Alumni Stories

Four ongoing research projects by faculty and recent alums focus on composting, improving the visual data used to drive climate research, sustainable biomaterials and tenants’ rights.

For RISD alums Yelitsa Jean-Charles, Sarah Unruh, Amanda White and Brinton Jaecks, playtime is a full-time job. 

A devotee of historical workwear, the environmentally conscious new grad will show his all-cotton collection at New York Fashion Week in September.

Off-campus exhibitions showcase the exceptional work graduate students make in RISD’s Ceramics, Painting, Photography and Sculpture departments.

Sustainable Markets Initiative global judging panel to award £100,000 prizes to two of the innovative, scalable approaches to mitigating the global climate crisis.

RISD alum Do Ho Suh explores memory, migration and the concept of home.

RISD industrial designers at NASA—and in the private sector—gear up for the new space race.

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.

The New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast plumbs the absurdities of everyday life, sleeping and awake.