At Rhode Island School of Design, you’ll join a creative project that started in 1877
At Rhode Island School of Design, you’ll join a creative project that started in 1877
At Rhode Island School of Design, you’ll join a creative project that started in 1877
RISD is a college and museum located in Providence, Rhode Island
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Join Social Equity and Inclusion and the President’s Office as we come together for our annual MLK Series event. More details coming soon!
Visit the RISD Museum to experience an immersive, meditative sound bath presented by artist Shaffany Terrell amid the genre-defying work in Liz Collins: Motherlode.
RISD’s Biomaterial Research Innovation Community presents a chill nature documentary night filled with fun conversation and good vibes.
It Starts with a Question
It Starts with a Question, a new video interview series hosted by RISD President Crystal Williams, features Williams in conversation with thought leaders, art and design luminaries, and other notable creatives and changemakers. In the latest episode, multimedia artist and alum Rose B. Simpson sits down to discuss identity, imposter syndrome, and growth.
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
Life After RISD: Juan Carlos Noguera
The empathic industrial designer and educator discusses how his own identity enables him to find unique solutions and effect positive change.
Life After RISD: Juan Carlos Noguera
The empathic industrial designer and educator discusses how his own identity enables him to find unique solutions and effect positive change.
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Hear more about RISD’s community of artists, designers and scholars.
Students are exploring the poster’s singular capacity to transform ideas into iconic picture planes combining typography and image.
Hands-on fall studios encourage students to incorporate contemporary technologies and platforms into their evolving creative practices.
Fall 2025 Regeneration Studio focuses on biomimicry research in structures, materials, mechanisms, and interfaces.
Students are using such techniques as silkscreening and block printing to transform blank clay canvases into unique and expressive ceramic objects.
Students traveled to Ocean Hour Farm in Newport, RI as part of their yearlong investigation into earth-friendly materials like wool.
Creative practitioners in a wide range of disciplines are invited to experiment with the notion of teaching as creative practice.
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
Liz Collins: Motherlode
A new exhibition at the RISD Museum presents the first-ever US survey of work by artist and RISD alum Liz Collins 91 TX/MFA 99. Liz Collins: Motherlode brings together 30-plus years of large-scale sculptural pieces, fashion, needlework, drawings and ephemera that speak to the artist’s devotion to her medium and to her community.
on view through January 11, 2026
Liz Collins: Motherlode
A new exhibition at the RISD Museum presents the first-ever US survey of work by artist and RISD alum Liz Collins 91 TX/MFA 99. Liz Collins: Motherlode brings together 30-plus years of large-scale sculptural pieces, fashion, needlework, drawings and ephemera that speak to the artist’s devotion to her medium and to her community.
on view through January 11, 2026
