Alumni Stories

RISD’s 2023 fiscal year closes with more than $17 million raised in support of undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships, internships and museum programming.

RISD graduate Sahara Clemons is one of eight finalists.

Nine RISD students and recent alums worked with government and nonprofit organizations from Providence to Singapore.

Six funded projects explore radical solutions to longstanding problems that impact the environment and marginalized communities. 

Work by 21 emerging artists who honed their techniques at RISD is now on view at the Museum of Illustration in New York City.

The new scholarship offers support for students in the Architecture or Apparel Design departments.

Students, families, friends, faculty and alumni joined together to welcome RISD’s newest alums into the fold.

Many Hands, Many Voices: Textile Histories and Entanglements, taught by RISD Museum curator Kate Irvin, highlights marginalized makers of the past.

Korean-American architect and sculptor Janny Baek speaks about expressing “vibrancy, pleasure and hope” through her vivid ceramics, ahead of a major show at Culture Object, New York.