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WHEC-TV features illustration student Eian-Gabriel Sinclair, who is set to graduate from RIT today at 18 years old.

Between a moving performance, building an award-winning iron-melting device, and featured exhibitions, RIT students, faculty, staff and alumni were present in every corner of the National Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art and Practices.

Audrey Thompson '25 (medical illustration) and four other students in the program worked with some of the creative minds behind Reading Rainbow to create illustrations to visually support the storytelling in a new documentary on airway disorders.

Ava Guarino '26 (illustration) brought a toy robot to an interview — and got the job. She originally made an eye-catching 2D animation of a food delivery robot before using 3D software to translate it into a 3D-printed form that helped land her an internship with Fisher-Price.

Students developed Spotlight Creators, a startup meant to filter out ubiquitous, trend-chasing social media content in favor of original artwork. The goal of the site's co-founders is to create a welcoming online community for creatives to share more authentic work.

Los Angeles Times features the life and work of Charles Gaines ’67 MFA (art and design).

NHK Japan features Kofi Bazzell-Smith, Future Faculty Fellow in the School of Art, as he discusses his work as the first professor of manga practice in the United States.

Third-year illustration major Ava Guarino started working on her submission for the poster contest not long after last year’s festival ended. Some 7,800 votes were cast, and Guarino’s poster was one of the top vote-getters to make the finals. Imagine RIT is April 26.

WROC-TV features the work of alumnus Unique Fair-Smith, adjunct professor in the College of Art and Design, which shows students how Black history and Rochester are intertwined.

WITF interviews RIT alumna Stephanie Perrotti '06 (metals and jewelry design) about her past involvement crafting Super Bowl trophies with Tiffany & Co.

A group of six faculty members in RIT’s College of Art and Design have earned the University & Research Projects Award from the European Cultural Centre (ECC) for their collection of works, titled “Cultural Disruptors.”

Decked out with technicolor lights and vibrant animated displays, RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studios soundstage became a runway last week during Beyond Fashion. The rainbow runway featured a diverse collection of garments and wearables crafted by local designers and RIT students across multiple disciplines.