Exploring the process and context behind "School House Long House", a new work created by Providence/Newport artists Jed Hancock-Brainerd, Rebecca Noon, and Jeremy Radtke.

Exploring the process and context behind "Cold Moon X", a work created by Jamestown artist Georgia Marsh.

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

After a half-century's journey, Gorham's magnificent writing table and chair made for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair returned home to Providence.

Get a peek inside the studio of Maralie Armstrong (RISD MFA 2009, Digital + Media) as she creates a score inspired by the Nō robes in the RISD Museum collection.

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.

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

A look at the graphic-design inspiration and challenges behind Circus.

Luca Cambiaso used iron gall ink and a quill pen to create this drawing in about 1570. RISD professor Andrew Raftery walks us through the making of iron gall ink and a quill pen, and explains how he copied Cambiaso's drawing.

Composer Shawn Greenlee's experimental sound work Substitutions is inspired by the Chinese lithophone in the RISD Museum's Asian art collection

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

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

Albert Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany, but came to the United States with his family in 1832 and settled with them in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Eastman Johnson was raised in Maine in a family of eight children, and

William Stanley Haseltine first studied painting in Philadelphia with t

Childe Hassam, a successful young book and magazine illustrator, made h

Plowing on Sunday, from about 1934

Reginald Marsh, the son of American artists Fred Dana Marsh and Alice R

Five works on paper in the RISD Museum’s collection follow the arc of C

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

In December of 2016 the RISD Museum needed to deinstall its European Galleries in order to renovate them.

1. Be steadfast.

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

Architects have been recognized as key figures in furniture design since the late 19th century, although they've certainly been designing furniture for far longer. But what compels them to do so?