Momentum Fall 2022

Momentum

New Space(s)

A few weeks ago, during Inauguration Weekend, RISD students, staff, faculty, alums, parents, and friends came together in a profoundly moving way.

In open studios, keynote conversations, amid music and revelry, and a multi-day symposium we explored the concept of space through time and coalesced around what is possible. What is possible in the world. What is possible at RISD. Indeed, through exploring the past and our present and envisioning our future, we collectively celebrated a shared vision of a more socially equitable, sustainable, intelligent, dynamic, and beautiful world.

This act of envisioning was inspiring. And that world requires our collaboration, multiple disciplines, histories, traditions, and our multiple ways of thinking and doing and perspectives. In short, enabling and enacting what is possible requires us all; it is a community effort. From what I’ve seen, RISD students, faculty, staff, parents, alums, and friends are up for it!

It was a profound honor to be installed as RISD’s 18th president amid such vibrancy, artistry, collaboration, good thinking, and goodwill.

In the six months that I have been here, I have been delighted to meet so many members of our community. I have reveled in getting to know people and their work. And I am always especially happy when able to engage with students. They say incredible and motivating things about their goals, like, “…I am trying to inspire delightfulness...”

Our students are marvelous—funny, curious, open-minded, open-hearted, and brilliant. And I am always buoyed by their combined optimism and commitment to each other, their communities, and the wider world.

In this issue, you will find stories about some of our students. The students profiled in these pages are explorers, collaborators, and initiative takers. They are making the spaces they want to inhabit and, in so doing, making a better world and a better planet for us all.

We also share stories of community members intent on providing opportunity, increasing diversity, and embracing multi-disciplinarity. Stories about taking action to honor a lifelong commitment to art and bringing Providence’s young people into closer contact with art through the RISD Museum. This is a snapshot of the generosity of spirit that characterizes our institution.

As RISD strides into the future, I believe we should keep that spirit in mind. We can reimagine, enact and inhabit new space(s). Together, we can discover and create dynamic possibilities for our future. I am delighted to be here—in this place and on this journey—with you.

CRYSTAL WILLIAMS PRESIDENT, RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN

Supporting Student Opportunities

RISD Limited Editions returns for Fall 2022 with another exciting collection supporting RISD students.

Launched in the fall of 2021, RISD Limited Editions was developed as an alumni-led initiative supporting RISD’s Student Opportunity Fund, providing financial assistance to students for educational expenses not funded through traditional financial aid.

Huma Bhabha, 2022.

Photo by Daniel Dorsa. Courtesy David Zwirner.

The inaugural RISD Limited Editions sale featured a set of exclusive prints by Shepard Fairey 92 IL HD 21 and Cindy Ji Hye Kim 13 IL. Fairey, a strong supporter of the initiative and a member of RISD’s Board of Trustees, said, “It means a great deal to me to join with fellow alumni artists and designers to launch RISD Limited Editions to support today’s students. What better way to pay it forward than through the making and buying of art? RISD’s extraordinary students will lead the creative transformations yet to come. I’m excited to do my part to ensure every student can push the boundaries of what we think is possible.”

The 2021 RISD Limited Editions sale raised more than $50,000 to help support student internships and materials purchases. For Leslie Ponce-Díaz BArch 23, support for materials and internships is a valuable resource that allows her to complete projects and access opportunities that have positively impacted her experience. “Without RISD’s financial support, I would not have been able to fully pursue experiences that fall outside of the more traditional financial support. My internship allowed me to meet amazing mentors and peers at Sweet Water Foundation that have been instrumental to my personal and professional growth as a rising 5th year student in architecture with aspirations of becoming a Latina architect within my own community.”

RISD’s commitment to helping students fully embrace the RISD experience continues in Fall/Winter 2022 with the next RISD Limited Editions collection, featuring works by internationally recognized alumni artists Huma Bhabha 85 PR and Shahzia Sikander MFA 95 PT/PR. The artists have collaborated with New York master printmakers Pace Prints to produce an exclusive set of prints to be sold through Pace.

Leslie Ponce-Díaz BArch 23 working at Sweet Water Foundation in Chicago. Image courtesy of Leslie Ponce-Díaz.

“RISD’s extraordinary students will lead the creative transformations yet to come. I’m excited to do my part to ensure every student can push the boundaries of what we think is possible.”

Questions? Contact Amee Spondike , senior executive director, Museum Advancement at aspondik@risd.edu

Shahzia Sikander by Dan Gurton.

The next RISD Limited Editions sale featuring Huma Bhabha 85 PR and Shahzia Sikander MFA 95 PT/PR is scheduled for Fall/Winter 2022.

RISD Welcomes Seven New Presidential Fellows

The Society of Presidential Fellows program, which RISD launched in 2019 to fully fund exceptional students’ graduate studies, grew significantly this year with three new fellowship opportunities: the LoveFrom, Presidential Fellowship, the Jerome Zimmerman (MFA 65 SC) and Salli Zimmerman (65 AE) Fellowship and the Maxwell/Hanrahan Presidential Fellowship

The program offers robust opportunities and full support for graduate students like Zoë Pulley MFA 23 GD. Pulley, the recipient of the Hillary Blumberg (92 FAV) Presidential Fellowship, was part of the first group of presidential scholars and is on track to finish her master’s this spring. Zoë, who was asked to speak to the incoming class at the opening convocation of the 2022 academic year, gave advice to the assembled students that reflected her own approach to student life at RISD: “Take advantage of everything!” she said. “Meet all the people, do all the things and make all the stuff.”

Among those Zoë was addressing were the seven members of the third cohort of Presidential Fellows. This group brings to 23 the number of advanced degree students who have come to RISD through the program. Selected through a highly competitive process, the fellows receive faculty mentorship and career development opportunities as well as funding through the program, and add great vitality to RISD’s creative community.

Husna Swaleh Abubakar MFA 24 GD

LOVEFROM, PRESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIP BS Graphic Design & Business Management, Pensacola State College

“I will be the first to receive a master’s in my family, and to be able to attain a high level of education will change the trajectory of my lineage. It sounds dramatic, but it truly has changed everything for me and how I see my future moving forward after having attended RISD.”

Husna Swaleh Abubakar was born in Mombasa, Kenya, and grew up in the United States. While pursuing her master’s degree in graphic design at RISD, she plans to use the medium of print design to explore Swahili as a cultural identity, focusing in particular on questions about pre-colonization versus modern Swahili identity. Abubakar intends to use an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating typography, print media, photography, textiles and film, and she looks forward to being part of a guiding and open environment.

All photos courtesy of the fellows except where otherwise noted.

Yasmine Awad Hassan MID 24

BUILDING TALL PRESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIP ScB Mechanical Engineering, Brown University

“Beyond exploring conventional industrial design, I’d like to understand how to collaboratively launch spaces and initiatives that dare to glimpse beyond the limiting norms and repressive politics of existing sectors.”

Yasmine Awad Hassan is an engineer and artist interested in how civic participation can democratize design practices. Having taught for several years, at RISD Yasmine will focus on developing her own practice, exploring how affective computing and art might give voice to underrepresented populations through narrative, empowering marginalized people to reshape their environments and examining how designers can create affordable, culturally-competent edu cational opportunities within formal and informal contexts.

Aaron Neal MA 23 AR

HILLARY BLUMBERG (92 FAV) PRESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIP BA Architecture and Interior Architecture, Auburn University

“Through adaptive reuse, communities can be revitalized while helping the environment and exploring a new language through architecture… Instead of a community changing overnight, a more gradual change will benefit the existing residents. By separating the shell from the program, communities can be stitched back together.”

Aaron Neal is deeply concerned about urban expansion and sprawl, and the impact those phenomena have on African American urban communities. He intends to explore the use of light, transparency and redundancy within interior spaces to allow communities to rewrite their futures through adaptive reuse. Rather than have a space be defined by a single function, Neal values spaces that can adapt to different uses so a range of meaningful experiences can be had within the shell of a building.

Now in its third year, the Society of Presidential Fellows program continues to grow with three new fellowships for artists and creators pursuing graduate degrees at RISD.

Boluwatife Promise Oyediran MFA 24 PT

HILLARY BLUMBERG (92 FAV) PRESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIP BFA Painting and Graphics, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo, Nigeria

“As I consider working at Rhode Island School of Design, my work and life experience give me confidence. I am as much a writer as I am a painter; I express ideas that I cannot visually represent on canvas in forms of short stories.”

Boluwatife Promise Oyediran is a writer and painter working primarily with figuration and text. His practice is informed by a deep commitment to reimagining and reorienting Blackness in the canons of history, religion and Western art, using cotton as an essential symbol of interrogation. Currently at work on his first novel, Oyediran is excited to join the literary and creative community at RISD and Brown, and is looking forward to a rigorous studio experience, mentorship opportunities, critique and interdisciplinary explorations.

