TLAD News
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Four incoming first-year students discuss the enormous impact that POD has had on their lives.
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Emerging artists and designers worked with TLAD students and community arts educator Jacques Bidon to honor historic Rhode Island figures.
![A wall of metalsmithing tools in the J+M studio](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2022-11/22PODJ%2BMReferenceDisplay.jpg?h=2e3eca71&itok=j1AHbqGI)
RISD’s Jewelry + Metalsmithing department collaborates with Project Open Door to offer young artists the first on-campus studio of its kind.
![Project Open Door student painting in the Steel Yard](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2022-08/PODCeramicsNicolePaints.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=WCy9uvxb)
Project Open Door students are back on campus this summer, trying their hands at everything from textiles to toy design in long-running RISD program.
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A transdisciplinary, student-led initiative reimagines RISD’s relationship with the ecosystem that surrounds it.
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Project Open Door teams up with Hasbro to provide area teens with an intensive, all-virtual toy and game design workshop.
![Graduate student Francesca Rosati 19 PT/MAT 20](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1588011746152_TLADFrancesca.jpg?h=39c2fb18&itok=IWL71sd-)
Grad students committed to becoming teachers are developing alternative curricula and connecting with high school students remotely.
![Michelle Grohe MA 02 with group of people viewing paintings](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2021-02/1565666074894_Michelle-Grohe-listing-alt.jpg?h=316df784&itok=Sp1zmeQS)
Museum educator Michelle Grohe MA 02 takes an inclusive approach at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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A Sony-supported residency is giving artist/educator Nitashia Johnson MAT 15 the momentum to move inspiring creative projects forward.