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Student Voices

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The Back Side Story

A Conversation with Chilean Arpilleras
College Student Voices

The Back Side Story is a textile book/zine that, with cute and brightly-colored patchwork and embroidery, documents the civilians daily life, sufferings, and resilience under the Chinese government

The Cycle of Healing

Piecing Together the Past to Set a Blank Canvas for the Future
College Student Voices

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

Tablecloth of Identities

College Student Voices

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

Inheritance and Legacy

College Student Voices

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

Untitled (I don’t think this textile has anything to say to us quite yet but when it does, it’s all mic’d up)

Interview with Object 52.339
College Student Voices

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

Stitching Together

A Pedagogical Model
College Faculty Teaching Student Voices

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.

Taken Out of Context: Walls on RISD's Walls

College Student Voices

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.

Seeing Siapo

College Student Voices

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

The Rejection of Closure

College Student Voices

Curatorial intern Grace Xiao reflects on viewing artwork that embraces instability, disruption, and restlessness, making room for open interpretations in the gallery.

Alt Text and Accessibility

Describing the Act of Looking
College Faculty Teaching Student Voices

How do we describe images and the experience of looking at images? Student Grace Xiao reflects on the process of writing alt text for "Variance: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability."

The Hypersexualization of Black People

College Student Voices

RISD student Abena Gyampo traces the history of the hypersexualization of black bodies from the early 19th century to contemporary popular culture

A grid of twelve pixelated rectangles

Seeing the History of Colonialism Through Resorts

College Student Voices

Artist and student Jade Cannata creates a chart describing the racial demographics of three all-inclusive resorts in locations with strong historical connections to colonialism, showing the effects of history on the present

Robert Mapplethorpe's Objectification of the Black Male Body

College Student Voices

RISD student Tito Crichton-Stuart analyzes Robert Mapplethorpe’s exoticisation of the black body and proposes potential acquisitions that could serve as counterpoints in the collection

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

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