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An Act of Necessary Transfiguration

College Student Voices Artist

Curatorial intern Sam Nehila uses collage to create abstracted forms and explore the trans experience of engaging with the museum’s collection of male nude bodies.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Charles Burchfield
Curator Drawing

Five works on paper in the RISD Museum’s collection follow the arc of Charles Burchfield’s career, introducing and reprising themes that reveal his desire for artistic unity with nature.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Reginald Marsh
Curator Drawing

Reginald Marsh, the son of American artists Fred Dana Marsh and Alice Randall Marsh, was born in Paris in 1898.

Photo of Guided visit, ca. 1972.

100 Years of Commitment

Educators From the files

The RISD Museum looks back at 100 years of its docent program, and the program's origins and evolution.

Rabbit Holes

College Student Voices

A summer intern conspires with a toothy collage in the museum’s collection.

Head of Christ or a Saint

College Student Voices

A colossal Romanesque head in the RISD collection has yet to be securely identified, but the sheen of his nose suggests that it was rubbed by many penitent hands during the course of this sculpture’s life.

Egungun Atipako—with hand-woven aso ofi textiles. Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo: Bolaji Campbell, 2007

Cloth as Metaphor in Egungun Costumes

Curator

Egungun costumes are usually created from a wide variety of carefully chosen fabrics ranging from exquisite samples of local handwoven aso ofi to exotic fabrics imported from aro

A pair of masqueraders honors the spirits of departed twins, 1986.

Egúngún

Mysteries Concealed in Magical Cloth
Curator

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

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