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

Collaborative reflections on the making and meaning of absences and erasures.

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

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

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

RISD Museum object photography generally follows typical museum practice: a straightforward approach to framing and lighting with great concern for color fidelity. For *Artist/Rebel/Dandy*, the curators suggested that we go in a different direction.

A chance meeting between the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes and Theodore Davis, an illustrator and journalist for "Harper's Weekly", in the White House conservatory produced one of the most extraordinary dinner services.

Childe Hassam, a successful young book and magazine illustrator, made his first trip abroad in 1883, disembarking in Great Britain then making a wide sweep through France, Holland, Switzerlan

For Yorùbá-speaking peoples in West Africa, cloth is equated with their most precious possession, children.

Intern Margaret North finds that every successful treasure hunt has a moment of shining glory.

The RISD Museum continues to build a robust collaboration with Brown University's Alpert Medical School, providing professional-development opportunities for premedical students, medical students, residents, and practicing attending physicians.