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Understanding Art Through Thumbnail Sketching

How To Studio Notes

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

229 Felixes

College Student Voices

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

American Drawings and Watercolors

Grant Wood's Plowing on Sunday
Curator Drawing

Plowing on Sunday, from about 1934

Jewelry from the Decorative Arts and Design Collection

Curator

The American and European jewelry collection at the RISD Museum, part of the Decorative Arts and Design Department, is made up of more than 800 works, including necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and rings from the medieval period to present day.

A portrait of a blond-haired, dark-eyed, rosy-cheeked child in a voluminous blue bonnet and top painted with soft, loose brush strokes and unfinished areas revealing the tan canvas beneath.

New Ways to Paint

Simone in a Blue Bonnet
Curator How To

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.

How Do We Imagine the Future?

College Student Voices

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.

Private Investigation, Art-History Style

College

Intern Margaret North finds that every successful treasure hunt has a moment of shining glory.

Design as Repair

The Dosa Travel Coat
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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.

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