Faculty Teaching

Description

Faculty in disciplines ranging from graphic design to geosciences utilize the museum's collection and pedagogical support resources to fulfill a range of learning goals. You might use the museum as an opportunity to get outside your classroom. You might develop museum-based assignments that improve your students’ critical thinking or research skills. The museum can be a space for institutional study and critique as well as a space for object-based teaching and learning, or an inspiration for creative practice. Explore how other faculty have developed museum-based projects below, then head to our faculty guide to realize your own ideas.

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.

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."

Photography and Race: Blackness and The Self

A Pedagogical Model

College Educators Faculty Teaching

Jane'a Johnson's students explore how blackness is created and recreated as a visual phenomenon in self-directed essays drawing on museum visits and course texts

Structure/Skin

A Pedagogical Model

College Educators Faculty Teaching

Students in Carol Lasch's Spatial Dynamics course draw inspiration from the collection.

Extraordinary Ordinary

A Pedagogical Model

College Educators Faculty Teaching

Faculty member Rosa Weinberg reflects on the relevancy of art analysis as a starting point for exploring form in design and as a powerful habit of mind for beginning designers.

Pan-African Aesthetics: Past, Present, Future

A Hybrid Pedagogical Model

College Educators Faculty Teaching

Students in Jane'a Johnson's wintersession course explore works in the collection related to Pan-Africanism through Instagram-based creative projects.

Wood Sculptures at RISD

Excavating the Storage Room Sheila Bonde, professor and department chair, History of Art and Architecture, Brown University

College Faculty Teaching

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.

In Class / Motion Design

College Faculty Teaching

Instructor title: Ron Pearl, Critic
Class title: Motion Design

At the Circus with RISD Graphic Design Students

College Educators Faculty Teaching Studio Notes

Professor Jan Baker encouraged her letterpress class to become inspired by the Circus exhibition at the RISD Museum.