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Ceramic disk with a cracked colorful surface showing a fragmentary frowning face with features made up of disjointed shapes and various symbols such as a blue baby and a red hand.

A Shared Journey

The Barkan Contemporary Ceramic Collection at the RISD Museum

September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2028

Detail from a purple and white embroidered textile depicting many scenes along a trade route, such as sailing ships, laborers and scenes of leisure.

The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea

September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026

A vibrant textile artwork with a glowing spiral against a dark sky surrounded by large rainbows swooping down to large snow-covered mountains stretch below.

Liz Collins

Motherlode

July 19, 2025 - January 11, 2026

A sheer, delicate, short-sleeved, cropped, lace blouse with wide, flared sleeves and intricate floral embroidery throughout.

From Pineapple to Pañuelo

Philippine Textiles

December 7, 2024 - August 24, 2025

Textile with a dense geometric pattern in dark reds and blues accented by small white squares besides a full-length draped garment made of the same fabric on a black background.

Sensory Silhouettes

Experiencing South Asian Garments

June 1 - December 8, 2024

White circular plate with silver rim. Two figures at the lower center of the plate, one dressed in a blue outfit, the other in a pink dress, both with black, rectangular bars covering their eyes.

On the Surface

Contemporary Ceramics

April 9, 2021 - May 5, 2024

A dark abstract photograph of blue and black tones with light blue and translucent squares run through the center. The squares appear to be stitched to the background through holes in their centers.

Sensing Fashion

February 11 - July 30, 2023

Inherent Vice

Hidden Narratives

July 23, 2022 - January 15, 2023

Inherent Vice

January 29 - July 10, 2022

Painting of two nude young men--one dark-skinned, the other light-skinned. They relax on a bed and affectionately cuddle with a small white dog. Brushwork is loose and palette is muted.

Any distance between us

July 17, 2021 - March 13, 2022

Repair and Design Futures

October 5, 2018 - June 30, 2019

The Phantom of Liberty

Contemporary Works in the RISD Museum Collection

May 4 - December 30, 2018

From the Loom of a Goddess

Reverberations of Guatemalan Mayan Weaving

February 23 - August 19, 2018

Designing Traditions Biennial V

Student Explorations in the Asian Textile Collection

August 11, 2017 - January 14, 2018

The Indian Boteh Motif

January 27 - July 30, 2017

Whirling Return of the Ancestors

Egúngún Masquerade Ensembles of the Yorùbá

July 15, 2016 - January 8, 2017

All of Everything

Todd Oldham Fashion

April 8 - September 11, 2016

Swagged and Poufed

The Upholstered Body in the Late 19th-Century and Today

January 22 - July 3, 2016

“Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass"

June 10, 2014 - March 8, 2015

Woven with Silk

Rockefeller Asian Textiles

June 10, 2014 - March 8, 2015