11/09/2020
Sophia Narrett’s Embroidered Art
Hyperallergic describes the Painting MFA’s work as a “hallucinatory experience of isolation or a fairly run-of-the-mill orgy.”
11/05/2020
RISD Hire Promoting SEI
RISD launches a job search for no fewer than 10 new faculty members specializing in race, decolonization and cultural representation.
11/04/2020
RISD Launches Cluster Hire
Rhode Island School of Design is hiring 10 faculty members focused on race and decoloniality in the arts as part of a wider plan to tackle systemic racism.
10/29/2020
Challenging Conventions
Furniture design icon Giulio Cappellini encourages RISD students to study the history of design so they can reinvent established forms.
10/27/2020
Fulbright Fellow Stays the Course
Alum Ying Bonny Cai spent a year in Seoul studying traditional Korean apparel with contemporary makers reviving and modernizing ancient customs.
10/23/2020
Shahzia Sikander Goes Big
The New York Times presents a profile of the Painting/Printmaking MFA, a Pakistani native whose work explores colonialism, migration, gender and hyphenated identities.
10/23/2020
Rethinking the Materials Lifecycle
New grad Fengijao Ge presents an innovative project at this year’s Antenna conference that repurposes textiles waste to combat erosion.
10/22/2020
Deana Lawson Wins 2020 Hugo Boss Prize
Vogue reports on the Brooklyn-based Photography MFA’s $100,000 honorarium and her portraits chronicling the Black diaspora.