April at RISD brings daffodils, throngs of students enjoying warm weather on the RISD beach, and senior shows.

Senior shows are a chance to show off the results of the 4 years (or 5 for you architects) of hard work you put in as a RISD student. For us admissions officers, it’s gratifying to see the final projects of students we first met as applicants. It’s a great opportunity to see how their artistic skills and style developed during the time that they were here at RISD.

Most senior shows are up for about a week, so there are constantly new things to see in the various campus galleries. One of the shows that we recently visited featured the work of five different Illustration seniors. Their pieces ranged from loose, large-scale figure paintings to small acrylic and cut paper children’s book illustrations.

At the show opening last Thursday, we caught up with two of the artists, Kate (who you may remember from Leon’s post about waiting for decision letters) and Sam. They were kind enough to let us photograph them in front of their work.

Most of Kate’s work at RISD has been children’s book illustration, but she’s looking into a couple of different options for work after she graduates.

Sam has done a lot of computer illustration and plans to work for a game design company in Providence.

The Illustration gallery is in the ISB building, and is open from 12pm-4pm every weekday.

If you have any questions about the show, feel free to contact us anytime.

Meryn Hall
mhall@risd.edu

Antonio Peters
apeters@risd.edu

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