Laine Rettmer is a visual artist and opera director. Their work explores performance, gender, desire and methods of social control and has been presented nationally and internationally at the Vizcaya Museum, Manifesta, MoMA Public, the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum, the Illuminus Festival, the Boston Independent Film Festival, the Yuan Art Museum, Yve Yang Gallery, Perkins and Ping, Present Company, NADA NY, NADA Presents and AREA gallery, among others.
Rettmer’s opera productions have been praised as “wickedly smart” and “devastatingly funny” by The New York Times and “not only profound but also shattering” by the Observer. Their Barber of Seville was named one of the top 10 classical music productions of 2014 by The New York Times and La Bohème one of the best operas of the decade by the Observer. Rettmer currently serves on the Artistic Advisory Board of On-Site Opera.
Rettmer has also worked extensively on new opera with such companies as New York City Opera, Ecce Ensemble, Guerrilla Opera and Fresh Squeezed Opera. Recent awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and an MAP Fund grant for the collaborative opera Standby Snow: Chronicles of a Heat Wave, an Art Alliance Fellowship from HFBK Hamburg, a research fellowship from the Center for Arts Design and Social Research and residences at Skaftfell Center for Visual Arts in Iceland, the Watermill Foundation on Long Island, and MassArt’s Brant Gallery.
In addition to teaching in the Sculpture department at RISD, Rettmer has served as a residential scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a part-time lecturer at Northeastern University, and they were a post-graduate fellow at Tufts University. They hold a BFA in stage direction from New York University and an MFA in digital media from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
FAV 5193-01 - SENIOR STUDIO: OPEN MEDIA
LevelUndergraduate
UnitFilm/Animation/Video
Subject Film/Animation/Video
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
FAV 5193-01
SENIOR STUDIO: OPEN MEDIA
LevelUndergraduate
UnitFilm/Animation/Video
Subject Film/Animation/Video
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: M | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Laine RettmerLocation(s): Auditorium, Room 625Enrolled / Capacity: 15Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This path, within the senior studio options, allows for the exploration of a broad range of hybrid practices. Through the structural support of this year-long studio, students will produce a project that synthesizes their understanding of and aspirations for media art practice. Works produced use media as their point of departure, but may take a variety of forms including performance, installation, public art, intervention, networked/collaborative production, print publication, activism, etc. The course prepares students to work with depth in their use of media and as contemporary artists in a complex art world, in which media is often only one component in a larger project. Students receive weekly individual guidance from the instructor and peers, as well as two critiques by prominent working artists or related practitioners. During the spring semester, each student explores the notion of distribution intensively, resulting in the crafting of individualized forms of presentation. Each student also develops a portfolio of their work, focused on communicating their core interests to a defined group. Class meetings are devoted to presentations of related artists works, individual meetings and group critique. Fall semester includes field trips to events in the NY/New England area.
Estimated Materials Cost: Varies considerably with production design. Deposit: $150.00
Please contact fav@risd.edu for permission to register.
Major Requirement | BFA Film/Animation/Video | Open Media
PHOTO 532G-01 - GRADUATE CRITIQUE I
LevelGraduate
UnitPhotography
Subject Photography
Period Fall 2024
Credits 9
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
PHOTO 532G-01
GRADUATE CRITIQUE I
LevelGraduate
UnitPhotography
Subject Photography
PeriodFall 2024
Credits9
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Brian Ulrich, Laine RettmerEnrolled / Capacity: 7Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course is an ongoing discussion of individual work with special reference to current issues and concerns in contemporary art. Each student will be required to show and discuss work. Grades by participation.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate Photography Students.
This course is an ongoing discussion of individual work with special reference to current issues and concerns in contemporary art. Each student will be required to show and discuss work. Grades by participation.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate Photography Students.
