Teen Museum Takeover

Student Voices Teens The Teen Intensive is an annual two-week program that brings teens together to explore their own creative processes by meeting with artists and museum staff, participating in art-making workshops, and working together to address ideas and issues that are important to them in the context of the RISD Museum.

Communicating Melancholia /

Sad Young Men and Portrait of a Lady in Pink Tyler French Student Voices to sit for a portrait I soften my focus on William Merritt Chase’s Portrait of a Lady in Pink. If the sitter were to look out at me now, across temporal, spatial (and representational) gulfs, she would see my profile as I encounter her own. I set my head high at the end of my neck as if suspended by a wire above and let my chin dip slightly. My nose does not slope as smoothly as hers, but it is about the same length to look down.