Student Stories

Students considered how sound can serve as a spatial and experiential medium, guiding attention, shifting atmosphere, and provoking new forms of encounter.

Please Catch Me When I Fall, curated by RISD students Karma Johnson, Khalil McKnight, and King Meulens, highlights joy, vulnerability, and the many stories to be told about the Black experience.

Working collaboratively, students are designing and building exhibits in preparation for an immersive show in the Center for Integrative Technologies.

Graduate students selected for the Society of Presidential Fellows are pushing creative boundaries as architects, sculptors, industrial designers, painters, textile artists, and global scholars.

Architecture faculty members Jonathan Knowles and Laura Briggs are working with students to design and build a butterfly pavilion on an organic farm in Ponta Delgada.

From Apparel Design to Textiles, campus hummed with innovative approaches and generative discussions the week before the winter break. 

Film/Animation/Video students presented their final projects in December, considering such aspects as camera angle, composition, pacing, and framing.

Spanning Architecture and Industrial Design, the fall course builds on cutting-edge atmospheric water-generating technology. 

Nearly two dozen first-year students began their college journey immersed in Italian culture.