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Pilgrims of Beauty

Art and Inspiration in 19th-Century Italy
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European Paintings and Sculpture, ca. 1770 - 1937

Alt Text and Accessibility

Describing the Act of Looking
College Faculty Teaching Student Voices

How do we describe images and the experience of looking at images? Student Grace Xiao reflects on the process of writing alt text for "Variance: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability."

Taken Out of Context: Walls on RISD's Walls

College Student Voices

A summer intern meditates on the medium of murals and how they appear on RISD’s walls, using Photoshop to understand what is lost when seeing incomplete works out of context.

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

“The best portrait Joseph Blackburn [never] painted”

John Singleton Copley’s Portrait of Theodore Atkinson, Jr.
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In the January 1920 Bulletin of the Rhode Island School of Design, RISD Museum director L.

Open House: Five Engraved Scenes

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Exploring the process and context behind "Open House: Five Engraved Scenes", a work created by Providence artist and RISD faculty Andrew Raftery.

A black, curved abstract shape lies at the center of a piece of wrinkled tissue paper. Zig-zagging lines of thread intersect over and beyond the shape.

The Rejection of Closure

College Student Voices

Curatorial intern Grace Xiao reflects on viewing artwork that embraces instability, disruption, and restlessness, making room for open interpretations in the gallery.

When Then Is Now

Martin Boyce's Connections to the RISD Museum Collection
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An exploration of the intriguing relationships between works in Martin Boyce's mid-career survey exhibition at the RISD Museum and objects by Alexander Calder, Charles and Ray Eames, and Dan Flavin in the museum's collection.

Surprise Endings: Gorham Silver's Mythologique

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This rare example of Gorham's "Mythologique" flatware service was purposefully left unfinished as they are samples, combining elaborate hand-worked detail with mechanized brute force.

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Being Thunder: Presented with newportFILM
November 9, 2023 / 7-9 pm

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Circus
August 1, 2014 - February 22, 2015
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Humanbeast
August 15, 2013 / 4-8 pm
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Made to Measure

Gallery Presentations
May 16, 2013 / 6:30-8 pm

RISD Art Circle 2015-2016

The RISD Art Circle (RAC) is a group of young artists and art enthusiasts who explore the RISD Museum collection and activate the Museum galleries through events, interpretative projects, community

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