229 Felixes College Student Voices A summer intern describes her experience delving into the RISD Museum's databases, searching for human elements
Participation through Voting Jordan Seaberry and Jacob Lawrence on Why It Matters Educators Student Voices Looking closely at a print by artist Jacob Lawrence showing voters in the 1920s, artist and activist Jordan Seaberry shares why voting matters.
Structure/Skin A Pedagogical Model College Educators Faculty Teaching Students in Carol Lasch's Spatial Dynamics course draw inspiration from the collection.
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.
Confronting our Carbon Footprint College Student Voices Sustainability and the natural world Traditional museum practice has a gigantic carbon footprint. How is the RISD Museum changing its own practices in response to the climate emergency?
New Perspectives on the RISD Dainichi Buddha Conservation Curator 3-D technology expands the ways of seeing and studying RISD Museum's 12th century Dainichi Buddha.
“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.
Talks and Conversations Queering the Collection Gallery Conversations Saturday, February 15 / 3-4:15 pm
Workshops and studios / Hands-on Art Process as Power - Craft and Gender Conversation and Hands On Making Thursday, February 6 / 5-7 pm
Hands-on Art / Workshops and studios / Other events / Open Studio Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend Celebration January 18-19