I Can Taste It Now: Savoring the New Installation in the Porcelain Gallery

Elizabeth A. Williams Curator This fall the RISD Museum Lucy Truman Aldrich Porcelain Gallery reopened with its cabinets filled with engaging figures and a diverse array of tableware. Comprising nearly 180 objects from the museum's collection, this new installation focuses on the role that porcelain played in eighteenth-century life.

100 Years of Commitment

Alexandra Poterack From the files Educators The RISD Museum looks back at 100 years of its docent program, and the program's origins and evolution.

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.

Pixilation Party!

Xander Marro Studio Notes Artist Pixilation Party!, or how, with the help of dozens of RISD Museum visitors, Providence artist Xander Marro recently created one minute of black and white magic.

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Gallery Canteen

Joanna Cortez College From the files Studio Notes RISD student Joanna Cortez shares how the RISD Museum served the Providence community during World War II. Joanna participated in the Museum's Andrew W. Mellon Summer Internship Program this summer.

Graphic Design Next

Alexandra Poterack College Graphic design students and professionals offer their visions of "Graphic Design Next."

Objects Tell Stories

Naomi Subotnick College Student Voices A wooden “do not touch” partition usually separates the period room in Pendleton House from the public. But one Monday in June, that partition was removed, and museum staff peopled the room. Two researchers from Yale University had come to study examples of Rhode Island furniture from RISD’s collection. The desk and bookcase in this room, associated with the Goddard/Townsend family of cabinetmakers in Newport, was among the list of pieces they hoped to study in detail. The elegant piece, which usually leaned against the wall, had been pushed into the room’s center.