Alumni Stories

Isabel Hajian 19 AP sculpts bold cotton eveningwear for the Supima Design Competition at NYFW.

Museum educator Michelle Grohe MA 02 takes an inclusive approach at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Artist/activist Jordan Seaberry 14 PT encourages students enrolled in RISD’s Pre-College Program to pay attention and get involved in the world around them.

Two alumni are central to the cast of the competition show Blown Away on Netflix.

As the new artistic director at Pilchuck Glass School, artist/educator Ben Wright MFA 09 GL is building on the vision of the school’s founder Dale Chihuly MFA 68 CR.

Recent graduates will advance interesting art and design research in Africa, Asia and Europe during the 2019–20 academic year.

Lina Sergie Attar MArch 01 and the Karam Foundation are helping young Syrian refugees learn new ways of thinking through design-based education.

Nicole Eisenman 87 PT and Korakrit Arunanondchai 09 PR are the only two artists worldwide invited to show in both the 2019 Whitney and Venice biennials.

RISD Illustration graduates have earned two 2019 Caldecott Honors and two YALSAs for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults.