Tanks, but No Tanks: Gravel and the Museum

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.

Condition and Locations

Arianna Riva Student Voices Inventories have been occurring almost since the beginning of museum practice, but they have changed entirely from their original form.

Written in Gems

RISD Art Circle explores Ancient Greek and Roman Intaglios RISD Art Circle Teens As part of the RISD Art Circle (RAC), we create opportunities for visitors to learn about objects more deeply and to experience hands-on making. Our first project was to do an activity on Gallery Night. It was challenging because we had to figure out how to work together as a group, but the learning process was important and eventually brought us closer together.

As Is Painting, So Is Poetry

Myth and Metamorphosis in the RISD Gallery Anthony Stott College Student Voices Curatorial intern Anthony Stott explores the journey of the myths of Ovid—from text to visual medium—in three objects in the neoclassical galleries.

The Success of the Nikosthenic Aesthetic

Jonathan Migliori College Student Voices RISD's ancient art collection includes a vase that demonstrates how one Greek potter perfected international marketing and became one of the most prolific artisans in ancient Athens.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Reginald Marsh Maureen C. O’Brien Curator Drawing Reginald Marsh, the son of American artists Fred Dana Marsh and Alice Randall Marsh, was born in Paris in 1898. He grew up in comfortable circumstances in Nutley, New Jersey, and was educated at Lawrenceville School and Yale University. In the early 1920s Marsh worked in New York as a freelance artist for magazines and newspapers, developing an energized drawing style that he used to illustrate city life and its various entertainments.

From Museum to Bedside

The Need for Museum Educators In Medical Education Jay Baruch, MD Clinical Arts Curator The RISD Museum continues to build a robust collaboration with Brown University's Alpert Medical School, providing professional-development opportunities for premedical students, medical students, residents, and practicing attending physicians.

Four Contemplations: A Composition Commemorating the Restored Dainichi Buddha

Sebastian Ruth Happenings Studio Notes Artist Community MusicWorks commissioned composer and vocalist Ken Ueno to write Four Contemplations for the restoration and rededication of RISD Museum's Dainichi Buddha.