Vogue.com took its readers through a day in the life of Elizabeth Hilfiger AP as she prepared to finish up her end-of-the-year apparel projects at RISD. The May blog post showed Elizabeth at work in the studio and highlighted the Greenwich, CT resident’s love of selfies and pixilated things as well as her foodrelated fears. A pair of sensational 3D printed shoes earned Jacqueline Zhao IA a spot on a photo spread in The October Book, a magazine published earlier this fall by luxury clothier Neiman Marcus. The Interior Architecture major was one of five students from the country’s top art and design colleges who won the clothing company’s Art of Innovation design competition. Participants were asked to submit a piece of clothing that relies on new or creative materials in its construction.
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2016 Twins and Brown/RISD Dual Degree program students Nikolas Bentel ID and Michela Bentel 17 ID (see page 61) were awarded $5,000 by real estate developer The Related Group to install a monumental sculpture of metal trees at IconBay, a beachfront residential tower in Miami. The public artwork consists of a group of 7' steel pylons bearing distinctive patterns inspired by the foliage that once lined Florida’s shores. Last summer Lyza Baum TX and Nicole Cheng IA collaborated with elderly residents at the Central Falls [RI] Housing Authority and students from the Central Falls High School on the city’s first floating garden, a macrame installation that will be suspended over the local community garden.
of East Providence, RI on November 30, 2013. Lynthia Browning TormeyPierce 42 AP of Randolph
Center, VT on August 18, 2014. Suzanne Cassels Wells 43 AP
of Arlington, VA on April 4, 2014. Lillian Murphy Kenny 44 AP
of Warwick, RI on June 9, 2014. Barbara Brainard Robbins 45 ID of Brandon, MS on
March 31, 2014. Joseph Carpenter 47 GD of Rumford, RI on September 18, 2014. Eloise Marzano Johnson 48 GD of Deltona, FL on April 20,
2014.
Bart Parker MFA 69 PH of Kingstown, RI on December 8, 2013.
Eugene Neves 60 GD of
Douglas Sandhage 69 GD
Bourne, MA on March 11, 2013.
Winnsboro, SC on August 16, 2014.
of Pearl River, NY on April 11, 2014.
Antonio Meoni 50 TX* of Colonia, NJ on April 16, 2014.
William Bocook 61 Arch of Palo Alto, CA on June 6, 2014.
Lawrence Clapes 70 IA*
on July 19, 2014.
Ariane Schuller 87 ID of
Gordon Price 51 IL of Orient,
Susan Bird Kittredge 62 IL
NY on June 8, 2014.
Mary McKennis Heinricht
of New Brunswick, NJ on May 9, 2014.
Amsterdam, Netherlands on November 21, 2013.
BLA 71 of Bellingham, WA on
Daniel White 51 IL* of Westtown,
PA on January 30, 2013. Dorothy Dodworth Scullin
Theodore Bednar 49 AE of Sheboygan, WI on August 21, 2014.
Alan Hubbard 63 Arch of Guilford, CT on May 19, 2013.
52 IL of Williamstown, MA on
John Winters 63 IL* on July 6,
May 1, 2014.
2014.
Susan Woodbury Misek 53 TX
Gordon Brett 64 GD of Murrells
of Hudson, NH on August 22, 2014.
Inlet, SC on September 14, 2014.
Otto Paparazzo 54 IL of
on June 30, 2014.
Maia Flanagan Varela 65 PH
April 12, 2013. Douglas Legenhausen MFA 71 ID of Baltimore, MD
on September 20, 2014. Carol Kreeger Davidson MFA 73 SC of Bloomfield, CT on June 16, 2014. Kirk Mangus 75 CR of Kent, OH
on November 24, 2013.
Prospect, CT on September 23, 2014.
Myrna Barenboim Lamb
Patricia Web Pelton 54 AP*
2014.
of Washington, DC on June 14, 2014.
Barbara Kahn Boughton
Edith Allard 56 IL of Coopers
August 10, 2014.
Karl Johnson 77 GD of Philadelphia, PA on March 12, 2014.
Mills, ME on August 10, 2014.
66 PT of Lincoln, RI on June 9,
68 PT of Glendale, MA on
Susan Lawson BArch 76
of Tokyo, Japan on January 29, 2014.
Janice Smart Causey
William Weaver MFA 77 PH
Emilio Grossi 56 GD of
MAE 68 of Narragansett, RI
of Chicago, IL on June 30, 2014.
New York, NY on May 9, 2014.
on September 3, 2014.
Russell Duby 58 TX of
John McAlmont BLA 69 of
Fall River, MA on May 13, 2014.
Lincoln, RI on April 12, 2014.
Francis Balboni 49 AE of
Manassas, VA on August 8, 2014.
Michael recently worked with Jiaying Lee 14 GD, Lishan Ng 13 AP, Priscilla Tey 15 IL, Andre Wee 14 IL, Deborah Yan 14 IL, Xinwei Che 15 SC and Lim Shu Min 12 GD to organize root, an exhibition exploring the question of what it means to be Singaporean. The team found sponsors, acted as publicists and built out the space for the early summer exhibition at Ocean Financial Centre in Singapore. “It’s the first time that RISD alumni and current students put together a group exhibition in Singapore,” Michael notes, “and it comes at a time when Singapore’s art scene continues to flourish.”
Henry Gould 59 TX of Northbrook, IL on November 22, 2013.
Juliette Abbott Perry 49 IL
of Hobe Sound, FL on April 25, 2014. John Priestley 49 BArch of
Kathryn Johnson 41 PT*
Michael Ee 15 GD
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Ruth Baxter-Tagliatela 78 GD of Belmont, MA on September 16, 2014.
Theodora Grant-Katz 79 CEC of Smithfield, RI on August 27, 2014. Carolyn Redfern 86 CEC
of Dennisport, MA on July 15, 2014.
Kim Pray Culpan 90 CEC
of Lincoln, RI on May 8, 2014. Kate Greenhalgh 90 TX
of Yarmouth Port, MA on May 2, 2014. Mark Keiser 90 Arch of Santa Fe, NM on August 19, 2014. Marjorie Thompson 90 CEC of Providence, RI on September 15, 2014. Sharon Bolton-Eels MAE 92
of Fernandina Beach, FL on May 16, 2014. William Erickson 97 IA of
Providence, RI on September 2, 2014. Sharon Mooney MLA 99 of Boston, MA on July 24, 2014. John Sparks MLA 00 of
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