The Cycle of Healing

Piecing Together the Past to Set a Blank Canvas for the Future Parvati Vijaykumar College Student Voices This piece is in conversation with the Gee’s Bend quilt, which has a strong story of mending through stitching. It started off with the physical need for warmth. The patterns and motifs were drawn from everyday life, like nature (landscapes around: mountains, green fields, rivers, the sun and the sky) and homes (pitched roofs, chimneys, windows and doors).

Tablecloth of Identities

Carmen Belmonte Sandoval and Isabela C. College Student Voices We were inspired by the Paracas mantle because it has become fragments that are dispersed all around the world without context. Context is important when it comes to creating work and exhibiting it.

Inheritance and Legacy

Emma Powers College Student Voices Inheritance, the headpiece pictured above, and Legacy, the video shown below, are designed to live in the pluriverse. Although to me they represent a deep connection to my mother, our ancestors, and their craft, they also tell a story to the viewer. The story changes much like the headdress does as it moves, weaving a narrative about community, childhood, and a passion for things made by hand. I seek to create a work that, instead of producing a specific story or set of knowledge for the consumption of others, stays true to its origins.

Untitled (I don’t think this textile has anything to say to us quite yet but when it does, it’s all mic’d up)

Interview with Object 52.339 Colin Orihuela College Student Voices I begin with the assertion that textiles are agents-deemed-objects.

Stitching Together

A Pedagogical Model Mariela Yeregui College Faculty Teaching Student Voices Students in Mariela Yeregui's Decolonial E-Textiles class create radical, critical, situated, and anticolonial projects that combine textile techniques with simple and low-tech electronic mechanisms.

Part-Time Winter/Spring 2022-23 Internship

The RISD Museum partners with the Studio Institute’s Arts Intern Providence Program to offer one part-time winter/spring internship position in addition to full-time summer internships.

Taken Out of Context: Walls on RISD's Walls

College Student Voices A summer intern meditates on the medium of murals and how they appear on RISD’s walls, using Photoshop to understand what is lost when seeing incomplete works out of context.

Seeing Siapo

Sylvie Adams College Student Voices A summer conservation intern’s investigation into the uses of infrared photography in recording Samoan siapo and the significance of new visual information gained.