RISD Museum curators Jan Howard and Gina Borromeo share the RISD Museum’s process for deaccessioning a bronze head of an oba from Benin prior to its return to Nigeria

These resources provide additional context for dialogue and conversation around the case studies featured in this section and other ongoing work at the museum.

These past exhibitions interrogate institutional histories and reconsider conceptions of value.

A digital reinterpretation to Daniel Marot's clock print, merging old and new, exploring time's essence through evolving dimensions

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

A summer intern works with local artists to create an experimental audio project to be experienced in the galleries.

A study of the elements that pull and push a visitor through the museum’s 3rd and 4th floor spaces

RISD students in a Printmaking course are creating their own wallpaper designs in a collaborative course.

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

How did the object acquire meaning? How can we truly understand it? 

How did the object find its way to the museum, and why is it presented this way? 

How can this object shed light on contemporary experiences? 

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

Dubbed a travel coat by artist and designer Christina Kim, this is a garment made for journeys long and far, both real and imagined, for traversing territories in the mind as much as in the physical world.

The RISD Museum’s 2009 acquisition of the Richard Brown Baker collection included two drawings by the English artist Howard Selina—Cowboy Hat (1974) and Two Boots (1974)—carefully and precisely rendered drawings in graphite on paper of well-worn, utilitarian garments.

In this durational performance, artist Becci Davis attempted to repair the ancestral wounds of American history, through a series of deliberate gestures.

The man in this painting lived in the same era and region as some of colonists seen in this gallery.

The history of the Gorham Manufacturing Company is intertwined with that of Providence and Rhode Island. This uniquely local story has provided the opportunity for the RISD Museum to learn from the experiences of community members who have intersected with Gorham's legacy.

Museum staff and partners have shared our Clinical Arts work at a variety of conferences, symposia, and scholarly publications.

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.