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.

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

RISD student Joanna Cortez shares how the RISD Museum served the Providence community during World War II. Joanna participated in the Museum's Andrew W. Mellon Summer Internship Program this summer.

How a project designed to enhance pain management was born and made possible by the collaboration between RISD Museum and the Brown Emergency Medicine Residency.

In this series, RISD Museum curator Dominic Molon considers the importance and setting of the studio, and calls on Rhode Island artists.

For conservators, fabrics incorporating metallic components raise complex questions about construction, materials, and manufacturing techniques, all of which impact how an object will be stabilized and displayed

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

As a curatorial intern for the Contemporary Art Department at the RISD Museum during the summer of 2016, I was introduced to the in-depth experience of museum work.

Artist Anya Ventura explains the context behind an audio tour and printed guide that she and Anther Kiley created illustrating episodes from the lives of seven objects from the Museum's galleries. Their 2012 work "Fragments" was one of the winning projects in the RISD Museum's annual *Sitings* competition for site-specific installations by RISD degree candidates.

Bhasha Chakrabarti  

b. 1991; from Honolulu, Hawaii; works in New Haven, Connecticut

Ashdeen, design studio

Traditional museum practice has a gigantic carbon footprint. How is the RISD Museum changing its own practices in response to the climate emergency?

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.

Agrippina the Younger watches as men of the emperor move nearer and nearer to her. They carry weapons. Having survived one attempt on her life, she knows that she will not survive another.

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

Insights into Ingres's studio practice and clues to his intellectual process

Inventories have been occurring almost since the beginning of museum practice, but they have changed entirely from their original form.

A summer intern reflects on diversity in the museum's Western European galleries and suggesting curatorial strategies for greater visibility

I begin with the assertion that textiles are agents-deemed-objects.

William Stanley Haseltine first studied painting in Philadelphia with the German expatriate Paul Weber, who encouraged him to continue his training in Düsseldorf.Haseltine attended the Univer

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.

RISD's ancient art collection includes a vase that demonstrates how one Greek potter perfected international marketing and became one of the most prolific artisans in ancient Athens.

Over the course of his artistic life, Marsden Hartley sought unmediated

to sit for a portrait