Photo Spotlights

The exhibit “Our Favorite Things,” featuring personal collections from NTID faculty and staff, was on view at the NTID Dyer Arts Center.

Students, faculty and staff will return to campus after their holiday break. Classes resume Jan. 3.

Visitors to the RIT campus took to the ice during open skate hours at the Frank Ritter Ice Arena. The arena offers free skate every day. For hours and rates, call 585-475-2223.

RIT’s female a capella group, Encore, sang Christmas carols at “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” hosted by InterVarsity at Global Village on Dec. 16. Non-perishable food and winter clothes were collected to donate to the Open Door Mission.

At the end of the 2010 Formula SAE season, the RIT Formula Racing Team was ranked fourth in the world among 400-plus collegiate teams. As part of the group’s preparation for the upcoming season, the team hosted President Bill Destler last month for a walk-through in the machine shop in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering. RIT Formula Racing designs and builds a new car each season to race in the U.S. and Europe.

Adam Walker, a master’s student in public policy, is traveling to Kenya in December to assist in the development of sustainable irrigation technologies for use by local farmers. The project is being conducted by the international nonprofit KickStart International. Walker plans on blogging about his experiences at forthebottom4.wordpress.com.

Holiday shoppers are buying up handmade gifts at the annual School for American Crafts holiday sale. Student artists in the school’s glass, wood, ceramics and metals programs are selling their wares in the lobby of the Student Alumni Union. The sale runs until 6 p.m. Dec. 16. Students use the money to defray the cost of projects throughout the school year.

Kindergartners at RIT’s Margaret’s House do their part to collect spare change during The Salvation Army’s annual Red Kettle Campaign. The class, led by teacher Susan Northrup, set up shop Dec. 8 in front of the Campus Center.

Holiday shoppers are buying up handmade gifts at the annual School for American Crafts holiday sale. Student artists in the school’s glass, wood, ceramics and metals programs are selling their wares in the lobby of the Student Alumni Union. The sale runs from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Dec. 15 and 16. Students use the money to defray the cost of projects throughout the school year. Here, Belinda Bryce, director for the Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program, gathers pottery to purchase.

Brick City Catering created flavored cupcakes for the holidays. The cupcakes are available for purchase by the half dozen and come in three flavors—Chocolate Peppermint (chocolate cake with peppermint extract, chocolate butter cream frosting, and candy cane garnish), Gingerbread (spiced yellow cake with cream cheese frosting and cinnamon candies), and Snow White (white cake with coconut butter cream frosting and coconut flakes). Orders may be placed through the catering sales office at 475-2346 by Dec. 20.

The Metals Alumni Exhibition showcases national and international artists who have graduated from the RIT program and have achieved recognition and success for their work. An opening reception in RIT’s Bevier Gallery was held Dec. 10 and the show runs through Jan. 19. Bevier Gallery is closed Dec. 18 to Jan. 2.

Noted poet and playwright Amiri Baraka will present a master class on the craft of creative writing and be present at an RIT performance of his award-winning play Dutchman on Dec. 13. The master class will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. in the 1510 Lab Theater in Lyndon B. Johnson Hall at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf. The play will be performed at 7:30 p.m.