Student Stories

Students in Patternmaking for Cast Iron Production investigate form, draw on age-old industrial practices, and develop tactile material knowledge.

Grad student Deborah Khodanovich and undergraduate Nadine Macapagal named students to watch in 2026.

Pushing the boundaries of digital video production, the course was one of two offered through RISD’s Movement Lab this Wintersession.

Students explored the materials’ shared properties and fast-and-loose production methods, which provided opportunities for collective critical reflection. 

Students conducted research and proposed monuments for College Hill that commemorate the past while reinterpreting symbols of collective memory. 

The alum and designer of the classic Cubebot toy robot worked with first-year students in a Wintersession studio focused on iteration and simplicity.

The class studied inlay, overlay, and engraving processes, reimagining the relationship between the functional and the ornamental.

Students considered how sound can serve as a spatial and experiential medium, guiding attention, shifting atmosphere, and provoking new forms of encounter.

Please Catch Me When I Fall, curated by RISD students Karma Johnson, Khalil McKnight, and King Meulens, highlights joy, vulnerability, and the many stories to be told about the Black experience.