Weaving Memory and Resistance

Artistic Research, Social Practice, and Pedagogy at the RISD Museum Mariela Yeregui College Educators Faculty Teaching Mariela Yeregui was the 2022–2024 Faculty Fellow in Costume and Textiles at the RISD Museum. In this summary of her work, she describes her research, social practice, and the e-textile she created at the conclusion of the position.

Printed Walls

A RISD course in conjunction with "The Art of French Wallpaper Design" Alexandra Poterack College Faculty Teaching RISD students in a Printmaking course are creating their own wallpaper designs in a collaborative course.

Stitching Together

A Pedagogical Model Mariela Yeregui College Faculty Teaching Student Voices Students in Mariela Yeregui's Decolonial E-Textiles class create radical, critical, situated, and anticolonial projects that combine textile techniques with simple and low-tech electronic mechanisms.

Alt Text and Accessibility

Describing the Act of Looking Grace Xiao College Faculty Teaching Student Voices How do we describe images and the experience of looking at images? Student Grace Xiao reflects on the process of writing alt text for "Variance: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability."

Photography and Race: Blackness and The Self

A Pedagogical Model College Educators Faculty Teaching Jane'a Johnson's students explore how blackness is created and recreated as a visual phenomenon in self-directed essays drawing on museum visits and course texts

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.

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.