on Fast Company’s site, among other media outlets.
2013 Last spring a bevy of alumni showed their stuff in Gravity, a show of painting, sculpture and performance at Projekt722 in Brooklyn. Exhibitors included Claudia Bitran MFA PT , Austin Ballard MFA 12 SC, Corydon Cowansage MFA 11 PT, Jonathan Frioux MFA PT, Tamara Johnson MFA 12 SC
and Bayne Peterson MFA SC. Taking its title from the movie Gravity, the show consisted of “four pairings of artists, each connected by their own conceptual/formal tube to avoid being sucked” into the void.
Yong Joo Kim MFA 09 JM After winning a 2014 SAC Artist Award from the Society of Art and Crafts (SAC), Yong Joo (yongjookim.com) showed sculptural work from May to July—alongside work by the two other winners— at SAC’s Boston gallery. Awarded every two years, the prizes recognize the exemplary work of contemporary craft artists living in New England.
2011 Realizing Empathy: An Inquiry Into the Meaning of Making by Seung Chan (Slim) Lim MFA GD (Providence) won the National Indie Excellence Book Award for new nonfiction. Christina Kazakia MID
(Philadelphia) is among the 14 emerging and established designers featured in Women in Industrial Design, the first exhibition of its kind organized by the Industrial Designers Society of America and shown in June during San Francisco Design Week. Among her designs is Stick-lets (sticklets.com), flexible joinery that
Gabriela Salazar
MFA 09 PT In In Advance of a Storm (for Luis and Antonia) (for A and L) (for parents) (for two), Gabriela (gabrielasalazar.com) activates the ferry dock and airfield on Fishers Island thanks to a fellowship from The Lighthouse Works, a nonprofit that brings artists to the NY island to live and work. Two structures, based on cubes and configured to create a room inhabited by objects, represent The Cube Game, a pop-psychology visualization ritual that the Brooklyn-based artist’s parents would play.
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helps kids design and build structures using sticks. Although her résumé includes studying creative writing, dance and auto body repair, Rose Bean Simpson MFA CR (roseb simpson.com) of Espanola, NM is primarily a sculptor, a topic she explored in an interview with Indian Country Today Media Network interviewer Dominique Godreche in May. She also spoke about what it means to be Native American, and how she understands the term “indigenous.” Laura Swanson MFA DM
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2012 RISD exhibitors turned out in force at the juried 3rd Annual Fine Art and American-made Craft Show and Sale at the Armory Arts Center in Pawtucket, RI. The September event included work by Nicole Aquillano MFA CR, Colette Bazirgan 11 ID , Dwo Wen Chen MA 89, Erica Cioe 01 CR/MA 02, Diane Hoffman 87 IL, Michael Lyons 05 IL, Gail Solomon 84 GD, Didi Suydam 85 JM and Christian Tonsgard 05 CR . From the avocado and crabmeat salad in The Bell Jar to the gruel dished out in Oliver Twist, designer and writer Dinah R. Fried MFA GD recreated and photographed 50 famous feasts from favorite novels in Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature’s Most Memorable Meals (Harper Design, 2014). The book has attracted a lot of attention and was featured
With Love. The show featured sculpture, video, images, books, performance and augmented machinery. Amy Goldfeder MID
(see page 15) Manuela Jimenez MFA JM
(manuelajimenez.com) showed work in F-1: Foreigners Living the American Jewelry Dream at Brooklyn Metal Works. The May-June show celebrated the work of 10 international jewelry artists who were educated in the US. Originally from Colombia, Manuela now lives in Brooklyn. Jonathan Palmer MFA PR, Justin Sorensen MFA PR,
Joe Bochynski MFA PT
Raine Vasquez MFA PR, Austin
helped the FJORD gallery in Philadelphia celebrate its two-year anniversary last May by showing work in To Labor
Ballard MFA 12 SC , Peter Croteau MFA 12 PH and Johnny Adimando MFA 09 PR will
be featured in a winter show
Emily Yen MArch 15 Emily’s proposal for a cube-shaped building she calls Schrödinger’s Box beat out 130 submissions to win first prize in an international competition to design a “preview museum” for the world’s first Museum of Science Fiction, a facility planned for the Washington, DC area. The idea is to drum up public interest in the museum by using Emily’s design to build a temporary structure next year.