Karen Azarnia 99 IL + Michael Cain 99 IL
KEY
Karen and Michael were married on July 24, 2010 at the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL. The newlyweds live and work in Chicago.
the ADC Gallery in New York City and published in a limitededition volume by Moleskine. In December Lili Maya GD/ MFA 05 DM (Baltimore, MD; mayarouvelle.com) and James Rouvelle exhibited their installation traversal53 inside the former Donnell library, across the street from MoMA in New York. Marissa Nadler IL/MAT 04
In October Caroline Adams
Just a few of our favorite class-
Saenger PR exhibited a series
mates. Where are the rest of you?”
of oil paintings at Thos. Moser in Washington, DC, where she lives.
2003 Mark Barrow PT and his wife,
2002
Sarah Parke 04 TX (NYC),
Jessica Frelinghuysen PR
are currently collaborating on
(Hamtramck, MI) exhibited
producing work: he makes
a collection of sights and sounds
paintings on her hand-woven
entitled In Your Neighborhood
fabric. Their recent exhibition at
in November and December
the Elizabeth Dee Gallery in NYC
at the Public Pool Gallery in
was reviewed in the New York
Hamtramck, MI.
Times (10.1.10).
Last October landscapes by Erik
Christopher Butler FAV
Leighton Koeppel IL (Jersey
(Chapel Hill, NC) sends word
City, NJ) were exhibited at the
that he is on the 2011 REBRAND
Jackson [NH] Historical Society,
Awards jury. He was interviewed
alongside 19th-century paintings
as part of the pre-award
by artists of the White Mountain
promotion; you can find the
School of Art.
interview at rebrand.com. He was also invited to contribute to
Tana Martin GD (Miami),
Print magazine’s Imprint blog.
creative principal at RMC,
Christopher notes: “The material
recently won the bid to redesign
on the blog is very relevant
(Needham, MA; marissanadler. com) writes: “I want to inform other young artists of the tradition of musicians coming out of RISD, and I thought the alumni community would be interested to see what I have been up to. I have used a lot of the tools I learned at RISD to create an independent music career spanning four full-length records that have been released worldwide, are available in stores and are widely listened to online. Most recently, three songs were used in an ABC pilot airing on national television. I have
current majors
Haavard Homstvedt 00 IL Ripple Sole, a solo show of work including this piece by Haavard, was featured last fall at the annarumma gallery in Naples, Italy. The artist is based in NYC.
been in Art Forum, the International Herald Tribune, the Boston Globe, the New York Times, Pitchfork, Stereogum, etc. etc. My first concerts were actually at RISD, in a little room upstairs from the mailroom, as well as in the little coffee shop on the corner and the now defunct Custom House Tavern. Since overcoming most of my stage fright, I have been touring the world performing as well as contributing vocals to many other bands, and utilizing my RISD career to design my own cover art, t-shirts, and other merchandise.”
Matthias Pliessnig 03 FD In December the arts advocacy foundation United States Artists awarded Matthias an unrestricted $50,000 grant in support of his ongoing work in furniture and sculpture. Fellow RISD grad Natalia Almada MFA 01 PH (see page 61) was also among the 52 individual artists and collaboratives nationwide selected to receive 2010 USA Fellowships on the basis of the “impact and caliber” of their work. Matthias, who frequently teaches in RISD’s Furniture Design Department, has also been named a Knight Fellow, an honor that includes an additional $5,000 grant to create a community engagement event in his home city, Philadelphia.
AP
Apparel Design
Arch
Architecture
CR
Ceramics
DM
Digital + Media
FAV
Film/Animation/ Video
FD
Furniture Design
GD
Graphic Design
GL
Glass
IA
Interior Architecture
ID
Industrial Design
IL
Illustration
JM
Jewelry + Metalsmithing
PH
Photography
PT
Painting
PR
Printmaking
SC
Sculpture
TX
Textiles
former majors AD
Advertising Design
AE
Art + Design Education
LA
Landscape Architecture
MD
Machine Design
TC
Textile Chemistry
TE
Textile Engineering
FIfth-year bachelor’s degrees BArch Architecture BGD
Graphic Design
BID
Industrial Design
BIA
Interior Architecture
BLA
Landscape Architecture
master’s degrees MA
Art Education (formerly MAE)
MArch Architecture MAT
Teaching
MFA
Fine Arts
MID
Industrial Design
MIA
Interior Architecture
MLA Landscape Architecture
the website for the University
to practicing RISD alumni and
of Miami’s School of Business.
students looking forward to
OTHER
careers in interactive design.”
CEC
Continuing Education Certificate
Four alumni were among the
FS
enrolled for Foundation Studies only
Jay Salvas GD writes via the
RISD Alumni Online Community: “Bosco (Juan B. Hernandez
50 winners in Young Guns 8,
Basulto GD) and I are living
the Art Directors Club’s 2010
in San Francisco—happy in Oz,
international competition for
as we say. We are delighted to
creative professionals in their
have guests this month:
20s: Michael Freimuth GD,
Amanda Poray GD (San
Joe Marianek GD, Nikolay
Francisco), Diana Weissman
Saveliev 07 GD and Jessica
GD (Cambridge, MA), and
Walsh 08 GD. The winners’ work
Candice Brooks GD (Boston).
was showcased in October at
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* attended RISD, but no degree awarded
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