Student Stories

Photograph of a stream by Associate Professor Jennifer Prewitt-Freilino
Positive Psychology

Students in a liberal arts class developed by Associate Professor Jennifer Prewitt-Freilino practice techniques for improving well-being and building resilience.

Detail from a still life in progress by first-year student Suwen Han 24 EFS
Still Life with Zoom

Faculty member Claudia Bitran inspires students in her virtual painting class to take risks and mix mediums.

Winning Dorner Prize entry Lost in Translation explores words whose meanings cannot be easily translated across languages.
Dorner Prize Revived

Winning 2020 proposals for RISD Museum installations on hold since last March are finally coming to fruition.

Graduation cap with "Create with radical empathy" painted on it
Commencement 2021 to Be Virtual

RISD announces plans to celebrate the achievements of the Class of 2021 and the Class of 2020 safely and responsibly this spring.

Student design in response to Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood
Architecture Crits Online

Students finish the fall semester by sharing their final projects with visiting experts from around the world.

Ryan Mendoza’s Rosa Parks House Project on view in Providence’s WaterFire Arts Center
Art Installation or National Landmark?

Interior Architecture students debate the fate of Civil Rights leader Rosa Parks’ former home in Detroit.

Ralph Davis 22 SC combines poetry with research
Cultivating the Creative Process

Sculpture majors in a junior research studio draw inspiration from visiting experts working in a wide range of disciplines.

unior Caitlyn Boyd 22 IL leads an enthusiastic virtual tour of the Illustration Studies Building
Open Studios 2020

Departments across campus virtually open their doors to help first-year students choose a major course of study.

Harnessing VR for the Arts

RISD participates in a Microsoft virtual reality study aimed at developing an immersive classroom environment that meets the needs of artists and designers.