Faculty Stories
![Local designer and “multimedia spectacle generator” Jess Brown MID 09](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1570828759807_JessBrandNewDay.jpg?h=8b7966f8&itok=OwLjxaZL)
Newly appointed Assistant Professor of Industrial Design Jess Brown MID 09 is addressing difficult issues and supporting students of color.
![Industrial Design Associate Professor Cas Holman](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1570565057903_cas-hero-alt-2.jpg?h=0c4eeed3&itok=1bBz-buN)
Associate Professor Cas Holman shares her passion for toy design on the new season of the Netflix series Abstract: The Art of Design.
![Close-up of grey, wool felt](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1568402662610_LotharFeltListing.jpg?h=8895fc3a&itok=bFye_d35)
Furniture Design Professor Lothar Windels BID 96 creates a new version of his award-winning Joseph Felt Chair for the President’s House.
![Chairs from the Rhye Collection of furniture for RISD's new residence hall](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1567609951121_Rhye-chairs-hero-alt.jpg?h=d6cb00c8&itok=DOJ3-9SF)
Professors John Dunnigan MFA 80 ID and Lothar Windels BID 96 create the Rhye Collection of furniture for RISD's new residence hall.
![3D-woven shoe by Brooks Hagan MFA 02 TX, Claire Harvey 18 TX, and Emily Holtzman 18 TX](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1564682162394_Woven-shoe-hero-and-listing.jpg?h=913a59dd&itok=Ynxhjrug)
In developing Weavecraft, Associate Professor Brooks Hagan and the Virtual Textiles Research Group are pushing weaving in exciting new directions.
![Ji Hoo Kim MFA 20 DM and EFS Programs Head Shawn Greenlee 96 PR working in the new studio](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1561658821090_Spatial-audio-listing-and-narrative.jpg?h=5554a4bd&itok=9f_-FfDy)
Since opening last fall, the spatial audio studio above the library has helped advance sound studies at RISD.
![Professor Anais Missakian 84 TX in a textiles studio](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1558017577297_Missakian-hero-final.jpg?h=6d19374b&itok=BN3uAm2b)
Longtime Professor Anais Missakian 84 TX is honored to accept her new appointment as RISD’s first Pevaroff-Cohn Family Endowed Chair in Textiles.
![Photo of girl holding snake by Jennifer Garza-Cuen MFA 12 PH from her series Imag[in]ing America](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1557108327330_GarzaGirlwithSnake-listing.jpg?h=8af371aa&itok=li-vVoJP)
Faculty members Deborah Zlotsky and Yevgeniya Baras and alumna Jennifer Garza-Cuen MFA 12 PH win 2019 Guggenheim Fellowships.