Shey ‘Rí Acu’ Rivera Ríos MA 23 GAC

MAXWELL/HANRAHAN PRESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIP BA Psychology and Sociology, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

“As time passes, we continue to see the strong impact of art, culture, narrative, and storytelling as drivers of social transformation. I’m a ‘weaver’ and a ‘creator’, with a goal of aligning people across sectors and identities to make sense of our society, envision new possibilities, co-create liberatory systems, and center care-based practices. I’m passionate about the connections between culture, self-determination, and civic infrastructure.”

Shey ‘Rí Acu’ Rivera Ríos is an interdisciplinary artist, community organizer and cultural strategist whose educational background includes graduate studies in contemporary media and culture at the University of Sagrado Corazón in San Juan. Having worked for 12 years in the arts, Ríos is passionate about helping communities and artists realize justice through creative practice with a social impact. Their practice is informed by the frameworks of design justice principles, participatory action research and critical race theory, and centers storytelling and agency over one’s narrative to find a path toward decolonization.

Photo by Cat Laine, Painted Foot Studio.

Anuj Malla MFA 24 FD

PRESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIP BFA Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art

“My goal is to learn more advanced skills and techniques to elevate my work from experimental furniture to products with high quality of consideration. I want to produce one-of-a-kind objects with potential for small-scale production.”

Anuj Malla is fascinated by the history of everyday objects and the way mass production of such objects strips them of flaws, and therefore of qualities that he sees as essential to the human experience. His works include objects like a chair made out of a playground slide and part of a wicker chair, a mismatch of parts that provokes frustration and discomfort as users struggle to make the chair conform to their expectations. Anuj describes his approach to furniture design as congruent with how he approaches installations; he considers installation a space to explore ideas in the abstract where he is free to be highly experimental and intuitive.

Angie Zou MFA 24 IL

HILLARY BLUMBERG (92 FAV) PRESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIP BS Neuroscience, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

“I’ve found that my way of touching hands between my multicultural experience and the mainstream culture is through the confluence of illustration with new media. …Art has always been the vehicle I use to achieve greater freedom, connection and understanding.”

Angie Zou makes art rooted in her experience growing up in a polygynous Chinese, Hmong and Cambodian household in suburban Michigan. In her work, she strives to cross the boundaries of age, language and socioeconomic barriers. At RISD, Angie plans to devote herself to deepening the poetic narrative of her illustrations and build her understanding of critical theory. She also plans to investigate practices in printmaking, textile design, 3D design and painting to create multimedia art that carries greater conceptual and historical complexity.

If you would like more information about how you can support graduate students through the Society of Presidential Fellows, please contact O’Neil Outar, vice president of Institutional Advancement at ooutar@risd.edu or 401 454-6532.

Finding His Place

Matthew Fabrizio 23 IL cannot remember a time in his life when he did not want to be an artist. With the help of two scholarships, he has found a community and new avenues for his art at RISD.

“Even when I was little, my only thought as to what I wanted to do in the future was to be an artist,” he said. “So, when it came time to apply to colleges, the only ones I applied to were art and design schools.”

Well before he graduated from high school in Mendham, New Jersey, Fabrizio was familiar with RISD, both by reputation and because he had visited several times while an older cousin was enrolled. He said it was a “no-brainer” to choose RISD after he was accepted, especially with the help of two scholarships, the Grand Long Holdings Ltd. Scholarship and the Susan W. Dryfoos and the JRS Dryfoos Charitable Lead Trust Scholarship

“The scholarships allow me to be in this environment and pursue my dream of attending this school,” Fabrizio said. Initially interested in graphic design, Fabrizio chose to major in illustration after touring the Illustration Studies Building.

“I thought it looked like a great place to create art,” Fabrizio said. “The studios, the senior cubicles, the painting studios and workshops, it just looked like a place where you could do almost anything.”

At RISD, Fabrizio has experimented with digital tools and explored new styles, building on a fine arts background that, prior to college, helped him make artwork he describes as traditional. Currently, he is experimenting with a version of background art—the background against which the action of animated characters takes place—that is inspired by a midcentury cartoon vibe, like Warner Brothers Cartoons’ Looney Tunes. But rather than just support a foreground narrative, Fabrizio’s works are designed to stand alone. The format allows him to dispense with “fine arts worries,” he says.

“Perspective is just out the window, lighting making sense is out the window, things being parallel is all out the window too. It’s really just about having fun and making mistakes that turn into a very interesting element in a finished piece,” Fabrizio said.

Fabrizio’s work has also been influenced by his summer 2022 internship at Hasbro, where he was a graphic design intern in the publishing department. “It was a wonderful experience,” Fabrizio said. “ I learned so much about working in a corporate environment. Lending the things I learned at RISD to that setting was just really fun, and it inspired me to do a lot more with my own personal work. I loved that position a lot, and I’m kind of upset that it ended,” he said.

Fabrizio said his internship, the “giant selection” of classes and great professors have helped him find his path at RISD, but “talking to friends, talking to artists and collaborating with them is the number one thing that will help you figure out what you want to do.”

“Even if a rambling conversation doesn’t have to do with art, it often inspires some sort of art,” Fabrizio said. “It just feels like a magical moment where you wake up the next day, and you think, wow, that meaningless conversation is going to help me in this next drawing.”

Fabrizio’s comfort at RISD is something that developed over time. Having grown up in a small, close-knit community surrounded by his large family—Fabrizio is a triplet, with siblings at the University of Rhode Island and the University of South Carolina—adjusting to life at an urban art college took some doing.

“The senior cubicles, the painting studios and workshops. . . [RISD] just looked like a place where you could do almost anything.”

“RISD is a generous community. It’s a beautiful art community and, at the same time, it’s a very wacky, crazy place,” he said. Fabrizio said he does not think of himself as wacky, but as “an average guy that is talented at art,” and that is all he needed to thrive at RISD—that, the community he built here, and the scholarships that brought him here. “I wouldn’t have met the friends that have helped me so much without this generosity,” he said. “That’s been a huge factor.”

Framing the Discussion

Support from a scholarship gives Sofía Carrera-Britten FAV 23 the freedom to articulate his creative vision.

When Sofía Carrera-Britten 23 FAV was working on his junior year project, a complex and ambitious single channel video that investigated the idea of love and what gets in the way of it, the 16-millimeter film stock he was using got tangled inside a malfunctioning camera. Over the course of the project, which involved choreography, multimedia and surreal dream sequences, many things had gone wrong, but at that moment, managing a live set and crew of his peers on a rainy night, Carrera-Britten considered throwing in the towel. His cinematographer, Olivia Schroeder 23 FAV, gently reminded him that it was an old camera, there were other nights and the crew would stick with him until he finished the film.

That kind of peer support, and the effort so many RISD students are making to create community and collaboration, Carrera-Britten said, is central to his experience at RISD.

“I am only doing what I’m doing and I only feel that I can do what I’m doing because I am surrounded by other people who are showing me the way, showing me the possibilities and starting communities,” he said.

In high school in Portland, Oregon, Carrera-Britten made art but felt like he was doing so in a vacuum. RISD’s Experimental and Foundation Studies first-year program helped him get on the same footing as his peers and become accustomed to exposing his art to others in a rigorous environment. Now, he said, he makes art that is in dialogue with everything around it.

Initially interested in a host of possible majors, CarreraBritten chose Film/Animation/Video (FAV) with a concentration in Literary Arts and Studies after poring over the course catalog listings for every department that interested him. A gifted writer attuned to language, CarreraBritten was taken with the film history course title “Time, Light and Sound,” which he said is “just a really a beautiful way to frame a discussion of film history,” and by the fact that FAV was a space “where language is so present, through the

dialogue of a movie, but also the way that we talk about it and the way that we make it.”

“Another reason I love film is that it’s almost impossible to create a film on your own,” Carrera-Britten said. “A film will be much stronger when you make it with other people.”

Even Carrera-Britten’s generative process is collaborative. He and a friend developed an exercise where they identify three points: what the project is about, what it is and what it is made of—for example a book about masculinity incorporating hair. He then destabilizes that by changing either the material, the topic or the format. He measures projects’ success not by whether he has executed a particular plan but by what he discovers along the way.

When Carrera-Britten talks about his artmaking, his thoughtfulness and openness to discovery is striking. That level of engagement is made possible in part by the Kira M. Fischer Memorial Scholarship, which he has received for the last two years.

“For a very long time I’ve been concerned about finances,” Carrera-Britten said. “People in similar economic circumstances can sympathize with the amount of mental energy it takes up in day-to-day life. The concern oscillates between longer-term, large-scale things and day-to-day things like groceries. It’s exhausting.”

