An intern's hands-on exploration of antique photomechanical processes in the 21st century

A study of the elements that pull and push a visitor through the museum’s 3rd and 4th floor spaces

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

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.

The history of the Gorham Manufacturing Company is intertwined with that of Providence and Rhode Island. This uniquely local story has provided the opportunity for the RISD Museum to learn from the experiences of community members who have intersected with Gorham's legacy.

During the Fall of 2015, Sheila Bonde’s graduate students in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University undertook an investigation of the wood sculptures in the RISD Museum collections. This multi-author paper includes some of their findings.

A summer intern's short story/poem about a cat that investigates the spatial politics of Duchamp’s 'Boîte-en-valise' and also falls in love

3-D technology expands the ways of seeing and studying RISD Museum's 12th century Dainichi Buddha.

During my summer internship, I saw hundreds of fabulous garments, shoes, and accessories arrive for the Spring 2016 exhibition on fashion designer Todd Oldham.

In creating Back Door @ the Pendleton, I relocated meaning from the art object to its context and used humor to alter the atmosphere of the Museum.

An eclectic mix of North African, Moorish, Middle Eastern, and Japanese aesthetics, this desk and table are the original creations of Italian designer Carlo Bugatti.

Construction with Central Anchor is an image that I return to frequently with students in K-12 classrooms and in the RISD Museum.

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 jade lithophone from 18th-century China offers insight to the significant role of ritual music in ancient China—as an essential part of state rite to assert the legitimacy of reign.

Inspired by Joachim Antonisz Wtewael's "The Marriage of Peleus and Thetis," Josephine Devanbu (RISD/Brown 2015) uses the painting's shapes and density in her newest work.

Curatorial Assistant A. Will Brown on Donald Moffett's Lot 022405.

Object Lessons is an ongoing video series on the RISD Museum website that focuses on works in the collection and offers new perspectives.

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

Embroidery samplers are inextricably linked to an image of colonial America: farmhouses waved sheets of linen like flags of surrender, with fields of flax extending beyond, as far as the eye could