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Redefining "Master Copies"

College Student Voices Studio Notes

A student dismantles the outdated terminology and practice of “master copies” by constructing a series of copies that works to bolster underrepresented artists and subvert the pervasive presence of white males in the Western art canon.

Watercolor drawing of a thriving nature scene. We look down at a lush tangle of green leafy plant life with bluebells and white primroses. Five shining teal bird's eggs lay in a cozy moss and twig nest in the lower left.

Brief Biography of Jane Ogden

Drawing

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

Robert Mapplethorpe's Objectification of the Black Male Body

College Student Voices

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

A grid of twelve pixelated rectangles

Seeing the History of Colonialism Through Resorts

College Student Voices

Artist and student Jade Cannata creates a chart describing the racial demographics of three all-inclusive resorts in locations with strong historical connections to colonialism, showing the effects of history on the present

The Hypersexualization of Black People

College Student Voices

RISD student Abena Gyampo traces the history of the hypersexualization of black bodies from the early 19th century to contemporary popular culture

Defending the Right to Live: Political Prints in Providence, 1971

College

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

The Back Side Story

A Conversation with Chilean Arpilleras
College Student Voices

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

The Studio Visited and Re-visited

Considering artists' production in Rhode Island
Curator Studio Notes

In this series, RISD Museum curator Dominic Molon considers the importance and setting of the studio, and calls on Rhode Island artists.

Digital Restoration of a 3rd-century Panel Painting of the God Heron

College Conservation Student Voices

In earlier decades, retouching (or “inpainting”) using reversible painting materials would have been employed where compositional elements were missing.

Pen and ink drawing depicting a great ravine in Amalfi, stone bridge and in the distance stucco buildings and roof of a barn.

American Drawings and Watercolors

William Stanley Haseltine's Amalfi
Curator Drawing

William Stanley Haseltine first studied painting in Philadelphia with t

Fashionable dress women walks her dog in Boston Public Garden

American Drawings and Watercolors

Childe Hassam's Woman and Mastiff in the Boston Public Garden and Diamond Cove, Appledore
Curator Drawing

Childe Hassam, a successful young book and magazine illustrator, made h

Two young women standing on deck the Staten Island ferry on its approach to Governors Island. A middle-aged gentleman in a fedora looks towards the downtown skyline in a panorama view across southern tip of Manhattan.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Reginald Marsh
Curator Drawing

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

Vertical composition depicting a narrow gorge whose high granite cliffs extend the length of the painting on both sides and are cropped at the upper left and right.

Marsden Hartley's Gorges du Loup, Provence

Curator

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

An Ambitious but Essential Multi-Purpose Checklist for Discerning Black Artists

College Student Voices

1. Be steadfast.

As Is Painting, So Is Poetry

Myth and Metamorphosis in the RISD Gallery
College Student Voices

Curatorial intern Anthony Stott explores the journey of the myths of Ovid—from text to visual medium—in three objects in the neoclassical galleries.

Looking (Seeing)

College Student Voices Studio Notes

Raid the Database 2 with Nafis White

College Artist

Artist Nafis White on her project Raid the Database 2

Julien Prévieux, Patterns of Life, 2014. Single-channel video; color, sound. The artist and Galerie Jousse Entreprise

What Shall We Do Next?

An Interview with Artist Julien Prévieux
Curator Artist

Curatorial assistant A. Will Brown interviews artist Julien Prévieux about his videos What Shall We Do Next? (Sequence #2) and Patterns of Life.

Project Projects website for SALT. Photo Project Projects

Building a Bigger Picture

An Interview with Rob Giampietro of Google Design NY
Portfolio Studio Notes

What are the essential questions museums need to ask themselves to understand the future of art?

Gallery Canteen

College From the files Studio Notes

RISD student Joanna Cortez shares how the RISD Museum served the Providence community during World War II. Joanna participated in the Museum's Andrew W. Mellon Summer Internship Program this summer.

Photo of Guided visit, ca. 1972.

100 Years of Commitment

From the files Educators

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

Collaboration and the Late-Medieval Book

Curator

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.

At the Circus with RISD Graphic Design Students

College Educators Faculty Teaching Studio Notes

Professor Jan Baker encouraged her letterpress class to become inspired by the Circus exhibition at the RISD Museum.

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