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. Dhar (BRDD 2025, Apparel Design, History) is among this year's highlighted designers.

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.

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 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, 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.”

Hogue (BRDD 2026, Illustration, Computer Science) created illustrated materials for The Grand Adventure - a nonprofit that organizes programs and support for pediatric and adult cancer survivors - while Jo Ouyang (BRDD 2026, Painting, Ethnic Studies) worked with the Asian American Advocacy Fund on an oral history and visual art archive of Asian American organizing in Atlanta.

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.

Jorge Palacios (BRDD 2020, Glass, Astrophysics) has been awarded a 2023-2024 Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures. 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, 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, Painting, Archaeology & the Ancient World) has been awarded a Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program residency for 2024-25. Han joins as the recipient of the 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 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.