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The Painting department welcomes back alum and MacArthur Award winner Nicole Eisenman.
The Sculpture department welcomes the award-winning theater and film director, whose immersive, narrative-driven projects blend puppetry, film, and sculpture.
The Fleet Library welcomes the 1978 FAV alum, who will present her recently completed senior thesis film Robert Flaherty Look Again: The John Howard Benson Film.
RISD news
Now in its fifth year, the First Generation College Student Pre-Orientation Program (FGC POP) has been recognized for dramatically changing the landscape for first-generation students.
The conceptual artist elevates the everyday through performance pieces and exhibitions like the one that transformed RISD’s Memorial Hall Gallery this fall.
A mix of Furniture Design and Architecture students, the class is designing and building furniture pieces that reference Kahn’s love of geometric forms and natural light.
Open to students in every major, Interdisciplinary Hot Casting explores a range of traditional and non-traditional techniques and mold materials.