Gelman Gallery

The Gelman Student Exhibitions Gallery and the Dryfoos Gallery for New Media within it make student work accessible to visitors to the RISD Museum.

All students—undergraduates and graduates in any major—may submit individual or team proposals for group exhibitions in either gallery. The director of exhibitions reviews proposals alongside an oversight committee that includes representatives from the Student Gallery Board. Once the concept for an exhibition is approved, curators work with gallery staff to select the work, design the exhibition, prepare supporting written material, hang the show, publicize it and plan the opening.

Staff