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The Career Center presents its annual RISD Mindshare lecture series, providing current students with real-world guidance about life after college.
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First- and second-year MFA students simultaneously present two distinctive approaches to exhibiting fine art.
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RISD students test ideas about art and pedagogy by working directly with local teenagers.
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RISD alums Sabina Kariat, Jessina Leonard and Masha Ryskin will conduct research in Turkey, Germany and Israel during the 2021/22 academic year.
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The New York Times describes the photographs of alumna Deana Lawson MFA 04 PH as regal, loving and unburdened, imagining a world in which Black people are free from the distortions of history.
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Visiting artist Dionne Lee questions the makers and motives behind historical American landscape photography.
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Vogue reports on the Brooklyn-based Photography MFA’s $100,000 honorarium and her portraits chronicling the Black diaspora.
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From film premieres to the grad thesis show, graduating students are turning to alternative outlets for showcasing their work.
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Photographer and filmmaker RaMell Ross—a self-described “liberated documentarian”—is now also a 2020 United States Artists Fellow.