Back Door @ the Pendleton: Shadows

Aaron Pexa College Student Voices Studio Notes In creating Back Door @ the Pendleton, I relocated meaning from the art object to its context and used humor to alter the atmosphere of the Museum. Pink neon glows with the words PEEP SHOW and ROOMS, tipping the viewer off to the voyeuristic nature of the Pendleton’s format and perhaps encouraging a more lustful appraisal of the home’s contents.

Serpentipity

Ancient Egyptian Funeral Planning Today Jonathan Migliori College Student Voices How do you lay an Egyptian mummy to rest in a museum? Our curator considered a number of factors in orienting Nesmin, RISD's Egyptian mummy, in his new case in the freshly renovated gallery, but found a strange coincidence in her final decision.

A Snowy Day in Paris

Maureen C. O’Brien Curator In the winter of 1886, the neighborhoods of Paris were transformed by an unusually heavy snowfall that lingered on the branches of trees and captured the imagination of the artist Berthe Morisot. A founding member of the independent painters’ collaborative a critic had dubbed the “impressionists,” Morisot shared the group’s interest in painting scenes of modern life in a style distinguished by broken brushstrokes, flattened spatial relationships, cropped points of view, responses to fleeting light and atmosphere, and an absence of academic drawing and modeling.

Exhibition Design

Drawing Ambience Portfolio

In Production

Graphic designers share their work Derek Schusterbauer Portfolio As the RISD Museum hosts the final stop on the tour of Graphic Design: Now in Production, an exhibition that began at the Walker in 2011, we're starting a series that updates the show by checking in with some of the designers featured in it, to see the work they have been doing since 2010.

Lot 022405

A. Will Brown Curator Curatorial Assistant A. Will Brown on Donald Moffett's Lot 022405.

Buddha Commemorations

Ingrid Neuman Conservation There's always more to be discovered: Hidden in plain sight since the 11th century, two inscriptions were found during conservation of the Museum's Dainichi Buddha.

Mummy's Boy

Jonathan Migliori College Student Voices Over the last 2,000 years, Nesmin has been a priest, a mummy, and a museum exhibit. RISD Museum intern Jonathan Migliori discusses Nesmin's influence in his life.