Jordan Seaberry is a painter, organizer, legislative advocate and educator. Born and raised on the Southside of Chicago, he came to Providence to attend RISD and, later, Roger Williams University School of Law. Alongside his art, he built a career as a grassroots organizer and legislative advocate, helping to pass multiple criminal justice reform milestones, including probation reform, the Unshackling Pregnant Prisoners Bill and the statewide Community-Police Relationship Act.
In addition to teaching at RISD, Seaberry serves as co-director of the US Department of Arts and Culture. He previously served as director of public policy at the Nonviolence Institute, a community leader fellow at Roger Williams University School of Law and chair of the Providence Board of Canvassers, overseeing the city’s elections.
He was an as artist-in-residence at Skowhegan, Yaddo, the Verge Center of the Arts and elsewhere. His work is in multiple collections, including the RISD Museum, the Crystal Bridges Museum and the deCordova Museum.
Seaberry maintains a studio in Providence.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
FOUND 1001-04 - STUDIO:DRAWING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
FOUND 1001-04
STUDIO:DRAWING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: TH | 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM; TH | 1:30 PM - 6:00 PMInstructor(s): Jordan SeaberryLocation(s): Waterman Building, Room 41Enrolled / Capacity: 20Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Studio: Drawing is pursued in two directions: as a powerful way to investigate the world, and as an essential activity intrinsic to all artists and designers. As a primary mode of inquiry, drawing is a central means of forming questions and creating knowledge across disciplines. Through wide-ranging drawing approaches, students are prompted to work responsively and self-critically to embrace the unpredictable intersection of process, idea and media. To pursue these larger ideas, the studio becomes a laboratory of varied and challenging activities. Instructors introduce drawing as a dynamic two-dimensional record of sensory search, conceptual thought, or physical action. Students investigate materiality, imagined situations, idea generation, and the translation of the observable world. Formal and intellectual risks are encouraged during a sustained engagement with the possibilities of material, mark-making, perception, abstraction, performance, space and time. As students trust the drawing process, they become more informed about its uncharted potentials, and accept struggle as necessary and positive; they gain confidence in their own sensibilities.
Enrollment is limited to First-Year Undergraduate Students.
Major Requirement | BFA
FOUND 1001-09 - STUDIO:DRAWING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
FOUND 1001-09
STUDIO:DRAWING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: F | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM; F | 8:30 AM - 12:00 PMInstructor(s): Jordan SeaberryLocation(s): Waterman Building, Room 41Enrolled / Capacity: 20Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Studio: Drawing is pursued in two directions: as a powerful way to investigate the world, and as an essential activity intrinsic to all artists and designers. As a primary mode of inquiry, drawing is a central means of forming questions and creating knowledge across disciplines. Through wide-ranging drawing approaches, students are prompted to work responsively and self-critically to embrace the unpredictable intersection of process, idea and media. To pursue these larger ideas, the studio becomes a laboratory of varied and challenging activities. Instructors introduce drawing as a dynamic two-dimensional record of sensory search, conceptual thought, or physical action. Students investigate materiality, imagined situations, idea generation, and the translation of the observable world. Formal and intellectual risks are encouraged during a sustained engagement with the possibilities of material, mark-making, perception, abstraction, performance, space and time. As students trust the drawing process, they become more informed about its uncharted potentials, and accept struggle as necessary and positive; they gain confidence in their own sensibilities.
Enrollment is limited to First-Year Undergraduate Students.
