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

Students in Jane'a Johnson's wintersession course explore works in the collection related to Pan-Africanism through Instagram-based creative projects.

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

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

Artist Nafis White on her project Raid the Database 2

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

A summer intern reflects on diversity in the museum's Western European galleries and suggesting curatorial strategies for greater visibility

William Stanley Haseltine first studied painting in Philadelphia with the German expatriate Paul Weber, who encouraged him to continue his training in Düsseldorf.Haseltine attended the Univer

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

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

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

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.

How does a landscape painting made in 1828 by English-American artist Thomas Cole both reinforce and intervene in settler-colonial ideas about the environment and Native American people?

Plowing on Sunday, from about 1934

Eastman Johnson was raised in Maine in a family of eight children, and

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

Composer Shawn Greenlee's experimental sound work Substitutions is inspired by the Chinese lithophone in the RISD Museum's Asian art collection

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.

A glimpse into the lives of international merchants in Canton, China.

Reginald Marsh, the son of American artists Fred Dana Marsh and Alice Randall Marsh, was born in Paris in 1898.

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.

Anya Ventura visits the studio of Rhode Island stone carver Tracy Mahaffey.

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