The scholarship allows him to concentrate on his work and eases the burden on his parents, who are helping pay for school. The scholarship was created in memory of Kira M. Fischer 03* FAV and Carrera-Britten said he is grateful to follow in Fischer’s footsteps as a RISD student alongside peers who take the attitude that “it’s actually really cool to love things instead of feigning indifference, to just be really open about how obsessed you are with life,” he said. “I’m very grateful to the people that are here right now, doing that work.”

“Another reason I love film is that it’s almost impossible to create a film on your own,” Carrera-Britten said. “A film will be much stronger when you make it with other people.”

Building a Community

Within a network of peers open to collaborating, Josephine and Bernard Chaus Scholar Sahara Clemons 23 AP has found the projects that speak to her.

When Sahara Clemons 23 AP first toured RISD, she was

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apparel facilities and the many tools, like laser cutters, available to students.

She liked that Providence was a good mix of her hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia and New York City—a combination of the familiar and the exciting. But what may have cemented her decision to come to RISD was a cookie.

“I’m allergic to a lot of things, and the Met had vegan chocolate chip cookies the day I visited so I was like, okay, this is the place,” Clemons said, laughing. “This must be destiny.” Also important to Clemons, who was awarded the Bernard and Josephine Chaus Scholarship, was feeling that RISD believed in her.

“Something I really appreciated when opening that scholarship letter was that others feel confident in my trajectory in and beyond college,” Clemons said.

Clemons grew up painting, drawing and sewing. Starting at age seven, she took classes at a sewing shop in her hometown and learned to make apparel. At RISD, she considered majoring in painting or textiles, but chose apparel after realizing she could incorporate elements of those disciplines into apparel, which offered something extra as a wearable artform.

“The one thing I was missing in painting and textiles was that intimate quality the audience experiences with my work. When I make a garment, I can see someone wear it and it becomes alive on the wearer,” Clemons said. “I can see it in motion on the body.”

Clemons said she enjoys the math, pattern-making, trial and error and problem-solving apparel requires, and values being part of a community where she can explore multiple disciplines and learn from peers. “If I don’t have the full skills or the full knowledge necessary for work associated with one major, there are people here that are friendly and want to build something together,” she said.

Building things can range from collaborative projects to essential support networks. Clemons’ friends helped her feel like she had a family on campus during the strange

early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and friends contributed to a major project during her sophomore year in which she responded to an open-ended prompt to create a garment specific to her identity. Clemons wanted to explore traditional Black hairstyles, specifically braids, and made a corset and skirt out of synthetic pink braided hair. A Film/ Animation/Video major made a video featuring the garments, and incorporated recorded comments from Clemons’ friends.

“I was able to have a share circle with the Black women that I’ve met here at RISD and have a two-hour conversation with them that was recorded, discussing our dilemmas and laying out how Black hair has affected us, how being a Black woman has affected us walking through life. That was really powerful for me just because I hadn’t gotten to experience that,” Clemons said. “And the video itself is something I was really happy with. It was a pivotal moment at RISD.”

Another important moment for Clemons was having her first apparel piece selected for the Black Biennial, an April 2022 show that featured work by Black RISD students, staff and alumni and by Black artists and designers from the Providence area. She was honored to be included and excited to be exposed to the work of the broader community beyond RISD.

Clemons aims to spend her final year at RISD balancing studio and academic work with more deep-rooted engagement with clubs, including a Black feminist reading group, a book club and Black Artists and Designers, a studentled creative community informing and promoting Blackness and its intersections at RISD.

“If I don’t have the. . . full knowledge necessary for work associated with one major, there are people here that are friendly and want to build something together,” she said.

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A Scholarship for the Moment

Rafael de Cárdenas 96 AP likes design that speaks to the contemporary moment, and created a scholarship to support students as they pursue their own visions.

London gallery and retail space designed for jeweller Delfina Delettrez.

flourish or Brutalist restraint.

It’s these spaces, the ones that communicate something about their time and place, that most interest Rafael de Cárdenas 96 AP, founder of Rafael de Cárdenas Ltd., a 15-person firm focused on residential and commercial interiors, architecture and furniture design. “I like fashion, music and art that move quickly through culture,” says de Cárdenas. “That’s why I studied apparel. Architecture isn’t like that—often, it’s about ideas of timelessness.”

De Cárdenas pursued a career in fashion and spent five years designing for Calvin Klein before pursuing architecture and earning a master’s in the field from UCLA. But his approach to apparel remains. He explains, “I’d rather focus on something contemporary and possibly be out of fashion a few years later. I like to fingerprint culture.”

Seeing other people’s visions excites de Cárdenas, whether it’s brainstorming sessions with his team or visiting places that inspire him, like Los Angeles’ Bradbury Building, a 19th century commercial space he appreciates for its atmospheric, moody interior.

He created the Rafael de Cárdenas (96 AP) Scholarship for RISD students studying apparel or architecture and exploring what their designs can say to and about the world. The new fund fits in with his support for organizations that address hunger, education and LGBTQ rights, all of which, de Cárdenas says, are ultimately about access and equity.

“Access to education is like food security. It’s a necessity. As much as there is to be learned from the ‘school of life,’ connecting with peers and educators can be so nourishing and perspective-expanding. Through these relationships, in particular, anyone stands to discover the world anew, endlessly—and that’s invaluable,” he explains.

There is a lot out there for students to explore, if they have the chance, and this new scholarship fund intends to provide students with just that opportunity. De Cárdenas is gratified by architecture’s increasing diversity and embrace of multidisciplinarity, both of which he says make the field infinitely richer and more interesting.

“How many different kinds of music are there? How many different kinds of cuisine?” he asks. “And then, how many different kinds of buildings? Embracing cultural differences brings about a more dynamic architectural language.”

As for multidisciplinarity, it has deep roots—he points out that da Vinci and Michelangelo were architects, among their many vocations—that haven’t always been embraced. But RISD graduates are multidisciplinary by nature and students are increasingly seeing that reflected in the curriculum.

“When I think of all the people that I know from RISD, I see them doing different things, related but not directly tied to their major. Opening departments up to a more multidisciplinary way of thinking is the future. It’s really a pleasure to see how RISD has begun to contextualize those disciplines and break down boundaries,” he says.

Out of all the things he appreciated about his time at RISD— the city of Providence, or a slice from Fellini’s, say—the best part was the people. He says, “My favorite thing about RISD was the community. The different kinds of people and the different worlds that they were from. I’ve always been drawn to people with backgrounds different from my own.”

The Rafael de Cárdenas Scholarship will allow more students to find their communities, and ultimately, the confidence and skill to create art and design that says something about who they are.

Buildings stand for years, decades, centuries.

Some may seem to stand out of time, but others announce their era with a Beaux-Arts

Left: Wooster Street loft interior by Jason Schmidt; right: portrait by Guillaume Gaudet.

“As much as there is to be learned from the ‘school of life,’ connecting with peers and educators can be so nourishing and perspective-expanding.”

Life and Legacy

Jerome Zimmerman MFA 65 SC played many roles. A long-time teacher. A Brooklynite who didn’t want to live anywhere but New York— until he traveled to France, enrolled in intensive language courses and discovered the joy of village living and good camembert. Husband to Salli Zimmerman 65 AE for 56 years. And, above all, a sculptor for whom making was a way of life.

Now, a fund created in his memory will make an artist’s life possible for new generations of RISD graduate students.

“He described making art as setting a problem for yourself and grappling with it over time,” Salli explains. “His work was very intricate, and people would say, ‘Well how long did it take you to make this?’ And he’d say ‘My whole life.’”

In that life, Jerome displayed a dual commitment to art and education. The son of parents who didn’t complete high school, he was grateful for the scholarship that made RISD possible and the faculty members who took students’ ideas and ambitions seriously. In his 35-year career as a professor and administrator at Long Island University’s Post campus, he viewed his students’ work with the same level of respect.

The Jerome Zimmerman (MFA 65 SC) and Salli Zimmerman (65 AE) Fellowship supports graduate students and honors Jerome’s fierce dedication to his practice.

Photos courtesy of Salli Zimmerman.

“Teaching was not secondary to his art practice, it was a corollary,” says Salli, who also made a career in art education. “It was important to him to show students that making art was something that was real, something that was serious.”

In retirement, the Zimmermans began spending more time at their home and studios in southern France. It was there that they began conversations about how they could continue to support generations of students. When Jerome became ill, and, in 2021, passed away, friends and family were not able to be there due to pandemic travel restrictions. Many were eager to find a way to memorialize his life, including Salli’s brother, Michael Putziger, and his former spouse, Myrna Putziger, who were close friends to Jerome. Like Salli, they knew that art and art education was his legacy.

The three joined together to create the Jerome Zimmerman (MFA 65 SC) and Salli Zimmerman (65 AE) Fellowship, which supports a RISD graduate student in Fine Arts.

