Equity and Inclusion Stories
![Portrait of a Boy (detail), a 17th-century Dutch Golden Age painting from the RISD Museum’s collection](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1611940534180_JJBoyCroppedHiRes.jpg?h=c3635fa2&itok=8275G7ho)
SEI Fellow Jane’a Johnson studies violence, visual culture and how race is reflected in archives and museums.
![Graffiti that reads "Decolonize"](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1610380779836_SeminarDecolonizeGrafittiListing.jpg?h=3f0d69e5&itok=HiYH6GWS)
Faculty, curators and librarians come together for a semester-long seminar on decolonization that builds on the institution’s commitment to advancing social equity and inclusion.
![Ryan Mendoza’s Rosa Parks House Project on view in Providence’s WaterFire Arts Center](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1607109011755_ParksHouseWaterfire.jpg?h=2a52bba0&itok=IoWYR7VL)
Interior Architecture students debate the fate of Civil Rights leader Rosa Parks’ former home in Detroit.
![Dionne Lee's Firebed](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1606918580305_DionneListingFirebed.jpg?h=74dd228b&itok=D-nFJMnS)
Visiting artist Dionne Lee questions the makers and motives behind historical American landscape photography.
![RISD flags flying outside 15 West](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1605023138985_2020_08_29JBS_MoveIn_33.jpg?h=2992ba0a&itok=Ve59GDY_)
Since August 2019 RISD has raised $15 million to fund a new program that recruits and supports outstanding graduate students.
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RISD launches a job search for no fewer than 10 new faculty members specializing in race, decolonization and cultural representation.
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Rhode Island School of Design is hiring 10 faculty members focused on race and decoloniality in the arts as part of a wider plan to tackle systemic racism.
![Diné (Navajo), Man's wearing blanket (Chief blanket, phase III), ca. 1865–80](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1603290145637_BlanketRecrop3.jpg?h=deca4175&itok=WXXXSwGO)
Director John W. Smith announces deaccession of Head of a King (Oba) and plans to bring needed focus to Native American art and design via New Americas Research Initiative.