Brown's Illustration Program

We all have stories to tell. Academically and artistically speaking, the narratives that simmer inside me are largely fueled by my passion for the study of history. For me, the vehicles for expressing these narratives are pencil and paper, brush and canvas. Now, I look to Brown’s REMS Program to stoke the fire beneath my narrative cauldron and to RISD’s Illustration Program to help me perfect the skill set needed to best harness the creative energy that boils over. Farther down the road, I hope to advance my formal education further and, ultimately, to pursue a career steeped in both art and history -- ideally, in an academic and/or museum setting and with a studio close at hand.

It goes without saying that REMS offers an unparalleled opportunity …show more content…
Informally, I am a prolific sketcher -- in sketchbooks on the floor of one of the many galleries at The Met, on paper tablecloths at restaurants, or on the college-ruled paper in every one of my school notebooks, reading classical texts, obsessively watching Documentaries, and seeking out and conversing with other aspiring artists and historians via various social media platforms. Formally, not only have I taken full advantage of my high school’s comprehensive art sequence, covering a broad variety of media in two and three dimensional design, but I have further improved my skill set through outside selective programs (e.g., the intensive studio summer program at Penn Design, Adelphi University’s figure drawing program, and, this past summer, Professor Henderson’s Drawing Intensive class at Brown). By these varied experiences, I have gained a deeper appreciation for the human form, a solid foundation in technique, color, proportion, composition and methodology, all while honing the perceptive and descriptive rendering skills needed to further develop my narrative as a interdisciplinary student at

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