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Detail from a still life in progress by first-year student Suwen Han 24 EFS
Still Life with Zoom

Faculty member Claudia Bitran inspires students in her virtual painting class to take risks and mix mediums.

Five Questions

Executive Director of Integrated Health & Wellness Bob Samuels speaks with Providence Business News about how RISD is keeping students healthy through the pandemic.

Winning Dorner Prize entry Lost in Translation explores words whose meanings cannot be easily translated across languages.
Dorner Prize Revived

Winning 2020 proposals for RISD Museum installations on hold since last March are finally coming to fruition.

Power of Play

Healthy Roots doll designed by alumna Yelitsa Jean-Charles featured on Today Show segment about inclusive toys.

Orange dots piece created by online CE student
Continuing Ed Enrollment Skyrockets

In moving its CE classes online, RISD opens the floodgates to passionate new students from across the US and around the globe.

Graffiti that reads "Decolonize"
Decolonizing Pedagogies at RISD

Faculty, curators and librarians come together for a semester-long seminar on decolonization that builds on the institution’s commitment to advancing social equity and inclusion.

Graduation cap with "Create with radical empathy" painted on it
Commencement 2021 to Be Virtual

RISD announces plans to celebrate the achievements of the Class of 2021 and the Class of 2020 safely and responsibly this spring.

Cover of Survival Under Atomic Attack, an official U.S. government booklet
After the A-Bomb

RISD’s Center for Complexity launches Horizon 2045, a 25-year project aimed at eliminating the threat of nuclear war.