Sharon Moon 14 AP A collection of handcrafted gowns by Sharon made its debut at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in NYC in early September. The native of Seoul, Korea was a finalist in the Supima Design Competition at Lincoln Center, a runway show before a panel of celebrity judges.
(linkmount.com), a multifunctional device they’re developing for smart phones that offers a magnetic dock and wrist leash while also functioning as a tripod. A wildly successful Kickstarter campaign means that Plust can put the device into production with local manufacturers (and plant a tree for each Linkmount purchased).
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2013 continued Eliza Squibb TX (see page 16)
Where I Fit, a spring solo exhibition of work by Maggie Thompson TX (Columbia Heights, MN) at All My Relations Gallery in Minneapolis, was described by a reviewer at vita. mn as one that “would be a stunner as a midcareer retrospective, but for a recent college grad it’s a triumph.” Maggie
explored her mixed Fond du Lac Ojibwe and German-Irish heritage through more than 30 woven, knit and screenprinted fabric pieces. Included were her rugs designed to echo charts used by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs to explain the blood quantum that determined who could officially be categorized as an Indian. Katy Wiedemann IL
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Dariel Filomeno 14 IL Dariel created the cover art for the July 2014 issue of Motif, a Providence-based art and culture magazine that celebrated its 10th anniversary in July. Find more of Dariel’s work at darielfilomeno.prosite.com.
2014 Bella Gambino IA celebrated
her graduation by traveling with four friends to South Korea and Hong Kong for a three-week adventure. She then got to work at her new job in the interior design department of Heery International in Atlanta. Acacia Johnson PH hopes
“to be in Arctic Bay from the last day of sun in November until the day it rises again in February,” she says, to document culturally significant Inuit sites around Baffin Island. While there, she plans to use a 4x5 view camera and digital video to create work to be presented as a traveling exhibition 86
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exploring the deep connection of northern people to the Arctic landscape. Acacia won a coveted Fulbright grant for research in the Canadian Arctic, and raised additional funds for the project through Kickstarter. August Lehrecke FD, Matt Muller FD and Hunter Blackwell GL recently launched
Pneuhaus, a design collective in Providence working within the fields of event structures, spatial and object design—with a specific focus on creating giant inflatables. Recent commissions include a tubular amphitheater for the RISD Museum’s opening of Circus and a tricolored dome for this fall’s A Better World by Design conference.
Josh Sehnert 14 FAV Josh won the grand prize in Cartoon Brew’s Student Animation Festival with his film Mr. Piggy Dies in 25 Dimensions. The manic, 16-minute video appealed to judges because it “represents what every student film should aspire to: joyful anarchy that revels in the fact that as a student, you can do anything.” Josh’s work is online at vimeo.com/farkey.
Lukas Scheurer ID and Satoshi Sakaguchi ID, the duo
behind the Providence design firm Plust, go to tremendous lengths to test their prototypes. In March, they hopped in a car and drove to Key West to test the durability of Linkmount
In August Bo Yoon Christina Chang PT was named RISD’s finalist in LG Electronics’ Art of the Pixel competition. The innovative tech company invited students from nine of the country’s top art schools to submit digital artworks that capture the excitement of LG’s high-contrast monitors. Bo Yoon submitted Link House, a dazzling digital collage inspired by Malaysia’s residential landscape, winning a $5,000 cash prize and a trip to NYC for a gala event in September.