to raise questions about sustainability, consumption and other societal imbalances. After decades of on-again/ off-again romance, true loves Sonya Rasi DuLong JM and Benjamin DuLong 92 FAV
finally tied the knot in September. Sonya recalls the first time she saw Ben— dressed as “dead Elvis” at a RISD Halloween bash in 1988. The couple now lives in LA, where Ben works in special effects makeup. Last spring an essay by Elaine Isaak SC (Bedford, NH) was included in The Way We Write, an anthology published by the New Hampshire Writers’ Project in celebration of the organization’s 25th anniversary.
Miguel Cardenas 96 PT Sendero del Jaguar (2013, plaster, wood, wax, dimensions variable) is among the work Miguel is showing in La Bienal 2013: Here Is Where We Jump, a group exhibition on view through January 4, 2014 at El Museo del Barrio in Manhattan, where he lives.
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When Hoefler & Frere-Jones (H&FJ), the celebrated typography firm run by Tobias Frere-Jones GD (NYC) and Jonathan Hoefler, announced the release of Cloud.typography in early summer, designers all over the world were thrilled. Offering a “100% CSS solution,” the new platform allows for the use of fonts designed specifically for the web. Husband-and-wife design team Tracy (Davio) Hazzard TX and Tom Hazzard ID, who run Hazz Design Consulting (hazzdesign.com) in Irvine, CA, recently launched a new product, the reVue TV Mount. The design was inspired by the surprising and horrifying statistic that a child is killed by a falling TV every two to three weeks. Marcus Shaffer ID, an assis-
tant professor of Architecture at Penn State’s Stuckeman School in University Park, PA, co-authored Tectonic Machines! Construct the 78
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Exigent City!, an online book that documents his work in producing semi-autonomous, city-making machinery. RISD Professor of Architecture Kyna Leski also worked on the book. Last summer Pierre St-Jacques PT (see also page 58) showed work in Summer Break at Station Independent Projects in New York.
1993 Earlier this fall Brooklyn artist Nicole Cherubini CR showed work in a solo exhibition at Tracy Williams, Ltd. in New York. Nicole combines glazed earthenware, terracotta and porcelain with pine, paint and MDF to create sculpture with intriguing forms and textures. In July artist Derek Gores IL (derekgores.com) led a two-day hands-on inspirational workshop for public school art teachers at his studio in Melbourne, FL. “Art teachers deal with diminishing resources,” he says, “so the
least I can do is host a creative workshop.” The Stupendous Squid Hat, a knit piece by Lucy King SC (Chepachet, RI), won a blue ribbon at the Many Hands Fiber Arts Festival in Telluride, CO. Work by NYC artist Elissa Levy GL was included in Burying the Lede, a recent exhibition examining the role of newspapers in our society at Momenta Art in Brooklyn. Larissa Nowicki GD
(see page 15) In May glassblower Dave Walters GL (davidwaltersglass.
com) lectured at the Pittsburgh [PA] Glass Center. He’s based in Westport, CT.
1994 20th Reunion October 10 – 11, 2014
After building 18 years of experience in the communications and marketing industry, Chuck Bajnai ID has been named chief creative officer of EWI Worldwide, a communications company based in Livonia, MI, where he lives.
Please email class notes submissions to: risdxyz@risd.edu.
Last August conceptual artist Alyce Santoro IL (alyce
santoro.com) of Alpine, TX and journalist Nathan Schneider talked about making abstract ideas accessible via words, images and objects via a live online discussion on shindig.com. Thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign, she’ll also soon be self-publishing her book Philosoprops: A Unified Field Guide.
1995 Last summer St. Louis-based artist Laura S. Bailey IL showed work in a solo photography exhibition at the St. Louis [MO] Artists’ Guild. Called Fulcrum: An Exercise in Balance, the show juxtaposed natural and industrial imagery
ConTEXT, a recent group exhibition at the Sharon [MA] Arts Center, included work by Darren Kraft PT, Jenny Holzer MFA 77 PT and Joshua Abelow 98 PT. Curated by Tim Donovan, the show explored art that incorporates words as a means of redefining our perception of what language can be. Dads, the latest venture from Seth MacFarlane FAV (who co-created/wrote the new sitcom), has landed with something of a thud this fall—but not before causing
Michele Outland 94 GD As creative director of Gather Journal, a food-focused publication she launched in 2012, Michele is excited to have won a 2013 James Beard Award for Visual Storytelling. She works with fellow New Yorker Joseph DeLeo 94 PT (jdeleophoto.com), a contributing food photographer, to make the biannual culinary publication a visual feast.