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

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.

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.

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

"There are no wrong notes possible . . . it's what you play next that matters."

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

Full tgallery guide from the exhibition Kudzanai Chiurai: Iyeza

The RISD Museum was an essential part of my childhood.

The Teen Intensive is an annual two-week program that brings teens together to explore their own creative processes by meeting with artists and museum staff, participating in art-making workshops,

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

RISD Museum conservator Ingrid Neuman discusses the challenges in caring for objects made from this ubiquitous material

Pixilation Party!, or how, with the help of dozens of RISD Museum visitors, Providence artist Xander Marro recently created one minute of black and white magic.

William Stanley Haseltine first studied painting in Philadelphia with the German expatriate Paul Weber, who encouraged him to continue his training in Düsseldorf.Haseltine attended the Univer

to sit for a portrait

A summer intern describes her experience delving into the RISD Museum's databases, searching for human elements