Hands-on fall studios encourage students to incorporate contemporary technologies and platforms into their evolving creative ...

Fall 2025 Regeneration Studio focuses on biomimicry research in structures, materials, mechanisms, and interfaces.

Students are using such techniques as silkscreening and block printing to transform blank clay canvases into unique and ...

Students traveled to Ocean Hour Farm in Newport, RI as part of their yearlong investigation into earth-friendly materials ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.” ...

It’s early in the spring semester, and students in a lighting design course offered through the Furniture Design department are just beginning to consider ideas for their final projects. Junior Ankita ...