Student Voices

RISD Museum Summer researcher discusses Wifredo Lam's 1959 painting Près des Îles Vierges as a reflection of his complicated relationship with revolutionary Cuba and evolving understanding

An intern explores the history of works from the museum’s ancient collection, tracing the archaeological excavations that brought them to light and into the permanent collection.

An intern's hands-on exploration of antique photomechanical processes in the 21st century

Looking closely at a print by artist Jacob Lawrence showing voters in the 1920s, artist and activist Jordan Seaberry shares why voting matters.

A digital reinterpretation to Daniel Marot's clock print, merging old and new, exploring time's essence through evolving dimensions

A summer intern describes her experience delving into the RISD Museum's databases, searching for human elements

What happens when an analog object is brought into a digital space or when an analog object inspires a digital work?

This piece is in conversation with the Gee’s Bend quilt

We were inspired by the Paracas mantle because it has become fragments that are dispersed all around the world without c

Inheritance, the headpiece pictured above, and Legacy, the video shown below, are designed to live in the pluriverse.

I begin with the assertion that textiles are agents-deemed-objects.

Students in Mariela Yeregui's Decolonial E-Textiles class create radical, critical, situated, and anticolonial projects that combine textile techniques with simple and low-tech electronic mechanisms.

A summer intern meditates on the medium of murals and how they appear on RISD’s walls, using Photoshop to understand what is lost when seeing incomplete works out of context.

A summer conservation intern’s investigation into the uses of infrared photography in recording Samoan siapo and the significance of new visual information gained.