The Dual Degree alumni used RISD's Jacquard loom to collaboratively create a double self-portrait.

Daniella Pozo (BRDD 2027, Printmaking, Urban Studies) spent the summer researching the process and history of quilting, as well as making paper with fabric scraps and recycled paper.

"A true conversation piece," Bentel's Loopy Chair takes its place alongside iconic designs including Knoll's Wassily Chair and Herman Miller's Eames Lounge Chair.

Co-founded by Annie Chen (BRDD 2023, Industrial Design, Behavioral Decision Sciences) and Zoe Lee (RISD 2024 ID) BEAM is a research studio for climate transition.

Kylee Hong (BRDD 2026, Interior Architecture, Urban Studies) earned funding from both RISD's Maharam Fellowship and Brown's Royce Fellowship to research and support affordable housing in Provincetown, MA this summer.

RISD News highlights the Brown|RISD Dual Degree Capstone Presentations delivered on May 28 and 29, 2025, in Brown's Lindemann Performing Arts Center. Covering a wide range of academic and artistic ground, the presentations explored how the graduates' unique backgrounds help them take risks, build relationships, and contribute to the world.

Each year, seniors majoring in Apparel Design present a collection in the department's high-profile runway event. Nura Dhar (BRDD 2025, Apparel Design, History) is among this year's designers.

Ali Dipp's (BRDD 2022, Painting, English) artwork Concession No. 3 (Trumbull, Capitol) is featured in The Golden Thread II, a "remarkable survey of what’s happening in [fiber art] at this very moment."

Co-founded by Lukas Bentel (BRDD 2015, Computer Music & Multimedia, Furniture Design) and Kevin Wiesner (BRDD 2015, Engineering, Industrial Design), MSCHF is the subject of a new monograph from Phaidon Press.

For the second year in a row, RISD's team of printmakers has won Boston's Iron Printmakers competition in Boston. Teams created an edition of ten prints incorporating four "mystery ingredients" and four printmaking methods in a single day. Ire Asojo (BRDD 2026, Printmaking, International and Public Affairs) was the team's lead for screenprinting, while Daniella Pozo (BRDD 2027, Printmaking, Urban Studies) led the intaglio process.

As part of a RISD Wintersession course called Craft of Making Murals, Amelia Cumming (BRDD 2025, Illustration, Environmental Sciences and Studies), Justine Kang (BRDD 2027, Illustration, Comparative Literature) and their classmates designed and painted four walls at the Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School in East Providence.

The Brown Daily Herald praises —ing, BRDD's 17th annual exhibition, for "[highlighting] the time-intensive process of producing masterful artworks" and "[exemplifying] the hard work required to create a student-led art exhibit."Anay Agarwal (BRDD 2028, Furniture Design, Undeclared) and Alyssa Gorman (BRDD 2028, Textiles, Undeclared) are quoted in the coverage.

Angie Kang (BRDD 2021, Illustration, Literary Arts) has been awarded the 2024 Ezra Jack Keats Fellowship, which allows authors and illustrators of children's literature to spend a summer in residence at MacDowell.

Ann-Maree "AMQ" Quaynor (BRDD 2024.5, Painting, International and Public Affairs) has been selected as one of two student speakers to address Brown's class of 2024.5 at this semester's Midyear Completion Celebration. “I have often been in between things," AMQ told News from Brown. "[But] the dual degree program ... gave me the opportunity to find the most authentic version of myself [and] recognize all the ways in which all parts of me are working together."

School Library Journal has named "I'm Sorry You Got Mad," written by Kyle Lukoff and illustrated by Julie Kwon (BRDD 2017, Illustration, Urban Studies), one of the Best Picture Books of 2024. SLJ praises the book's "sublime" art and story.

The Blind Urban Subject is a public art installation initiated by Daniel Solomon (Brown 2026) with the aim of increasing understanding of how the blind and visually impaired experience of urban life.

Shortly before graduating, Elliott Rosenberg (BRDD 2024, Furniture Design, Engineering, Computer Science) established Perennial Design Studio with a goal to “meld fine arts, design objects, and functional home goods.”

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."

Hannah Subotnick (BRDD 2016, Film/Animation/Video, Modern Culture and Media) has been named a Fulbright Grant recipient. The award will allow her to "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, 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."

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.