This article argues that Simon the Pharisee would have been viewed as an explicitly Jewish character by sixteenth-century viewers.

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.

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

William Stanley Haseltine first studied painting in Philadelphia with t

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.

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

RISD Museum intern Alicia Valencia (RISD 2015, Furniture) explains how the act of looking closely formed her impressions on Samuel Gragg's Elastic armchair.

A summer intern explores the context of ceremonial objects significant to RISD’s past and present.

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

An intern explores the history of works from the museum’s ancient collection, tracing the archaeological excavations that brought them to light and into the permanent collection.

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