Alumni Stories

The award acts as Sight Unseen’s guide to the talents influencing the design landscape in any given year.

The tape of the Artistics, the first band of frontman David Byrne and drummer Chris Frantz, was recorded in a Providence apartment and is now in the RISD Archives.

The husband-and-wife Class of 1974 alums screened seminal concert film Stop Making Sense and discussed the band’s early days. 

The latest development in the successful partnership provides students with the rare opportunity to experiment and create new bodies of work using natural gems.

Offered through the Sculpture department, Immersive Worlds invites students to use experimentation and a plethora of making techniques to bring their ideas into reality.

Launched in 2021 by His Majesty King Charles III and Sir Jony Ive, the competition seeks to drive environmental progress through private-sector innovation.

Faculty members Sara Jordenö and Pouya Ahmadi and alum Nina Martinez view forced migration through unique lenses and present radical and creative interventions.

RISD Alums Paige Katherine Bradley, Leyla Faye Margolis-Brooks and Qualeasha Wood among selected artists. 

Ideas developed by recent RISD graduates were chosen as winners of the Terra Carta Design Lab competition.