Alumni Stories

Furniture maker and RISD alumna Annie Evelyn helps to establish equitable Crafting the Future artist collective.

Elise McMahon and Mike Ruiz-Serra are both included in Sight Unseen’s annual roundup of US-based talent.

Cultured includes Furniture Design alum Katie Stout in its annual list of artists leading the conversation about criticism, concept and representation.

Four recent graduates are included in Forbes’ annual roundup of emerging talents.

The RISD community celebrates the 15th president’s indelible mark on the institution and the world.

W Magazine speaks with the Architecture alum about the “genre-breaking” design firm he founded with Andre Herrero.

Hyperallergic describes the Painting MFA’s work as a “hallucinatory experience of isolation or a fairly run-of-the-mill orgy.”

Alum Ying Bonny Cai spent a year in Seoul studying traditional Korean apparel with contemporary makers reviving and modernizing ancient customs.

New grad Fengijao Ge presents an innovative project at this year’s Antenna conference that repurposes textiles waste to combat erosion.