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Cold Moon X

Studio Notes Artist

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

I'm the Sweetest Teddy Bear

Studio Notes Artist

Exploring the process and context behind "I'm the Sweetest Teddy Bear", a work created by North Scituate artist Entang Wiharso.

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

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.

Drawing Outside the Lines

Family

For many of us, a line is the first mark we make. It is a huge developmental milestone when a young child's first scribbles are set to the page (or wall!).

Seeking Visibility

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

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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.

Untitled (I don’t think this textile has anything to say to us quite yet but when it does, it’s all mic’d up)

Interview with Object 52.339
College Student Voices

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

The Care and Preservation of Art Composed of Plastic

Conservation Sustainability and the natural world

RISD Museum conservator Ingrid Neuman discusses the challenges in caring for objects made from this ubiquitous material

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

The Cycle of Healing

Piecing Together the Past to Set a Blank Canvas for the Future
College Student Voices

This piece is in conversation with the Gee’s Bend quilt

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?

Marsden Hartley's Gorges du Loup, Provence

Curator

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

Redefining "Master Copies"

College Student Voices Studio Notes

A student dismantles the outdated terminology and practice of “master copies” by constructing a series of copies that works to bolster underrepresented artists and subvert the pervasive presence of white males in the Western art canon.

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.

A black-toned painting with ominous abstract, elongated forms, faint linear details, small geometric white details, and a small cluster of green, blue, and red color.

Troubled Earth

College Student Voices

RISD Museum Summer researcher discusses Wifredo Lam's 1959 painting Près des Îles Vierges as a reflection of his complicated relationship with revolutionary Cuba and evolving understanding

Excavation to Exhibition: The Afterlife of Ancient Objects

College From the files Student Voices

An intern explores the history of works from the museum’s ancient collection, tracing the archaeological excavations that brought them to light and into the permanent collection.

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.

Graphic Design Next

College

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

K-12 Virtual Visit

Thomas Cole, Landscape (Landscape with Tree Trunks), 1828
Educators K-12 Virtual Visits Sustainability and the natural world

How does a landscape painting made in 1828 by English-American artist Thomas Cole both reinforce and intervene in settler-colonial ideas about the environment and Native American people?

Objects Tell Stories

College Student Voices

A wooden “do not touch” partition usually separates the period room in Pendleton House from the public. But one Monday in June, that partition was removed, and museum staff peopled the room.

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