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Parul Singh and RISD student
As lead designer at Soldier Design in Cambridge, MA, Brian worked with the snowboarding brand Forum Snowboards to create seven new buzzed-about boot styles for the 2013 line.
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2009 continued Katie Gallagher AP (katie gallagher.com) launched her new Spring/Summer 2013 Everything Forever collection at New York’s Fashion Week in September. Sponsored by Moroccan Oil, The Standard, MAC and MilkMade, the new collection is inspired by the concept of rebirth and purity, drawing from the perceptions of childhood. After the launch, Katie joined fellow RISD alumni in judging an on-site sketch contest at UO’s Night Out—a collaboration between Urban Outfitters, RISD’s Apparel Design Department and Philadelphia University. She’s also launching an e-store this fall at Katie by Katie Gallagher. Andrés Monzón-Aguirre PT
(Medellin, Colombia) writes that the Campos de Gutierrez Artist Residency Program (camposgutierrez.org) he founded in Medellin, Colombia has hosted 14 international participants in the year since it opened. With help from a Kickstarter campaign, he’s now working with ceramicist 86
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to construct a ceramics studio that they plan to call MAATI, which means clay in Sanskrit. Last spring Brooklyn-based artist Gabriela Salazar PT (gabrielasalazar.com) worked with Lucas Blalock to curate OPTOTYPE at the 92YTribeca in NYC as part of an exhibition of work by alumni of Skowhegan’s residency program.
2011 Work by Lila Ash PT (lilaash. tumblr.com) was included in Rebel, a group show sponsored by MOCA and conceived by James Franco MFA 12 DM. She notes that she was the youngest artist and only female in the show, which featured works by Franco, Ed Ruscha, Harmony Korine, Paul McCarthy and others. Lila works as a display artist for Urban Outfitters’ Hollywood location. Zach Brown IL (Mars, PA), who
is an MFA candidate at New York Academy of Art, won Best in Show and Best Painting at the 67th Annual Buck Hill Falls
Alexandra Allen-Cannon 11 IL In September Alexandra showed works of oil on panel in Domestication, a solo show at Blue Gallery in Kansas City, MO. She lives in Leawood, KS.
[PA] Fine Arts and Crafts Festival. His painting Lazarus was also a featured work at the summer Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh.
her channel, PerpetualMotion, were featured in a Colorado Daily article about Vidcon, the YouTube convention in Anaheim, CA.
The video blogs Karen Kavett GD (Farmingdale, NJ) posted while studying at RISD— including design tutorials ranging from home decorating to color theory, to why you should never ever use the font Comic Sans—landed her a job at YouTube. In July Karen and
Sabrina Kuchta IL (Northbor-
ough, MA) illustrated Where Horses Fly, a children’s book by Jacqui Palladini Boulter inspired by the Flying Horses Carousel in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, MA. This is the first book project for both author and illustrator.
In August Miguel LlorenteGonzalez FAV (Barcelona, Spain) began a year-long, 20,000-mile expedition that will take him from Philadelphia to the Southernmost tip of Argentina—in the 1980s Mercedes turbodiesel station wagon he grew up with and used at RISD. Miguel plans to produce art along the way and to share it on his blog (thiseuropeanlife.com) and through indiegogo, a funding platform similar to Kickstarter.