A summer intern meditates on the medium of murals and how they appear on RISD’s walls, using Photoshop to understand what is lost when seeing incomplete works out of context.

Students in Mariela Yeregui's Decolonial E-Textiles class create radical, critical, situated, and anticolonial projects that combine textile techniques with simple and low-tech electronic mechanisms.

The Back Side Story is a textile book/zine that, with cute and brightly-colored patchwork and embroidery, documents the civilians daily life, sufferings, and resilience under the Chinese government

Exploring the process and context behind "Geku", a work created by Pawtucket artist Brian Shure.

Composer Shawn Greenlee's experimental sound work Substitutions is inspired by the Chinese lithophone in the RISD Museum's Asian art collection

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

A glimpse into the lives of international merchants in Canton, China.

It's impossible to know exactly what happened in prehistory, but we archaeologists have excellent tools to help us.

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.

There's always more to be discovered: Hidden in plain sight since the 11th century, two inscriptions were found during conservation of the Museum's Dainichi Buddha.

3-D technology expands the ways of seeing and studying RISD Museum's 12th century Dainichi Buddha.