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Perspectives

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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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Museum Weather Website

Objects illustrate weather conditions
College Happenings Locally Made Perspectives 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.

Confronting Ourselves Together

All-Staff Dialogues at the RISD Museum
Educators Perspectives

Many museums today struggle with confronting their problematic legacies and transforming their current practices to become the diverse, inclusive institutions they aspire to be.

group of flatware with hand placing serving spoon into frame

Critical Encounters: Recordings

Designing Innovation
College Curator Happenings Locally Made Perspectives

Recorded on 05.03.19.

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Is a Mummy a Work of Art?

Curator Perspectives Portfolio
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Kunneepaumwuw ut Nahhiggananēuck aukéashut

You are standing on Narragansett lands.
Perspectives

The man in this painting lived in the same era and region as some of colonists seen in this gallery.

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"Two Boots" and Four Portraits

Perspectives

The RISD Museum’s 2009 acquisition of the Richard Brown Baker collection included two drawings by the English artist Howard Selina—Cowboy Hat (1974) and Two Boots (1974)—carefully and precisely rendered drawings in graphite on paper of well-worn, utilitarian garments.

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