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Jo Sittenfeld Apr 21, 2025

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Jo's work has been featured in The New Yorker and New York Times, including a series that recreated portraits of college classmates taken at their 15 year reunion. We talked about Jo’s new website, Middle Age Mixtape, that will house all of her works in one place.

Middle Age Mixtape

Jo’s website

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Season 4 Trailer Apr 15, 2025

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Season 4 will feature interviews with Jo Sittenfeld MFA 08 PH, Hanson Cheng BArch 16, Miguel Lastra MFA 22 CR, JooHee Yoon 11 IL, Lindsay Degen 10 TX, and Vincent Brathwaite 05 ID.

Supported by the RISD Alumni Association.

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Huma Bhabha and Shahzia Sikander Feb 23, 2023

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Huma mentioned her exhibition with the painter Michael Williams at David Kordasky in LA. The installation is a wonderful balance between the paintings and sculptural works.

Shahzia has just finished a massive project called Havah…to breathe, air, life, in Madison Square Park and the nearby Courthouse of the Appellate Division, First Department of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. The installation is on view for the next five months.

Shahzia's Instagram page
Huma’s gallery page

More about RISD Limited Editions here. Click through to see the prints that Huma and Shazia worked on.

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Ryan Cunningham and Colin Healey May 16, 2022

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Ryan and Colin are both graduates of the Film Animation and Video department and talked about the inherently collaborative nature of film and television.

In the Cards at the Tribeca Film Festival

Colin on Instagram

Running Man, Ryan’s post-production company

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Wayne Faucher May 09, 2022

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Wayne’s Instagram page
Wayne’s Facebook page

A list of Wayne’s work at Marvel

See Wayne in person at the 3 Rivers Comic Con June 4 & 5, 2022

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Pippi Zornoza May 02, 2022

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The Wedding Cake House operates as a bed and breakfast and artist's residency. The house is full of custom wallpaper, tile installations and contemporary works on paper. Read more about the house here.

See Pippi's work here.

The Wedding Cake House's Instagram where you can see renovations to the space as well as artists-in-residence.

Learn more about The Dirt Palace.

Click here to book a stay at the Wedding Cake House!

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Jordan Seaberry Apr 25, 2022

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His painting, The Wanderer, was acquired by the RISD Museum in 2017. Seaberry works as the co-director of the US Department of Arts and Culture, a nonprofit grassroots organization that fosters a culture of empathy and equity through the arts.

Jordan's website

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The Wanderer at the RISD Museum

US Department of Arts and Culture

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We mentioned affinity groups on this episode, click here to learn more!

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Jazzmen Lee-Johnson and Henry Felton Brown Apr 18, 2022

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The two have collaborated on a new series of prints and talked about the process of transforming drawings and ideas into layered silkscreen prints.

See more of Jazzmen’s work below

https://www.jazzmenleejohnson.com/

https://www.instagram.com/jazzleejohnson/

See more of Henry’s work below

http://www.henryfeltonbrown.com/

https://www.instagram.com/hankattak/

Salad Editions

https://saladeditions.com/

https://www.instagram.com/saladeditions/

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Emiko Davies Apr 11, 2022

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Her previous books , Florentine: The True Cuisine of Florence (2016), Acquacotta (2017), Tortellini at Midnight (2019) and Torta della Nonna (2021) all highlight regional cuisines of Italy where she settled after studying art conservation.

Emiko’s website has more information about her cookbooks, her blog and some recipes to try out. Her Instagram page is full of fabulous food photos too!

Order Cinnamon and Salt here! It will be released on May 31, 2022 but you can preorder a copy today.

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Season III Trailer Feb 27, 2022

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Learn more about RISD's Founders Day here

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