From cooking to travel to themes of medicine, students created their own video games in a recent Wintersession studio.

The class studied inlay, overlay, and engraving processes, reimagining the relationship between the functional and the ornamental.

Students considered how sound can serve as a spatial and experiential medium, guiding attention, shifting atmosphere, and ...

Modeled on our EFS curriculum, this one-semester program for first-year students is a unique, immersive option for students beginning their RISD journey. Our celebration of the Class of 2026 is part ...

In support of community-engaged teaching, learning, and practice that is grounded in reciprocity, accountability, and shared value, the Center for Community Partnerships provides RISD faculty, ...

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 ...

How can environmentalists help fellow citizens understand the importance of clean waterways and a diverse aquaculture to our long-term planetary health? That is one of the key questions a team of RISD ...

Studying a worm’s nervous system to shine light on a rare childhood disease. Investigating how global warming is killing coral reefs on the molecular level in French Polynesia. Translating data about ...

“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.” ...