For Yorùbá-speaking peoples in West Africa, cloth is equated with their most precious possession, children.

Egungun costumes are usually created from a wide variety of carefully chosen fabrics ranging from exquisite samples of local handwoven aso ofi to exotic fabrics imported from aro

Professor Jan Baker encouraged her letterpress class to become inspired by the Circus exhibition at the RISD Museum.

The RISD Museum was an essential part of my childhood.

Understanding historic frames and how to care for them can be a complicated matter.

This past summer, with a focus on design thinking, the students were asked What is useful? as a starting point for their group design.

Using a questionnaire, curator Peter Selz—and the artists he queried—helped define a movement.

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.

A jade lithophone from 18th-century China offers insight to the significant role of ritual music in ancient China—as an essential part of state rite to assert the legitimacy of reign.

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.

A summer intern peeks into the Museum’s hidden corners and examines its architectural quirks.

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.

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

An intern's hands-on exploration of antique photomechanical processes in the 21st century