RISD’s Glass Department is dedicated to furthering the development of glass in contemporary art and is widely regarded as a leader in preparing artists for careers in this field. As practicing professionals, the department’s faculty considers glass to be both an artist’s material, having remarkable and complex expressive range, as well as a studio discipline with limitless potential and a unique history that incorporates sculpture, architecture, design, craft and decorative art.

As a Glass major, you will immerse yourself in a media-specific program that combines this rich and diverse heritage with a limitless investigation of the material and the processes involved. Through regular critiques with your professors, peers and a wide range of visiting artists and critics, you will maximize your conceptual and aesthetic assets as you learn to master the medium.

As a core component to the curriculum, the Glass Department regularly invites world-renowned visiting artists and critics to come to campus. These guests represent a rich diversity of contemporary art practices and provide fresh perspectives on work in progress. Visitors present lectures and workshops, engage in studio collaborations with Glass majors, participate in group or individual critiques, and share in conducting the Degree Program Workshop Seminar. Through exposure to a broad range of practicing professionals and a close working relationship with RISD’s full-time and adjunct faculty, students become adept at articulating their ideas and expressing their own vision.

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