Mehretu is the winner of numerous prestigious awards, including the Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the ...

The groundbreaking independent filmmaker discusses the inspirations behind his gritty characters and the early days of RISD’s ...

“There’s no mistaking the handmade quality of these animated prints,” said faculty member Judy Hecker at a recent interim crit in RISD’s Memorial Hall. “Think about scale as you work on these projects ...

Using hot glass working techniques, the class is exploring ideas that define, present, magnify, and duplicate elements of the natural world.

Fifteen enterprising RISD students ventured to New York City this summer via RISD Trek for a jam-packed week of events designed to connect students with art and design professionals, industry leaders, ...

RISD’s summer 2026 Continuing Education (CE) programs are in full swing, with a wide range of live classes for kids, teens, and adults taking place on campus and at CE’s satellite locations at ...

From the ecologies of Okinawa to the history of China, the heart of Tokyo, and the wildlife of South Africa, students in this summer’s RISD Global Summer Studies programs discovered new ways of ...

“I’m more interested in clarity of vision, curiosity, and commitment to process than technical perfection,” says Executive Director and Chief Curator Ysabel Pinyol Blasi of the nonprofit, New ...

For the past 35 years, RISD students have had their eyes opened to the pervasive power of propaganda thanks to a History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences course taught by Senior Lecturer Tom ...

At a mid-semester critique in RISD’s Sculpture department, junior Taryn Liu 27 SC flinched when someone described the installation she created out of fresh flowers and a urinal as pretty. “I don’t ...

Los Angeles-based creative Sol Armada de la Cruz 92 AP left her home in San Juan, Puerto Rico to attend RISD in the 1980s and has been carving her own unconventional path ever since. A creative leader ...

“How do you see sequence serving the work? Maybe you want to make the display less democratic in order to help the viewer understand what you’re trying to articulate with these images,” Associate ...