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  • 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.

  • Message in a Bottle

    09/15/2011
    Professor Ellen Driscoll, head of the Sculpture department, uses recycled plastic bottles to make people think about issues of consumption and sustainability when viewing her new installation in the Providence River.

  • Opening Doors That Change Lives

    09/08/2011
    Under the leadership of Professor Paul Sproll, RISD’s Project Open Door college access program for urban teens looks to build on its successes. 

  • Exploring Entrepreneurs

    08/17/2011
    In a course called Entrepreneur, Oren Sherman 78 IL is inspiring students to build on their considerable problem-solving skills to market their own talents.

  • RISD Summer Reading? Horrors!

    07/12/2011
    Assistant Professor Nicole Merola spearheads a new program inviting all incoming RISD students to read and respond to a classic horror novel set in Providence.

  • Students’ Design in National Media Blitz

    07/12/2011
    Working with Associate Professor Leslie Fontana, ID students designed a prototype that’s now featured in the Progressive Insurance TV ads promoting its new Snapshot device.

  • Community Garden Blossoms

    06/09/2011
    Six faculty members work with dozens of Architecture students to design and build a community garden that brings together preschoolers, the elderly and everyone in between.

  • RISD Appoints Interim Academic Leadership

    05/24/2011
    Rhode Island School of Design has tapped three RISD alumni, professors and department heads for key leadership positions for next academic year: Professor Rosanne Somerson 76 ID, head of Furniture Design as interim provost, Professor Bill Newkirk 68 GD, head of Graphic Design as interim dean of  Architecture + Design and Professor Anais Missakian 84 TX, head of Textiles as interim dean of Fine Arts.

  • Japanese Art to Offer Relief

    04/06/2011
    Aki Ishida of the Architecture faculty works with students to present their Japanese paper installation as part of a benefit at the Japan Society in NYC.

  • Creativity Cubed

    03/29/2011
    Professors Markus Berger and Peter Dean lead a collaborative triad between RISD, Brown University and a team of RISD alumni in thinking outside the box – or in this case, redesigning the box entirely to creatively repurpose shipping containers.

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