Alumni Stories

Activists Lucas Michael and Mary Ellen Carroll rally fellow artists to help children still detained at the US border.

Alumna Bethany Koby of Tech Will Save Us is offering families new ideas for learning through making during the pandemic.

Interior architect Colin Stief brings the local design community together to support those on the frontlines of COVID-19 in NYC.

RISD makers are helping to address the nationwide shortage of personal protective equipment.

Photographer and filmmaker RaMell Ross—a self-described “liberated documentarian”—is now also a 2020 United States Artists Fellow.

With Redwood Preserve, Jarrett Mellenbruch offers an audacious vision for how art should shape the future.

The Rhode Island Foundation names Assistant Professor of Illustration Eric Telfort a 2020 MacColl Johnson Fellow.

Industrial designer Megan Valanidas uses bacteria-centered design to formulate bioplastics that decompose naturally.

Multidisciplinary artist Jazzmen Lee-Johnson works to transcend the legacies of enslaved peoples and gender inequality.