Amanda Goss 12 AP, Emily Shaw 12 AP + Helen (Hao) Wu 12 AP These three Apparel Design graduates recently teamed up with Urban Outfitters to design “capsule collections,” working directly with UO’s Director of Concept and Trend Marissa Maximo 95 PT. This fall the outcomes of that collaboration are available on the UO site and at selected UO stores across the country. The experience was clearly great for the new alums—down to the festive launch event during New York’s Fashion Week in early September. Katie Gallagher 09 AP (see page 86) judged an on-site sketch design competition at the launch event.
Part of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts’ New Visions/New Curators series, the show ran in July and August and included traditional and contemporary reflections on joomchi—ancient Korean papermaking techniques. In September Manasi Kirloskar PT (Bangalore, India) began an internship at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. She’s working with one of the 14 artists who teach students at public schools.
Kyle Norris IL (Essex, VT)
participated in the Breaking Bad Art Project, an August exhibition at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles. The gallery, which specializes in art referencing pop culture, welcomed the stars of the AMC television show to the exhibition, which is also connected to a viral promotional campaign called Breaking Gifs, featuring artist-made prints relevant to the show. In addition to writing for the blog Art Fag City, Whitney Kimball PT (Boston, MA) co-wrote a petition asking Sotheby’s auction house to give its union art handlers a fair contract. Whitney writes that Shepherd Fairey 92 IL,
Marilyn Minter, Deborah Kass and Haim Steinbach are among the supporters of the petition. Matthew Leifheit PH (matt
hewleifheit.com) launched the publication MATTE Magazine (mattemagazine.net), which features one artist per issue, at Printed Matter in New York last March. He’s based in Marshfield, WI.
2012 Jiyoung Chung PT (Providence,
RI) curated International Joomchi and Beyond at the Atrium Gallery in Providence.
In late August Hope MacDonald AP (Providence, RI) closed out StyleWeek Northeast with a show at the Providence Biltmore. Her 2012/13 collection was inspired by the prints and bold colors featured in her mix-andmatch line. Zev Schwartz AP (Cambridge, MA) showed his first apparel collection there, too, with pieces inspired by
Armando Veve 11 IL + Sean Gerstley 11 CR These ceramic ostrich eggs are a popular seller at Veve & Gerstley (veveandgerstley.etsy. shop), the shop for functional and nonfunctional decorated ceramic objects Armando and Sean run through Etsy. They made Arts Business Institute’s list of Best Holiday Gifts of 2011.
totem poles and other Northwest American art. The Golden Book Gown designed by Ryan Novelline IL (Lexington, MA) will be included in the French book Avant-Garde Fashion, due to be released by Olo Editions in 2013. It features “the 100 most breathtaking fashion designers from around the world.”
2013 Eliza Squibb TX won the 2012 Nancy and Harry Koenigsberg Student Award from the Textile Study Group of New York.
2015 In July Natalie Kassirer IL played the part of Helena in The Impromptu Shakespeare Company’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which was staged in Beverly, MA. She also designed the poster for the show.
In September Andy Romer PH had a solo show of more than 50 photographs at the Wilton [CT] Library. Based in NYC,
As an intern this fall with CollegeFashionista.com, Noah Berch AP is scouring RISD’s campus for good finds for the site, which highlights what college kids are wearing these days.
Deaths
Polly Norton Fink 65 PT of
Roland E. Butler 34 of
East Longmeadow, MA on December 22, 2011. Nancy (Noble) Robertson
Rockport, ME on April 29, 2012. Jon J. Moscartolo MAT 67 of
Branford, CT on November 22, 2011.
Coykendall 41 PT of
Kathryn Stackpole Cleaves
South Dartmouth, MA on July 24, 2012.
Burke 68 GD of Washington, DC
Ruth Bragdon Donovan
Roy “Bob” Zimmerman MFA
42 GD* of Pottstown, PA on
70 PH of Foster, RI on August 12,
June 3, 2012.
2012.
David H. Atwater, Jr. 43 MD*
Cecilia “Lalla” (Guiu) Searle
of Englewood, FL on June 1, 2012.
71 LA of Providence, RI on
Jane Gilbert Jeffers Hayden
Robert Ireton Tharp 81 MAE of
44 PT of Annapolis, MD on
Lexington, VA on April 13, 2012.
May 20, 2012. Janet (Field) Harter 48 GD
of Kennebunk, ME on August 5, 2012.
on July 25, 2012.
June 23, 2012.
Lorenzo J.I. Lucas 84 BArch of
Barrington, RI on June 19, 2012. Nancy Lee (Skahill) Gray 85 MAE of East Greenwich, RI
Louise B. Cahill 50 GD*
on August 17, 2012.
of Rockland, MA on October 2, 2011.
Samara (Hagopian) Katz
Carleton H. Rounds 55 AR*
April 21, 2012.
of Oswego, NY on June 4, 2012.
90 ID of Los Angeles, CA on
Livingston Rivers Webb
Pauline O’Donnell 56 IL of
91 PT* of West Hollywood, CA
Attleboro, MA on May 7, 2012.
on October 25, 2011.
Stormy Anne Sandquist
Karina Elizabeth Saari 97 PT
62 CR of Santa Fe, NM on
of Riverside, CT on July 24, 2012.
April 10, 2011. Please email class notes submissions to: risdxyz@risd.edu.
he specializes in reproduction photography for all kinds of artists, galleries and museums, and also creates detailed panoramic virtual tours.
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