Student Stories

From live-action shorts exploring farming and Japanese arts to hand-drawn, stop-motion, and cut-out animations, the films in this year’s show draw viewers in with compelling stories.

Open to students in every department, Metal and Performance introduces performance thinking in a collaborative, experimental setting.

A critique-based course encourages students to verbalize their creative goals and approaches to the medium while allowing themselves to play with new ideas.

Interior Architecture and Landscape Architecture departments join forces to teach adaptive reuse, ecological restoration, and urban revitalization strategies.

Many of this year’s reviewers are RISD alums who made their own early professional connections via the annual Career Center event.

Students in Patternmaking for Cast Iron Production investigate form, draw on age-old industrial practices, and develop tactile material knowledge.

Grad student Deborah Khodanovich and undergraduate Nadine Macapagal named students to watch in 2026.

Pushing the boundaries of digital video production, the course was one of two offered through RISD’s Movement Lab this Wintersession.

Students explored the materials’ shared properties and fast-and-loose production methods, which provided opportunities for collective critical reflection.