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.

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

“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.” ...

Experts from across the country gathered at RISD in early April for a symposium focused on artificial intelligence and its profound impact on the worlds of art and design. Organized by faculty members ...

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 ...

RISD’s Studio for Research in Sound and Technology (SRST, formerly known as the Spatial Audio Studio) serves as an interdisciplinary hub for sound design experimentation as well as research in sonic ...