08/22/2012In a collaboration that reflects RISD’s commitment to critical making and community engagement, students in Ceramics and TLAD worked with local teens to create new tile murals for Providence's Hope High School.
08/17/2012In the spring studio Communicating Medical Risk, Brown undergraduates teamed up with RISD art and design majors to look at better ways of disseminating medical information.
07/31/2012In the breakthrough film Beasts of the Southern Wild, an apocalyptic fairytale comes to life thanks to amazing contributions from Annie Evelyn 99 FD/MFA 07, Sophie Kosofsky 06 FD, Jonathan Mosca 07 PR and Eliza Zeitlin 07 SC.
07/26/2012Passersby are hoping the 35-ton house Do Ho Suh 94 PT has placed teetering off a seven-story building in southern California is more illusion than reality. But it’s actually a bit of both.
07/16/2012Increasingly more RISD students have turned to yoga to help them relax, focus and tap into their creative strengths.
07/09/2012The first comprehensive museum survey of work by glass alum Josiah McElheny 89 GL is attracting well-deserved attention at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art.
06/26/2012Students in a spring Sculpture studio taught by Professor Ellen Driscoll are creating public art for Kennedy Plaza as part of a major initiative funded by the NEA.
06/21/2012When architect Eduardo Benamor Duarte had an idea for building with porcelain blocks, he turned to RISD’s Ceramics department experts for help.
06/21/2012Inspired by recent interaction with Asia’s top creative leaders, President John Maeda reflects on his own experiences as an artist and designer of Asian descent.
06/11/2012When illustrators from around the world converge on Providence from June 13–16, the ICON7 conference will bear a distinct RISD stamp.
06/07/2012Weaving fiber art together with years of environmental activism, Margaret Kearney 13 TX becomes the first-ever art school student to be recognized by the Udall Foundation.
06/05/2012On Saturday, June 2, thousands of family members and friends celebrated a major rite of passage for 645 graduates who collected their hard-earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from RISD.
06/05/2012RISD Painting Critic Dawn Clements has been awarded a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship for her work, inspired by melodrama and film noir, that the Village Voice has dubbed “still lifes that refuse to be still.”
06/04/2012A series of workshops linking RISD and the MIT Media Lab has set the stage for this month's CreativeMornings “pop-up” event at RISD, part of an international conversation on the intersection of arts and technology.
06/04/2012Paintings by RISD Professor Duane Slick are featured in We Are Here!: The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, which opened on June 2 at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York.
06/01/2012Architect and alumnus Kenneth Lewis BArch 83 brings his expertise about post-9/11 skyscrapers to the spring semester Tall Building Studio.
05/30/2012Art and technology make for a powerful mix, as creative thinkers around the world will confirm during a series of inspiring breakfast talks in June.
05/15/2012When producer Toshio Suzuki travels to RISD to accept an honorary degree on behalf of the famous Japanese animation house, he will host a screening and discussion of two of their films, Spirited Away and Only Yesterday.
05/14/2012This spring renowned public artist Kristin Jones 79 SC brings new explorations of space and time to an interdisciplinary studio offered through Architecture.
05/10/2012BOOKMARK, a breathtaking exhibition now on view at the library, celebrates 30 years of book arts at RISD.