Student Stories
In the advanced studio, students had the unique opportunity to connect with Indigenous community members to create culturally competent designs.
Students enrolled in Jacquard Design engage with the textile industry’s complex past while skillfully crafting their own personal expression through the art of weaving.
Mycelium as Mode generates individual research projects exploring everything from decomposition to symbiosis to the containment of plastic waste.
Sophomores in the fall Identities course focus on exploration of the self via garment design and performance.
Documentary photographer John Willis leads a fall studio built on trust, respect and the importance of community.
Students in a fall course called Reorientations are challenging conventional approaches to theatrical set design and creating immersive cinematic experiences.
The exhibition celebrates the work of Photography juniors, seniors and graduate students whose practices focus on capturing the intangible, placemaking and more.
Grads and undergrads in a fall elective use printmaking techniques to create conceptual installations.
Participating undergrads gained valuable feedback on their own work from RISD alums working in the industry.