Faculty Stories
![a student presents a rendering of her proposed design intervention to serve unhoused parents and children](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-06/Wong-Academic-Crits2.jpg?h=4b33db3c&itok=WE0zBfhP)
Grad students in a spring Interior Architecture studio worked with real-world client FamilyAid.
![graduating students hug outside of the First Baptist Church, 2023](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-06/Grad-Hooding-2023-Family-Celebrate2.jpg?h=3da1e5ea&itok=GikWmulB)
Students, families, friends, faculty and alumni joined together to welcome RISD’s newest alums into the fold.
![first-year student Emily Kwak takes a swing at her pinata during spring 2023 crits](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-06/Spring-Crits-EFS-Jordan-Seaberry-Pinata.jpg?h=a796d147&itok=8fkL8GfC)
Students across campus present the fruits of their labor to peers, faculty members and visiting critics
![models wearing Navajo-inspired work by Korina Emmerich](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-04/KorinaHero2.jpg?h=9c5ddfab&itok=K32pjmQt)
Korina Emmerich and Liana Shewey of NYC incubator Relative Arts participate in ongoing Indigenous and First Nations Artist Series.
![head shot of Africanus Okokon](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-03/OkokonListing.jpg?h=e3d16e0e&itok=36CdwN_f)
A brief interview with one of RISD’s Schiller Family Assistant Professors in Race in Art and Design.
![a doctor uses the new tool in his mobile phone](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-03/SayYourPain3.jpg?h=f8b7bb4a&itok=_rur7E4V)
New Say Your Pain app developed in conjunction with creative agency WongDoody aims to improve outcomes for non-English speakers.
![on set with senior Victoria Kong](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-03/JordenoKongListing.jpg?h=0362b3fa&itok=R1NN3KEO)
Assistant Professors Sara Jordenö and Judy Kim guide students through post-production in preparation for early May film festival.
![Navajo blanket from RISD Museum collection](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-03/BlanketRecrop3%20copy.jpg?h=deca4175&itok=WntXo9Et)
Undergraduate students Pei-Yu Hung and Andres Guevara organize a wide-ranging storytelling series for a Collaborative Study Project focused on Indigenous oral traditions.
![Changsong Li collage related to Colorado River](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-03/KatzHeroColoradoRiverSaltonSeaChangsongLi_0.jpg?h=a796d147&itok=0Tu0ODLZ)
Faculty member Marisa Mazria Katz helps students tell real-world stories using unconventional forms of expression.