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
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Celebrate the student-curated exhibition Please Catch Me When I Fall with Black cuisines, great music, and a few surprises.
Join Assistant Professor AP Pierce for a discussion about the discourses, politics, and aesthetics of generative AI.
The Painting department welcomes the MICA faculty member and RISD alum for a Kirloskar-funded talk in this spring’s lecture 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.
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Life After RISD: Anina Major
The award-winning Bahamian artist and educator discusses the creative breakthroughs that drove her to pursue her calling as a professional artist.
Life After RISD: Anina Major
The award-winning Bahamian artist and educator discusses the creative breakthroughs that drove her to pursue her calling as a professional artist.
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Hear more about RISD’s community of artists, designers and scholars.
From cooking to travel to themes of medicine, students created their own video games in a recent Wintersession studio.
Students considered how sound can serve as a spatial and experiential medium, guiding attention, shifting atmosphere, and provoking new forms of encounter.
Please Catch Me When I Fall, curated by RISD students Karma Johnson, Khalil McKnight, and King Meulens, highlights joy, vulnerability, and the many stories to be told about the Black experience.
From taxes and contracts to managing money and staying true to oneself, the webinar series teaches students and alumni how to sustain their creative businesses.
Working collaboratively, students are designing and building exhibits in preparation for an immersive show in the Center for Integrative Technologies.
Fall 2025 Regeneration Studio focuses on biomimicry research in structures, materials, mechanisms, and interfaces.
