2008 Jeanne Jo MFA DM (NYC)
and Milton Stevenson MFA SC established a gallery in Brooklyn, NY called Tompkins Projects in fall 2009. Last summer Jeanne’s work was shown in Objectified: the domestication of the industrial at the Honfleur Gallery in Washington, DC. She also curated The Wrong Side of Reno: 30 Years of Punk and Hardcore Music from the Biggest Little City, an exhibition that’s open at the Nevada Museum of Art through March 2011. She also recently began doctoral studies at the University of Southern California. Making Allyah, a video by Nathaniel Katz MFA DM (Jupiter, FL) and Valentina Curandi, was screened in the Moscow [Russia] Biennial for Young Artists in July.
New Natives, another video they made together, was selected for cameraVideo at the Fondazione March in Padova, Italy and the Tina B. Festival in Prague, both in October; it also appeared at the LOOP festival in Barcelona, Spain (May) and the Kaunas in Art festival in Lithuania (July). Nathaniel also collaborated with an Italian and a German artist for a recent show called Hinterland at Dada Post, an art space in Berlin, Germany. Michael Radyk MFA TX (Philadelphia) has been selected as the fall visiting artist-inresidence in fibers at Oregon College of Art and Craft. During his residency, he will make two presentations and continue his textiles research by exploring light, material and the interaction of place and abstraction.
Annie Feldmeier Adams MFA 02 PT Requiem: Lincoln Park Conservatory, Annie’s public art sound installation, recently transformed the Fern Room at Lincoln Park Conservatory in Chicago, where she lives.
Yong Joo (Providence) was among the 58 artists from around the world invited to participate in LOOT 2010, the popular biennial sales exhibition of contemporary jewelry held in October at the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC. Sandra Enterline 83 JM (San Francisco) and Kiwon Wang MFA 91 JM (NYC) also participated in the MAD show again this year. Jong Joo’s piece Reconfiguring the Ordinary (velcro + silver, 2x4x 2") is shown here.
Recess Activities, Inc. in NYC was the site of Brand New Bag, the spring 2010 MFA Sculpture exhibition. Terra Goolsby MFA SC, Anders Johnson MFA SC, Jonggeon Lee MFA SC, Alee Peoples MFA SC, R.C. Sayler MFA SC, Joshua Webb MFA SC and Brett Windham MFA SC all showed their work.
Tom Weis MID and Emily
The Wassaic Project, an artist-run,
Yong Joo Kim MFA 09 JM
Rothschild MID (see page 9)
2009 Shoham Arad MID (Boston) wrote to RISD to let us know that she is working with Chris McCray MID 08 (Syracuse, NY) at Syracuse University on a project called COLAB; an article she wrote about the project was published recently on Core77.com. Caleb Larsen MFA DM (see
page 8) Eli Levenstein MFA FD (NYC)
wrote in to say: “I’m very excited to be a part of Material World, a show that opened on April 24 at Mass MoCA, and will continue through to February 27, 2011. I was commissioned by curator Susan Cross to design and install a reading room to accompany the installations of artists Michael Beutler, Orly Genger, Wade
Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen, Tobias Putrih, Alison Shotz 87 TX and Dan Steinhilber. In creating the space of the Reading Room, my primary goal was to offer a moment for pause and reflection on the work of these artists. While the room is inviting, it can at times be confrontational as it plays with the fluid boundaries between art and design, object and space, nature and technology, and interior and exterior space.” Monica Martinez MFA SC
(San Francisco) had a recent solo show at EyeLevel BQE Gallery in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. City-inspired 3D drawings by Luke O’Sullivan MFA PR (Jamaica Plains, MA) were on view last summer at arsenalARTS in Watertown, MA. Huy Vu MFA GD (see page 9)
Jenna Goldberg MFA 04 FD Falling Water Cabinet (2008, painted, carved and handprinted basswood and poplar, 75x28x18") is among the pieces Jenna exhibited in a summer solo show at Gallery NAGA in Boston. She lives in Providence.
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sustainable, multidisciplinary arts organization in “the hamlet of Wassaic, NY,” is run by Colin Williams MFA DM, Bowie Zunino MFA 09 SC and Jeffrey Barnett-Winsby MFA 06 PH and has proven to be hugely successful. The new organization has already won awards, including the 2010 Historic Preservation Commendation Award from The Garden Club of America. Ryan Arruda MFA GD (Worcester, MA), Lauren V. Francesconi MFA GD (Providence), Lindsay M. Kinkade MFA GD (Providence), Jae Un Jeon MFA GD (La Crescenta, CA), Alpkan Kirayoglu MFA GD (NYC), Cameron D. Neat MFA GD (Seattle), Marcos A. Ojeda MFA GD (Providence), Heather K. Phillips MFA GD (Pleasanton, CA), Elise S. Porter MFA GD (NYC), Kate M. Quinby MFA GD (Providence),
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Taylor M. Stapleton MFA GD
Based on the quality of her work, Sooyeon Kim MFA JM was a finalist for the 2010 Daisy Soros Prize for Fine Arts, which offers fine arts graduate students the opportunity to study at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg in Austria.
and Jeshurun L. Webb MFA GD (Providence) set up a shop based on their thesis exhibitions and exhibited at the Brooklyn Flea over the summer. Visit the Make, Do website at makedoshop.com to learn more about the designers and their work.