RISD News highlights the Brown|RISD Dual Degree capstone presentations delivered on May 29 and 30, 2024, in Brown's Lindemann Performing Arts Center. These presentations offered a "captivating and emotional look into [the graduates'] multidisciplinary work."
Ernesto Renda (BRDD 2018) in "for love, for art, and for being"
Ernesto Renda(BRDD 2018, Painting, Modern Culture and Media) has artwork in for love, for art, and for being, an exhibition curated by UTA Artist Space Senior Director Harrison Tenzer in partnership with actor Elliot Page. On view in Los Angeles from June 5-8 and online from June 5-26, 2024, for love, for art, and for being celebrates queer artistic expression in honor of Pride Month. This follows Renda's recent solo exhibition at Moskowitz Bayse in LA.
Hannah Subotnick (BRDD 2016) Awarded a Fulbright Grant
Hannah Subotnick (BRDD 2016, Film/Animation/Video, Modern Culture and Media) has been named a 2024-25 Fulbright Grant recipient. Subotnick earned an MFA in Art Pratice from Stanford University in 2020, and has served as a Critic in RISD's F/A/V department. The award will allow her to "travel to the Netherlands to make a photographic portrait of philosopher Baruch Spinoza in absentia by tracing his presence through the places he lived ... [exploring] how Spinoza’s occupational practice of lens grinding relates metaphorically and poetically to his philosophy."
Njari Anderson (BRDD 2024) Awarded Windgate-Lamar Fellowship
Njari Anderson(BRDD 2024, Sculpture, Modern Culture and Media) has been awarded a 2024 Windgate-Lamar Fellowship. Each year, the Center for Craft awards ten emerging craft artists $15,000 in unrestricted funds in recognition of the "excellence of their artistic contributions and their potential to innovate and enrich the craft field."
Recent Designs by Nik Bentel (BRDD 2017) in Fast Company and Design Milk
Fast Company highlights new designs by Nik Bentel (BRDD 2017, Industrial Design, Modern Culture and Media): “a chrome purse in the shape of an orb that warps light … made using a very complex mathematical calculation” and a line of “surrealist accessories,” created in collaboration with Kortney Hinden, “which [turn] iconic New York City street food into fashion.”
In Design Milk's "Friday Five" series, Bentel shares some of his current favorite things and muses on his path to this moment in his career.
Jorge Palacios (BRDD 2020) Awarded Prize in Speculative Futures
Jorge Palacios (BRDD 2020, Glass, Astrophysics) - currently a student in UC Santa Cruz's Environmental Art and Social Practice MFA program - has been awarded a 2023-2024 Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures Open to students across UCSC's graduate and undergraduate schools, the Coha-Gunderson Prize celebrates mixed media work in speculative fiction. Palacios' project, “Nomadic Infrastructures: Foraging, Craft, and New Media,” will "[use] a craft approach to sculpture and an ethnographic approach to foraging in order to create [willow hoop] structures that 'may reimagine alternative ways of relating to the environment and new media.'"
