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Student Voices

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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.

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A student dismantles the outdated terminology and practice of “master copies” by constructing a series of copies that works to bolster underrepresented artists and subvert the pervasive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
Home Page of the virtual exhibition Samurai At Leisure displayed on a model of a computer monitor.

Samurai at Leisure Taken into the Digital World

College Student Voices

A graphic design student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Marta Jeż describes her virtual exhibition project and new possibilities of translating physical exhibitions into digital forms.

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.

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.

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

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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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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.

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Butterfly Hymnals That Won’t Disturb the Pleasant

Complacency, And Other Lullabies
College Perspectives Student Voices

Writings based on a series of vernacular photos

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Maces and Chains

The Ritual and Regalia of Commencement
College Perspectives Student Voices

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

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