RISD News highlights the Brown|RISD Dual Degree capstone presentations delivered on May 28 and 29, 2025, in Brown's Lindemann Performing Arts Center. Covering a wide range of academic and artistic ground, the presentations explored how the graduates' unique backgrounds help them take risks, build relationships, and contribute to the world.
Read more on RISD News and view select presentation recordings on Behance
Nura Dhar (BRDD 2025) in RISD’s Annual Runway Show
Each year, seniors majoring in Apparel Design present a collection in the department's high-profile runway event. Nura Dhar (BRDD 2025, Apparel Design, History) is among this year's designers. In a review for Vogue Runway, writer Laird Borrelli-Persson writes that in Dhar's collection "garments were constructed from lengths of material with minimal cuts, and it was remarkable to see that so much could be done with so little."
Image: Looks from Dhar's collection Becoming; Undoing
Ali Dipp's (BRDD 2022, Painting, English) artwork Concession No. 3 (Trumbull, Capitol) is featured in The Golden Thread II, a "remarkable survey of what’s happening in [fiber art] at this very moment." In artnet Elissa Auther, Chief Curator at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design, describes the piece as "[exemplifying] how materials can relate directly to a place, and to communities.” Presented by BravinLee Programs, The Golden Thread II is on view at New York City's South Street Seaport through May 16, 2025. In addition to her fine art practice, Dipp is pursuing an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University.
Co-founded by Lukas Bentel (BRDD 2015, Computer Music & Multimedia, Furniture Design) and Kevin Wiesner (BRDD 2015, Engineering, Industrial Design), MSCHF is the subject of a new monograph from Phaidon Press.
Ire Asojo (BRDD 2026) and Daniella Pozo (BRDD 2027) Help Cinch Second Iron Printmakers Win
For the second year in a row, RISD's team of printmakers has won Boston's Iron Printmakers competition in Boston. Teams were tasked with creating an edition of ten prints incorporating four "mystery ingredients" and four printmaking methods in a single day. Ire Asojo (BRDD 2026, Printmaking, International and Public Affairs) was the team's lead for screenprinting, while Daniella Pozo (BRDD 2027, Printmaking, Urban Studies) led the intaglio process.
Yunni Cho (BRDD 2021) Awarded BRIDGE Proof of Concept Fellowship
Switzerland's BRIDGE Funding Programme has awarded Yunni Cho (BRDD 2021, Interior Architecture, Cognitive Neuroscience, Urban Studies) one of twelve Proof of Concept Fellowships. Currently a Ph.D. candidate in Civil Engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Cho researches daylight and the built environment.
GDUSA Names Ashley Cai (BRDD 2025) a Student to Watch
Graphic Design USA has included Ashley Cai (BRDD 2025, Graphic Design, International and Public Affairs, Computer Science) in their annual list of "top students ready to burst on the design scene."
Joyce Lin (BRDD 2017, Furniture, Geology-Biology) - whose "uncanny" sculptures "examine themes of interconnectedness and the Anthropocene" - is the subject of a feature in Colossal magazine. A New York Times article on women in woodworking also cites Lin's “Material Autopsy” series, which "[explores] the impact of our industrialized society and how most of us are far removed from how things are made."
Kylee Hong (BRDD 2026) Named a 2025 Truman Scholarship Finalist
Kylee Hong (BRDD 2026, Interior Architecture, Urban Studies) has been announced as a 2025 finalist for the Truman Scholarship for college juniors interested in a career in public service, government, education, or elsewhere in the public sector. Hong is among the 201 Finalists selected from 743 applications who will interview with the Foundation’s Regional Review Panels in March and April. Selected Truman Scholars receive $30,000 towards graduate or professional school.
Students in "Craft of Making Murals" Course Jazz Up RI Philharmonic Music School
As part of a RISD Wintersession course called Craft of Making Murals, Amelia Cumming (BRDD 2025, Illustration, Environmental Sciences and Studies), Justine Kang (BRDD 2027, Illustration, Comparative Literature) and their classmates designed and painted four walls at the Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School in East Providence.
