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

These resources provide additional context for dialogue and conversation around the case studies featured in this section and other ongoing work at the museum.

A digital reinterpretation to Daniel Marot's clock print, merging old and new, exploring time's essence through evolving dimensions

RISD students in a Printmaking course are creating their own wallpaper designs in a collaborative course.

How was the object made? What materials and methods brought it to life? 

How did the object acquire meaning? How can we truly understand it? 

How did the object find its way to the museum, and why is it presented this way? 

How can this object shed light on contemporary experiences? 

Museum staff and partners have shared our Clinical Arts work at a variety of conferences, symposia, and scholarly publications.

During the Fall of 2015, Sheila Bonde’s graduate students in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University undertook an investigation of the wood sculptures in the RISD Museum collections. This multi-author paper includes some of their findings.