Organized by Susan Bickford, Alumni from around the world each made an eight inch square contribution to portraits of our mentors; Bob, O'Neal, John Behringer, Marc Harrison, Ken Hunnibell, Mickey Ackerman, Seth Stem, Tage Frid. "Everyone is so busy but you made a moment to make some art, to reflect with an elemental process, to remember, to bring back into your body, your connection to RISD, your connectedness to your mentors and those years, and in that process so many of you found a forgotten connection to yourselves. This intangible connection that we all have with our mentors is being made visible by these portraits, as they come back together we come together again to form an image of those who formed our thinking. In this process, I realized it was precisely the analog interaction that was important, it was a primary product of the portraits and not a by product at all, so I did the organization by hand, and not digitally. In so doing, I became the vessel for all of the participants love for their mentors, it was amazing to be on the receiving end of that and I'm really thankful that I didn't give that up to an algorithm in a machine."
