A summer intern creates an article of clothing inspired by the meticulous logistics of collections care.

How was the object made? What materials and methods brought it to life? 

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.

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.

Full tgallery guide from the exhibition Kudzanai Chiurai: Iyeza

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.

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

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

to sit for a portrait

Plowing on Sunday, from about 1934

RISD student Abena Gyampo traces the history of the hypersexualization of black bodies from the early 19th century to contemporary popular culture