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RISD - Rhode Island School of Design

RISD Welcomes $1M Gift

03/01/2013
RISD has received the single largest gift ever from an international donor to create a new visiting scholar position in Painting.

Tags: faculty, global, research, Painting, students
Mentoring Matters

01/30/2013
Painter Paula Martiesian 76 PT on The Mentor Project and accompanying exhibition she organized at the Newport Art Museum.

Tags: alumni, collaborations, Illustration, Painting
Now Showing: New Work by New Faculty

01/14/2013
Painters Angela Dufresne and Craig Taylor, two new assistant professors in the Painting department, are interested in innovation and integration.

Tags: faculty, Painting
Mixing Major Curiosities

11/19/2012
Student ceramicists are working with visiting artists to create marvelous – and sometimes unorthodox – projects.

Tags: Ceramics, collaborations, faculty, interdisciplinary, research, Painting, Printmaking, students
Painting What the Eye Can’t See

10/16/2012
While studying at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Lab (MBL), Lizzie Kripke 14 PT created a cutting-edge animation that allows scientists to visualize complex skin structures in ways previously unseen.

Tags: academic collaborations, Brown, technology, research, Painting
Fallen Star Stuck on Rooftop

07/26/2012
Passersby 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.

Tags: alumni, local/global, Painting
Yoga Works

07/16/2012
Increasingly more RISD students have turned to yoga to help them relax, focus and tap into their creative strengths.

Tags: Foundation Studies, Illustration, Industrial Design, Painting, students
Students Propose Public Art for Providence

06/26/2012
Students 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.

Tags: alumni, governmental, local/regional, graduate, interdisciplinary, Industrial Design, nonprofits, partnerships + collaborations, public engagement, research, Landscape Architecture, Painting, students, Sculpture
Movie Stills that are Anything But

06/05/2012
RISD 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.”

Tags: faculty, Painting
Tribal Nuances in Black and White

06/04/2012
Paintings 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.

Tags: faculty, Painting