Naya Lee Chang (BRDD 2024) Remixes Public Art on College Hill
In the last month of her five years in Providence, Naya Lee Chang (BRDD 2024, Furniture Design, History) led walking tours of public art installations that she created in conversation with existing buildings and monuments across both Brown and RISD's campuses. Stops on the tour included a waving inflatable arm attached to the statue of Caesar Augustus overlooking Brown's Wriston Quad and Bricked Over Windows, a Dorner Prize-winning work on the RISD Museum's Benefit Street facade. Drawing parallels between practices of historical scholarship and public art, Naya muses that critical practitioners in both fields "learn existing stories then try to make [their] intervention."
Ethan Hoskins and Glory Lee (BRDD 2024) in RISD’s Annual Runway Show
Each year, seniors majoring in Apparel Design present a collection in the department's high-profile runway event. Ethan Hoskins (BRDD 2024, Apparel Design, Psychology) and Glory Lee (BRDD 2024, Apparel Design, Business Economics) are among this year's designers.
Inspired in part by her experiences working in fashion marketing during her time as a student, Lee debuted a collection titled What Suits Me, which "explores and maintains a delicate balance between structure and freedom, youth and maturity, conformity and originality." Hoskins, on the other hand, "discovered in the course of his apparel design studies that he wanted to pursue painting." Vogue Runway's coverage of the show calls his "abstract expressionist self-portraits, executed on Styrofoam ... a reminder of the importance of following one’s heart."
Ivery Chen (BRDD 2024) and Healey Koch (BRDD 2024.5) Premiere Animations in F/A/V Senior Show
Ivery Chen (BRDD 2024, Film/Animation/Video, Computer Science) and Healey Koch (BRDD 2024.5, Film/Animation/Video, Computer Science) each premiered a senior film in the RISD Auditorium as part of the Film/Animation/Video department’s Senior Show.
Justin Rui Han (BRDD 2022) Named Sharpe-Walentas Program's 2024 Philip Pearlstein Painter
Justin Rui Han (BRDD 2022, Painting, Archaeology & the Ancient World) has been awarded a prestigious Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program residency for 2024-25. Han joins the cohort as the recipient of this year's Philip Pearlstein Painter Award, which identifies an outstanding representational painter in recognition of Pearlstein’s commitment to referential art. This announcement follows his 2024 solo exhibition Shatter Zones at The Artist Room in London.
