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  • Following Dreams by Following Ideas

    12/06/2011
    Tino Chow 09 ID, cofounder of the multidisciplinary design studio Big New Ideas, spoke about dreaming and designing at TedxHunstville.

  • Architecture Professor Wins Major Award

    12/02/2011
    Architecture Professor Peter Tagiuri and his London firm earn a Best Housing Development Prize in the 2011 Brick Awards.   

  • Etsy Backs RISD’s Newest Entrepreneurs

    11/29/2011
    Jewelry designer Kellie Riggs 11 JM reflects on her opportunity to attend the 2011 Hello Etsy Summit in Berlin.

  • Making HUGO

    11/22/2011
    Cinematographer Robert Richardson 79 FAV collaborated with director Martin Scorsese to make the Brian Selznick 88 IL book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, into a wonderful movie.

  • Opportunities to Make It Better

    11/18/2011
    A new healthcare internship program at the Department of Health and Human Services grew out of RISD’s 2011 Make It Better symposium.

  • Student Artwork Gains Exposure at RISD Exposé

    11/16/2011
    RISD Exposé, the student-run gallery and pop-up shop, is now in its third year of featuring fine art and design work by RISD students, both for browsing and for sale.

  • Passion and Problem-Solving: Artists as Entrepreneurs

    11/15/2011
    The RISD Career Center held its first-ever Entrepreneur Mindshare on Saturday, November 12. Billed as part TED conference and part boot camp, the all-day event was designed to get RISD students and alumni energized about creative entrepreneurship.

  • Bright Lights, Bold Collaboration

    11/16/2011
    San Francisco-based alumni and entrepreneurs Lauren Geremia 04 PT and Jess Wainer 04 GL team up to light up the Bay Area.

  • Mapping the Visual Mind

    11/16/2011
    A new book by Graduate Studies faculty member Anne West helps artists to better think about and articulate the meaning and messages in their work.

  • Architecture Trio Wins New Recognition

    11/15/2011
    An innovative Jewish devotional hut designed by a team of young alums wins the Holcim Next Generation Award.

  • Maeda Brings STEAM to MIT

    11/14/2011
    RISD President John Maeda and a number of RISD students, faculty members and trustees visited Maeda’s former academic home at the MIT Media Lab to speak about RISD’s STEM to STEAM initiative.

  • Collaborative Work Shines at Slater Mill Museum

    11/10/2011
    In a three-way exchange of inspiration, students in Textiles create print designs inspired by works at the RISD Museum and Apparel Design students create garments inspired by the resulting fabrics.

  • Alums Revive a Tiny Town in Hudson Valley

    11/09/2011
    The Wassaic Project connects artists with each other and with the local community.

  • Alum’s Powerful Portraits Now at MoMA

    11/03/2011
    The high-energy portraits Deana Lawson MFA 04 PH is currently showing at MoMA suggest the fascinating personal and social histories of the people she photographs.

  • RI to Fund Bold New Ideas

    11/01/2011
    A new fellowship opportunity announced by the Rhode Island Foundation will provide substantial seed money to Rhode Islanders with good ideas about how to solve statewide problems.

  • RISD/Brown Collaboration Celebrates Cunningham

    10/14/2011
    Working with costume design professionals on RISD’s faculty, Apparel Design students became part of the late Merce Cunningham’s legacy when they designed the dancers’ costumes for MinEvent: A Cunningham Collaboration.

  • Local Collaboration Fosters Global Innovation

    10/04/2011
    A Better World by Design, a student-led conference organized by RISD and Brown University, addressed sustainable solutions to complex social issues such as food, health care and the built environment in the developing world.

  • Gathering STEAM in Rhode Island

    09/29/2011
    On September 26, artists, designers, scientists, educators, business leaders and policymakers came together to celebrate Rhode Island’s leadership role in advocating for the role of art and design in fostering innovation.

  • 2011–12 Fulbright Winners Explore Global Culture

    10/24/2011
    Four young alumni continue the RISD tradition of winning national grants to study abroad.

  • Innovative Storyteller Releases Latest Wonder

    09/16/2011
    In Wonderstruck, Brian Selznick 88 IL pushes his breakthrough storytelling form even further than in his Caldecott Medal winner, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which will debut later this fall as a film directed by Martin Scorsese.

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A figure modeling class from 1916.