Faculty Stories
![a hand painting with sumi ink](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-02/HeymanWS231.jpg?h=3f1794dd&itok=b9obqPAv)
Daniel Heyman’s new Wintersession global studies course introduces students to contemporary artists using ancient techniques in the Netherlands and Germany.
![students sketching under tropical trees](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-01/Spelman.Angela%20and%20Rachel%20sketching%20at%20HNP%201.10.23%20copy.jpg?h=ac778ff2&itok=sOLt0nL4)
A Wintersession global studies course led by Lucy Spelman and Andrea Dezsö considers the important role that artists and designers can play in environmental conservation.
![portrait of German Pallares-Avitia](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-01/PallaresPortrait2.jpg?h=adb40a09&itok=gYLelyZs)
The second-year teaching and research fellow shows students how the built environment can shed light on issues of race, class, gender and more.
![knobs and buttons](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-01/SRSTListingKnobs.jpg?h=b0d2a75e&itok=y6GpciQt)
Members of RISD’s growing community of sound artists and researchers discuss how the evolving studio contributes to the college’s overall educational mission.
![portrait of Zoe Samudzi](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-01/SamudziPortrait.png?h=dc40ef77&itok=Z5u6jdwn)
SEI Teaching and Research Fellow Zoé Samudzi explores images of violence and death and how humanitarian photography may or may not influence the viewer’s behavior.
![Furniture Design students examine a new piece by one of their own](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2022-12/CritsFD.jpg?h=a21def44&itok=WaIvCkyP)
As the semester comes to a close, grads and undergrads in every department gather constructive criticism for their inspiring work.
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RISD’s Interior Architecture department revisits a state-of-the-art installation presenting green retrofits to the iconic bridge connecting Newport and Jamestown, RI.
![Jonathan Knowles crits student work](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2022-12/FlowerHallway3JM.jpg?h=1b6b5d13&itok=FiULUUh9)
Architecture students present innovative and sustainable building designs to nonprofit client What Cheer Flower Farm.
![a student pokes their leg through an interactive oyster sculpture](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2022-11/KingDay1LegholeHoriz.jpg?h=e83c1ca3&itok=XW_nhApH)
Sophomores in a fall Sculpture studio make work that invites the viewer to physically engage with it.