Exhibition Design

Intermission Portfolio In December of 2016 the RISD Museum needed to deinstall its European Galleries in order to renovate them. In order to keep the objects on view during this project and accommodate them after their removal, the museum decided to put them in the galleries dedicated to major, temporary exhibitions, titling it Intermission.

Analog Gifs

Alexandra Poterack College Happenings A student-run workshop generates quirky and creative digital animations.

From Flax To Finish

McKenzie Everett College How To Student Voices Embroidery samplers are inextricably linked to an image of colonial America: farmhouses waved sheets of linen like flags of surrender, with fields of flax extending beyond, as far as the eye could see, in a place where girls as young as seven were set to the task of stitching out alphabets and Bible verses. This is the picture of the age of homespun.

Inuit Printmaking and the Concept of Purity

Hannah Gadbois College Student Voices This article explores the concept of purity in criticisms of Inuit prints by briefly introducing the history of printmaking in Cape Dorset and looking at 1970s Western art historians' expectations of Inuit art.

In Class / Motion Design

Ron Pearl College Faculty Teaching Instructor title: Ron Pearl, Critic Class title: Motion Design

Looking (Seeing)

June Shin College Student Voices Studio Notes

Egúngún

Mysteries Concealed in Magical Cloth Henry John Drewal Curator For Yorùbá-speaking peoples in West Africa, cloth is equated with their most precious possession, children.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Charles Burchfield Maureen C. O’Brien Curator Drawing Five works on paper in the RISD Museum’s collection follow the arc of Charles Burchfield’s career, introducing and reprising themes that reveal his desire for artistic unity with nature. Burchfield’s development in the early years of the twentieth century merged an appreciation for decorative surfaces, notably those of Asian and Near Eastern art, with an imagination that was fueled by his own his experiences.