In addition to this initial gift, Salli has created a bequest by including RISD in her will so that the fund will continue to grow and eventually become a Presidential Fellowship, a fellowship for highly talented graduate students.

Later, steel

RISD is the perfect place to establish Jerome’s legacy. It was, after all, where he and Salli met as students, at a dinner hosted by Hardu Keck MFA 64 PT, who would go on to serve as a chair of Foundation Studies and later, as provost.

Remembering that dinner, Salli, who grew up in Montreal, laughs and says, “I swore I’d never date a man from Brooklyn!” But despite her reservations, the sculpture student and the painting student found a deep connection and married not long after graduation. They settled in Jerome’s beloved New York, where he started his career at Post and Salli attended graduate school at Pratt Institute before becoming a faculty member at Nassau Community College.

Salli believes that creating the fund is the best way to honor her husband’s life and passion. “Jerome had a number of exhibitions,” she says, “but that wasn’t his reason for making art. It was the way he expressed himself. The best way to describe it is that Jerome thought that making art was the most important thing in his life. And he was very aware of how being a RISD graduate student made that possible.”

“His work was very intricate, and people would say, ‘Well how long did it take you to make this?’ And he’d say ‘My whole life.’”

Jerome and Salli, who met at a dinner party at RISD, were married for 56 years.

Jerome’s RISD yearbook photo (above) shows his early work with plywood.

was the primary material he used in his non-representational sculptures.

A Lifetime of Giving

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You never know what can happen until you ask. You might start out at a dentist’s office and end up meeting Frank Lloyd Wright. During the Second World War, a then-single Gloria Winston was visiting her brother-in-law, a dentist who treated soldiers stationed in Madison, Wisconsin, when he asked a soldier to take her out on a date. That soldier turned out to be the famous architect’s apprentice, and he took Winston to Taliesen, Wright’s home, studio and school (and now a UNESCO World Heritage site), where Wright showed Winston his drawing book containing his designs for the Guggenheim Museum.

decades of volunteering and a new bequest, Gloria Winston deepens the RISD Museum’s connection to the community.

Winston laughs recalling this turn of events, saying, “Well, I have had a long life, and I’m curious about anything and everything.”

Winston’s life is and has been characterized by asking— asking herself and others to give their time and resources to support their community, build institutions and create opportunities. “I was brought up this way,” Winston said of her commitment to volunteering, which her mother instilled in her and her sisters. “Volunteerism was always a way of life.”

Winston’s volunteerism has had a striking impact at RISD and the RISD Museum. With her late husband, James, who was a RISD Trustee from 1982 to 1996, she helped establish the Winston Clock Tower in Homer Hall. A Providence native, she has been a RISD Museum member since childhood and a longtime volunteer with the Museum Associates, who host museum events and support its annual fund, as well as a member of the Radeke Circle, a group of the museum’s most loyal members and supporters who strengthen the museum’s core curatorial, educational and community activities. In the 1970s, she reached out to people all over the state to support the first capital fund drive for the museum.

“The thing is, it may be the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, but it really is the museum of the state,” Winston said, “so the whole community should support this museum.”

Winston has also worked to ensure that the museum serves the community through public programming. With her husband, she established the James W. and Gloria M. Winston Scholarship at the RISD Museum, which for 30 years has supported art education programs at the museum for local K-12 students. Those programs include RISD Art Circle (RAC), which enables a group of young artists and art enthusiasts to explore the collection, activate the museum galleries through events, interpretative projects and community collaborations, as well as summer programs, family programs and artist studio show-and-tell events.

“Any outreach program specifically for children gives them an opportunity to experience something they never would’ve had the opportunity for otherwise,” Winston said. “These programs are sometimes the only option they have to see and touch real art.”

Winston values the museum collection for the way it allows visitors to engage with global culture. As a child, she loved the Buddha Mahavairocana, a twelfth-century wooden sculpture at the museum, and when asked about the collections, that piece leapt to her mind first. Visiting the Buddha has also been her way of introducing her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to the museum. Having traveled widely, Winston learned about the places she visited through museums, galleries and cathedrals. “That’s how you see what the world looks like,” she said.

Through her scholarship fund, young people can both learn about art on a global scale and, particularly through the RAC, partner with the museum to diversify the collection and incorporate community voices into its acquisition and curatorial practices.

Recently, Winston decided to join the Jesse + Helen Rowe Metcalf Society by including RISD as a beneficiary in her will and adding significantly to the James W. and Gloria M. Winston Scholarship at the RISD Museum. Winston has given her time and resources to many community and cultural institutions, including Providence’s Miriam Hospital, Butler Hospital, Trinity Repertory Company, Rhode Island’s Camp JORI and others, and she says building her commitment over time has been important.

“You may start with something, just a little at first,” she said, “but it grows through the years and becomes something big. It’s been exciting for me to see how our RISD Museum has grown to be world-renowned.”

If you are interested in learning more about gift planning at RISD, please contact Rebecca Dupras, senior planned giving officer at rdupras@risd.edu or 401 427-3151.

“Any outreach program specifically for children gives them an opportunity to experience something they never would’ve had the opportunity for otherwise.”

Tech Trek Takes RISD Students to the Heart of the Bay Area’s Tech Sector

With donor support and the help of alumni volunteers, RISD students get up close and personal with major players in tech.

These are some of the many questions RISD students hoped to answer by participating in Tech Trek, a weeklong career development program held in late August that provided 20 undergraduate and graduate students with the opportunity to explore the tech industry and culture in the Bay Area. Helping guide them were over 38 RISD alumni—with graduation years ranging from 1979 to 2021— who volunteered their time and resources so students could better understand what it looks like to be a creative in tech.

Alumni including RISD in Tech affinity group co-leaders

Jonathan Arena 09 GD, director of design at Patreon, and Mike Neff 04 PH, director of product design at UserTesting, arranged on-site visits for the students at Googleplex, Patreon, Airbnb, Figma, Meta and Y Combinator.

They also hosted portfolio reviews, panels with alumni and networking opportunities.

“I don’t think I’ve come across another experience like this where you can get such a broad spectrum of insights,” Arena said, noting that the trip included learning about “some of the largest companies on the planet,” as well as newer, smaller companies.

Tech Trek is offered through a partnership between the RISD Alumni Association, the RISD in Tech alumni affinity group, the RISD Alumni Club of San Francisco and the RISD Career Center. It was powered by a gift from a RISD parent and additional support from donors |that covered all student costs, including travel.

“This unique exposure offers a holistic view of the industry,” said Susan Andersen, associate director of the RISD Career Center. “Students learn what it takes to be successful as a recent graduate in tech, how to engage with these companies for job and internship opportunities and how to develop and grow a network of industry professionals and mentors that will support students’ success as emerging professionals.”

What are the working habits of creatives who work in tech? What are the company values that shape how decisions are made? What makes a candidate stand out when applying for a job at a major tech company?

Students visiting Meta. Photo by Kate Sawicki.

In a recent survey of the top 10 employers of alumni, five were technology firms. Arena said the journey after graduating from RISD can be challenging, and as the tech industry has grown larger and more complex in recent years, Tech Trek offers a way to explore the powerful connection between alumni and students and offer a roadmap that was not available to him as he was starting out.

“Those connections for students can be invaluable and can really give them a head start, information and access to opportunity that continues beyond their RISD experience,” he said. “It can make their entrance into the professional world a lot more hospitable and easier to navigate.”

For Ju Yeon JoAnne Lee 23 TX, getting to know the personality, environment and atmosphere of each company was exciting. While it was fun to see trees growing inside (Meta) or learn about perks like on-site massages (Google), most valuable to Lee was the chance to connect with both alumni and her peers, with whom she would stay up talking until midnight after each day’s programming.

“Most memorable trips or experiences come from the people you meet,” Lee said. “And the fact that we already have this connection of being from RISD, the conversation was just so easy… the alumni were able to understand where I was coming from and give great advice and mentoring that will help me navigate my career.”

For Lee, that included talking with an alumna who develops sustainable textiles for athletic wear about Lee’s own work in that area and what the future may hold for the sector overall. Lee also got advice on the best way to publish—and protect—her research on fabrics that incorporate emerging technologies.

Lee said that like many artists, she has made a habit of sharing her work openly. However, because she is developing novel textiles that incorporate multifunctional fibers, including fibers with wires and chips that enable

Building a Bridge

Many RISD alumni volunteered their time, energy and resources to make Tech Trek a great experience for students.

