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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.

Design as Repair

The Dosa Travel Coat
Curator

Dubbed a travel coat by artist and designer Christina Kim, this is a garment made for journeys long and far, both real and imagined, for traversing territories in the mind as much as in the physical world.

Message from Director John W. Smith

Dear Museum Friends,

As the world bears witness to the recent tragedies of George Floyd’s death, the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the countless numbers of Black people before them, it’s difficult to feel like I have anything new to say on a subject that I should meet with respectful listening, but as the director of this institution it is my job to lead both in words and in deeds.

Maker Unknown

College 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

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.

"She's a fighter"

Staring back at Morisot

A school programs educator describes student encounters with Edouard Manet's Repose.

Variations of a Drawing: Sol LeWitt and His Written Instructions

Educators Family Studio Notes

LeWitt likened his instructions to musical scores, which are realized in a new way every time they're played, and it's possible for LeWitt's wall drawings to take slightly different forms, depending on how his directions are implemented.

Intern looking at artwork

Memories, Nostalgia, and Moving Forward

Studio Notes Teens

The RISD Museum was an essential part of my childhood.

Providence

Studio Notes Artist

Exploring the process and context behind "Providence", a work created by Warren artist William Schaff.

Understanding Art Through Thumbnail Sketching

How To Studio Notes

Drawing in a museum is a way of slowing down and experiencing artwork on a nonverbal level.

New Ways to Paint

A Boating Party
Curator How To

Unfinished paintings by Eastman Johnson, John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt reveal new techniques that emerged in France in the second half of the 19th century.

The Flower, the Labor, and the Sea

Bhasha Chakrabarti  

b. 1991; from Honolulu, Hawaii; works in New Haven, Connecticut

Ashdeen, design studio

Weaving Memory and Resistance

Artistic Research, Social Practice, and Pedagogy at the RISD Museum
College Educators Faculty Teaching

Mariela Yeregui was the 2022–2024 Faculty Fellow in Costume and Textiles at the RISD Museum. In this summary of her work, she describes her research, social practice, and the e-textile she created at the conclusion of the position.

Confronting our Carbon Footprint

College Student Voices Sustainability and the natural world

Traditional museum practice has a gigantic carbon footprint. How is the RISD Museum changing its own practices in response to the climate emergency?

Painted wall mural of Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela along city street with several people walking in front.

Interview with artist Steffani Jemison

Curator Studio Notes Artist

Curatorial assistant of contemporary art A. Will Brown interviews artist Steffani Jemison about her film *Maniac Chase* (2009), *Escaped Lunatic* (2010–2011) and Personal (2014)

The Election Gloves

Studio Notes Artist

Exploring the process and context behind "The Election Gloves", a work created by Cranston artist Jessica Deane Rosner.

Written in Gems

RISD Art Circle explores Ancient Greek and Roman Intaglios
Teens

As part of the RISD Art Circle (RAC), we create opportunities for visitors to learn about objects more deeply and to experience hands-on making.

Cold Moon X

Studio Notes Artist

Exploring the process and context behind "Cold Moon X", a work created by Jamestown artist Georgia Marsh.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Edwin Austin Abbey's Old Peasant Woman
Curator Drawing

Curator Maureen C. O'Brien discusses American drawings and watercolors in the RISD Museum collection

Ingres Study in Three Parts

Curator

Insights into Ingres's studio practice and clues to his intellectual process

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