RIMOSA is thrilled and delighted to welcome Kipp Bradford to the Board of Directors! Kipp is an engineer, a creator and an educator with a passion for creating new products as well as finding new applications for existing technologies. He was honored as one of the “40 Under Forty” by Providence Business News, and one [...]
We are thrilled to welcome Valerie Taylor to the RIMOSA board of Directors! Her 15-plus years of experience in museum exhibit design is a tremendous asset for us, and we look forward to moving into our next phase with her. For more information on Valerie, please see her bio on our Board of Directors page (under [...]
We are delighted to announce that Marc B. Gertsacov, Esq. has joined the RIMOSA board! He was inspired to join us after seeing the RIMOSA presentation at Pecha Kucha in Providence. While he was in college, Marc briefly attempted to major in art, but to our benefit and to the art world’s loss, he is [...]
We are so pleased to welcome Ray Gennari, fine furniture craftsman, designer, artist and accomplished musician to the RIMOSA board! Please visit the “who are we” tab and scroll down to read more about Ray.
We are very excited to welcome Wendy Lawton to the RIMOSA board! Wendy currently raises corporate and foundation funds for science and technology projects at Brown, and prior to that spent much of her career writing about K-12 education. Please read her bio in “Who Are We?” to learn more about her and why RIMOSA benefits [...]
Our second board meeting was held November 7. We voted to meet no less than quarterly, and to include specific wording in an amendment to our Articles of Incorporation that was suggested by our accountant. We also discussed our “Meet MOSA” coffee, to be held in January. We have been introducing ourselves to (we hope) [...]
We are pleased to announce a new board member! Please click on “biographical sketches” at the upper right corner of this page to read more about Mandy Howe. We now have six board members – scientists, artists and teachers of both science and art from pre-school through college and beyond. We also have a [...]
We had our first board meeting today. If you want to learn more about our board members, click on “biographical sketches” on the upper right side of this page. At this meeting, we handed out assignments (which ranged from specific -work on business cards – to general – form liaisons with area institutions). We also [...]
I met with Pawtucket Planning and Development Director Michael Cassidy and Economic and Cultural Affairs Officer Herb Weiss today. I think Pawtucket, with its background in industry and innovation and its current rebirth as a haven of creativity would be a good fit for this sort of museum. They seemed to think so too. Herb [...]
I met with Tom Sgouros yesterday, who has started his own RI non-profit and also daily walks the tightrope between science, art and policy. He was very encouraging. With his straightforward advice, it seems reasonable to expect that I will get the 501-c-3 paperwork in the mail early this summer. He also has some great [...]
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