New work: 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.
Up now: A selection of posters from Nancy Skolos’ elective Reframing the Poster is up in the GD Commons until mid-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
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.
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.
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.
Prof. Anastasiia Raina lectures at MICA, “From human-centered to bio-centered design”
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.
Animation by Vaishnavi Mahendran. See graduate work at the 2020 Grad Show
With the pandemic, 2020 master’s thesis projects were presented online via Zoom. Each student produced a book and an online repository for their work. A few appear below.
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