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

Exploring the process and context behind "Bromance", a new work created by Providence artist J.R. Uretsky.

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

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

Eastman Johnson was raised in Maine in a family of eight children, and

Plowing on Sunday, from about 1934

Reginald Marsh, the son of American artists Fred Dana Marsh and Alice R

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

Artist Nafis White on her project Raid the Database 2

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.

Nancy Prophet fellow Amber Lopez interviews artist Ariel Jackson her video *The Origin of the Blues*

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

For many of us, a line is the first mark we make. It is a huge developmental milestone when a young child's first scribbles are set to the page (or wall!).

The RISD Museum looks back at 100 years of its docent program, and the program's origins and evolution.

Over the last 2,000 years, Nesmin has been a priest, a mummy, and a museum exhibit. RISD Museum intern Jonathan Migliori discusses Nesmin's influence in his life.

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.

Dubbed a travel coat by artist and designer Christina Kim, this is a garment made for journeys long and far, both real and imagined, for traversing territories in the mind as much as in the physical world.

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

Writings based on a series of vernacular photos

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?

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