The Joy of Looking

Aja Blanc Family Educators Artist educator Aja Blanc gives tips and strategies on looking at art with children.

Out of the Emergency Department into the RISD Museum

Clinical Arts College How a project designed to enhance pain management was born and made possible by the collaboration between RISD Museum and the Brown Emergency Medicine Residency.

Under the Big Top

John Steuart Curry's Vision of the Circus Alison Chang Curator John Steuart Curry's images of the circus provide us with an insider's look at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the 1930s.

At the Circus with RISD Graphic Design Students

Jan Baker College Educators Faculty Teaching Studio Notes Professor Jan Baker encouraged her letterpress class to become inspired by the Circus exhibition at the RISD Museum.

Decoding the Hallstatt Diadem

Jonathan Migliori College Student Voices It's impossible to know exactly what happened in prehistory, but we archaeologists have excellent tools to help us.

Diana Mantuana, Renaissance engraver

Emily Peters Curator A rare female artist, Diana Mantuana's engraving of Atilius Regulus in a Barrel plays an important role in the history of the practice of printmaking and its reception in Renaissance Italy.

Typographic Tightrope

Designing Circus Brendan Campbell Portfolio A look at the graphic-design inspiration and challenges behind Circus.

Robert Arneson / Funk Questionnaire

A. Will Brown Curator Using a questionnaire, curator Peter Selz—and the artists he queried—helped define a movement.