2007 10th Reunion October 6 – 8, 2017 The remains of the set director Cecil B. DeMille blew up and buried after the filming of his iconic 1923 film The Ten Commandments provided the inspiration for Excavation II, an archaeological project by Daniel R. Small PH on view last summer at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Once he learned the story of this intentional ruin in 2010, Daniel joined a series of digs to explore how popular knowledge of history is filtered through and reconstructed by the myth-making powers of Hollywood and popular culture.
Jessica Auclair Smith JM (see page 55)
2008 James Cogbill ID exhibited five paintings in Brazilian Memory, a solo show that ran from April 8 through mid June at Wilson’s Tea & Coffee in Brooklyn, where he lives. Filmmakers Colin Healey FAV, Dave Schachter FAV and Ben Powell FAV are working on a new independent feature film called For Entertainment Purposes Only. Written and directed by Colin, the “mystical dramedy” focuses on a struggling storefront psychic in NYC and is inspired by stranger-than-fiction accounts
Hannah Shields 09 IL Hannah’s surface designs for Printed Village, a fashion brand based in New York, appear on shoes, shirts, totes, scarves and leggings sold at stores such as Anthropologie, Nordstrom and Target. The company recently featured her collection and ran a video about her on its site.
of fortune-telling fraud. Dave has signed on to produce and Ben is director of photography. As people throughout the US marked the 15th anniversary of 9/11, photographer Jennifer Judkins PH launched a site called The Ripple—designed to share podcasts of people talking about how their lives changed permanently as a result of the tragedy. As a recovery worker at Ground Zero, her own father, Chester Judkins, Jr., grew increasingly ill in the aftermath of the tragedy and died in 2013. Jennifer photographed her father over the years as his health failed and found the process to be “cathartic” because it provided “a lens to process what was happening to [him].” All of the swimsuits and accessories in KORE SWIM’s latest capsule collection were designed by cofounder Jessica Schulz AP and sport handdrawn beach scenes and colorful floral prints by illustrator Joana Avillez IL . In addition to her fabric designs, Joana is best known for her work for The New Yorker and Vanity Fair and for illustrating Not That Kind of Girl, the 2014 bestseller by Girls creator Lena Dunham. Never shy about sharing what’s on their minds, NYC-based designers Jessica Walsh GD and Stefan Sagmeister of Sagmeister & Walsh threw themselves into the maelstrom of presidential politics by trying to motivate millennials to vote. Through a site called Pins Won’t Save the World, they promoted a collection of badges, patches, tees, tattoos, posters, stickers and bumper stickers to help people let the world know where they stand.
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All proceeds from the sale of their pins and other paraphernalia went to Amnesty International’s The America I Believe In campaign.
2009 Last June Bronwyn Gruet IL (Durham, NC ) joined the design team at Creative Market, an online marketplace of “handcrafted, mouse-made design content” made by independent designers worldwide. As a brand designer, she does design and illustration work to help build the San Franciscobased company’s brand and its community of users. In late August Sean Monohan PT (Brooklyn) joined frequent collaborator Dena Yago and fellow artist Rachel Berks for The Streisand Effect, a panel discussion at the Hammer
Tara Kopp 06 SC Last summer Tara exhibited paintings in With Amazing Scenes Like These, a solo show at the Catskill Art Society in Livingston Manor, NY. She lives in Brooklyn.
Museum in Los Angeles. The conversation about art, commerce and appropriation marked the close of Made in LA 2016, the museum’s third biennial exhibition.
Kate Walsh 08 IL + Andrew Fogel 09 FAV Kate and Andrew were married in California on April 16, 2016 in the company of many fellow RISD alums. Horus, a hawk, did his job well as the ring bearer. The (relatively) newlyweds have been together since they met at RISD in 2006 and now live in Burbank, CA.