Matthew Cavallaro

Matt Cavallaro is multidisciplinary designer living and working in Providence, RI. His professional practice is primarily centered around the management of two of his own companies, Nest Homeware and Ares Iron. He is open to consulting and takes on freelance work from time to time as well.

Matt is an enthusiastic teacher and has been a professor at Rhode Island School of Design since 2014. He has taught a variety of classes within the Experimental and Foundation Studies division and Industrial Design department, ranging from Spatial Dynamics and Design Principles to Cast Iron, Investment Casting and Machining (on manual mills and lathes).

His interests are broad and varied, and his personal work often reflects those interests, such as space exploration, archaeology, ancient materials and manufacturing techniques, mythology and primitive survival skills.