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Let’s Hear It for the Ladies Who Lathe

Former RISD president Rosanne Somerson and alums Ginger Gordon, Joyce Lin and Alexis Tingey included in article about women woodworkers.

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RISD Students Create Portraits in Clay in Figure Modeling Ceramics Studio

Over the course of the spring semester, they will develop an eye for symmetry, proportion and anatomy. 

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2025 TEDxRISD Speakers Discuss Their Personal Recipes for Success

Talks by students and faculty members encouraged listeners to forge their own creative paths by tapping into life experiences.

RISD Alums Jesse Groom, Isabel Rower and Michelle Jiaxin Huang Make the 2024 American Design Hot List

The award acts as Sight Unseen’s guide to the talents influencing the design landscape in any given year.

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RISD Printmaking Team Wins 10th Annual Iron Print Competition at MassArt

Led by faculty member Maxime Jean Lefebvre, RISD’s team came out on top for the second year in a row.

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Research Scientists Use Art to Express Complex Ideas at Vis-a-thon 2025 in RISD’s Nature Lab

Event organizers Georgia Rhodes and Stewart Skylar Copeland encourage visiting scientists to embrace the weird and imperfect.

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After More than 50 Years, an Early Demo of Talking Heads’ Hit “Psycho Killer” Has Surfaced at RISD

The tape of the Artistics, the first band of frontman David Byrne and drummer Chris Frantz, was recorded in a Providence apartment and is now in the RISD Archives.

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RISD’s Movement Lab Spurs Students to Create Site-Specific Projections

Offered through the Film/Animation/Video department, the course explored the role of movement in public projections that breathe new life into the built environment.