Sarah Adeel MIA 09

Carolina Amiguet 06 ID

Jonathan Arena 09 GD

John Armitage MFA 89 GD

Shannon Badiee 06 PR

Sonia Baltodano 09 FD

Mitchell Benjamin BArch 86

Chetan Dusane MID 21

Shona Dutta 04 GD

Joe Gebbia 05 ID/GD HD 17

Suzanne Geneste de Besme 04 PT

Amy Gregg 92 GD

Angela Guzman 06 ID/MFA 09 GD

Arthur Harsuvanakit 09 ID

Jennifer Hom 09 IL

Nate Kendrick 98 GD

Marvin Kim BArch 05

Sungmin Kim-Arena 09 ID

Valantyn Koziak 18 SC

Nick Kraly 93 IL

April Kuo 04 GD

Andrew Liebchen MArch 09

Lee Lippert BArch 79

Yomi Matsouka 91 ID

Mike Neff 04 PH

Mauricio Ortega BArch 88

Brian Park 17 ID

Tommy Park 14 ID

Herbert Pretel 81 SC

Andrew Sawyer 11 GD

Beth Soucy 13 ID

Erika Tarte MFA 11 GD

Jennifer A. Van Der Straaten 96 GD

Sylvia Vaquer 05 GD

Dino Yoon 14 ID

Marilyn Yu 97 SC

Roger Zhu MID 12

Jared Zimmerman 06 GD

“Those connections for students can be invaluable and can really give them a head start, information and access to opportunity that continues beyond. . . [RISD].”

audio or photo memory storage, the issue of proprietary knowledge and credit is increasingly important. Having an alumna advise on best practices gave her an immediate path forward.

On the trip with Lee was Jon Chen 23 SC, who is pursuing a concentration in Computation, Technology and Culture, where students assess the history and theory of computational platforms and technology and learn how to code, create software and program machines for making works of art and design.

Chen originally was slated to go on Tech Trek in 2020, when the program had to be canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They took a year off and worked at Google Creative Lab. Chen has also interned with the Research and Development team at The New York Times, exploring how emerging technologies can be applied in service of journalism, and with the creative firm Something Special Studios.

“This year, going on Tech Trek came as a huge surprise and I was fortunate enough to have experienced two and a half years of growth in between [the planned program and the actual trip],” Chen said. In addition to visiting companies and engaging with panels on subjects like artificial intelligence, students were encouraged to ask themselves big questions about their future and their motivation.

“Do you want to play a direct role in shaping the software that people use? Do you want to help people imagine the future? Do you want to get involved in the ethics and the psychology of tech? The sooner you learn what you want your place and role to be, the sooner you can realize what your place in the tech industry might be,” Arena said. “This was an opportunity to help students think that through.”

Looking ahead, Chen said they are not sure what path they will take after graduation. “But this trip has given me enough perspective to understand that the future of my work can contain multitudes regardless of the specific journey,” Chen said.

For Arena, Tech Trek is a model not just for tech but for other alumni-student career development programs. “If we keep pushing and keep exploring, what could Tech Trek turn into? That is what I’m most excited about. Tech Trek could evolve into different disciplines,” he said, like fashion, filmmaking or other industries, “and could be really an amazing window into building that strong bridge between RISD alums and the industries that we chooseto work in.”

Lee said that, if she were not graduating in May, she would sign up for Tech Trek again. “Honestly, if someone asked, ‘what was your most memorable RISD experience?’ Tech Trek would be the top,” Lee said.

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“Most memorable trips or experiences come from the people you meet,” Lee said.

. the alumni were able to understand where I was coming from and give great advice and mentoring that will help me navigate my career.”

Photo by Kate Sawicki.

In the fall semester of her junior year, Ju Yeon JoAnne Lee 23 TX began thinking about her senior show and asked herself what it means to be a textile designer. Lee, who is pursuing a concentration in Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies alongside her textiles major, was keenly aware of textile manufacturing’s negative environmental impact, from microfibers and chemical fabric finishers that pollute water systems to the waste produced each year by garments that do not decompose when discarded.

Thinking about how to make people value clothes more instead of wearing clothes for one season and throwing them out, Lee said she began experimenting with making

multifunctional clothing with computing capabilities. If clothing could shapeshift, have architectural properties or perform functions associated with smartphones, that clothing might not be thought of as disposable. Lee took the course “Computing Fabrics,” which RISD is co-developing with MIT, and where fabric materials are considered part of a computational environment.

Now, Lee is a teaching assistant for Yoel Fink, the MIT materials science professor who leads the course. She has worked on fabric that responds to a pneumatic composite and that can “inflate,” and envisions possibilities for textiles with architectural functionality.

Lee is developing a shape-shifting knitted textile that incorporates mechanical engineering principles and computational technology. A pneumatic composite allows the fabric to inflate into a 3-dimensional shape that could potentially replace hard materials and have an architectural function.

Knitted fabric with pneumatic composite by Ju Yeon JoAnne Lee, photos courtesy of the artist.

How does one arrive at the intersection of textiles and computing, and what happens there?

Photo by Laura Stubbs.

Gifts to Endowment, Infrastructure and Program Funds

The below list recognizes donors who have made gifts of $25,000 or more to endowed and restricted funds between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022.

Anonymous

David C. Barclay P 10 T and Chet R. Barclay P 10 ∞ Michael and Pele Bennett

Hillary Blumberg 92 FAV T and Alex Ginsburg ∞ J. Scott Burns T M and Cynthia B. Burns ∞ Karen S. Butler Connell MFA 95 PR/PT and Tuey Connell ∞ Norman Chan BArch 85 T M and Susanna Kwok ∞ Joseph A. Chazan MD M

Bequest Made In Memory of Helen M.C. Kenny Murray S. Danforth, III and Judith Danforth ∞ Erica Gerard Di Bona P 11 T M and Vin Di Bona P 11 ∞

Susan Dryfoos P 01 ET ∞ Gerald N. Fandetti BArch 68 P 05 and Charlotte B. Forsythe 67 PT P 05 ∞

Fabian Fondriest P 16 T and Suzanne Fondriest P 16 ∞

Estate of Anna T. Gardner 61 TX Kim Gassett-Schiller P 14 T and Philip W. Schiller P 14 ∞ Joan Hall and Mark S. Weil ‡ ∞ Jane Ingle 80 TX ∞

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Henry Luce Foundation

The Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation Stephen A. Metcalf ET M and Ewa Metcalf M ∞ Stacey E. Nicholas P 21 T ∞

Michael Putziger

Myrna Putziger

Estate of Priscilla Randall Estate of Betty Jean Stroh 55 LA Terra Foundation for American Art Salli Zimmerman 65 AE in Memory of Jerome Zimmerman ‡ MFA 65 SC ∞

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We are pleased to recognize and celebrate those donors who have made leadership commitments to endowment, infrastructure and program funds, to the RISD Fund and to RISD’s legacy through estate and planned gifts in the 2021–2022 fiscal year.

1877 Society

Named for the year of our founding, this society honors and recognizes those who make it possible to reach our ambitious goals and respond to the most pressing needs of the college.

The 1877 Society recognizes donors’ cumulative gifts to the RISD Fund received between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022 at the following levels:

Trustees’ Circle: $25,000 or more President’s Circle: $10,000−$24,999 Deans’ Circle: $2,500−$9,999

TRUSTEES’ CIRCLE

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Bafflin Foundation

David C. Barclay P 10 T and Chet R. Barclay P 10 ∞

Estate of Merrill P. Budlong 60 AR

Fuyumi Cannon P 19 and Alan G. Cannon P 19 ∞

The Champlin Foundation ∞

Norman Chan BArch 85 T M and Susanna Kwok ∞ Rafael de Cárdenas 96 AP

Portia J. Durbin P 21 and Christopher A. Durbin P 21 ∞ Michelle Ebanks T and Gordon A. Ebanks Shepard Fairey 92 IL HD 21 T and Amanda Fairey ∞

Joya Favreau P 24 and Jonathan Favreau P 24 Cheryl Henson P 24 and Edwin Finn, Jr. P 24

Fabian Fondriest P 16 T and Suzanne Fondriest P 16 ∞ Kim Gassett-Schiller P 14 T and Philip W. Schiller P 14 ∞ Joe Gebbia 05 GD/ID HD 17 T ∞

Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation

Robert W. Glass P 11 T M and Kathleen Glass P 11 ∞

Hasbro Children’s Fund ∞

Jon Kamen P 09 T and Angela Kamen P 09 ∞

David M. K. Lee 00 GD T and Ronit Y. Lee

Douglas Lee P 91 ET

Camila Pastor and Stephen Maharam ∞

Deborah Mankiw P 23 and N. Gregory Mankiw P 23 ∞

Phoebe Meehan 52* TX ∞

Stephen A. Metcalf ET M and Ewa Metcalf M ∞

Nicole J. Miller 73 AP T M and Kim Taipale ∞

Jake Moritz MID 18 ∞

Stacey E. Nicholas P 21 T ∞

Catherine Oppenheimer P 24 Shuyang Ren

Sarah A. Sharpe BGD 94 and John Powley ∞

Target Corporation

C.L. Tillinghast Foundation ∞

Garrett Thornburg

Rex Wong BArch 03 ∞

PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE

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Martha Armstrong MAE 63 and Alan Armstrong

