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Celebrated author and activist Roxane Gay, RISD’s 2018 Martin Luther King, Jr. keynote speaker, shares her perspectives on body image, sexual violence and resilience.
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RISD is once again named the top producer of US Fulbright students among special-focus four-year institutions.
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Students in a thought-provoking Wintersession course question societal norms that shape our everyday lives.
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Industrial Design students set up shop in the Nature Lab, designing aquaponics systems with potential application on campus.
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Azure includes RISD’s Interior Architecture program in its list of the very best.
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Four alumni are recognized in Forbes magazine’s 2018 30 Under 30 list of emerging artists and designers to watch.
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Architectural Digest profiles Brooklyn-based RISD alumni crafting furniture, lighting and textiles and pushing the boundaries of materiality and form.
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Senior Zenzele Ojore 18 PH returns from a summer internship in Uganda with surprising new insights about her own identity as a black American artist.