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Next-Gen Design Luminaries

Architectural Digest profiles Brooklyn-based RISD alumni crafting furniture, lighting and textiles and pushing the boundaries of materiality and form.

Gorilla Hand photo by Senior Zenzele Ojore 18 PH
Building a Cohesive Body of Work

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.

Listening to Our Differences

MLK lecture series speaker Lee Mun Wah asks members of the RISD community to reflect and reset through the art of mindful inquiry.

Architecture Assistant Professor Stefano Corbo
Adaptive Reuse in Context

New Assistant Professor Stefano Corbo teaches graduate students to see the practice of interior architecture as a conversation between the past and present.

Aerial view of shipping containers and cranes
New Grad Programs Address 21st-Century Needs

Beginning in fall 2018, students in two new graduate programs in Liberal Arts will grapple with the complexities of globalization and urgent ecological challenges.

Textiles created by individuals on Weft, a site that allows anyone to create their own woven textiles
Textiles Revolution Looms Large

Backed by the National Science Foundation, professors from RISD and Cornell create groundbreaking software that allows everyone interested to produce woven fabrics.

Work involving beeswax by Lee Pivnik 18 SC, in his show A Love that Bears No Fruit
The Art of Deep Ecology

A Maharam STEAM Fellowship enabled Lee Pivnik 18 SC to pursue his ongoing commitment to conservation during a summer residency in Arizona.

Work by Atalanta Shi 17 AP in RISD’s Collection 17 runway show in NYC
Rocking the Runway at NYFW

New Apparel Design graduates blew the crowd away at a standing-room-only show in NYC.