Alumni Stories
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Off-campus exhibitions showcase the exceptional work graduate students make in RISD’s Ceramics, Painting, Photography and Sculpture departments.
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Sustainable Markets Initiative global judging panel to award £100,000 prizes to two of the innovative, scalable approaches to mitigating the global climate crisis.
![image of a Suh installation called Fallen Star that resembles a crumbling New England house](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2024-06/Alumni-Mag-Suh.jpg?h=41f55a5b&itok=Mz6UApLz)
RISD alum Do Ho Suh explores memory, migration and the concept of home.
![A dust storm on Mars](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2024-04/Linkout-NASA.jpg?h=48f86c95&itok=Qylnzmwu)
RISD industrial designers at NASA—and in the private sector—gear up for the new space race.
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Venues across the US and beyond are giving Liz Collins, who first found fame as a fashion designer, the art-world recognition that had eluded her.
![Roz Chast sitting on the steps of her building in NYC](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2024-04/Linkout-Chast.jpg?h=982a35d2&itok=5LcIPWIQ)
The New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast plumbs the absurdities of everyday life, sleeping and awake.
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A multidisciplinary group of students travels to Italy to present the unique conceptual exhibit Objects May Shift at Salone del Mobile.
![Sore Loser painting of tennis players by Sasha Gordon](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2024-03/Alum-OfTheTime-2024.jpg?h=52931713&itok=dC3n2f1s)
In just five short years, recent alums Sahara Clemons, Drew Dodge, Sasha Gordon, Zoë Pulley and Qualeasha Wood have garnered long lists of accomplishments.
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Now in its fourth year, the Nature Lab program pairs EPSCoR researchers with grad students working in the fine arts.