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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.

Realistic marble bust depicting a stoic woman whose clothes contrast with the smooth white marble of the bust, the outermost layer being textured black and gray stone, and the innermost tan and striped.

Peregrinations of a Portrait and the Legacy of Agrippina the Younger

College Student Voices

Agrippina the Younger watches as men of the emperor move nearer and nearer to her. They carry weapons. Having survived one attempt on her life, she knows that she will not survive another.

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.

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

Seeking Visibility

A summer intern reflects on diversity in the museum's Western European galleries and suggesting curatorial strategies for greater visibility

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Happenings Artist

A new Chrome Extension brings the voices of first-time visitors into conversation with the RISD Museum’s voice.

A Dandy Installation

A time lapse view of the installation of the RISD Museum's groundbreaking exhibition Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion.

American Drawings and Watercolors

William Stanley Haseltine's Amalfi
Curator Drawing

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

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?

Marsden Hartley's Gorges du Loup, Provence

Curator

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

A fair-skinned figure with dark hair in a pink gown with soft ruffles and subtle floral details, sitting gracefully and gazing to the side against a dark burgundy background.

Communicating Melancholia /

Sad Young Men and Portrait of a Lady in Pink
Student Voices

to sit for a portrait

Confronting Ourselves Together

All-Staff Dialogues at the RISD Museum
Educators

Many museums today struggle with confronting their problematic legacies and transforming their current practices to become the diverse, inclusive institutions they aspire to be.

Redefining "Master Copies"

College Student Voices Studio Notes

A student dismantles the outdated terminology and practice of “master copies” by constructing a series of copies that works to bolster underrepresented artists and subvert the pervasive presence of white males in the Western art canon.

Exhibition Design

Intermission
Portfolio

In December of 2016 the RISD Museum needed to deinstall its European Galleries in order to renovate them.

229 Felixes

College Student Voices

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

Excavation to Exhibition: The Afterlife of Ancient Objects

College From the files Student Voices

An intern explores the history of works from the museum’s ancient collection, tracing the archaeological excavations that brought them to light and into the permanent collection.

Graphic Design Next

College

Graphic design students and professionals offer their visions of "Graphic Design Next."

Objects Tell Stories

College Student Voices

A wooden “do not touch” partition usually separates the period room in Pendleton House from the public. But one Monday in June, that partition was removed, and museum staff peopled the room.

Arlene Shechet Interviewed by Judith Tannenbaum

Curator Studio Notes Artist

Arlene Shechet discusses the production of works for and the installation design of Arlene Shechet: Meissen Recast with the exhibition's curator, Judith Tannenbaum.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Grant Wood's Plowing on Sunday
Curator Drawing

Plowing on Sunday, from about 1934

Project Projects website for SALT. Photo Project Projects

Building a Bigger Picture

An Interview with Rob Giampietro of Google Design NY
Portfolio Studio Notes

What are the essential questions museums need to ask themselves to understand the future of art?

Substitutions

College Studio Notes Artist

Composer Shawn Greenlee's experimental sound work Substitutions is inspired by the Chinese lithophone in the RISD Museum's Asian art collection

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