Commencement 2022 Joshua Coverdale, Undergraduate Student Speaker

Joshua Coverdale 22 FAV shares life events through storytelling to create work about inequalities of the Black experience. His thesis, a five-episode docuseries called Work Ethic: In Conversation with Five Black Artists, celebrates the artistic talent of RISD artists as they challenge expectations to represent race-related trauma, instead emphasizing new narratives and personal voice. In the fall he will attend Northwestern University’s MFA program in documentary media