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American Drawings and Watercolors

Charles Burchfield
Curator Drawing

Five works on paper in the RISD Museum’s collection follow the arc of Charles Burchfield’s career, introducing and reprising themes that reveal his desire for artistic unity with nature.

New Ways to Paint

Sugaring Off
Curator How To

Unfinished paintings by Eastman Johnson, John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt reveal new techniques that emerged in France in the second half of the 19th century.

Teaching a Stone to Talk

Studio Notes Artist

Anya Ventura visits the studio of Rhode Island stone carver Tracy Mahaffey.

School House Long House

Studio Notes Artist

Exploring the process and context behind "School House Long House", a new work created by Providence/Newport artists Jed Hancock-Brainerd, Rebecca Noon, and Jeremy Radtke.

Collaboration and the Late-Medieval Book

Curator

Books of hours made during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance were products of collaboration between scribes, illuminators, bookbinders, and, sometimes, the original patron or owner. A recent acquisition of a French book of hours made in Rouen around 1510 tells the story of this collaboration through the structure of its contents, iconography, and assembly.

Handwritten tribute from Richard Merkin to musician Bobby Short inside the catalog for Merkin's first New York gallery show, "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of." The catalog accompanied a 1967 letter (on vintage letterhead) from Richard Merkin to musician Bobby Short, expressing Merkin's esteem for Short and his music, and inviting him to come see the exhibition. Courtesy of the RISD Archives

Remembering Richard Merkin

From the files

Richard Merkin was for decades the go-to authority for all things dandyish. As we see in the ephemera from his life and his tailored clothing on view in the exhibition "Artist/Rebel/Dandy", his personality and fashion sense live on at RISD.

A painting at left depicts a vase and a bowl containing flowers. A photograph on the right shows a recreation of the same scene.

Behind the Still Life

College Student Voices

Ceramics student Lindsay Savoie subverts traditional hierarchies that value painting and sculpture more highly than utilitarian art forms like pottery and photography.

Two people looking at a painting of a palm tree

Look at Art. Get Paid.

Happenings Artist

Forty-one people who don’t visit art museums visit the RISD Museum as paid guest critics of the art and institution.

Egungun Atipako—with hand-woven aso ofi textiles. Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo: Bolaji Campbell, 2007

Cloth as Metaphor in Egungun Costumes

Curator

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

A pair of masqueraders honors the spirits of departed twins, 1986.

Egúngún

Mysteries Concealed in Magical Cloth
Curator

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

Folded photograph taped to a wall, showing a woman sitting on a chair in front of a window. A large format camera and drinking glasses are on the table next to her, and a house plant hangs above her. She has short hair and is wearing boots, and one of her feet is propped up on the chair in front of her.
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Sally Mann

Artist Talk
September 9, 2025 / 6:30-8:30 pm
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Up close with Artemisia - Conserving a 17th Century Masterpiece

Lecture
November 15, 2024 / 12-1 pm
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July 24, 2024 / 3-4:30 pm
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April 13, 2024 / 1-4 pm
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Bhasha Chakrabarti
April 9, 2024 / 1:15-2:30 pm
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April 4, 2024 / 5:30-7:30 pm
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Decolonial e-Textiles
February 26, 2023 / 1-3 pm
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Gallery Talk

Helen Frankenthaler’s Hermes
December 6, 2022 / 6:30-8 pm
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The Future of Art and Artists in a Post-COVID World

Community Conversation hosted by Gallery Night Providence
May 25, 2021 / 7-8:30 pm
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Art and Activism

October 29, 2020 / 7-8:30 pm
Back to the Drawing Board: Jarrett Key
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Back to the Drawing Board

Jarrett Key
July 30, 2020 / 7-8:30 pm
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Ruffles, Repair & Ritual

The Fine Art of Fixing in Repair and Design Futures
June 6-9, 2019
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Continuing Medical Education Workshop

Mindful Observation: The Art of Making Meaning from What We See
April 25, 2019 / 5:30-8:30 pm
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Gallery Conversation

Designs for the Pluriverse
April 19, 2019 / 12:30-2 pm

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