A summer intern explores the context of ceremonial objects significant to RISD’s past and present.

Students in Jane'a Johnson's wintersession course explore works in the collection related to Pan-Africanism through Instagram-based creative projects.

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

A school programs educator describes student encounters with Edouard Manet's Repose.

Artist Nafis White on her project Raid the Database 2

Agrippina the Younger watches as men of the emperor move nearer and nearer to her. They carry weapons. Having survived one attempt on her life, she knows that she will not survive another.

Curator Maureen C. O'Brien discusses American drawings and watercolors in the RISD Museum collection

Over the course of his artistic life, Marsden Hartley sought unmediated

A summer intern describes her experience delving into the RISD Museum's databases, searching for human elements

How does a landscape painting made in 1828 by English-American artist Thomas Cole both reinforce and intervene in settler-colonial ideas about the environment and Native American people?