Equity and Inclusion Stories
![museum visitor photographs You Belong Here sculpture by Tavares Strachan](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-06/YouBelongHere.jpg?h=3c9ddfbf&itok=rUjS1ERs)
Three rising museum professionals help to make the RISD Museum a place where everyone feels welcome and represented.
![RISD Auditorium and waterfront on a sunny day](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-06/GeorgeGrayWaterfront.jpg?h=b6b2a568&itok=XqBuoVjC)
New hub for community engagement will support and build upon existing initiatives and develop new opportunities for mutually beneficial relationships.
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The Providence Journal reflects on Don’t You Sit Down: Shades of Jim Crow, 1960– exhibition designed by RISD’s Interior Architecture department.
![an illustration of people working together with a lever](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-04/cfc-health-equity-hero.jpg?h=2e87e53e&itok=VNSenOum)
RISD’s Center for Complexity designs a suite of solutions intended to advance health equity and reduce adverse medical outcomes for patients of color.
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An interactive on-campus exhibition brings to life the civil rights movement and ongoing struggle against racism and segregation in the US.
![Detail image of Indigenous beadwork](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-03/NarraListing.jpg?h=82f92a78&itok=FAe3qe4S)
Husband-and-wife educators endawnis Spears and Cassius Spears, Jr. kick off the Liberal Arts division’s spring lecture series.
![the words "Good Work" painted down the length of a foot bridge in the middle of RISD's downtown Providence campus](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-03/unnamed-2_5.jpg?h=170ba4b8&itok=y9bwIV14)
New RISD First-Generation to College Pre-Orientation Program will offer a multifaceted experience for incoming students.
![SEI Faculty Fellow Ernest A. Bryant III leads a virtual workshop digitally inhabiting a bronze head from Ife, 2020](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1614613600379_BryantMaskCropped.jpg?h=f8821c3d&itok=S_Aa0sPc)
SEI Faculty Fellow Ernest A. Bryant III challenges students to find new meaning in the images that surround all of us.