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  • RISD Student Wins a Windgate

    04/12/2011
    Ceramics senior Rebecca Manson is one of 10 students nationwide to win a coveted Windgate Fellowship to help further her work.

  • Japanese Art to Offer Relief

    04/06/2011
    Aki Ishida of the Architecture faculty works with students to present their Japanese paper installation as part of a benefit at the Japan Society in NYC.

  • Building a Better Buggy: RISD Students Reach for the Moon

    04/01/2011
    On April 1-2, a team of six RISD students participated in this year’s NASA Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, AL, competing against teams from nearly 90 schools and colleges to design, build and race lightweight, human-powered vehicles over lunar-like terrain.

  • A Better Place to Learn

    03/31/2011
    Jo Ann Secor 73 AE, , a principal at LHSA+DP in NYC, recently worked with kids and parents in Casper, WY to build the school of their dreams.

  • Creativity Cubed

    03/29/2011
    Professors Markus Berger and Peter Dean lead a collaborative triad between RISD, Brown University and a team of RISD alumni in thinking outside the box – or in this case, redesigning the box entirely to creatively repurpose shipping containers.

  • MacNeil, a Master of the Medium

    03/23/2011
    Jewelry artist Linda MacNeil 76 SC earns national recognition with a 2011 Master of the Medium award from the James Renwick Alliance in Washington, DC.

  • Responding to Natural Disasters

    03/23/2011
    The RISD community came together on March 22 to consider the triple disaster in Japan and the role artists and designers can play in helping people to process and recover from this type of event.

  • The State of the Art in Healthcare

    03/22/2011
    Nearly 500 policymakers, healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, activists, academics, artists and designers came together at RISD for Make It Better, a two-day symposium that envisioned new and evolving roles for artists and designers in solving complex healthcare challenges.

  • Game Changer

    03/22/2011
    The RISD Alumni Association’s 2011 Art + Education award will go to gaming design expert Katie Salen MFA 92 GD, who is experimenting with alternative approaches to K-12 education.

  • Extraordinary Honorees at Commencement

    03/21/2011
    At its June 4 Commencement ceremony, RISD will confer honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees on three individuals who have made groundbreaking contributions to the worlds of art, design and education.

  • RISD Ranks #1 for Fine Arts Grad Programs

    03/15/2011
    RISD tops Fine Arts Schools in the Best Graduate Schools rankings released today by US News & World Report.

  • Seduced by Sugar

    03/11/2011
    Alumna Melissa Armstrong’s latest rock candy sculpture is on view through April 8 in a show called Science is Fiction.

  • Sustainable Design in Six Minutes or Less

    03/11/2011
    Drew Beam 99 IL, Dawn Danby 00 ID and Eric Smith 94 GD are working together to create a series of entertaining educational videos that outline the principles of sustainable design and construction.

  • Reaching New Heights of Creativity

    03/09/2011
    RISD alumnus Kenneth Lewis BArch 83 returned to campus to talk about the creativity and the challenges that went into redesigning and rebuilding the World Trade Center site in New York.

  • A Better Biennial

    03/07/2011
    RISD’s Faculty Biennial, the most comprehensive showing of faculty work to date, is on view at the RISD Museum through March 20.

  • RISD Dean Named to Lead MassArt

    03/03/2011
    Dawn Barrett, dean of the Architecture+Design Division at RISD, has been elected as president of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt).

  • The Very Picture of Good Health

    02/25/2011
    A RISD Wintersession class brought together students and policymakers to explore how art and design can communicate public policy around healthcare reform. For example, this bus stop rendering is an example of how design thinking can be used to reach out to Rhode Island’s Latino community.

  • Rothman’s Rabbits

    02/16/2011
    Illustrator Julia Rothman 02 IL created a playful holiday card for RISD – between projects for clients ranging from The New York Times to Victoria’s Secret.

  • NEA Taps Alum to Promote Art Works

    02/16/2011
    New York-based designer Hoon Kim MFA 08 GD created the identity for the National Endowment for the Arts’ new Art Works campaign.

  • Making Art Work

    02/14/2011
    Rhode Island and RISD serve as the launching pad for a national conversation about the role of the arts in the creative economy.

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At RISD there's nothing unusual about suddenly finding a doorknob on a tree trunk, shown here across from Carr House,
the charming home of Student Life offices and the student-run Carr Haus Café.