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The Sculpture department welcomes the NYC artist and RISD alum, whose work examines the relationship between the built environment and material histories and our sense of self and place.

The Painting department welcomes the NYC artist and Cooper Union faculty member, whose paintings and installations juxtapose the present with the always-shifting past.

Join museum curators for a behind-the-scenes look at new artworks recently acquired for the museum collection.
RISD news

The award acts as Sight Unseen’s guide to the talents influencing the design landscape in any given year.

Led by faculty member Maxime Jean Lefebvre, RISD’s team came out on top for the second year in a row.

Event organizers Georgia Rhodes and Stewart Skylar Copeland encourage visiting scientists to embrace the weird and imperfect.

The tape of the Artistics, the first band of frontman David Byrne and drummer Chris Frantz, was recorded in a Providence apartment and is now in the RISD Archives.