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 ...

The daylong May 2025 event highlighted novel, hands-on approaches to storytelling, spatial computing and sensory augmentation ...

This event helps students translate their studio experiences to the professional world,” says RISD Careers Director Kevin Jankowski 88 IL. “Navigating the fine arts ecosystem and lining up first ...

A hollowed-out beech log that emits a warm, diffused light. A contemporary office chair featuring the feet and distinctive spots of a cheetah. Stools resembling microscopic organisms that “refuse self ...

RISD celebrated the Class of 2025 at Commencement and Reunion Weekend with graduate hooding ceremonies, alumni reunions, a tented RISD Craft art sale, departmental receptions, a festive lunch in ...

RISD’s campus was jumping in May as students presented their work to peers, professors and industry professionals at this year’s final spring critiques. First-year students in an Experimental and ...

In the 1930s, a public debate between architecture giants Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright inspired Wright to design a 19-story apartment building for New York City with a trunk-like tower and ...

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 ...

, along with several other early Talking Heads demos. Top to bottom: Talking Heads Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz visit the RISD Archives, the original reel-to-reel demo recently rediscovered in the ...

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 ...

, a biomaterial fashion designer and researcher who participated in Haptic Futures: Sustainable Materials in Design Innovation, an event RISD presented during Climate Week NYC 2024. RISD’s Vice ...