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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.

a spread from RADIANT, a zine Cameron Galley 21 GD
Ready for Launch

Four RISD Graphic Design students are included on this year’s GDUSA ones to watch list.

Celebrating a New Generation of Design Talent

W highlights Objects: USA, featuring the work of alumni Tanya Aguiñiga, Simon Haas, Misha Kahn, Joyce Lin, Adam Silverman, Katie Stout and David Wiseman.

kaleidoscopic image made using inexpensive materials, sophomore Jazmyn Babler 23 FAV
Playing with Light

Students in a virtual Wintersession class use projection, transparency and reflection to create wild visual effects.

Wall of plants
New Professorship in Sustainability

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

"Maintain distance, facemask required" signage
Ready for Spring

The RISD community prepares to safely reopen campus for a spring semester comprised of virtual, in-person and hybrid classes.

Portrait of a Boy (detail), a 17th-century Dutch Golden Age painting from the RISD Museum’s collection
Recasting the Dutch Golden Age

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

Photograph of a stream by Associate Professor Jennifer Prewitt-Freilino
Positive Psychology

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