Student Stories

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.  

Forbes India profiles the painter/printmaker and current RISD grad student.