Exhibit Extended

Update: The first floor of the exhibit (including history of camouflage and dazzle plans and photos) will be opened until April 9, 2009.

Maurice L Freedman

Maurice L  Freedman, RISD Alumnus, was the district camoufleur in Florida during World War I.  After the war he attended RISD and donated the dazzle plans and photos.  He was born in New York in 1898 and died in Massachusetts in 1983.  We don’t know much about Maurice.  Hoping someone knows more.

Posters

We have sold out of posters.  We hope to be offering more in September 2009 during RISD by Design Weekend.  If you would like to be notified when they will be available please email us.

Postcards

We have the above avaliable images for sale as postcards.  They cost 50 cents a piece.  For more information please contact us at RISD Library.

RISD’s new dazzle webpage

http://www.risd.edu/dazzle

Modern Dazzle

Greek construction tycoon Dakis Joannou had Jeff Koons paint his yacht Guilty. Koons’ inspiration was dazzle camouflage (ARTnews November 2008, p. 60). Images

Exhibit and Symposium

The “Bedazzled” Exhibit and the “Artists at War: Exploring the Connections Between Art and Camouflage” Symposium will examine the questions surrounding the relationship of art and camouflage.

This free and open to the public exhibit will be at:

The Fleet Library at RISD, January 26-March 29, 2009 during library hours (Monday-Friday 8:30am-7pm, Saturday 10am-6pm, and Sunday noon-7pm).

The symposium will be in:

The Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium in RISD’s Chace Center and is also free and open to the public on February 14, 2009 from 2-4 pm.

The exhibit will focus on three areas: what is camouflage?; dazzle camouflage; and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) student work involving camouflage.

The symposium will be comprised of four talks:

Peter Harrington, Curator of Brown’s Military Collection, will explore the relationship of art and camouflage throughout history.

Daniel Harkett, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History of Visual Art and Culture at RISD, will discuss the art movements of World War I with an emphasis on British Modernism and will examine the question, did camouflage influence art or did art influence camouflage?

Roy Behrens, RISD alumni and a professor of Graphic Design at University of Northern Iowa, will discuss the life of Everett Longley Warner, an artist and camoufleur during World War I and II, and what it was like to be a camoufleur.

Claudia Covert, Readers Services Librarian at the Fleet Library @ RISD, will bring to light RISD’s dazzle camouflage collection and share the stories her research has revealed and what mysteries remain to be solved.

RISD Professional Development Grant

In Fall 2007, I received a grant from my institution to support my research of our dazzle camouflage collection. This funded trips to London, England and Jacksonville, Florida.