Faculty Stories

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Chris Taylor’s Hyperrealistic Glass Creations

Faculty member Chris Taylor MFA 02 GL speaks with WBUR about his work and experience on the Netflix reality series Blown Away.

SEI Faculty Fellow Ernest A. Bryant III leads a virtual workshop digitally inhabiting a bronze head from Ife, 2020
​Breaking with Convention

SEI Faculty Fellow Ernest A. Bryant III challenges students to find new meaning in the images that surround all of us.

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New Professorship in Sustainability

A generous gift helps RISD bring art and design to bear on the future of the planet.

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Recasting the Dutch Golden Age

SEI Fellow Jane’a Johnson studies violence, visual culture and how race is reflected in archives and museums.

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Positive Psychology

Students in a liberal arts class developed by Associate Professor Jennifer Prewitt-Freilino practice techniques for improving well-being and building resilience.

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Still Life with Zoom

Faculty member Claudia Bitran inspires students in her virtual painting class to take risks and mix mediums.

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Decolonizing Pedagogies at RISD

Faculty, curators and librarians come together for a semester-long seminar on decolonization that builds on the institution’s commitment to advancing social equity and inclusion.

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After the A-Bomb

RISD’s Center for Complexity launches Horizon 2045, a 25-year project aimed at eliminating the threat of nuclear war.

Large sheets for Emanation, a 2015 exhibition, by Jocelyne Prince MFA 94 GL
Windows on the World

Newly minted Professor Jocelyne Prince discusses the unique and transformative joys of working with glass.