See work from the MFA class of 2021 on the RISD Grad Show 2021 website. Exhibition, identity and website designed by Everett Epstein, MFA 2021.
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We’re planning to be back on campus this fall. See our lineup of fall electives.
Refresh Memory by Amy Choi (BFA 2021) was created in this spring’s ”Computational Poetics” course, taught by Kathy Wu. See more projects in the course reader.
Seniors created video trailers to promote their semester-long Degree Projects. Degree Projects included an optional in-person exhibition and 30-minute Zoom presentation.
Revisit this past spring’s Code Lab on Github with video and text demos
Sunho Lee (MFA 2023) created a film-title inspired sequence in response to a countdown assignment in Ron Pearl’s Motion Design elective. See more of Sunho’s work.
A selection of posters from Nancy Skolos’ elective Reframing the Poster was up in the GD Commons in early May.
Color & Collaboration: A collection of Risograph prints [from various departments] was visible on the first floor of The Design Center in early May. Curated by Bryson Lee and Alejandro Molestina.
Kameelah Janan Rasheed lectures as part of the 2021 Spring Speaker Series. See other lectures on our Vimeo channel.
The Senior Show website is up with student galleries and links to more work. See poi.risd.gd
This past fall, MFA students in Graduate Studio 1 were asked to make a work in response to an object from Special Collections at the Providence Public Library. Ingrid Schmaedecke’s work, “Rights of Nature,” was a response to The American Woods by Romeyn Beck Hough.
In conjunction with the Boston Center for the Arts’ exhibit Combahee’s Radical Call: Black Feminisms (re)Awaken Boston, MFA candidate Zoë Pulley designed a zine of the first published version of the 1977 Combahee River Collective Statement. The newspaper is available at BCA Plaza while supplies last, and as a PDF download. Hear from Zoë and others about the project on BCA’s YouTube channel.
Presentation by RISD GD MFA alumni Tatiana Gómez and José Menéndez. How to aim to build strength, confidence, and trust in our communities through design by doing what you can with what you have? Part of the 2021 MFA Biennial.
Variable ‘L’ exploring resolution and pixel structure as ornamentation by Kartik Tuli, BFA 2021. Produced in Kelsey Elder’s fall 2020 elective exploring computation and type design.
Below: zzz by Everett Epstein (MFA 2021), from the spring 2021 course, Newly Formed