Jessica F. Arner P 11 and Eli Abbe P 11 ∞

Jessika Auerbach, Jonathan Auerbach, and Klara Auerbach 19* IL

Deborah L. Berke BArch 77 HD 05 and Peter McCann ∞

Nadine E. Berkowsky 67 TX and Mark A. Berkowsky BArch 69 ∞

Hillary Blumberg 92 FAV T and Alex Ginsburg ∞ Boston Scientific Corporation

Sean M. P. Cannon MArch 01 ∞

The Bonnie Cashin Fund, NYCT ∞

Ilene Chaiken 79 GD P 18 T and Louanne Brickhouse

Clara M. Dale BArch 75 ET and John D. Dale BArch 75 ∞

Erica Gerard Di Bona P 11 T M and Vin Di Bona P 11 ∞

Robert A. DiMuccio T M and Rena DiMuccio ∞

Walter Henry Freygang Foundation ∞

Dorian Goldman P 08 and Marvin Israelow P 08 ∞

Richard W. Haining, Sr. P 05 T and Catherine D. Haining P 05 ∞

Joan Hall and Mark S. Weil ‡ ∞

Karen Hammond T M and Michael A. Quattromani ∞

Natalia Howe and Michael L. Howe

Shefali Khushalani P 22 ∞

Vikram Kirloskar P 12 T and Geetanjali Kirloskar P 12 ∞

Lauren Kogod BArch 85 and David Smiley ∞

Leslie Kramer MFA 76 PR ∞

Ruth E. Lawler P 12 and Christopher P. Lawler P 12

Kyung-Eun Lee 93 AP and Jae P. Park 94 ID

Barbara Leland P 22 and Todd Leland P 22

Mary Lovejoy T and John Whistler ∞

Hope A. McCulloch 77 TX

Katherine D. Megrue-Smith 88 GD and J. Allen Smith Sonja O’Donnell P 22 and Michael O'Donnell P 22 ∞ Timothy C. Ortman P 22 and Julia A. Stewart P 22 Jae P. Park 94 ID and Kyung-Eun Lee 93 AP Michael Rock MFA 84 GD T and Susan Sellers 89 GD ∞

Elinor Sapp BID 79 ∞

William Schweizer P 19 T and Alison Martier Schweizer P 19 ∞ Susan Sellers 89 GD and Michael Rock MFA 84 GD T

Raymond N. Shick BArch 83 Georgianna Stout 89 GD P 24 and David D. Weeks 90 PT P 24 ∞

Taunton-South Shore Foundation Inc. ∞ Eduardo D. Terranova MArch 06 ∞

Textron Charitable Trust ∞ David D. Weeks 90 PT P 24 ∞ and Georgianna Stout 89 GD P 24 ∞

Fang Wu P 23 and Runsheng He P 23 ∞

The Centennial Society recognizes over 1,400 loyal donors, who have given to RISD in any amount for three consecutive years or more. These donors, who are also recognized in the following donor lists, are identified with the eternity symbol.

DEANS’ CIRCLE

Anonymous Robert Allen

Marcia Gloster Ammeen 64 IL and James Ammeen

Jeffrey G. Beers BArch 79 and Connie A. Swenie

Anthony C. Belluschi BArch 66 P 95 ET and Marti Belluschi P 95 ∞

Bruce A. Bierman BArch 76 and William Secord Guy R. Blais 57 AD ∞

Lindy Bliss-Gaylord BIA 77 and Bill Gaylord BArch 77 Adam R. Bluming 96 GD

Jane K. Bohan 79 SC and Jean R. De Segonzac 75 FAV James Bond P 25

Michael C. Booth BArch 83 and Michael Oliva David Brady P 23

Marina K. Brolin 85 GD ∞ Preston Brown P 24

Kenneth Bruce 71 AR and Cecelia (Nash) Bruce 72 PT ∞

Andrea L. Brue BArch 88 and Alan Fried ∞ Gabrielle Bullock BArch 84 T and Rocky Carroll ∞ Simone Bye P 16 and Mark L. Bye P 16 ∞

Lyndsay A. Caleo MFA 06 JM and Fitzhugh B. Karol MFA 07 CR ∞

Jean Callan King 68 GD and John S. King 68 ID ∞

Francis E. Carlson, Jr. 69 SC ∞

Katharine L. Carroll and Alison H. Rosenthal Carol A. Catalano 80 ID and Thomas P. Catalano BArch 81 Jacinda K. Chew 99 IL ∞

Donald Choi BArch 82 P 07 T and Karen Choi P 07 ∞

Esther J. Chung 97 IL and James Chung Luke E. Cohen BArch 72 Andrew M. Collar 02 GD

Rachel B. Cope 03 SC and Nicholas Cope Nancy M. Crasco 64 AE P 91 and H. Kenneth Crasco 65 LA P 91 ∞

Zara Crowley 96 PT and Steve Crowley ∞ Ryan E. Cunningham 02 FAV ∞

Sandra K. Cushman 84 PT ∞

Chelsea R. Danburg 96 TX and Asher M. Danburg 96 ID ∞ Pamela A. Danesi 77 AP ∞

David B. Daniel BArch 89 and Sally Dunkleberger ∞ Jennifer Davies 68 IL ∞

Elissa S. Della-Piana 64 IL ∞

Jean R. De Segonzac 75 FAV and Jane K. Bohan 79 SC William M. Dieter 89 ID

Francis P. DiGregorio BArch 66 and Elizabeth DiGregorio ∞ Ann W. Douden 72 IL ∞

Sarah C. Durham 92 IL and Craig M. Winer 92 ID ∞

Elizabeth C. Durling 84 PT and Dean Durling

Samuel S. Emerson BArch 71 and Linda J. Emerson ∞ Robert Emy

Ann K. Finkbeiner P 90 ∞

Becky A. Fong Hughes 05 GD and Aaron Hughes ∞

Jonathan D. Friedman 00 ID and Miriam Friedman

Nicholas P. Fuhrer 99 SC and Rebecca S. Walsh 00 IL

Michael Gabellini BFA 80/BArch 81 and Kimberly Sheppard BFA 85/BArch 86 ∞

Kyle C. Gaffney BArch 91 P 15 and Shannon M. Rankin P 15 Bill Gaylord BArch 77 and Lindy Bliss-Gaylord BIA 77

