Dorner Prize Artist Talk by Kailyn Bryant
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Kailyn Bryant (RISD BFA 2025 Furniture Design) asks: “What’s something you wish you could say out loud?”
The World Is on Fire, Bryant’s large-scale interactive painting, invites participants to post their responses to this question directly onto the painting itself. Winner of the 2025 Dorner Prize, this installation underscores how vital physical media is for expression and fostering community. Learn about Bryant’s inspiration, process, and hopes for this project in conversation with this year’s Dorner Prize jurors, Dr. Naimah Zulmadelle Pétigny, Shiller Family Assistant Professor of Race in Art and Design in RISD's Department of Literary Arts and Studies, and Gabrielle Walker, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet Curatorial Assistant at the RISD Museum.
Free. Registration for this in-person program is requested.
The Dorner Prize is an annual juried competition that invites RISD student artists and designers to create new installations, performances, programs, or digital encounters that engage the public by using the RISD Museum’s object collections, public spaces, and digital platforms. The Dorner Prize, named for distinguished early 20th-century RISD Museum director Alexander Dorner, is made possible by a generous anonymous gift.