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Sherenté Harris (BRDD 2023) Presents at URI TEDx Talks
Sherente Harris, 18, of Charlestown, a member of the Narragansett tribe and a first-year student in a dual degree program at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University. Harris, who identifies as both a man and a woman, will talk about the struggles of “two spirit” people, as well as indigenous invisibility.
Meet the winners of Visualize 2030: Anisa Holmes (BRDD 2016)
Anisa Holmes (BRDD 2016, Graphic Design, Economics, and Developmental Studies) wins Visualize 2030, a data storytelling contest in collaboration with the World Bank, the United Nations Foundation, and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, Google Cloud.
Dualies Show at Granoff
Parallels: The 11th Annual Dual Degree Exhibition doesn’t disappoint. Featuring the eclectic work of dozens of current Brown/RISD dual degree students, the exhibition includes everything from furniture and a virtual reality piece to drawings, paintings and prints.
These Squiggle Glasses Are the Future Millennials Want, Designed by Lukas (2015) and Nikolas (2017) Bentel
A brand called Bentel Brothers, who appear to be the designer-inventors of viral art stunts and wacky products like meat grown from celebrity tissue samples, has debuted a new "purposefully nonfunctional" line of "Squiggle Glasses."
Zachary Ziebell, a rare winter intern at HP Labs
Zachary Ziebell joins HP Labs on a rare winter internship this month and next. A dual fifth-year senior at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Brown University, Ziebell is majoring in both painting and symbolic systems, which combines computer science, cognitive science, and philosophy. He grew up outside San Antonio, Texas and in his spare time enjoys drawing, painting, and hiking.
Instagram Meets Installation
While the endless and often madcap scroll of an Instagram feed might not seem like the most fruitful starting point to unpack what it means to be an artist, Raina Wellman19 GD, Eliza Chen BRDD19 GD and Theia Flynn 19 GD decided to do just that. In fall 2017, they sourced a massive collection of process-related posts from their peers for a collaborative project in their junior-year Design Studio III.
Studio Focuses on Racial Justice
Dual degree student Jeremy Wolin BRDD 19 IA envisions on-site and off-site interventions.
Ariana Martinez (BRDD 2017) Featured Work, "Night Rider," on BBC Sounds
In "Night Rider," featured on BBC Sounds, Ariana Martinez shares an audio piece about their childhood experience of frequently moving and being in transit to a new uncertainty.
The colors of the midterm elections? Purple, green, and gold
The Center for American Politics and Design, a new group of designers and creative directors including Susan Merriam (RISD 2014) of Graj + Gustavsen, Kevin Wiesner (BRDD 2015) and Lukas Bentel (BRDD 2015) of Hello Velocity, and Will Denton and Seth Kranzler of Channel Studio, explore the visual culture of campaign season through an analysis of campaign branding in the midterm elections.
Google Pixel 3 TV Commercial
View Eli Block (BRDD 2017) and Phil Bayer (BRDD 2019) in the Google Pixel 3 National TV Commercial
Danny Glass (BRDD 2015) Shows at the 2018 International Art Festival in NY
Danny Glass displays a series of figurative paintings at the International Art Festival in New York.
Stories of Impact: Social Innovation Inspires Brown Student To Create Opportunities For Mindfulness
My project, Musical Prosthetics, is an expression of mindfulness, communication and connection. We are living in a fast-paced world rushing from event to event, multi-tasking at every turn. We are losing touch with ourselves, our bodies, and the people around us. However, art has the power to slow us down, allows us to experience the world around us, and can even shift our reality.
Miami Artist Nadia Wolff Explores Haitian Identity And Class In New Work
The BayParc Apartments in downtown Miami opened a space to artists through a collaboration with the national nonprofit YoungArts. The latest installation there is “A Place To Be Held” by Miami-native and 2016 YoungArts winner Nadia Wolff.
Meet Brown's Newest Undergraduates: Sherenté Harris
“The next five years are going to give me the opportunity not only to hone my artistic and academic skills, but also to reach out to Rhode Islanders who may be unaware of the issues indigenous people face, from poverty to alcohol and drug abuse to domestic violence,” Harris said. “My acceptance into Brown felt like an acceptance for the whole Narragansett tribe.”
3D Brain Model
Neurosurgeons could one day thank Ollin Venegas’ MD’20 presentation to high school students for allowing them to create detailed brain models of their patients. Venegas has been developing 3D models of the human brain, aiming to provide an educational tool and tactile illustration of the effects of concussions and other head traumas.
Fresh from the Tropics
In February apparel designers Aiala Rickard 17 AP and Isabel Sicat BRDD 16 IL presented the first Toqa collection at the inaugural Manila Biennale.
3D Printing to Replicate a Human Brain
When teaching high school students about traumatic brain injuries (TBI), such as concussions, it is often difficult for students to visualize the structural consequences when the damage occurs within the confines of a skull.
Maharam Fellow 2018: Bricks Made of Fungi! Javier Syquia | BFA Graphic Design & BA Chemistry 2021
We did it – we made a brick completely out of fungal mycelia and disposed wood chips!
SURFing in the Time of Climate Change
NSF's 2018 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program brought two undergrads to the Nature Lab to work on a project around the topic of "designing a visual platform for exploring climate change impacts in coastal plant communities."
Ariana Martinez: 2018 Signal to Noise Recipient
Gilded Audio Design, in partnership with Union Docs, is proud to announce Ariana Martinez as the winner of the inaugural Signal To Noise award. The award is presented to support work on her project Para cruzar el agua / To Cross the Water.
Talking “Fodder” with Allison Morgan (BRDD 2016)
Fiber artist Allison Morgan shares the inspiration behind her intricately beaded sculptural works.
Dual Degree Grads Fuse Art + Science
Arguably the only thing more difficult than pursuing a BFA at RISD or an AB at Brown University is doing both—simultaneously. But a small group of brilliant and extremely motivated undergraduates are doing just that—integrating academic and artistic pursuits over the course of five years to develop a unique and cohesive course of study through the Brown|RISD Dual Degree (BRDD) program. —Simone Solondz, RISD Media
Questions of Identity
Growing up black, queer and Catholic might sound challenging, but with support from their parents and teachers, Brown/RISD dual degree student Nadia Wolff BRDD 21 TXmanaged to find their creative voice and be named a US Presidential Scholar in the Arts before graduating from high school.
Paola Eisner Harvard Law ’19: Environmentalist, internationalist and artist
In the Harvard Law School Student Spotlight feature, Paola Eisner (BRDD 2014), shared her pursuit of multiple interests and how they connect around topics personal to her. At the HLS in the Arts Festival Eisner showed illustrations from her children’s coloring book featuring women, Fierce Femmes.