Quartet
Founded in 1989 and named after the legendary contralto, the Marian Anderson String Quartet won the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Competition in 1991, becoming the first African-American ensemble in history to win a classical music competition. The quartet’s artistic endeavors have taken them to Alice Tully Hall, the Corcoran Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Kilbourn Hall, and the Chateau Cantanac-Brown in Bordeaux, France.
Its distinguished history also includes performances ranging from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to Washington, D.C.\u27s Kennedy Center, and residencies/speaking engagements spanning from The National Gallery of Art and TedxBlinnCollege to Brown University\u27s Heimark inaugural artists-in-residence at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.
As recipients of the prestigious Guarneri String Quartet Award and Residency from Chamber Music America (CMA), the quartet utilized its award toward outreach and engagement with inner-city youth. Driven by their belief in the power of education, it performs in venues ranging from museums to soup kitchens and churches to prisons.
Watch: Marian Anderson String Quartet at TEDx Blinn Collegehttps://digitalcommons.risd.edu/studentaffairs_MLK_posters/1070/thumbnail.jp