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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

College 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.

THE MAGICAL M(A)US(OL)EUM OF MINNIE N TURNER

College Student Voices

A summer intern's short story/poem about a cat that investigates the spatial politics of Duchamp’s 'Boîte-en-valise' and also falls in love

Fly Me to Edo

College Student Voices Studio Notes

A summer intern's 3-dimensional visualization and virtual reality exploration of the Kanzeon Raijin Gate in Edo, Japan, as seen in an 1820s print.

A painting at left depicts a vase and a bowl containing flowers. A photograph on the right shows a recreation of the same scene.

Behind the Still Life

College Student Voices

Ceramics student Lindsay Savoie subverts traditional hierarchies that value painting and sculpture more highly than utilitarian art forms like pottery and photography.

How Do We Imagine the Future?

College Student Voices

The future is an abstract concept, hard to decode and difficult to predict. A summer intern reflects on fashion and future in this creative writing piece.

Rabbit Holes

College Student Voices

A summer intern conspires with a toothy collage in the museum’s collection.

Wood Sculptures at RISD

Excavating the Storage Room
College Faculty Teaching

During the Fall of 2015, Brown’s graduate students in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture undertook an investigation of the wood sculptures in the RISD Museum collections.

Museum Weather Website

Objects illustrate weather conditions
College Happenings Student Voices Artist

Website that uses the weather to make programmatic selections from the RISD Museum based on conditions, first in Providence, then in a city of the user’s choosing. The goal was to give museum-goers a tangible point of access to art, and to make unexpected groupings of objects.

group of flatware with hand placing serving spoon into frame

Critical Encounters: Recordings

Designing Innovation
College Curator Happenings

Recorded on 05.03.19.

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Decolonizing Design, Imagining Alternative Futures

College Happenings Sustainability and the natural world

Butterfly Hymnals That Won’t Disturb the Pleasant

Complacency, And Other Lullabies
College Student Voices

Writings based on a series of vernacular photos

Maces and Chains

The Ritual and Regalia of Commencement
College Student Voices

A summer intern explores the context of ceremonial objects significant to RISD’s past and present.

Anchors and Attractors

College Student Voices

A study of the elements that pull and push a visitor through the museum’s 3rd and 4th floor spaces

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Twill, Tape or Hang
College Student Voices

A summer intern creates an article of clothing inspired by the meticulous logistics of collections care.

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