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Professor Anais Missakian 84 TX in a textiles studio
RISD’s First Endowed Chair in Textiles

Longtime Professor Anais Missakian 84 TX is honored to accept her new appointment as RISD’s first Pevaroff-Cohn Family Endowed Chair in Textiles.

Molly Haynes 14 TX working on drawings of specimens from the Nature Lab
Drawn from Nature’s Lab

Designers Rachel Doriss 99 TX and Molly Haynes 14 TX create a new textiles collection for Pollack inspired by RISD’s Nature Lab.

Embroidered border patterns by Textiles Critic Michael Savoia draw inspiration from design details in NYC’s Grand Central Station
Here in RI | Providence Backs Local Designers

Three entrepreneurial alumni and a current faculty member earn 2019 Providence Design Catalyst awards in support of their practices.

Zoe Latta 10 TX and Mike Eckhaus 10 SC
Eckhaus Latta Follows Its Own Lead

With their first museum exhibition ever—at the Whitney—fashion favorites Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta continue to defy the desire to define their evolving practice.

Textiles created by individuals on Weft, a site that allows anyone to create their own woven textiles
Textiles Revolution Looms Large

Backed by the National Science Foundation, professors from RISD and Cornell create groundbreaking software that allows everyone interested to produce woven fabrics.