Jenny Lai 10 AP NOT x Chris Saunders, a September exhibition at WALLPLAY in NYC, showcased Jenny’s collaboration with photojournalist Chris Saunders and four South African designers associated with the DIY fashion collective Smarteez. Jenny and Chris spent two months traveling between the designers’ studios and homes in South Africa, reinterpreting a selection of garments from her label, NOT.
KEY CURRENT MAJORS Apparel Design
AP
Arch Architecture CR Ceramics DM
Digital + Media
FAV Film/Animation/ Video FD
Furniture Design
GD
Graphic Design
GL Glass IA
Interior Architecture
ID
Industrial Design
design, is now available in book form at Opening Ceremony in SoHo. You can find out more at openingceremony.us.
IL Illustration JM Jewelry + Metalsmithing PH Photography PT Painting PR Printmaking SC Sculpture TX Textiles FORMER MAJORS Advertising Design
AD
AE Art + Design Education
2010
LA Landscape Architecture
(see page 19)
MD
Machine Design
TC
Textile Chemistry
TE
Textile Engineering
5TH-YEAR DEGREE BArch Architecture FORMER 5TH-YEAR DEGREES BGD
Graphic Design
BID
Industrial Design
BIA Interior Architecture BLA Landscape Architecture
Lindsay Degen TX
In August Justin Desilva ID (Blackstone, MA) started spending a lot of time in the crosswalks of Gloucester, MA. One of three artists to receive the town’s HarborWalk Public Art Award, he began installing a temporary public work: 20 one-of-a-kind printed digital paintings and painted stretches of color in the crosswalks of the city’s HarborWalk area.
MLA Landscape Architecture
Brooklynite Alan Finch GD, senior designer at Brooklyn United and Brooklyn Digital Foundry, worked on a pitch video for the architectural group The Living that helped the firm win MoMA’s prestigious Young Architects Program competition. The winning video, which Alan co-directed, animated and conceptualized, was on display at MoMA.
OTHER
Ashley Kircher IL and Naftali
DD Brown/RISD Dual Degree
Beder IL got married on September 19, 2014 at Borough Hall in Brooklyn, the city they call home. Ashley is working as a web designer at a small tech company and Naftali is a freelance illustrator.
MASTER’S DEGREES Art Education (formerly MAE)
MA
MArch Architecture MAT Teaching MDes Design in Interior Studies MFA
Fine Arts
MID
Industrial Design
MIA
Interior Architecture
CEC Continuing Education Certificate FS enrolled for Foundation Studies only * attended RISD, but no degree awarded
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In the words of Providencebased designer Jason Chung Lee ID, “RISD’s Industrial Design program shaped my
approach to making stuff”— stuff being beautiful handcrafted guitars, often in walnut and maple and using a handrubbed oil finish. He formed Jason Lee Guitars (jasonlee guitars.com) after studying and working with Nick Holcomb 08 SC (see page 82), taking what he learned about problem solving and human factors in order to create instruments that are unique to their owners. Will Harris ID (see page 22)
Brooklyn-based apparel designer Emily Thornton AP creates knitwear for Edun, a brand founded by U2’s Bono and his wife Ali Hewson to promote manufacturing and trade in Africa. The New York Times (9.5.14) ran an interesting piece on Emily’s up-to-the-minute updates to the collection presented at New York Fashion Week.
2011 Kim Charles Kay PT curated you know it when you feel it, a group show that took place last spring within artist Lisi Raskin’s solo exhibition Recuperative Tactics at NYC’s Art in General. The showwithin-a-show included work by Roxanne D. Crocker 10 PH, Lydia Enriquez PT, Kate Fox 12 PR, Sean Gerstley CR, Misha Kahn FD and Katie
Stout 12 FD . As a whole, the
exhibit used the gallery space “to subvert the hierarchy of ‘the solo exhibition.’” Kim also collaborated with Jeanine Oleson on her Rocky Horror Opera Show at the New Museum in March, creating about 80 looks and costumes for the event. Kim lives in Brooklyn. Dana Davis GD (NYC) has
a new book, and your picture might be in it. RISD Streetwalkers, the student fashion photo blog Dana kept for three years while studying graphic
Archer & Co. Tintype Photobooth, based in Pawtucket, RI, is the brainchild of Phillip LeBlanc PT (phillipmleblanc. com). Phillip created a photographic record of Archer Flaneur, “a metaphorical 20th turn of the century version” of himself, for his RISD thesis. After including a tintype photobooth at one of his thesis shows, he developed both a traveling booth and a studiobased business creating authentic (though less toxic) tintype photos for clients. The newly released picture book Mother, What Is the Moon?, a poetic take on the cycles of the moon, features illustrations by Eliza Reisfeld IL (Burlingame, CA) and text by preschool teacher David Griswold.
Brett Swenson 10 GL Reignition (2014, C-print, 50 x 33") is among the five works in Potential Difference, a summer show of Brett’s work at UrbanGlass that examined how energy and matter shift by natural or human forces. His installations and videos play with energetic phenomena in new ways, including simulating ball lightning with a microwave. Brett (brettswenson.com) is working as an artist in residence at Pioneer Works in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn through the end of this year.