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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.
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RISD welcomes new full-time faculty members in Experimental and Foundation Studies, Fine Arts, and Architecture and Design.
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An extensive range of virtual programming helps returning students consider how they’ll contribute to the discourse around racial justice.
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Winners in the library’s annual Baker & Whitehill Student Artists’ Book Contest join its extraordinary and growing collection.
![EFS Triennial on view in RISD’s Woods-Gerry Gallery](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1581633213813_EFS-hero.jpg?h=195e4868&itok=M2zdZi04)
An expansive exhibition at Woods-Gerry focuses on the inquiry at the heart of the first-year Experimental and Foundation Studies program.
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Mattia Casalegno’s Aerobanquets RMX offers a transformative VR experience that plays with participants’ perceptions of taste.
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Associate Professor Paula Gaetano-Adi experiments with an interesting way of helping first-year students let go of their assumptions.
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Associate Professor Cas Holman shares her passion for toy design on the new season of the Netflix series Abstract: The Art of Design.
![Ji Hoo Kim MFA 20 DM and EFS Programs Head Shawn Greenlee 96 PR working in the new studio](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1561658821090_Spatial-audio-listing-and-narrative.jpg?h=5554a4bd&itok=9f_-FfDy)
Since opening last fall, the spatial audio studio above the library has helped advance sound studies at RISD.