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Artist Roundtable: Through the Lens of Disability and Chronic Illness

Perspectives

Soundwalk / Trading Earth

Curator Perspectives

Defending the Right to Live: Political Prints in Providence, 1971

College Locally Made Perspectives

In 1971, a group of radical students in Providence produced stirring silkscreen posters. Their images contributed to the vibrant visual culture of antiwar protest.

An Ode to Fallen Angels Everywhere

College Perspectives Student Voices

A summer intern’s written and visual re-interpretation of the gender dynamics in "The Fallen Angel," a 1968 series of photographs by Duane Michal

Confronting our Carbon Footprint

College Perspectives Student Voices

Traditional museum practice has a gigantic carbon footprint. How is the RISD Museum changing its own practices in response to the climate emergency?

Maker Unknown

College Perspectives Student Voices

Digital Initiatives intern Ariel Hirschhorn explores the “Maker” field in the museum’s database to examine the collection from a programmer’s perspective

Two images side-by-side. The left image is a 17th-century painting featuring a large heap of fruit and vegetables and a female figure. The right image is a contemporary photograph recreating the scene.

Unstilled Life

College Perspectives Student Voices

A summer intern’s reinterpretation of a 1600s still life painting as lived ritual and faith in the present

Black Flyyy Screening: Dreaming Gave Us Wings

Curator Happenings Perspectives Artist
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Life as a Spalter Teaching Fellow

College Educators Perspectives Student Voices
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
Locally Made Perspectives 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.

Watercolor drawing of a thriving nature scene. We look down at a lush tangle of green leafy plant life with bluebells and white primroses. Five shining teal bird's eggs lay in a cozy moss and twig nest in the lower left.

Brief Biography of Jane Ogden

Drawing Perspectives

Artist Jane Ogden (British, ca. 1845–1928) painted flowers and other still-life subjects in oil and watercolor.

Redefining "Master Copies"

College Perspectives Student Voices Studio Notes

A student dismantles the outdated terminology and practice of “master copies” by constructing a series of copies that works to bolster underrepresented artists and subvert the pervasive presence of white males in the Western art canon.

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Exhibition Overview: Text, Paratext, and Image

College Curator Happenings Perspectives Student Voices
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Viewpoints: Queer Art

Curator Happenings Perspectives
abstracted digital collage by Sam Nehila of male nude forms taken from works in the museum's collection

An Act of Necessary Transfiguration

College Perspectives 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.

On Full Display

Acts of Curation and Censorship
Perspectives Student Voices

How are museum collections constructed? Producer Emma Vecchione searches for an answer in examining the police raid of a 1978 art exhibition, a collection of pictures at the RISD Museum, and the family photographs on top of her mother’s television set.

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