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.
12/07/2011Inspired by computers, math and the complexity of contemporary life, Anne Morgan Spalter MFA 92 PT presents a new body of work in her first New York solo show, called Traffic Circle.
12/06/2011In a rare interview in The New York Times, photographer Steven Klein 76 PT reveals a bit about why he has earned a reputation as “one of fashion’s most cunning provocateurs.”
12/06/2011Tino Chow 09 ID, cofounder of the multidisciplinary design studio Big New Ideas, spoke about dreaming and designing at TedxHunstville.
12/02/2011Architecture Professor Peter Tagiuri and his London firm earn a Best Housing Development Prize in the 2011 Brick Awards.
11/29/2011Jewelry designer Kellie Riggs 11 JM reflects on her opportunity to attend the 2011 Hello Etsy Summit in Berlin.
11/22/2011Cinematographer 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.
11/18/2011A new healthcare internship program at the Department of Health and Human Services grew out of RISD’s 2011 Make It Better symposium.
11/16/2011RISD 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.
11/15/2011The 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.
11/16/2011San Francisco-based alumni and entrepreneurs Lauren Geremia 04 PT and Jess Wainer 04 GL team up to light up the Bay Area.
11/16/2011A new book by Graduate Studies faculty member Anne West helps artists to better think about and articulate the meaning and messages in their work.
11/15/2011An innovative Jewish devotional hut designed by a team of young alums wins the Holcim Next Generation Award.
11/14/2011RISD 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.
11/10/2011In 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.
11/09/2011The Wassaic Project connects artists with each other and with the local community.
11/03/2011The 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.
11/01/2011A 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.
10/14/2011Working 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.
10/04/2011A 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.