03/22/2013New site-specific works by student winners of this year’s SITINGS competition are now on view at the RISD Museum.
Tags: graduate, public engagement, RISD Museum, students, Sculpture
11/26/2012Fourteen alumni are creating artwork to help raise funds for housing in a remote Rwandan village.
Tags: alumni, Ceramics, collaborations, local/global, nonprofits, public engagement, social responsibility, Printmaking, Sculpture
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.
Tags: alumni, collaborations, entertainment, Furniture Design, Sculpture, sustainability
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.
Tags: alumni, governmental, local/regional, graduate, interdisciplinary, Industrial Design, nonprofits, partnerships + collaborations, public engagement, research, Landscape Architecture, Painting, students, Sculpture
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.
Tags: Architecture, alumni, local/regional, faculty, partnerships + collaborations, public engagement, Sculpture
05/09/2012Alumnus Spencer Finch’s alluring installation and exhibition at the RISD Museum continues to get rave reviews from both critics and the public.
Tags: alumni, graduate, RISD Museum, Painting, Sculpture
04/04/2012After working on dozens of blockbuster films, jewelry designer Dana Schneider 82 SC felt like she won the lottery when asked to create the iconic mockingjay pin for The Hunger Games.
Tags: alumni, entertainment, entrepreneurship, Jewelry + Metalsmithing, STEAM, Sculpture
04/02/2012In a recent panel discussion on Color Effects, artist Spencer Finch MFA 89 SC spoke with a biologist and photographer about the nature of color and its ramifications in the fields of art and science.
Tags: alumni, interdisciplinary, research, RISD Museum, STEAM, Sculpture
01/31/2012Renowned sculptor Jim Drain 98 SC works with students during Wintersession to design a site-specific installation for an Art in Embassies project in Morocco.
Tags: alumni, governmental, interdisciplinary, local/global, partnerships + collaborations, public engagement, students, Sculpture, wintersession, Textiles
12/09/2011Quirky kinetic sculpture by Meridith Pingree MFA 03 SC injects a visceral immediacy to the work in a group show at Brown University’s David Winton Bell Gallery.
Tags: academic collaborations, alumni, Brown, multimedia, STEAM, Sculpture