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Alumnus Shepard Fairey offers Rhode Islanders a message of strength and solidarity during the pandemic.
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The Rhode Island Foundation names Assistant Professor of Illustration Eric Telfort a 2020 MacColl Johnson Fellow.
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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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Author/illustrators Jarrett Krosoczka and Grace Lin co-curate an exhibition at the Eric Carle Museum that celebrates childhood artwork.
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Several RISD artists rose to the top of various year-end roundups of creative achievement.
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Seven artists and designers from RISD are recognized in the annual roundup of young entrepreneurs.
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Painter Robin F. Williams returns to RISD to discuss the inspiration behind her self-possessed female figures.
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Illustrator Julia Rothman 02 IL teams up with writer Shaina Feinberg for Scratch, a new biweekly column in The New York Times.
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Street artist Shepard Fairey 92 IL paints his 100th mural in Providence, where it all began.