Nora Rabins www.norarabins.com / 410-591-6110 / rabinsdesign@gmail.com
Exhibitions
2011 “Mapping Sites” Collaboration w/ Aimee Xenou, Smith College, Northampton MA
2011 “Fertile City”, Four Corners Gallery, Tiverton RI
2011 “Fine Art of Recycling”, City of Providence
2010 “Meandering Space”, Collaboration with Aimee Xenou, Denniston Hill Residency NY
2010 “Fair Folks and a Goat”, New York NY
2009 “Real Lives of Women Artists”, Panelist, Smith College Museum of Art, MA
2009 “Accessibility2009: Sustainability”, Cleveland State Community College, TN
2009 “Generously Odd: Craft Now”, Lexington Art League, Lexington KY
2009 Graduate Exhibition, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence RI
2009 “On Display”, Masters Thesis Exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design, RI
2009 “Crafting Romance”, Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens GA
2008 “Making Time”, (London Fashion Week), London, England
2008 “On Time”, Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art
2008 “That’s Design”, Milan, Italy (International Contemporary Furniture Fair)
Education
2009 MFA, Furniture Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
–Tage Frid Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2009
–RISD Graduate Award of Excellence, 2008
2009 Certificate in Collegiate Teaching, Brown University, Providence RI
2004 BA, Studio Art and Logic, Smith College, Northampton MA
–Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laude 2004
Press
C3 Northampton, “one (of many) ways in”, September 2011
New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, August 2011
Providence Sunday Journal, July 24 2011
NewYorkMagazine.com, “Not Just Chairs. Chairs with Wings” Wendy Goodman, 2011
Sight Unseen, March 5, 2010
Apartment Therapy, February 19, 2010
Flagpole Magazine, Art Notes, May 15, 2009
Athens Banner-Herald, Marquee, May 7, 2009
Design in the World; Made: Special Issue Salone del Mobile 2008
Metropolitan Works, London Metropolitan University, Newsletter Autumn 2008
Experience
2009-present Instructor: Welding, The Steelyard, Providence RI
2010-present Teacher: Sculpture and Math, School One, Providence RI
2010 Studio Assistant: Montague Studios, East Providence RI
2010 Exhibitions Prep. Assistant: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown U., RI
2009 Artist in Residence: Accessibility 2009, Cleveland State Community College, TN
2007-9 Teacher’s Assistant, Department of Furniture Design, RISD. Providence, RI
2008 Instructor: History of Art and Visual Culture, Rhode Island School of design, RI
2008 Teacher’s Assistant, Woodshop: Peter’s Valley Craft Center, NJ