During their final year in the program, each Brown | RISD Dual Degree student delivers a Capstone Presentation that draws upon their experience at both institutions. All are welcome to join us for this year's Capstone Presentations, as we celebrate the accomplishments of the students in the Brown | RISD Dual Degree classes of 2024 and 2024.5!
Wednesday May 29 and Thursday May 30, 2024
William Riley Hall, Lindemann Performing Arts Center
144 Angell Street, Providence RI
Getting here: For travel and parking information, visit the Brown Arts Institute website.
Use the external stairs to enter the main lobby.
Getting here: For travel and parking information, visit the Brown Arts Institute website.
Use the external stairs to enter the main lobby.
Access: For guests requiring use of an elevator, there is an accessible entrance at the street level on Angell Street. These doors are locked for safety purposes, so please hit the buzzer and they will be unlocked for you.
William Riley Hall includes wheelchair-accessible seating.
William Riley Hall includes wheelchair-accessible seating.
Presentation Schedule
Wednesday May 29, 11:00am-4:00pm
Mehek Gopi Vohra - "Redesigning Human Cognition"
Ivery Chen - "Working in Parallel: Creating Immersion Through Code and Film"
Dexter McChesney - "Seeing The Clouds"
Intermission (12:25-1:00pm) - join us in the Performance Lab for light refreshments
Yukti V. Agarwal - "Reimagining the Collective Future"
Glory Lee - "What’s Your Problem?"
Tierra Williams - “Marking Memory”
Break
Hadley Dalton - "Software as a Service"
Njari Dimario Anderson - "To Be Determined"
Thursday May 30, 11:00am-2:30pm
Izzy "Zigzag" Hettmansperger - "Multiplicity & 'Bughood' [or] Queer Methods of Artistic Self-Reflection"
Tina Guo - “A Sweet Mess”
Ethan Hoskins
Intermission (12:25-1:00pm) - join us in the Performance Lab for light refreshments
Elliott Rosenberg - "perennial"
Violet Bordin
Naya Lee Chang - "Research and Intervention: A Year of Historical Scholarship and Public Art"
Presenters
Textiles; concentration in Theory and History of Art and Design
Contemplative Studies;* Psychology
Ethan Hoskins
Apparel Design
Psychology
Graphic Design; concentration in Computation, Technology, and Culture
Cognitive Neuroscience
*denotes Honors
Many thanks to this year’s Capstone Advisors for their support of our students:
Pouya Ahmadi, Maralie Armstrong-Rial, Mary Jane Begin, Rachel Berwick, Mattia Casalegno, Kim DeMarco, Ellen Duong, Elena Festa, Tony Johnson, Benjamin Jurgensen, Christy Karacas, Amy Kravitz, Steven Lubar, Anais Missakian, Jennifer Montgomery, Emily Rye, Thomas Sgouros, Dean Snyder, Daniel Stupar, Barbara Tannenbaum, David Udris, Joe Warren, Michele Zager, Rashid Zia, and Janet Zweig
And to the Brown Arts Institute staff and Jennifer Liese, Director of RISD's Center for Arts & Language