Experience the private collection of Craig and Martha Bachman that highlights the diversity, creativity, and ongoing evolution of contemporary ceramics over the past 50 years. Craig Bachman is a Professor of Art at Rhode Island College and the head of the Ceramics program within the Art Department.
Included in the exhibition are ceramic works by:
This exhibition presents the work of Mahler B. Ryder alongside reflections by his daughter, Ulli K. Ryder, in a dialogue between visual and written expression, between parent and child, and between the living and the dead.
Mahler B. Ryder, Jr. was the first Black faculty member in the Illustration Department of the Rhode Island School of Design, where he taught from 1969 to 1992. His art confronted race, identity, and history; expressed joy, sorrow, rage, and love. He insisted that we look honestly at the world and acknowledge its full complexity.
Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D. is a scholar, educator, cultural strategist, and community builder whose work lives at the intersection of race, gender, identity, culture, education, and the arts. She has spent the decades since her father's death trying to understand him, his motivations, and his legacy. Sometimes she feels very close to him. Sometimes he is elusive and unknowable.
The result is a rare kind of exhibition: part memorial, part conversation, part inheritance. Two bodies of work, made decades apart, in dialogue.
This exhibition presents the work of Mahler B. Ryder alongside reflections by his daughter, Ulli K. Ryder, in a dialogue between visual and written expression, between parent and child, and between the living and the dead. Join us for an opening reception on Thursday, November 12, from 4-7 PM in...
Located in Rhode Island College’s Roberts Hall, the Bannister Gallery presents 7 to 8 exhibitions a year by local, regional and international artists.