Using a questionnaire, curator Peter Selz—and the artists he queried—helped define a movement.

Curatorial assistant of contemporary art A. Will Brown on "Raid the Database 2 with Nafis White"

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

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.

A summer intern’s reinterpretation of a 1600s still life painting as lived ritual and faith in the present

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

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

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 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.