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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

Two images side-by-side. The left image is a 17th-century painting featuring a large heap of fruit and vegetables and a female figure. The right image is a contemporary photograph recreating the scene.

Unstilled Life

College Student Voices

A summer intern’s reinterpretation of a 1600s still life painting as lived ritual and faith in the present

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.

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.

a group of people on scooters wearing pink and red ponchos

Interview with artist UuDam Tran Nguyen

Curator Student Voices Studio Notes

Editor of publications Amy Pickworth, intern Joanna Cortez, and curatorial assistant of contemporary art A. Will Brown interview UuDam Tran Nguyen about his single channel video Waltz of The Machine Equestrians--The Machine Equestrians (2012).

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

Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis, and Research

Conservation

Examining and documenting four Fayum portraits as part of a larger study directed by the J. Paul Getty Museum

The Head in Focus

Benin Art and Visual History
How did this get here?

The discovery of these treasures resembles that of a valuable manuscript. They are a new “Codex Africanus,” not written on fragile papyrus, but in ivory and imperishable brass.

silver polishing with cotton

Tracing the Silver Seaweed

College Conservation Student Voices Sustainability and the natural world

Isabella McCormick (Brown/RISD 2015) explores the intricacies of the Gorham Narragansett Salad Set and their reflections on Rhode Island culture, insights gained from her meticulous cleaning of the utensils as part of her Mellon Summer Internship in conservation.

A black, curved abstract shape lies at the center of a piece of wrinkled tissue paper. Zig-zagging lines of thread intersect over and beyond the shape.

The Rejection of Closure

College Student Voices

Curatorial intern Grace Xiao reflects on viewing artwork that embraces instability, disruption, and restlessness, making room for open interpretations in the gallery.

Sandy-toned, weathered stone slab with evenly spaced etched inscriptions filling the tablet and a broken-off bottom corner piece.

Reading Inscribed Letters from Roman Macedonia

RISD Museum’s important Greek inscription dates to the period when Rome dominated the Eastern Mediterranean.

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