Alumni Stories

Seven engaging speakers at Mindshare 2019 highlight the diverse routes alumni take in finding their professional niche.

Painter Robin F. Williams returns to RISD to discuss the inspiration behind her self-possessed female figures.

After a hugely productive year, Nicole Eisenman took a break from making to deliver the RISD Museum’s Gail Silver Memorial Lecture.

An experimental film by Maria Constanza Ferreira 17 FAV/GD brings satellite imagery to NYC’s Times Square.

Illustrator Julia Rothman 02 IL teams up with writer Shaina Feinberg for Scratch, a new biweekly column in The New York Times.

Typeface designer Tobias Frere-Jones recently accepted the Cooper Hewitt’s 2019 award for Communication Design.

An experimental film featuring costumes by Jamall Osterholm 17 AP wins a Student Academy Award.

Street artist Shepard Fairey 92 IL paints his 100th mural in Providence, where it all began.

A Tulsa [OK] Literary Artist Fellowship gives Olivia Stephens 17 IL the time and space to complete her first graphic novel.