April 2025 Newsletter
Announcing the 2025 Alumni Association Award Winners
This past fall, we invited our community to nominate alumni for the Alumni Association Awards by asking, “Who inspires you?” And, as always, the nomination process highlighted so many incredible individuals deserving of recognition. After careful consideration, the selection committee has recognized the following alumni with 2025 awards:
Sasha Gordon 20 PT, Emerging Leader Award
Byron Dean Kuth BArch 86, RISD Serves Award
Silas” Munro 03 GD, Art & Design Educator Award
Huma Bhabha 85 PR, Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf Visionary Award
Through their work, this year’s winners challenge and reinvent traditional forms, explore the nuances of identity, develop and nurture novel formats of design teaching and push the boundaries of green building and sustainable design. We look forward to celebrating their incredible contributions to art, design and their communities at the RISD Awards Dinner at the end of May.
Pulling on the Thread Season 4
This season features 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. New episodes every Monday through May 26.
Last Chance to Sign Up and Celebrate the Class of 2025
Sign-up deadline: April 28
We hope you will join Alumni + Family Relations in celebrating the Class of 2025. Sign up today and write notes to our graduates to honor their achievements, welcome them to the Alumni Association and let them know that RISD will always remain part of their journey.
RISD Reads The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
RISD Reads is excited to announce the group’s latest selection, The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing by Adam Moss. We will be reading two essays from the work and hope to see you at our virtual book discussion on May 12.
Planned Giving
RISD is a dynamic learning environment, a museum that celebrates critical thinking and community engagement, and a place of innovation and change. Donors who incorporate RISD into their estate plans are critical to our ability to grow, supporting students, artists and our community in perpetuity.
Alumni Club News: Club of Cleveland
After a brief hiatus, the Club of Cleveland was excited to host their first event in 2025, a special docent tour of Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior, on April 26. Club leader Asya Palatova MFA 04 CR shared that she looks forward to reconnecting with alumni in the area and planning more events later this year.
Collection 2025
May 28, 2025
Seniors in Apparel Design will present their final bodies of work in Collection 2025, a live runway show on Wednesday, May 28. Tickets are now available for the Collection 2025 live shows at 4 pm and 7 pm at the WaterFire Arts Center in Providence.
At the Museum: Process Work
On view through July 20
Process Work: Intersections of Photography and Print ca. 1825 to Today explores the development of photographic printmaking processes and traces its historical legacy into the present day.
Affinity Group Highlight: RISD Founders & Entrepreneurs
Through monthly happy hours in New York City, regular virtual founders roundtables and more, RISD Founders & Entrepreneurs support alums at every stage of their creative business journey. Whether you are launching a startup or growing your established company, we invite you to join us and connect with our vibrant community's collective expertise and experience.
Will You Be in New York City for Design Week?
Will you be exhibiting or participating in events or programming in or around NYCxDesign and ICFF/Wanted this May? We’d love to hear about it. Please let us know if you are showing or planning to be in the city to take in the excitement.
