ARTIST THEASTER GATES AND PRADA GROUP ANNOUNCE INAUGURAL COHORT OF DORCHESTER INDUSTRIES EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN LAB AWARDEES
Theaster Gates and Prada Group announce inaugural cohort of the Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab. The Design Lab, a partnership between Theaster Gates Studio, Dorchester Industries, Rebuild Foundation and Prada Group, is a three-year program curated to support and amplify the work of designers of color working across the creative industries. Fourteen designers and artists from around the world have been selected by a committee of design industry leaders to form the program’s first-ever cohort.:
Tolu Coker (fashion design), Germane Barnes (architecture), Norman Teague (product design), Kyle Abraham (dance), Mariam Issoufou Kamara (architecture), Kendall Reynolds (footwear), Yemi Amu (agriculture), Kenturah Davis (visual art), Salome Asega (art, technology, and design), Damarr Brown (culinary arts), Maya Bird-Murphy (architecture), Brandon Breaux (fine art and design), Summer Coleman (graphic design), and Catherine Sarr (fine jewelry design).
Nominated by luminaries across the creative industries including Prada S.p.A. Co-CEO and Prada Co-Creative Director Miuccia Prada, writer and director Ava DuVernay, the late designer Virgil Abloh, architect Sir David Adjaye, and other dignitaries, the awardees were selected through an extensive review process, having demonstrated extraordinary creative potential in their respective practices.