Painting News

The Chicago-based presidential archive will feature monumental works by faculty member Tyanna J. Buie and alums Julie Mehretu, Jenny Holzer, and Spencer Finch.

The Observer considers the relationship between Black and Brown bodies and museum spaces and was inspired by Egungun and New Orleans masquerade traditions.

The class is working together to create a large-scale fresco in the College Building using lime putty mixed with brick dust as the foundation.

The Rhode Island Foundation selected the winning alums and faculty members out of 144 applicants. 

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.

Graduate students selected for the Society of Presidential Fellows are pushing creative boundaries as architects, sculptors, industrial designers, painters, textile artists, and global scholars.

The largest Fulbright cohort in RISD’s history is currently conducting research in host countries across Europe and Asia.

From Apparel Design to Textiles, campus hummed with innovative approaches and generative discussions the week before the winter break. 

RISD alums Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo and Sasha Gordon make the 2026 Art & Style list, and Pave Robotics, co-founded by Mason Landon Smith, is included in the Manufacturing & Industry category.