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 Painting department welcomes the Brooklyn-based artist, whose practice contemplates beauty and queerness in the gestures and experiences of the everyday.
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, award-winning author, illustrator, alum, and 2025 honorary degree recipient Grace Lin and President Williams have a wide ranging discussion about Grace’s journey as an artist and the role of art and artists in turbulent times.
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.
Pushing the boundaries of digital video production, the course was one of two offered through RISD’s Movement Lab this Wintersession.
Students explored the materials’ shared properties and fast-and-loose production methods, which provided opportunities for collective critical reflection.
From cold-pressed watercolor paper to ribbons and film photography, the prize-winning submissions represented original approaches to bookmaking.
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.
Fall 2025 Regeneration Studio focuses on biomimicry research in structures, materials, mechanisms, and interfaces.
