Alumni Stories

Furniture Design alum Brodie Neill safeguards the planet, one piece of furniture at a time.
 

Interior Architecture alum Daniel Pelosi, or @grossypelosi, talks about the secret sauce that has launched his new career in the food space.
 

RISD alum Jevon Brown and 2016 exchange student Maika Palazuelos make Dwell’s annual list.

Manini Banerjee, Varun Mehta, Avantika Velho and Katia Zolotovsky are developing mycelium-based biofiltration pods capable of reseeding lost wetlands.

RISD’s 2023 fiscal year closes with more than $17 million raised in support of undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships, internships and museum programming.

RISD graduate Sahara Clemons is one of eight finalists.

Nine RISD students and recent alums worked with government and nonprofit organizations from Providence to Singapore.

Six funded projects explore radical solutions to longstanding problems that impact the environment and marginalized communities. 

Work by 21 emerging artists who honed their techniques at RISD is now on view at the Museum of Illustration in New York City.