At Rhode Island School of Design, you’ll join a creative project that started in 1877
At Rhode Island School of Design, you’ll join a creative project that started in 1877
At Rhode Island School of Design, you’ll join a creative project that started in 1877
RISD is a college and museum located in Providence, Rhode Island
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The RISD Museum hosts the RISD Ceramics alum, whose work challenges the conventions, expectations, and codified hierarchies of sculpture.
The Glass department welcomes the RISD alum back to campus for a talk about his unique sculptural installations inspired by natural phenomena.
RISD is pleased to welcome the groundbreaking Marian Anderson String Quartet in concert as the centerpiece of RISD’s 2026 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Series.
It Starts with a Question
It Starts with a Question, a new video interview series hosted by RISD President Crystal Williams, features conversations with thought leaders, art and design luminaries, and other notable creatives and changemakers. In the latest episode, multidisciplinary artist and MacArthur “genius grant” awardee María Magdalena Campos-Pons and President Williams have a wide ranging discussion about the role of art and artists in the world.
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
Life After RISD: Lucas Ansel
The recent Film/Animation/Video alum and Student Academy Award-winning animator reflects on his passions for problem solving, the magic of filmmaking, and what RISD taught him about hard work.
Life After RISD: Lucas Ansel
The recent Film/Animation/Video alum and Student Academy Award-winning animator reflects on his passions for problem solving, the magic of filmmaking, and what RISD taught him about hard work.
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Hear more about RISD’s community of artists, designers and scholars.
Students conducted research and proposed monuments for College Hill that commemorate the past while reinterpreting symbols of collective memory.
The alum and designer of the classic Cubebot toy robot worked with first-year students in a Wintersession studio focused on iteration and simplicity.
From the coast of South Africa to the streets of Japan, students investigated local traditions, conducted research, and tapped into interdisciplinary making opportunities.
The class studied inlay, overlay, and engraving processes, reimagining the relationship between the functional and the ornamental.
From cooking to travel to themes of medicine, students created their own video games in a recent Wintersession studio.
Fall 2025 Regeneration Studio focuses on biomimicry research in structures, materials, mechanisms, and interfaces.
