Alumni Stories

Industrial designer Colin P. Kelly is part of a NYC-based team working to address critical needs during the pandemic.

For Painting graduate Martin Mull, a love of labor drives his studio practice—a 50-year labor of love.

Through the RI-based Ventilator Project, three alumni are working to get much-needed equipment to hospitalized COVID patients.

Alumnus Shepard Fairey offers Rhode Islanders a message of strength and solidarity during the pandemic.

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.