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President Rosanne Somerson discusses the challenges of educating students during COVID-19 and how to respond to the pandemic as a “call-to-action moment.”

Through the RI-based Ventilator Project, three alumni are working to get much-needed equipment to hospitalized COVID patients.

Grad students committed to becoming teachers are developing alternative curricula and connecting with high school students remotely.

Alumnus Shepard Fairey offers Rhode Islanders a message of strength and solidarity during the pandemic.

Remote learning has inspired a dynamic revamp of a core Landscape Architecture studio—and a heightened sense of mission.

Ceramics Department Head Katy Schimert earns awards from both the Guggenheim and the Joan Mitchell foundations.

Hyperallergic discusses how RISD is adapting during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights the benefits of the recently launched RISD Network.

Activists Lucas Michael and Mary Ellen Carroll rally fellow artists to help children still detained at the US border.