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Exhibition Overview: Text, Paratext, and Image

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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.

An Act of Necessary Transfiguration

College 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
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

Fly Me to Edo

College 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 Student Voices

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

How Do We Imagine the Future?

College 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.

Rabbit Holes

College Student Voices

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

Painting of a misty riverbank reflecting lush trees and a cloudy sky, all painted with soft, small brushstrokes blending blues, greens, pinks, and purples.

Museum Weather Website

Objects illustrate weather conditions
College Happenings 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.

Butterfly Hymnals That Won’t Disturb the Pleasant

Complacency, And Other Lullabies
College Student Voices

Writings based on a series of vernacular photos

Maces and Chains

The Ritual and Regalia of Commencement
College Student Voices

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

Anchors and Attractors

College Student Voices

A study of the elements that pull and push a visitor through the museum’s 3rd and 4th floor spaces

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Twill, Tape or Hang
College Student Voices

A summer intern creates an article of clothing inspired by the meticulous logistics of collections care.

Spatial Memory

The Hidden Corners
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A summer intern peeks into the Museum’s hidden corners and examines its architectural quirks.

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