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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RISD’s Concept Club welcomes alum and Laika Studios model builder Leah Yao 19 ID, who will discuss her experience as a 3D fabricator in the animation industry.
The Photography department’s Gary Metz Lecture Series continues with visiting artist Rose Marie Cromwell, whose work explores globalization’s impact on politics and the spiritual.
Celebrate the opening of Natchiq Onkeehq Isuwiq, an exhibition exploring the deep cultural connections between Indigenous communities and seals (image by Linda Infante Lyons).
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: Rachel Cope
The painter and entrepreneur, who co-founded Calico Wallpaper with her husband in 2013, discusses the joy of doing what she loves for a living and finding her place in the world as an artist.
Life After RISD: Rachel Cope
The painter and entrepreneur, who co-founded Calico Wallpaper with her husband in 2013, discusses the joy of doing what she loves for a living and finding her place in the world as an artist.
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Hear more about RISD’s community of artists, designers and scholars.
Students in Patternmaking for Cast Iron Production investigate form, draw on age-old industrial practices, and develop tactile material knowledge.
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.
Fall 2025 Regeneration Studio focuses on biomimicry research in structures, materials, mechanisms, and interfaces.
