Confronting our Carbon Footprint

Rya Jetha College Student Voices Sustainability and the natural world Traditional museum practice has a gigantic carbon footprint. How is the RISD Museum changing its own practices in response to the climate emergency?

Maker Unknown

Ariel Hirschhorn College Student Voices Digital Initiatives intern Ariel Hirschhorn explores the “Maker” field in the museum’s database to examine the collection from a programmer’s perspective

Unstilled Life

Yuan Li Elizabeth Xu College Student Voices A summer intern’s reinterpretation of a 1600s still life painting as lived ritual and faith in the present

Structure/Skin

A Pedagogical Model Carol Lasch College Educators Faculty Teaching Students in Carol Lasch's Spatial Dynamics course draw inspiration from the collection.

Extraordinary Ordinary

A Pedagogical Model Rosa Weinberg College Educators Faculty Teaching Faculty member Rosa Weinberg reflects on the relevancy of art analysis as a starting point for exploring form in design and as a powerful habit of mind for beginning designers.

Sartorial Anarchy

Mythocracy, Assimilation, and the Reclamation of Black Dignity Ann-Maree Quaynor Student Voices Juxtaposing Iké Udé’s photography with Sun Ra’s notions of "mythocracy" and Black Utopia, Ann-Maree Quaynor seeks to reclaim Black Dignity and Existence.

Pan-African Aesthetics: Past, Present, Future

A Hybrid Pedagogical Model College Educators Faculty Teaching Students in Jane'a Johnson's wintersession course explore works in the collection related to Pan-Africanism through Instagram-based creative projects.

Rediscovering Diasporic

Celeste Jackson Student Voices A student in a RISD course on pan-African aesthetics, inspired by a photograph in the collection, explores Black youth occupying space in movements from La Sape to Noirwave.