RISD Welcomes New Full-Time Faculty Members in Experimental and Foundation Studies and Other Departments
As the fall semester gets underway, new full-time faculty members Michael Demps, Jaleen Grove, Bassam Kurdali, Francesca Liuni and Katia Zolotovsky are bringing their real-world experience as artists and designers into RISD’s studios and classrooms.
Demps and Zolotovsky are working with first-year students in the Experimental and Foundation Studies division, where they are both teaching Spatial Dynamics sections. Demps makes work that engages Blackness, spirituality and ritual in tandem with concepts of history and historicity. He turned to visual art and earned his MFA in Sculpture from Yale University after making his mark in the hip-hop music world.
