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  • MacNeil, a Master of the Medium

    03/23/2011
    Jewelry artist Linda MacNeil 76 SC earns national recognition with a 2011 Master of the Medium award from the James Renwick Alliance in Washington, DC.

  • Responding to Natural Disasters

    03/23/2011
    The RISD community came together on March 22 to consider the triple disaster in Japan and the role artists and designers can play in helping people to process and recover from this type of event.

  • The State of the Art in Healthcare

    03/22/2011
    Nearly 500 policymakers, healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, activists, academics, artists and designers came together at RISD for Make It Better, a two-day symposium that envisioned new and evolving roles for artists and designers in solving complex healthcare challenges.

  • Game Changer

    03/22/2011
    The RISD Alumni Association’s 2011 Art + Education award will go to gaming design expert Katie Salen MFA 92 GD, who is experimenting with alternative approaches to K-12 education.

  • Extraordinary Honorees at Commencement

    03/21/2011
    At its June 4 Commencement ceremony, RISD will confer honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees on three individuals who have made groundbreaking contributions to the worlds of art, design and education.

  • RISD Ranks #1 for Fine Arts Grad Programs

    03/15/2011
    RISD tops Fine Arts Schools in the Best Graduate Schools rankings released today by US News & World Report.

  • Seduced by Sugar

    03/11/2011
    Alumna Melissa Armstrong’s latest rock candy sculpture is on view through April 8 in a show called Science is Fiction.

  • Sustainable Design in Six Minutes or Less

    03/11/2011
    Drew Beam 99 IL, Dawn Danby 00 ID and Eric Smith 94 GD are working together to create a series of entertaining educational videos that outline the principles of sustainable design and construction.

  • Reaching New Heights of Creativity

    03/09/2011
    RISD alumnus Kenneth Lewis BArch 83 returned to campus to talk about the creativity and the challenges that went into redesigning and rebuilding the World Trade Center site in New York.

  • A Better Biennial

    03/07/2011
    RISD’s Faculty Biennial, the most comprehensive showing of faculty work to date, is on view at the RISD Museum through March 20.

  • RISD Dean Named to Lead MassArt

    03/03/2011
    Dawn Barrett, dean of the Architecture+Design Division at RISD, has been elected as president of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt).

  • The Very Picture of Good Health

    02/25/2011
    A RISD Wintersession class brought together students and policymakers to explore how art and design can communicate public policy around healthcare reform. For example, this bus stop rendering is an example of how design thinking can be used to reach out to Rhode Island’s Latino community.

  • Rothman’s Rabbits

    02/16/2011
    Illustrator Julia Rothman 02 IL created a playful holiday card for RISD – between projects for clients ranging from The New York Times to Victoria’s Secret.

  • NEA Taps Alum to Promote Art Works

    02/16/2011
    New York-based designer Hoon Kim MFA 08 GD created the identity for the National Endowment for the Arts’ new Art Works campaign.

  • Making Art Work

    02/14/2011
    Rhode Island and RISD serve as the launching pad for a national conversation about the role of the arts in the creative economy.

  • Commitment and Community

    02/01/2011
    Entrepreneurs from Kickstarter, Etsy and Quirky came to campus during Wintersession to launch new online networks featuring work from RISD students and alumni, and to speak to RISD students on what it takes to launch a successful business. The answer? A combination of a focused vision and an expansive network.

  • Bridging the Art/Science Gap

    01/31/2011
    The National Science Foundation recently sponsored a gathering of minds at RISD to strategize innovative ways to enhance STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math] education by integrating art and design – transforming STEM into STEAM.

  • Start the Presses

    01/28/2011
    RISD partners with local arts organization AS220 to bring printing power to the people.

  • Analog Analysis: To Digital or Not to Digital

    01/20/2011
    President John Maeda talks about sandpit psychotherapy and the pros and cons of digitized discourse.

  • Turner Turns to Water Wars

    01/11/2011
    In his most recent documentary, producer and director of photography Rhett Turner 98 PH probes an ongoing battle over water rights in the American Southeast.

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RISD has a long history of offering Saturday and after-school classes for children and teens, as this photo from c. 1910 confirms.