SEI Stories
RISD Exhibits Woolworth Lunch Counter Stools That Played Part in Civil Rights History
The Providence Journal reflects on Don’t You Sit Down: Shades of Jim Crow, 1960– exhibition designed by RISD’s Interior Architecture department.
Closing the Healthcare Gap
RISD’s Center for Complexity designs a suite of solutions intended to advance health equity and reduce adverse medical outcomes for patients of color.
Echoes of Jim Crow
An interactive on-campus exhibition brings to life the civil rights movement and ongoing struggle against racism and segregation in the US.
Indigenous Landscapes
Husband-and-wife educators endawnis Spears and Cassius Spears, Jr. kick off the Liberal Arts division’s spring lecture series.
Expanded Support for First-Generation Students
New RISD First-Generation to College Pre-Orientation Program will offer a multifaceted experience for incoming students.
Breaking with Convention
SEI Faculty Fellow Ernest A. Bryant III challenges students to find new meaning in the images that surround all of us.
Recasting the Dutch Golden Age
SEI Fellow Jane’a Johnson studies violence, visual culture and how race is reflected in archives and museums.
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.
Art Installation or National Landmark?
Interior Architecture students debate the fate of Civil Rights leader Rosa Parks’ former home in Detroit.