Painting News

The artist presented this stirring commencement speech at RISD in May 2026, encouraging graduating students to imagine the radical.

The Commencement 2026 speaker was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree along with cartoonist Roz Chast, philanthropist Stephen A. Metcalf, and designer David Wiseman.

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.