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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.

Wood Sculptures at RISD

Excavating the Storage Room
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.

Wood in the Middle Ages

College Student Voices

During the Fall of 2015, Sheila Bonde’s graduate students in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University undertook an investigation of the wood sculptures in the RISD Museum collections. This multi-author paper includes some of their findings.

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

RISD Museum Social Equity & Inclusion Work Plan

The RISD Museum is committed to working deliberately, consistently, and compassionately to confront injustice in its many forms. We expect to be challenged and changed by where this collective and responsive work takes us.

New Perspectives on the RISD Dainichi Buddha

Conservation Curator

3-D technology expands the ways of seeing and studying RISD Museum's 12th century Dainichi Buddha.

pendleton house

Back Door @ the Pendleton: Shadows

College Student Voices Studio Notes

In creating Back Door @ the Pendleton, I relocated meaning from the art object to its context and used humor to alter the atmosphere of the Museum.

Seeing the Peacock Feathers

College Student Voices

RISD Museum intern Alicia Valencia (RISD 2015, Furniture) explains how the act of looking closely formed her impressions on Samuel Gragg's Elastic armchair.

Lot 022405

Curator

Curatorial Assistant A. Will Brown on Donald Moffett's Lot 022405.

Raid the Database 2 with Nafis White

Curator

Curatorial assistant of contemporary art A. Will Brown on "Raid the Database 2 with Nafis White"

All That Glitters

Recent Research into Golden Garments
Conservation

For conservators, fabrics incorporating metallic components raise complex questions about construction, materials, and manufacturing techniques, all of which impact how an object will be stabilized and displayed

The Flower, the Labor, and the Sea

Bhasha Chakrabarti  

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

Ashdeen, design studio

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?

Crusading Saint

College Student Voices

In the Middle Ages, several saints were represented as knights in art, making it difficult to identify RISD’s Crusading Saint. This article will explore his possible identities.

A tall, weathered wooden statue of a robed figure with a serene expression, draped in green and red garments, standing upon an octagonal base.

Angel of the Annunciation

College Student Voices

This article provides a brief introduction to this finely carved and dynamic sculpture of the Archangel Gabriel.

Cold Moon X

Studio Notes Artist

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

Reading List

Sustainability & the Natural World
Sustainability and the natural world

These are additional resources we’ve found useful to engage in dialogue and to provide information around environmental and climate issues, impacts and actions.

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

Raid the Database 1 with Natalja Kent

Artist

"Raid the Database with Natalja Kent" is the first installment in an ongoing project in which artists bring new curatorial perspectives to the museum's extensive collections.

A copper-colored chair with an angular and open frame, with a symmetrical geometric pattern on the seat and backrest.

Objects by Architects

College Student Voices

Architects have been recognized as key figures in furniture design since the late 19th century, although they've certainly been designing furniture for far longer. But what compels them to do so?

Two Eggs, RISD Style

Curator Artist

The Museum recently acquired *Huevos de Los Angeles*, a collaborative work by two RISD alumni, Adam Silverman and David Wiseman. Here the artists describe how they created "eggs" to rival the most coveted variety.

Marsden Hartley's Gorges du Loup, Provence

Curator

Over the course of his artistic life, Marsden Hartley sought unmediated

Two images side-by-side. The left image is a 17th-century painting featuring a large heap of fruit and vegetables and a female figure. The right image is a contemporary photograph recreating the scene.

Unstilled Life

College Student Voices

A summer intern’s reinterpretation of a 1600s still life painting as lived ritual and faith in the present

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