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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A student dismantles the outdated terminology and practice of “master copies” by constructing a series of copies that works to bolster underrepresented artists and subvert the pervasive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 Educators 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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Fly Me to Edo

College Perspectives 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 Perspectives Student Voices

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

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How Do We Imagine the Future?

College Perspectives 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.

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Rabbit Holes

College Perspectives Student Voices

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

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Learning to Look Without Judgment

Educators Locally Made Perspectives 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.

Wood Sculptures at RISD

Excavating the Storage Room Sheila Bonde, professor and department chair, History of Art and Architecture, Brown University
College Perspectives

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.

Two people looking at a painting of a palm tree

Look at Art. Get Paid.

Happenings Locally Made Perspectives 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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Happenings Locally Made Perspectives Artist

A new Chrome Extension brings the voices of first-time visitors into conversation with the RISD Museum’s voice.

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