Andrea E. Gill 71 PT and John Gill

Peter Gill Case MArch 97 and Lucia Gill Case ∞

Joanna D. Golden 79 AP ∞

Carol Goldenberg Rosen 73 IL and James Rosen ∞

Ned Goodnow P 81 ∞

Tracy T. Goodnow 81 PT ∞

Judy Sue Goodwin Sturges 66 IL ∞

Gregory R. Goucher BArch 78 ∞

Amy L. Gould BArch 75 and Matthew Polk ∞

Paula Koffler Granoff HD 10 ET M and Leonard Granoff ∞

Jeffrey C. Hannoosh 00 ID and Catharine Kendall-Hannoosh

Amy Held P 24 and Jeffery Held P 24

Kerry Hoffman P 24 and Paul Hoffman P 24

Wendy R. Hollender 76 TX

Jenny Holzer MFA 77 PT

Jee-Min Hu P 12 and Chih-Tang Chang P 12

Diana Hunt P 23 and Sam Hunt P 23 ∞

Sunwoo Kahng P 23 and Peter Boberg P 23

Alice J. Kang 90 GD and Ohsang Kwon

Mark A. Kaplan 01* JM ∞

Fitzhugh B. Karol MFA 07 CR and Lyndsay A. Caleo MFA 06 JM ∞

Steven C. Kellogg 63 IL

Helen Kim P 23 and Colin Warwick P 23 ∞

KyungEn Kim MFA 97 SC and Eulho Suh BArch 91 ∞

John S. King 68 ID and Jean Callan King 68 GD ∞

Kent Kleinman ∞

Diana Dyer Knoblauch P 22 and Loring Knoblauch P 22 ∞

Joshua M. Kornfeld 95 ID

Jill G. Kraus MFA 77 JM and Peter S. Kraus

Michele Krohn P 23 ∞

Elizabeth C. Lakeman 88 GD and Martin Lakeman

Kimberly Latham P 22 and Jeffrey Bullwinkel P 22

Robert W. Lepper 58 GD ∞

Claire Levesque P 17 ∞

Alissa A. Levin 92 PT

Laura S. Lienhard 87 TX/MFA 95

Terry K. Lin 94 ID

Loren Hope Designs, LLC

Angus MacLane 97 FAV and Tashana Landray ∞

Susan M. Matthews MAT 98 and James A. Kennedy ∞

Nicholas O. Mazonowicz 01 FAV

Julie Mehretu MFA 97 PT/PR

Lucy D. Metcalf ∞

Pauline C. Metcalf ET M ∞

Richard H. Michaelson BArch 74 and Karen Karlsson ∞

Irwin S. D. Miller BArch 94 P 24 and Heidi L. Miller P 24

Arno Rafael Minkkinen MFA 74 PH and Sandra Hughes Minkkinen ∞

Antonio Molestina P 22 and Sharon McCarthy P 22 ∞

Clifford W. Moran 81 ID P 12 ∞

Aya Murata P 23 and Michael Charland P 23 ∞

Stuart J. Murphy 64 IL P 96 ET and Nancy Murphy P 96 ∞

Cherry A. Murray P 13 ∞

Dana M. Newbrook 63 AR ET and Nancy C. Newbrook ∞

Krista L. Ninivaggi BArch 02 ∞

Martha B. Nutt 85 TX

Starr Ockenga MFA 74 PH

Erin L. A. Oda 95 CR/MAT 96

Leigh F. Palmer 66 PT and Phyllis Gay Palmer 66 PT ∞

Xiangjun Pan P 23 ∞

Anthony T. Pannozzo 91 ID and Lorianne Pannozzo ∞

Laura J. Paresky Gould MAT 91 and J. Eric Gould

Dominic F. Passeri MArch 00

Thomas Peirce

Jennifer Perini P 23

Robin E. Perkins 86 GD and Cliff L. Selbert BLA 75

Shoshana Perry P 25 and Noel Wiggins P 25

Rosalie A. Phipps P 10 and Craig A. Stock ∞

Lisa E. Piasecki 99 GD and Eric Piasecki ∞

Amy V. Quirk P 11 and Michael P. Lehmann P 11 ∞

Ellen G. Reeves

Victoria W. Reynolds 85 JM and Thomas H. Reynolds ∞

Sally E. Rigg MArch 95 and David P. Baker ∞

Judi Roaman ∞

Robert Half International, Inc. ∞

Francis M. Roche 60 AR ∞

Alicia Rosauer 99 PH and Robert G. Segal MFA 99 TX ∞

Lisa C. Sachs BArch 80 and John Sachs

Luke Sanzone BLA 98 ∞

Stephanie D. Savage BArch 91 P 21 and Michael S. Swischuk P 21

Robert J. Schaeffner BArch 81 and Jennifer Schaeffner

Sharon Lee Driscoll Schuur 90 IL and Peter F. Schuur ∞

Carole Segal P 99 and Gordon I. Segal P 99 ∞

Robert G. Segal MFA 99 TX and Alicia Rosauer 99 PH ∞

Cliff L. Selbert BLA 75 and Robin E. Perkins 86 GD

Brian P. Selznick 88 IL and David Serlin ∞

Peggy B. Sharpe 53 LA P 94 and Henry D. Sharpe‡ P 94 ∞ Merrill W. Sherman ET ∞

Thomas M. Sieniewicz BArch 83 and Martha Eddison

Linda G. Smith 69 GD ∞

Ann L. Solomon-Schwartz 70 IL ∞ Rosanne Somerson 76 ∞

Keum An Son P 23 and Jeong Gu Kang P 23 Mingyuan Song P 22 and Shanming Shi P 22 ∞

Donald R. Stanton and Jeanne Stanton

Janet C. Stegman BArch 78 ∞

Supima Cotton

Roland V. Sturm P 17 and Terri E. Sturm P 17 ∞

Alexander Y. Suh 96 GD ∞

Eulho Suh BArch 91 and KyungEn Kim MFA 97 SC ∞

Michiko Tanikawa P 22 and Dihua Hu P 22

Ann Taylor P 00 and Carole D. Smith

Abigail B. Test 84 PT

Harold H. Tittmann, IV BArch 95

Mara Topping P 24 and Munford Topping P 24 ∞

Peter W. Twombly BArch 80 and Jane Franke ∞

Donna B. Tyson P 08 and Alan L. Tyson P 08 ∞

Lida Urban P 93 and Theodore S. Urban P 93 ∞

Tao B. Urban 93 PT ∞

Aundra Urban Tomlins ∞

Kimberly Van Munching P 23 and Christopher Van Munching P 23 ∞

Caroline E. Vary BArch 95 and William C. Lee

Rebecca S. Walsh 00 IL and Nicholas P. Fuhrer 99 SC

Craig M. Winer 92 ID and Sarah C. Durham 92 IL ∞

Helga S. Warren P 11 and Harry A. Warren P 11 ∞

Jennifer W. White 01 PH and Geoff Duckworth ∞

Patricia A. White 64 IL P 96 ET ∞

Catherine Witherwax P 25 and Robert Witherwax P 25

Judith L. Wolfe 66 PT ∞

Christi Work ∞

James R. Wynn 98 GD and Mandy Wynn

Xiaohong Zheng P 24 and Qing Wang P 24

Jesse + Helen Rowe Metcalf Society

Named for two of RISD’s founders whose vision and legacy have blossomed into the institution we hold dear today, the Metcalf Society honors and recognizes our planned giving donors.

