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We provide spaces and opportunities for the intersection of artistic practice and research. Such creative investigations might take the form of collaborative and open-ended forms of exploration and inquiry that lead to new work and insights.

A Look Into Our Collection’s Polaroid Photographs by Andy Warhol

Student Voices Artist

Madeira/Timber

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Roundtable: Three Takes on the Performative Self-Portrait

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Black Flyyy Screening: Dreaming Gave Us Wings

Curator Happenings Artist
Colored pencil drawing of a white middled aged woman in a bright blue dress and sunglasses. Sh is seated on a red chair and holds a colorfully embroidered purse in her right hand.

Portrait of an Embroidered Purse

A Conversation with Christina Bevilacqua
Student Voices Artist

The handmade object has a tendency to prompt memories from the craftsperson who made it. In this reflection on an embroidered purse from the 1970s, Ariel Wills and Kate Irvin are joined by maker Christina Bevilacqua for a dynamic conversation that demonstrates the narrative qualities embodied in material culture.

The New Normal

College Student Voices Artist

RISD’s Interior Architecture seniors exhibit their adaptive-reuse projects in the RISD Museum’s Grand Gallery using augmented reality.

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Designers Discuss: Empowering the Women’s Vote

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Viewpoints: Contemporary Mapping and Global Histories

Curator Happenings Portfolio Sustainability and the natural world Artist
abstracted digital collage by Sam Nehila of male nude forms taken from works in the museum's collection

An Act of Necessary Transfiguration

College Student Voices Artist

Curatorial intern Sam Nehila uses collage to create abstracted forms and explore the trans experience of engaging with the museum’s collection of male nude bodies.

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Back to the Drawing Board: Jarrett Key

Drawing Family Happenings Artist
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Raid the Icebox Now

Portfolio Artist
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Paul Scott: New American Scenery

Happenings Studio Notes Sustainability and the natural world Artist

Learning to Look Without Judgment

Educators Artist

Educator MJ Robinson reflects on student reactions to their gender presentation and shares a lesson plan inspired by artist Nick Cave’s Soundsuits to help elementary-aged students identify and challenge gender-based stereotypes.

Two people looking at a painting of a palm tree

Look at Art. Get Paid.

Happenings Artist

Forty-one people who don’t visit art museums visit the RISD Museum as paid guest critics of the art and institution.

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Conversation / Ruffles, Repair & Ritual

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