Wood Sculptures at RISD

Excavating the Storage Room College Faculty Teaching During the Fall of 2015, Brown’s graduate students in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture undertook an investigation of the wood sculptures in the RISD Museum collections.

Look at Art. Get Paid.

Maia Chao Josephine Devanbu Happenings Artist Forty-one people who don’t visit art museums visit the RISD Museum as paid guest critics of the art and institution.

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Maia Chao Josephine Devanbu Happenings Artist A new Chrome Extension brings the voices of first-time visitors into conversation with the RISD Museum’s voice.

Museum Weather Website

Objects illustrate weather conditions Marcus Peabody College Happenings Student Voices Artist Website that uses the weather to make programmatic selections from the RISD Museum based on conditions, first in Providence, then in a city of the user’s choosing. The goal was to give museum-goers a tangible point of access to art, and to make unexpected groupings of objects.

Confronting Ourselves Together

All-Staff Dialogues at the RISD Museum Lily Benedict Matt Berry MJ Robinson Kajette Solomon Educators Many museums today struggle with confronting their problematic legacies and transforming their current practices to become the diverse, inclusive institutions they aspire to be. One way the RISD Museum is taking on this work is through All-Staff Dialogues, an ongoing series of staff-directed conversations around topics relevant to social equity in museums and beyond.