Student Stories

Juniors Gina Vestuti and Yukti Agarwal are using grants awarded by RISD Research to document the work of blues musicians in the US and traditional weavers in India.

RISD’s chapter of the Industrial Designers Society of America hosts an all-day makeathon focused on sustainability, accessibility and social impact.

A month-long, student-curated exhibition brings together artists and designers of color from RISD and beyond to illuminate the diversity of the Black experience.

RISD celebrates International Women’s Day with a visit from experimental European designer Patricia Urquiola.

Submissions to the eighth annual Baker & Whitehill Student Artists’ Book Contest beautifully marry craft and content.

A glimpse of students experiencing life outside their home departments during RISD’s annual five-week intersession term.

RISD Graphic Design students Forough Abadian and Jada Akoto included in the trade publication’s annual list.
 

A new cross-disciplinary Wintersession studio focuses on the act of protest.

Students in this year’s Witness Tree Project studio-seminar create objects out of beetle-infested maple from Vermont’s Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park.