Student Stories
A mix of Furniture Design and Architecture students, the class is designing and building furniture pieces that reference Kahn’s love of geometric forms and natural light.
Open to students in every major, Interdisciplinary Hot Casting explores a range of traditional and non-traditional techniques and mold materials.
With intergenerational support, Rubelcy Herrera explores a holistic architecture.
Offering two BFAs—Art and Computation and Sound—the new department focuses on networks and simulation, computational art making, and coding.
Students are turning waste into materials ready for cross-disciplinary use and experimentation, from blotter paper to cotton muslin.
Student interventions transform the Front Street Family Center in Woonsocket, RI into a celebration of food, wellness, and community.
President Crystal Williams and Provost Touba Ghadessi welcome new and returning students and lead an emotional Convocation ceremony in the RISD Auditorium.
Students prepared for life after RISD this summer by visiting alums and other creative professionals at studios, galleries, arts nonprofits, and museums in upstate New York.
From Providence to Pakistan, this year’s Maharam fellows are putting their creative problem-solving skills to good use.