Project Open Door
is housed in RISD’s Department of Art Design Education, which
offers graduate degrees in art and design teaching, with a specific
focus on school and community settings. Through partnerships with
schools and community arts organizations, graduate students are
given unique opportunities to combine theory and practice, and to
contribute to the development of new approaches to teaching art and
design. The department recognizes the transformative nature of an
engagement in the arts, so it is especially committed to working
with urban children and youth both through its degree programs and
its outreach initiatives.
Graduate students in Art Design Education provide the core mentoring support for teens in Project Open Door. We also work in close cooperation with the college’s Division of Continuing Education, Office of Multicultural Affairs and The RISD Museum of Art’s Education Department. Project staff members coordinate the talents and resources of these and other RISD departments, faculty, staff and students to create networks of support for the high school students involved in our programs. Project Open Door participants also have access to the RISD library, Nature Lab, and Museum.
“Graduate students at RISD feel encouraged and supported while being in an intense learning environment and instinctively want to give back some of what they’re learning here,” notes Jessie Shefrin, RISD’s dean of Graduate Studies. “When they teach, they know they can affect change in many different ways. And graduate students see themselves as agents of change.”
Graduate students in Art Design Education provide the core mentoring support for teens in Project Open Door. We also work in close cooperation with the college’s Division of Continuing Education, Office of Multicultural Affairs and The RISD Museum of Art’s Education Department. Project staff members coordinate the talents and resources of these and other RISD departments, faculty, staff and students to create networks of support for the high school students involved in our programs. Project Open Door participants also have access to the RISD library, Nature Lab, and Museum.
“Graduate students at RISD feel encouraged and supported while being in an intense learning environment and instinctively want to give back some of what they’re learning here,” notes Jessie Shefrin, RISD’s dean of Graduate Studies. “When they teach, they know they can affect change in many different ways. And graduate students see themselves as agents of change.”
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