Lu Heintz 01 SC In Work/Love, an October solo show at Keene [NH] State College’s Carroll House Galleries, Lu showed sculptures and videos that mimic the processes of care and describe the ways labor and love converge in our lives. She’s based in Coventry, RI.
comedians Bobby Lee, Margaret Cho and Jon Lovitz, the series is based on “the cutthroat business of food trucks, fowl play and science fiction.”
Amanda McCorkle 98 GD Amanda runs the RI-based design studio ColorQuarry (color quarry.com) and also designs custom letterpress pieces through ColorQuarry Letterpress. She recently had the opportunity to issue a very special announcement: the birth of her second child, Magnus, in June. He and his five-year-old sister Ada live with their parents in Hope Valley, RI.
1998 As part of September’s Design Week RI, interior designer Kyla Coburn IL earned an Emerging Designer Award and was inducted into DesignxRI’s Hall of Fame. After working at frog design, Converse and Nike, three years ago Michael DiTullo ID moved on to Sound United, which owns three audio brands and designs everything from $20 ear buds to $5,000 premium audiophile speakers. As chief design officer, he oversees teams responsible for all 086
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aspects of design—product, packaging, advertising, environmental, retail, mobile UI/UX and web. Since he arrived, Michael and his colleagues have rebranded the consumer and master brands, designed and built a new HQ in San Diego and helped Sound United enter four new product categories. Max Lawrence PT recently teamed up with amateur beekeeper Wynn Geary (now in his first year at RISD) to research colony collapse
and figure out how to create a “smart hive” able to electronically monitor his bees’ movements. The two met at the Department of Making + Doing, a maker space in West Philadelphia, and have managed to design an elaborate hive and hook it up to sensors that track methane, alcohol, carbon monoxide, temperature, humidity and noise levels inside.
from RISD. Last fall Clare and Barry collaborated on a show at Alessandra Bonomo Gallery in Rome and she continues a prolific practice as a solo artist, producing three public projects last year alone in San Francisco: a mural for The Luggage Store gallery, two mosaics at UCSF’s new hospital amphitheater and an enormous painting for the SFO airport.
An extraordinary New Yorker story (8.10.15) called A Ghost in the Family focuses on the oddly intertwined lives of San Francisco-based artists Barry McGee, his late wife and collaborator Margaret Kilgallen and his current wife Clare Rojas PR, who met the couple shortly after graduating
1999 LA-based writer, director and producer Gabriel DeFrancesco IL (gabedefrancesco.wix. com) is using a Kickstarter campaign to fund ChowFuhn, a ducky animated solo project with his studio Company One Productions. Featuring the voices of
Sandra Lea Gibson FAV and Luis Recoder (gibsonrecoder. com) set up a number of camera obscura situations while in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts last spring. Removing camera obscura from the realm of photography and using it for an immersive cinematic experience, their installations inspired fellow residents to make work commenting on and responding to the projections.
Victoria Jamieson 00 IL Since Victoria’s graphic novel for young readers, Roller Girl (Dial Books), was released in March, it has hit the New York Times bestseller list, received five starred reviews from industry magazines and was mentioned on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. The book follows the adventures of 12-year-old Astrid as she discovers the world of roller derby. Victoria herself uses the skate name Winnie the Pow when she races with the Rose City Rollers in Portland, OR.