Decoding the Hallstatt Diadem

Jonathan Migliori College Student Voices It's impossible to know exactly what happened in prehistory, but we archaeologists have excellent tools to help us.

Diana Mantuana, Renaissance engraver

Emily Peters Curator A rare female artist, Diana Mantuana's engraving of Atilius Regulus in a Barrel plays an important role in the history of the practice of printmaking and its reception in Renaissance Italy.

Typographic Tightrope

Designing Circus Brendan Campbell Portfolio A look at the graphic-design inspiration and challenges behind Circus.

Robert Arneson / Funk Questionnaire

A. Will Brown Curator Using a questionnaire, curator Peter Selz—and the artists he queried—helped define a movement.

Projections

Portfolio

The Studio Visited and Re-visited

Considering artists' production in Rhode Island Dominic Molon Curator Studio Notes In this series, RISD Museum curator Dominic Molon considers the importance and setting of the studio, and calls on Rhode Island artists.

“The best portrait Joseph Blackburn [never] painted”

John Singleton Copley’s Portrait of Theodore Atkinson, Jr. Maureen C. O’Brien Curator In the January 1920 Bulletin of the Rhode Island School of Design, RISD Museum director L. Earle Rowe drew attention to the recent acquisition of a colonial American portrait by the British-trained painter 1

Work in Process / Machine Knitting

Annabeth Rodgers Faucher College How To Studio Notes Artist Artist Peyton North (RISD BFA 2015, Textiles) shows us how to create stripes on a knitting machine.