News and Events
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Upcoming events
Curators Maria Tavares and Kate Irvin lead a discussion about the exhibition Cloth of the Earth: Indigo, Cape Verde, and West African Knowledge.
The Interior Architecture department’s fall lecture series continues with Museum of Fine Arts, Boston exhibition designer Sanah Rao, whose creative process is influenced by her interest in storytelling, community narratives, and contextual thinking.
The Architecture department welcomes the co-founder of the Portugal- and Switzerland-based firm fala, who will discuss collective housing as a continuous field of investigation.
RISD news
The new required elective is part of a campus-wide initiative to amplify historically underrepresented ways of making, learning, and knowing.
Students in an interdepartmental architecture “superstudio” are exploring climate impact, affordability, regenerative design, and economic resilience in Maine.
The MacArthur Award-winning painter discusses his journey to RISD, the importance of drawing every day, and his ongoing quest to tell stories that matter.
From performance spaces to camping-inspired outdoor activities, RISD graduate students explore how children learn through objects, play, movement, interaction, and spatial discovery.