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Painter Brian Martin 98 IL explores the idea of suburbia as an icon of the American dream, adding his own twists of memory to create images that feel both familiar and strange. As a founding member of the Broadstreet Studio (thebroadstreetstudio.com), he co-curated and participated in From What I Remember/From What I Forget, an exhibition of 35 artists held last January at Principle Gallery (which also represents him) in Alexandria, VA. A detail from his gesso on panel painting Witness is shown on the cover. The painting was included in the recent Safe at Home exhibition at Cube Contemporary Art Projects in Adelaide, South Australia. Brian and his wife Amy (Paulin) Martin 97 IL live in Providence, where they’re enjoying life with their young son Elliott.
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Liisa Silander lsilande@risd.edu 401 454 6349 P R O D U C T I O N C O O R D I N AT O R / DESIGNER
Elizabeth Eddins 00 GD DESIGNERS
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A professional illustrator, fine artist and writer, Pamela Becker 86 IL (insightartssedona.com) is also creative director of Big Vision Graphics (bigvision graphics.com) in Sedona, AZ. Her work and life are inspired by her exploration of human consciousness and interest in potentialities beyond beliefs and expectations.
Kate Blackwell Sarah Rainwater CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Michelle Aldredge Kirsten Andersen Abigail Crocker Michael Fink Greg Kanaan 02 FAV Gillian Kiley Francie Latour Paula Martiesian 76 PT Meghan M. Reilly Michaud 01 GD D I R E C T O R O F A L U M N I R E L AT I O N S
Christina Hartley 74 IL PRINTING
Lane Press Burlington, VT printed on 70# Sterling Matte, a recycled stock FONTS
Quiosco + Antenna by Cyrus Highsmith 97 GD
spot illustration (53) » Now living in Hong Kong, Adam S. Doyle 98 IL says the simple “magic of creation” inspires him to make evocative paintings, illustrations and prints. “It’s important to me to find a balance between an elegance of form that holds both visible marks of paint and a representation of ‘energy within.’”
Sketchbook (96) » Industrial Design student Dillon Froehlich 14 ID grew up in Boca Raton, FL, where he and his brother first parlayed their gift for illustration into commercial work, mostly doing t-shirts and editorial illustration. Dillon has also exhibited his work in Florida, California, East Asia and Europe.
back cover » Recent graduate Laura Guerin 12 IL (cargocollective.com/ lauraguerin) is working to establish her freelance illustration career in Cleveland, OH. When Illustration faculty member Fred Lynch 86 IL asked students to illustrate 88 houses in a week, Laura says “it was a blast because I’m obsessed with drawing architecture—and it opened up new possibilities.”
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Witness (2011, oil on panel, 15 x 9") by Brian Martin 98 IL
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Beasts (20) » Jonathan Mosca 07 PR, Sophie Kosofsky 06 FD, Eliza Zeitlin 07 SC and Annie Evelyn 99 FD/MFA 07 didn’t all know each other well at RISD. But by the end of their intense experience making Beasts of the Southern Wild (written and directed by Eliza’s brother), the cast and crew felt a lot like family.
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Architect Peter Stamberg BArch 72 shares his life and Manhattan-based practice, Stamberg Aferiat Architecture (stambergaferiat. com), with Paul Aferiat. The moral of their professional story is “that for many seemingly impossible problems there are often simple solutions.”
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This year Anna Schuleit 98 PT (annaschuleit. com) was a visiting artist at the Eastman School of Music and created her second set design for dance at New York Live Arts. Collaborating with Columbia Medical School, she’s currently developing a new drawing technique based on eye-tracking technology, which she’ll test on an expedition to the North Pole next summer.
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