POD alumni spotlight

  • MECA, BFA Painting ‘24

    Kalyah is a Cape Verdean artist from Pawtucket, RI, studying painting at the Maine College of Art & Design. Her work is bold and colorful with repetitive diaristic imagery. These repeated images range from crosses to flowers to spontaneous scribbles. Kalyah loves exploring mediums and concepts and creating intuitive and honest work.

  • RIC, BFA Printmaking ‘25

    Alia a multidisciplinary artist currently working towards a BFA in Printmaking at Rhode Island College. She works primarily in intaglio and relief printmaking, traditional drawing, and collage. Alia's work centers around an interest in historical machismo imagery and comments on the absurdity of patriarchal gender associations by applying it to hyper-masculine activities and symbols through a lens of humoring the contextually "undesirable" yet present femininity.

  • RIC BFA Printmaking, BA Graphic Design ‘20

    Hannah a multidisciplinary artist based in Providence. She comes from a family of artists and has been making art in some capacity for as long as she can remember. Her passion for illustration lead her to pursue a double major in Printmaking (BFA) and Graphic Design (BA) at Rhode Island College.

  • USC, MFA Animation ‘21

    Dariel is a story board and comic book artist originally from Puerto Rico. Cartoons and anime have inspired his interest in comics, art, and design. He received a BFA in Illustration from RISD and an MFA in Animation from the University of Southern California. Daniel currently works as a Production Assistant for Futurama.

  • RISD, BArch ‘19

    Vuthy is an architectural designer & fine artist based in the Westend of Providence, Rhode Island. Their practice cycles between language, drawing and making to create tools for negotiating cultural trauma.

  • RIC, BFA Printmaking ‘20

    Sandra received her BFA in Printmaking from Rhode Island College. Her work is influenced by one-point and two-point perspective, using straight lines and interior spaces.

  • RISD, BFA Apparel ‘17

    Jamall is an emerging fashion designer based in NYC. His work explores topics such as race, identity, and gender to challenge stereotypical notions. His collections have been shown at New York Fashion Week and New England Style Week, as well as in prominent features in i-D, Vice, and Paper, and CFDA Fashion Future Graduate. He was also a contestant on Project Runway.

  • NYU, BFA Photography ‘25

    Jada is a Queer, Trans, Afro-Carribean photo artist and community organizer born and raised in Providence. Jada's work often explores topics such as love, memory, Blackness, and the idea of reimagination.

  • RISD, BFA FAV & Sculpture ‘25

    Josa is pursuing a BFA in Film/Animation/Video and Sculpture. Their work explores notions of vulnerability as they examine personal experiences, re-contextualize memories, and share them as a means of catharsis.

  • MassArt, BFA Industrial Design ‘20

    Sina is a Cambodian-American artist and designer who completed her undergraduate studies at MassArt with a BFA in Industrial Design and a minor in sculpture.

  • RISD, BFA Illustration ‘16

    Jordan is a fine artist, illustrator, and teacher currently living in western Oregon. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in 2016. Jordan taught an acrylic landscape painting class with POD in Summer 2021.

  • RISD, BFA Illustration ‘22

    Abenda is a multidisciplinary Liberian artist currently based in Providence, Rhode Island. His artwork explores the intersections and intimacy of memory, Liberian identity, and archives pertaining to Liberia’s history and his family’s immigration experiences.