SEI Stories
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.
What Was Lost, What Was Stolen
Visiting artist Dionne Lee questions the makers and motives behind historical American landscape photography.
Society of Presidential Fellows Takes Flight
Since August 2019 RISD has raised $15 million to fund a new program that recruits and supports outstanding graduate students.
RISD Hire Promoting SEI
RISD launches a job search for no fewer than 10 new faculty members specializing in race, decolonization and cultural representation.