A student in a RISD course on pan-African aesthetics contemplates a vinyl record pictured in a Sanlé Sory photograph in the collection, and imagines the songs it contains.

In the January 1920 Bulletin of the Rhode Island School of Design, RISD Museum director L.

In 1971, a group of radical students in Providence produced stirring silkscreen posters. Their images contributed to the vibrant visual culture of antiwar protest.

A summer intern reflects on diversity in the museum's Western European galleries and suggesting curatorial strategies for greater visibility

Drawing in a museum is a way of slowing down and experiencing artwork on a nonverbal level.

Luca Cambiaso used iron gall ink and a quill pen to create this drawing in about 1570. RISD professor Andrew Raftery walks us through the making of iron gall ink and a quill pen, and explains how he copied Cambiaso's drawing.

Inventories have been occurring almost since the beginning of museum practice, but they have changed entirely from their original form.

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

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

William Stanley Haseltine first studied painting in Philadelphia with t

Plowing on Sunday, from about 1934

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

Five works on paper in the RISD Museum’s collection follow the arc of C

For conservators, fabrics incorporating metallic components raise complex questions about construction, materials, and manufacturing techniques, all of which impact how an object will be stabilized and displayed

Embroidery samplers are inextricably linked to an image of colonial America: farmhouses waved sheets of linen like flags of surrender, with fields of flax extending beyond, as far as the eye could

Object Lessons is an ongoing video series on the RISD Museum website that focuses on works in the collection and offers new perspectives.

Why is an Etruscan situla, or pail, one of the most important objects in RISD's ancient collection? We examine its form, decoration, and context to understand its unique place in European archaeology.

Inspired by the European galleries, graphic designer Kelly Walters explores 19th-century notions of exoticism and beauty through the creation of a folded broadsheet poster.

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.

A rare female artist, Diana Mantuana's engraving of Atilius Regulus in a Barrel plays an important role in the history of the practice of printmaking and its reception in Renaissance Italy.

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

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

Understanding historic frames and how to care for them can be a complicated matter.