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."
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.
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."
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.'"
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.
Three BRDD Students Featured in RISD Exhibition "Sonder: The Black Biennial"
Three Brown | RISD Dual Degree students - AMKMQ (BRDD 2024.5, Painting, International and Public Affairs), Njari Anderson(BRDD 2024, Sculpture, Modern Culture and Media), and Ire Asojo (BRDD 2026, Printmaking, International and Public Affairs) - have artwork in Sonder: The Black Biennial, on view in RISD's Gelman Gallery through June 2, 2024.
Sarkis Antonyan (BRDD 2027)'s Poetry Practice Featured in Brown Daily Herald
In the Brown Daily Herald, Sarkis Antonyan(BRDD 2027, Interior Studies Adaptive Reuse, concentration in Literary Arts and Studies; Urban Studies) describes his multidisciplinary poetry practice. Exploring "themes of adolescence and queerness,” Sarkis "draws [inspiration for his poems] from visual art — whether it’s his personal creations or museum collections."
Image: Sarkis Antonyan, Mesh, 2023, acrylic on wood. Photo by Scott Lapham.
Healey Koch (BRDD 2024.5) Contributes to Project in Collaboration with NASA and Smithsonian
Working with researchers from Brown's Computer Science department, NASA, and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Healey Koch (BRDD 2024.5, Film/Animation/Video, Computer Science) contributed to a project marking the 25th anniversary of NASA’s flagship X-ray telescope, the Chandra spacecraft. Koch and his colleagues "analyzed 3D models developed by scientists on the Chandra team and then reconstructed the celestial objects so they fit the processing and communication limitations of smartphones," ultimately creating a set of augmented reality filters for Instagram.