Anonymous

David Armstrong Abercrombie 61 IA ∞

Marcia Gloster Ammeen 64 IL

Richard A. Ansaldi BArch 69

Daria Askari 05 PH and Ryan Hart ∞

Roberta Ayotte 58 TX and Robert Ayotte‡ 58 ID

Marc Balet BArch 71

Anthony C. Belluschi BArch 66 P 95 ET and Marti Belluschi P 95 ∞

Deborah L. Berke BFA 75/BArch 77 HD 05 ∞

Flavia Blechinger 64 GD

Lindy Bliss Gaylord BIA 77 and Bill Gaylord BArch 77

Alexander Brebner 81 GD

Paula Briggs 78 GD P 86 and Philip Briggs‡ BArch 64 P 86

Deborah Bright

Edgar Broadhead 58 TX ∞

David A. C. Carroll 69 LA/BLA 70

Joseph A. Chazan MD M

Laurie Chronley

Jeffrey Cohen 84 GD

Luke E. Cohen BArch 72

Cheryl A. Comai

Robert D. Corwin 76* PH

Francis DiGregorio BArch 66 ∞

Stephen A. Earle 82 TX

Curtis E. Estes 78 AR ∞

Ann K. Finkbeiner P 90 ∞

Michael Fior 69 IA

Kathryn G. Freed 75 * TX

Mimi Freeman and Peter B. Freeman ‡ Judith A. Funkhouser 63 IL P 89

Kenneth Gaulin 65 ID

Glenn A. Gissler BArch 84

Siena Gissler

Barbara S. Goldstein BArch 71 ∞

Joy Kurts Hallinan

The Hammond/Quattromani Fund

Mary M. Haynes 55 PT

Nathaniel T. Hesse 76 SC

Jane Ingle 80 TX ∞

Michael Koch 87 TX and Andrew Kohler

Joseph L. Kremer BArch 73

Elizabeth Lakeman 88 GD

Ruth B. Lee 49 AP

Ida Ballou Littlefield Endowment

Joan Matter Longobardi 59 AE ∞

Dennis Mabry 98 GD/BID 99

Carol H. Marsland 59 TX ∞

Miriam Marsters

Dianne L. Martin 65 PT ∞

Richard H. Michaelson BArch 74 ∞

Anne F. Morse 97 GD

Alan Nathan M

Wendy A. Northup 80 TX P 12

Suzanne M. Packer-McGarr 59 GD

Jutta-Annette Page PhD MAE 86

Bernard Palchick MFA 71 SC and Lisa Larson Palchick 68 PT ∞

Nancy J. Parkinson

Elena Pascarella BLA 75

David K. Rasweiler BArch 74

Rayon Foundation

Rosalyn Richards 69 PT ∞

Allison S. Roberts MFA 09 PR

Christina E. Rodriguez 03 IL

Leslie Saul BArch 77

Irving C. Sheldon, Jr. and Katherine M. Sheldon ‡

Oren S. Sherman 78 IL

John W. Smith

Linda Taraborelli Smith 69 GD ∞

Meredith C. Smith 71 AP/MAT 72 and Douglas A. Smith

Patricia Manley Smith P 76 and H. William Smith ‡ Alise Spinella 04 PT

Molly Rice Symons MAE 91

Judith E. Tannenbaum

Mary Taschner 64 IA ∞

Thomas G. Taylor

Betsy Taylor-Kennedy BArch 83 ∞

Philip E. Tobey BArch 66 ET and Pamela B. Tobey 68 AE ∞

Patricia Wilkie Warwick 66 GD

Bree Westphal 11 IL

Richard E. White 69 SC

Alex Williams 06 FD ∞

Elizabeth A. Williams

Gloria Winston

Alan C. Witschonke 75 IL ∞

Karol B. Wyckoff 58 IL

Salli Zimmerman 65 AE and Jerome Zimmerman‡ MFA 65 SC

Linda Zindler

Dolores L. Zompa ∞

Estate of Bayard Ewing HD 83 and Harriet Ewing 39* PT

Estate of Barnet Fain and Jean Fain

Estate of Anna T. Gardner 61 TX

Estate of Ann Gellman

Estate of Leonore Gerlach 37 AE

Estate of Abbott Gleason P 00

Estate of Dolores Glovna AP 49 and Steve Glovna

Estate of Mae Godfrey

Estate of Mary Jane Green

Estate of Sidney Greenwald HD 07

Estate of Virginia Gresham

Estate of Frederick Griffiths

Estate of Elizabeth Guny

Estate of William H. Habicht P 84

Estate of Eleanore Hadley 49 AP

Estate of Phyllis Hamabe

Estate of Mary Olds Hartman 44

Estate of Paul Harvey 52* GD

Estate of Hao Hoang BArch 88

Estate of Angela Minet

Estate of Leslie Moore 59 Arch

Estate of Anne Morrison 65 GD Estate of John Moses 53 IA

Estate of Jane S. Murray Estate of Dorothy Oborne Estate of Gretchen Orr 57 TX

Estate of F. Suzanne Parlette

Estate of Herbert Pell 69 ID P 00

Estate of John Perrino 48 ID

Estate of Mary B. Polk 43 AP

Estate of Elizabeth Pollard

Estate of Crimilda Pontes 48 AD

Estate of Norris Prentice 32 Arch

Estate of Jane Prouty MAT 71

Estate of Priscilla Randall

Estate of William Reeves

Estate of Cornelius C. Richard, Jr. 55 SC

Estate of Elizabeth Richardson Estate of David Rockefeller

Estate of George B. Rome 62 IA

Estate of Stephen T. Alexieff 58 ID

Estate of John Allen BArch 68

Estate of Marion Almy Estate of Nancy Angier

Estate of Richard Baker HD 78

Estate of Benita Berlind Fry-Delarm Estate of Selma Bernstingle

Estate of Luigi Bianco 69 TX

Estate of Helen Bigelow

Estate of Gail Paige Bolger

Estate of Philip Briggs BArch 64 P 86

Estate of Merrill P. Budlong 60 AR

Estate of Helen Byram 37 * AP

Estate of John Carter P 85

Estate of Julie A. Carter 50 IL P 85

Estate of Elizabeth Casey Estate of Margaret Cavigga

Estate of Esther Chester 41 AE and Samuel Chester

Estate of John Chironna 61 IL

Estate of Bernard Clorman 52 GD

Estate of Jean Coffin 52 GD

Estate of Barbara Cooper Estate of Jerome Corwin, Jr. 34 GD

Estate of Phyllis Corwin

Estate of Helen Cusick-Kenny Estate of Helen Danforth HD 97

Estate of Murray S. Danforth, Jr. HD 91

Estate of Maria Dasdagulian

Estate of John De Angelis 35 TX

Estate of Enrico Della Biancia

Estate of Frank Demattos 54 GD

Estate of Rita Derjue Zimmerman 56 GD

Estate of Rachel Doane 64 LA

Estate of Ina Donnan 57 TX

Estate of Kenneth Dresser 61 IA

Estate of Rosaline Duffy 44 ID

Estate of Kenji Etani

Estate of Nancy Etani

Estate of Louise Hoge

Estate of Richard Holmes

Estate of Shirley Holmes Estate of Clark and Phoebe (52 IL) Honig

Estate of Frank Hooper Estate of Joan Hooper

Estate of Carol Horrocks 37 AE

Estate of Leonard Iannacone Estate of Jane S. Jacques

Estate of Christine 52 IA and Richard Jones 51 GD

Estate of Jeanette Kaplan 34 GD

Estate of David J. Katz 81 LA

Estate of George J. King, Jr. 53

Estate of Ernest Kirwin 51 IA P 84 and Constance Kirwan 51 AD/58 PT P 84

Estate of Suzanne Klay 57 CR

Estate of Claire Wood Labine P 89

Estate of Mary Ann Laurans

Estate of Steven Lerner BArch 67

Estate of Frederick Lippitt Estate of Mary Ann Lippitt Estate of Charlotte Loeb

Estate of Kenneth Logowitz

Estate of George Lyman 52 ID and Ernestine Lyman

Estate of Louise Mackenzie

Estate of Edna Martin 17 PT

Estate of John Maslen 51 GD and Barbara Maslen 51 LA

Estate of Nancy W Mattis

Estate of Esther Mauran HD 04

Estate of George Maver 51

Estate of William O. McCagg, Jr.

Estate of Ruth Mccarthy 37 AE

Estate of Dolores C. Mckenna

Estate of Houghton Metcalf HD 96 Estate of Carl Miller 65 TX

Estate of Elizabeth Rose

Estate of Leo Rosen GP 85 and Gloria Rosen GP 85

Estate of Edythe Salzberger 65 AE

Estate of Caroline Scheffler 31 JM

Estate of Elizabeth M. Schmitt BArch 71

Estate of Jean Schoonmaker 48 IL

Estate of Pamela Schwarz Clark 75 AE

Estate of Alice Sederlund

Estate of Clinton W. Sellew and Lura Sellew 44 AE

Estate of Alfred Shepherd Estate of Caroll Silver

Estate of Ruth Simpson

Estate of H. William Smith

Estate of Patricia Martin Smith Estate of Walter Smith Estate of Katharine Stevenson 33 LA Estate of Betty Jean Stroh 55 LA

Estate of Janet Simpson Estate of Ronald E. Swenson BArch 76 and Ruthann T. Swenson

Estate of Warren Sylvester 51* Arch

Estate of C. George and Eleanor G. Taylor

Estate of Naomi Towner 62 TX

Estate of Theresa Trifari

Estate of Sara Ulman 43 AP

Estate of Beatrice Wagner

Estate of J. Calvin Walker P 90

Estate of Hayes Warner 57 AE

Estate of Paul Warner 58 ID

Estate of Kay Whitcomb 43* JM

Estate of Erskine N White Jr.

Estate of Marjean Willett 48 LA

Estate of Arlene I. Wilson 57 AE

Estate of William C. Wittmann P 73 Estate of Nell Znamierowski 53 TX

Building Momentum Together

A powerful part of a Rhode Island School of Design education is the opportunity students have to develop within and with the support of a highly creative community. From collaborating with peers and faculty to finding a place in the lineage of RISD artists and designers, our students are part of an expansive but closely knit community.

This year, the alumni community in particular came together to support our students through increased financial aid, novel and expanded career development opportunities and by returning to campus in record numbers, most recently for the inauguration of Crystal Williams as RISD’s 18th president. The weekend marked an opportunity for us to reflect on our storied 146-year history and to begin a conversation about what we want RISD to look like under the Williams presidency and beyond. As hard as it may be to imagine, we will celebrate our sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) in approximately 50 months!

Earlier in the year, we enjoyed record attendance at Commencement + Reunion Weekend, with nearly 1,400 coming to campus for the commencement ceremonies for the Classes of 2022 and 2020. That included 769 alumni who graduated between 1960 and 2021 and reunited over the weekend.

The enthusiasm that brings people back to RISD is also reflected in the marked growth in volunteerism we have seen. More alumni, families and friends than ever are participating in volunteer programs; currently 2,904 volunteers work with us regularly. The Tech Trek program covered in this issue was made possible by the efforts of nearly three dozen RISD alumni who shared their time and expertise so current RISD students could better understand how art and design skills transfer into the tech sphere.

Alumni and friends established eight new scholarships and fellowships in 2022, including the Betty Jean Stroh 55 LA Scholarship and the Rafael de Cárdenas (96 AP) Scholarship, which we learn in this magazine was

inspired by the desire to extend opportunities and help students bring their unique vision to life.

The Jerome Zimmerman (MFA 65 SC) and Salli Zimmerman (65 AE) Fellowship, founded as a way to honor the life and work of Jerome (MFA 65 SC), is one of three new Presidential Fellowships, including the LoveFrom, Presidential Fellowship and the Maxwell/Hanrahan Presidential Fellowship, that fully fund graduate students’ tuition. Investment in scholarships, fellowships and other student learning and development opportunities—like those supported by RISD Limited Editions—speaks to the value we all place on making RISD an accessible, equitable place where students are supported in their creative pursuits.

All of this is possible because of all of you. Your commitment to RISD propels us forward, and creates a future where the most talented critical makers help fashion a new and better world. Thank you!

O’NEIL OUTAR VICE PRESIDENT OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT

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