姜涵一
苏州德威国际高中2018年毕业班学生
AS 各科全A，罗德岛设计艺术学院提前录取珠宝设计专业
美国罗德岛设计学院（Rhode Island School of Design 简称RISD），是一所集艺术与设计学科为一体的世界顶尖设计学院。建校于1877年，至今已有近140年的悠久历史。并在Business Insider的世界上最棒的25所设计学院中，RISD荣膺榜首，力压耶鲁、麻省理工、Pratt、SAIC等强校。
RISD位于美国罗德岛州（Rhode Island）的首府普罗维登斯市（Providence），座落于学院山（College Hill）山脚，与常春藤布朗大学（Brown University）校园相连，师生比为11：1，拥有13英亩校地，国际学生比例约为15%。罗德岛设计学院和布朗大学共同享有着社会、学术和社团等资源，并为两校学生提供互选课程和双学位的机会。
“ 一件珠宝 一段独白 ”
姜涵一 珠宝设计作品
01
海洋曾是姜涵一儿时的梦。两年前，她加入了斯里兰卡的环境保护组织。当被塑料堵住咽喉奄奄一息的海龟以及白化了的珊瑚出现在她眼前时，姜涵一感受到的是海洋的哭泣。拉回现实生活里，美术工作间里，姜涵一将笔刷做剑，调色盘当矛，用自己的方式为海洋生命抗争。
“ 海洋受到污染，珊瑚出现白化现象。
我希望这些可穿戴的鲜艳珊瑚能够唤起人们保护珊瑚的意识。”
02
“ 全球气候变暖导致冰川融化海平面上升，最终地球被海水覆盖。如果人类尚存，或许会长出海生动物的器官。于是我从八爪鱼的触须上得到灵感，创作了这幅艺术作品。”
( 以上这两幅作品收录在姜涵一申请罗德岛设计艺术学院的作品集中。)
[ 对艺术大器晚成 ]
与其他申请艺术院校的学生不同，姜涵一真正接触美术是从德威的高二年级开始的。随着课程的展开，选修课的逐一推进，姜涵一发现自己对于设计有着强烈的热爱。高二那年，姜涵一的课程排得十分满档，而美术工作室的自习开放时间一周仅有一晚，为了争取更多的时间学习美术，她常常放弃午休时间来到美术工作室进行创作练习。“德威的美术课教会我的是如何管理一份艺术项目，了解一件艺术作品是如何一步步演变而来，而且德威美术课更注重学生创意的培养。”
对于艺术的理解，姜涵一是这么认为的：
“于我而言，
艺术是去除堵在海龟喉咙的镊子，
是提醒人们反省所作所为的绘笔，
是驱动人们做出改变的法律。
但我希望我的作品比镊子更锋利，比话语更长久，比法律更约束。”
除了艺术，姜涵一的其他学科成绩也十分优秀，她坦言这得感谢德威的上课形式与方法。“德威的教学方法并非老师单纯讲课，而是会有很多生动活泼的形式让学生将所学知识输出。哪怕是理科，也会有类似视频制作，幻灯片演讲，海报制作等形式来让学生真正掌握知识。”
Jill Jiang – An environmental artist
Graduate of 2018 with AS --- A grades in all subjects, received an early decision from Rhode Island Institute of Design and Art and will major in jewelry design.
“A piece of jewelry and a dream of the Ocean.”
The ocean was a childhood dream of Jill Jiang. Two years ago she joined the Sri Lanka's Environmental Protection Organization. On one occasion, when plastic was discovered blocking the throats of dying sea turtles, Jill felt that the ocean was figuratively crying out for help. She has taken these feelings and expressed them in her art where her designs speak volumes about the fight formarine life.
Figure I
“When the ocean is polluted the coral whitens. I hope these wearable bright corals can arouse people's awareness of protecting corals.”
Figure II
"Global Warming leads to glaciers melting,sea level rising and eventually the Earth is covered with sea water. If human beings are to continue to exist, they may evolve to become marine animals. So I got inspiration from the tentacles of octopus and created this piece of art.”
These two works were included as part of Jill Jiang’s application for Rhode Island School of Design and Art.
Late to the Arts
Unlike other students applying for an artcollege, Jill Jiang did not really connect with the fine arts until her sophomore year at Dulwich. When she started the art course, she compared it to other courses one by one and found herself to be both strongly attracted to art and passionate about design. In her sophomore year, Jiang had a full schedule of courses, with art only taking up one hour a week. In order to gain more time to learn art, she often gave up lunch breaks so she could spend more time in the art studios for creative practice.
"Dulwich Art Classes taught me how to run an art project to understand how a piece of art evolves step by step. Dulwich art classes focus on the cultivation of students' creativity."
Jill Jiang has a unique understanding of art: "For me, art is tweezers removing the plastic blocking the throats of sea turtles and reminding people to reflect on what they are doing. It is a law that drives people to make changes. However, I want my work to be sharper and tighter than tweezers and more restrictive than law." The style and method of Dulwich art classes clearly benefited her greatly.
In addition to the arts, Jill Jiang also achieved very good grades in other subjects and she freely acknowledges this this is due to the quality of the teaching at Dulwich: "Dulwich's teaching method is not a teacher lecturing alone, but there are many lively forms for students to export what they have learned. Even in science, there will be similar forms of video production, slide presentations and poster production to help the students to master the knowledge. "