Faculty
Each year around 600 full- and part-time faculty members help students grow as thinkers and makers. These artists, designers, architects, scholars and educators advance RISD’s culture of creative discovery, while thoughtfully teaching and guiding students. Beyond the classroom they are leaders in their fields, pursuing an array of projects and producing innovative work.
Faculty news
Faculty members Catherine Andreozzi and Michael Lye teach courses focused on apparel design and habitats for astronauts and have created an informal pipeline for alums interested in working for the space agency.
Faculty- and alum-led initiatives focus on everything from new materials to sustainable fishing practices to strategies for mitigating urban heat island effect.
RISD alum Rebecca J. Miller completes the film she began in 1976 about a 1940s Robert Flaherty documentary focused on RISD Professor John Howard Benson that never came to be.
SpaceSuits.US and Crossing the Pell, both conceived at RISD, use state-of-the-art technology to explore adaptive reuse.
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