Life After RISD is an ongoing series featuring alumni making outsized impact in culture and industry. Stay tuned for more ...

Art and Computation and Sound—the new department focuses on networks and simulation, computational art making, and coding ...

Moderated by Provost Touba Ghadessi and Assistant Provost Margot Nishimura, panelists discussed the role of artists and ...

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Sophomore year is your first in your selected major. During this year you will work with two assigned advisors—one in your major and the other from Liberal Arts. Your primary advisor will be assigned ...

Faculty are assigned as advisors within departments or divisions. For full-time faculty, advising is an important responsibility. Disciplinary expertise is important for offering students avocational ...

Thanks to a generous gift from an anonymous donor, RISD is in position to begin critical improvements to the Jesse Metcalf Building, located in the heart of campus at 7–14 North Main Street. Since ...

“My people have been written out of Rhode Island history for so long,” says Indigenous artist Lynsea Montanari (Narragansett). “I hope that people finally begin to see us because of this mural.” ...

How can we apply the strategies we observe in the natural world to our own design research? Why have the characteristics of living creatures evolved in the ways that they have? These are the kinds of ...

Spring 2025 marked the return of in-person adult art classes offered by RISD’s Continuing Ed division after a five-year, pandemic-related pause. Although virtual and long-distance learning is still ...