Alumni Stories
![Martin Mull 65 PT/MFA 67 talking with students](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1588902833809_Mull-home.jpg?h=04cce955&itok=XDI4zB8g)
For Painting graduate Martin Mull, a love of labor drives his studio practice—a 50-year labor of love.
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Through the RI-based Ventilator Project, three alumni are working to get much-needed equipment to hospitalized COVID patients.
![Image by Shepard Fairey 92 IL projected on RISD building](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1588094140818_Fairey-hero.jpg?h=eca8c794&itok=x2znUhq8)
Alumnus Shepard Fairey offers Rhode Islanders a message of strength and solidarity during the pandemic.
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Activists Lucas Michael and Mary Ellen Carroll rally fellow artists to help children still detained at the US border.
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Alumna Bethany Koby of Tech Will Save Us is offering families new ideas for learning through making during the pandemic.
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Interior architect Colin Stief brings the local design community together to support those on the frontlines of COVID-19 in NYC.
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RISD makers are helping to address the nationwide shortage of personal protective equipment.
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Photographer and filmmaker RaMell Ross—a self-described “liberated documentarian”—is now also a 2020 United States Artists Fellow.
![Jarrett Mellenbruch 93 PT walking in redwood forest](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1583949943213_Jarrett-walking-through-forest-3x2-listing.jpg?h=1b6b5d13&itok=o9pJPsHp)
With Redwood Preserve, Jarrett Mellenbruch offers an audacious vision for how art should shape the future.