Student Stories

RISD’s Jewelry + Metalsmithing department collaborates with Project Open Door to offer young artists the first on-campus studio of its kind.

First-year Landscape Architecture students learn valuable skills of the trade by collaborating on an observation deck at Tillinghast Farm.

Students in a graduate architecture seminar use photogrammetry to express their visions for the built environment.

RISD’s Liberal Arts division welcomes sponsors of creative writing contest Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors.

Students in a fall Glass studio taught by Sean Salstrom MFA 06 GL use movement and choreography as a starting point for experimentation.

RISD students and recent alums are using funding from RISD Research to develop interdisciplinary projects with communities around the world.

Eleven outstanding graduate students who began their studies at RISD last September share their global perspectives with the larger community.  

2021/22 was among RISD’s top five years for fundraising and set a new record for volunteering and other forms of community involvement.

First-year students from around the globe experience the start of the 2022–23 academic year at RISD.