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.

Artist Nafis White on her project Raid the Database 2

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

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

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

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.

Cleaning an object can be as much about discovery as it is about removing accumulated dust and grime.

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