Many museums today struggle with confronting their problematic legacies and transforming their current practices to become the diverse, inclusive institutions they aspire to be.

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

Additional resources for the Process Work exhibition

Editor of publications Amy Pickworth, intern Joanna Cortez, and curatorial assistant of contemporary art A. Will Brown interview UuDam Tran Nguyen about his single channel video Waltz of The Machine Equestrians--The Machine Equestrians (2012).

Plowing on Sunday, from about 1934

Examining and documenting four Fayum portraits as part of a larger study directed by the J. Paul Getty Museum

The discovery of these treasures resembles that of a valuable manuscript. They are a new “Codex Africanus,” not written on fragile papyrus, but in ivory and imperishable brass.

RISD student Tito Crichton-Stuart analyzes Robert Mapplethorpe’s exoticisation of the black body and proposes potential acquisitions that could serve as counterpoints in the collection

1. Be steadfast.

Artist Jane Ogden (British, ca. 1845–1928) painted flowers and other still-life subjects in oil and watercolor.

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.

Our academic programs and curatorial staff look forward to working with you to develop plans for virtual classroom connections.

Why is contemporary English artist Paul Scott interested in a ceramic technique and imagery from the 1700-1800s? How does he work with transferware to comment on environmental issues and systemic racism in the United States?

Curatorial assistant of contemporary art A. Will Brown interviews artist Kudzanai Chiurai about his film "Iyeza"

In the winter of 1886, the neighborhoods of Paris were transformed by an unusually heavy snowfall that lingered on the branches of trees and captured the imagination of the artist Berthe Morisot.

The future is an abstract concept, hard to decode and difficult to predict. A summer intern reflects on fashion and future in this creative writing piece.