Tag: Lisa Carnevale
Five Questions With: Lisa Carnevale
Lisa Carnevale | Vice president of innovation initiatives, R.I. Commerce Corp.
1. What are your priorities for Rhode Island’s federally designated Ocean Tech Hub?...
DESIGNxRI names Brown new executive director
PROVIDENCE – A design educator, artist and nonprofit development professional with experience on both coasts will now take charge of DESIGNxRI.
The nonprofit that supports...
DESIGNxRI’s Carnevale to step aside as executive director
PROVIDENCE – After close to a decade, DESIGNxRI’s co-founder and executive director will be stepping aside.
The nonprofit that supports Rhode Island’s design industry announced...
DESIGNxRI provides seed grants to 8 design firms
PROVIDENCE – Eight local design businesses have received seed grants through DESIGNxRI’s 2022 Providence Design Catalyst program, the organization announced Thursday.
DESIGNxRI said it is...
Providence, DesignxRI open 6th annual design business grant program
PROVIDENCE – The city of Providence is once again teaming up with DesignxRI to offer grants and other resources to Providence design-focused small businesses.
Major...
New model for collaboration
Rhode Island has a long, rich and diverse history of design, which arguably started with Samuel Slater. In 1789, the 21-year-old textile mill apprentice...
DESIGNxRI announces 2021 Design Catalyst cohort
PROVIDENCE – DESIGNxRI announced its 2021 cohort for the Providence Design Catalyst program Friday.
The 10 local design businesses will receive a combined $140,000 in...
DESIGNxRI, city launch 5th Providence Design Catalyst program
PROVIDENCE – DESIGNxRI and Mayor Jorge O. Elorza announced the launch of the fifth Providence Design Catalyst competitive grant program on Thursday.
The program will...
‘Thriving in the undefined’
To Alaina Mahoney – painter, blacksmith and welder of steel – few tropes are staler than the “starving artist.”
“Almost everyone I went to school...
Quality jobs can be landed in design across many industries
There is a big demand for young people in the manufacturing sector for sure. But some of those jobs are not about making products,...
