Student Stories

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.

The 50th anniversary of RISD’s residential Pre-College program brings 430 high school students to campus for immersive six-week experience.

Project Open Door students are back on campus this summer, trying their hands at everything from textiles to toy design in long-running RISD program.

RISD students and recent grads are using design thinking skills to support positive change in Africa, Asia and North and South America.