Rinako Sonobe ’22 is one of 42 recipients of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship—a one-year grant that will allow her to travel and explore an interest of her choosing. For her application, she connected her interests in architecture and printmaking in a project called “Choreography in the Studio: Searching for Architectural Uniqueness.” “It’s about the architecture of the printshop,” she said. It’s also about the space within a printshop and the way the artist moves within it—the choreography of an artist making work.
Sonobe, who studied architecture and mathematics at Wellesley, plans to travel to Belgium, Argentina, Norway, Hong Kong, and Scotland to...