Egúngún

Curator
Mysteries Concealed in Magical Cloth Henry John Drewal Curator For Yorùbá-speaking peoples in West Africa, cloth is equated with their most precious possession, children.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Curator Drawing
Charles Burchfield Maureen C. O’Brien Curator Drawing Five works on paper in the RISD Museum’s collection follow the arc of Charles Burchfield’s career, introducing and reprising themes that reveal his desire for artistic unity with nature. Burchfield’s development in the early years of the twentieth century merged an appreciation for decorative surfaces, notably those of Asian and Near Eastern art, with an imagination that was fueled by his own his experiences.

Cloth as Metaphor in Egungun Costumes

Curator
Bolaji Campbell Curator Egungun costumes are usually created from a wide variety of carefully chosen fabrics ranging from exquisite samples of local handwoven aso ofi to exotic fabrics imported from around the globe. The choices represent the best that money can buy, and include velvet (aran), damask, silk, lace, and cotton, including ankara, or Africanized Dutch wax prints.

What Shall We Do Next?

Curator Artist
An Interview with Artist Julien Prévieux A. Will Brown Curator Artist Curatorial assistant A. Will Brown interviews artist Julien Prévieux about his videos What Shall We Do Next? (Sequence #2) and Patterns of Life.

Tanks, but No Tanks: Gravel and the Museum

College Student Voices
Anna Rose Keefe College Student Voices During my summer internship, I saw hundreds of fabulous garments, shoes, and accessories arrive for the Spring 2016 exhibition on fashion designer Todd Oldham. As an intern in the Costume and Textiles Department and a textile conservation student, I was asked, for one of my projects, to research how the materials going in the exhibition space might react with the clothes. Pollutants that we live with every day, such as car exhaust, bright light, and dust, can do irreversible damage to art.