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Written in Gems

RISD Art Circle explores Ancient Greek and Roman Intaglios
Teens

As part of the RISD Art Circle (RAC), we create opportunities for visitors to learn about objects more deeply and to experience hands-on making.

Reading List

Sustainability & the Natural World
Sustainability and the natural world

These are additional resources we’ve found useful to engage in dialogue and to provide information around environmental and climate issues, impacts and actions.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Edwin Austin Abbey's Old Peasant Woman
Curator Drawing

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

Ingres Study in Three Parts

Curator

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

artist in chair in costume

Bromance

Studio Notes Artist

Exploring the process and context behind "Bromance", a new work created by Providence artist J.R. Uretsky.

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Happenings Artist

A new Chrome Extension brings the voices of first-time visitors into conversation with the RISD Museum’s voice.

Inheritance and Legacy

College Student Voices

Inheritance, the headpiece pictured above, and Legacy, the video shown below, are designed to live in the pluriverse.

A Dandy Installation

A time lapse view of the installation of the RISD Museum's groundbreaking exhibition Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion.

Pixilation Party!

Studio Notes Artist

Pixilation Party!, or how, with the help of dozens of RISD Museum visitors, Providence artist Xander Marro recently created one minute of black and white magic.

American Drawings and Watercolors

William Stanley Haseltine's Amalfi
Curator Drawing

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

Tablecloth of Identities

College Student Voices

We were inspired by the Paracas mantle because it has become fragments that are dispersed all around the world without c

Seeing Siapo

College Student Voices

A summer conservation intern’s investigation into the uses of infrared photography in recording Samoan siapo and the significance of new visual information gained.

A copper-colored chair with an angular and open frame, with a symmetrical geometric pattern on the seat and backrest.

Objects by Architects

College Student Voices

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?

The Success of the Nikosthenic Aesthetic

College Student Voices

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.

Two Eggs, RISD Style

Curator Artist

The Museum recently acquired *Huevos de Los Angeles*, a collaborative work by two RISD alumni, Adam Silverman and David Wiseman. Here the artists describe how they created "eggs" to rival the most coveted variety.

A fair-skinned figure with dark hair in a pink gown with soft ruffles and subtle floral details, sitting gracefully and gazing to the side against a dark burgundy background.

Communicating Melancholia /

Sad Young Men and Portrait of a Lady in Pink
Student Voices

to sit for a portrait

Exhibition Design

Intermission
Portfolio

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

229 Felixes

College Student Voices

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

“The best portrait Joseph Blackburn [never] painted”

John Singleton Copley’s Portrait of Theodore Atkinson, Jr.
Curator

In the January 1920 Bulletin of the Rhode Island School of Design, RISD Museum director L.

Black and white photograph of a woman of color sculpting a large stone block with hammer and chisel in hand. She is intent on her task.

Nancy Elizabeth Prophet

Reading List

This reading list is not exhaustive and serves as a starting point to learn more about Nancy Elizabeth Prophet.

Reconstructing the Villa Fondo Bottaro

Studio Notes

Architect James Stanton-Abbott explains his process for creating a computer-rendered reconstruction of a room in an ancient Roman villa near Pompeii, using images of wall-painting fragments in the RISD Museum and the MFA, Boston.

Graphic Design Next

College

Graphic design students and professionals offer their visions of "Graphic Design Next."

Arlene Shechet Interviewed by Judith Tannenbaum

Curator Studio Notes Artist

Arlene Shechet discusses the production of works for and the installation design of Arlene Shechet: Meissen Recast with the exhibition's curator, Judith Tannenbaum.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Grant Wood's Plowing on Sunday
Curator Drawing

Plowing on Sunday, from about 1934

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