Student Stories

A multidisciplinary fall studio allows students to imagine positive solutions to looming global problems and speculate about possible paths to getting there.

A digital project exploring the confines of language by grad student Jack Madden wins the RISD Museum’s annual competition.

The Boston Globe reports on RISD’s collaborative research project with Hyundai Motor Group.

Students in a cross-disciplinary fall studio interpret cultural history and use geo-textiles to restore what was once described as “America’s hardest-working river.”

Students in a fall Apparel Design studio construct gender-neutral capsule collections for 18 astronauts flying to the moon.

Ghanaian undergraduate Abena Acheampong Danquah wins a Creative Futures Grant from the Black Artists + Designers Guild.

A transdisciplinary, student-led initiative reimagines RISD’s relationship with the ecosystem that surrounds it.

First- and second-year MFA students simultaneously present two distinctive approaches to exhibiting fine art.

Students in a fall Digital + Media research studio use high- and low-tech tools to explore the changing Narragansett Bay and develop creative research projects.