It is a challenging and urgent time to be engaged in the research, creation and analysis of art, design and visual culture. Today’s visual and conceptual environment is strikingly complex – and there has never been a greater need for artists, designers and critics to help shape the future and destiny of a world in which cultural boundaries and conventions are mutating and changing. Artists and designers make communicative objects, images, performances and environments, and increasingly play a role as public intellectuals who raise questions and offer insight about contemporary culture. learn more »
 

Graduate students at RISD have ready access to the resources, programs and people needed to support advanced work.

• Assistantships, grants, etc.
• Galleries
• Graduate Student Alliance
• Visiting artists, designers + critics

Intellectual stimulation comes in many forms at RISD, from guided research to intriguing group seminars.

• Research + Venues
• Fleet Library at RISD
• HAVC Concentration
• Seminars
• Partnered Studios

Creating a final body of work and writing a thesis helps students to synthesize newfound discoveries about their own evolving practice.

• Overview
• Thesis Exhibition
• Written Thesis
• Process + Experience
• Titles + Archives