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Providence College Cancels Exhibition Over "Anti-Catholic" Artwork
Artist Shey "Ri Acu" Rivera Ríos has received an outpouring of support from faculty and students after their work was deemed “sacrilegious.”
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Cammie Staros Unearths the Male Chauvinism of Hellenic Art
Her work interrogates how the continued prominence of Hellenic aesthetics has shaped our present and what this may say about our future.
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Reclaiming Agency Over Trauma
In The Listening Takes, Elisabeth Subrin centers actress Maria Schneider's refusal to discuss a non-consensual sex scene in Last Tango in Paris.
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RISD’s Essential Staff Union Votes to Strike
Custodians, groundskeepers, and movers at the Rhode Island School of Design are seeking wage improvement, healthcare benefits, and a retirement package.
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Announcement
RISD’s Center for Complexity to Present a Three-Day Symposium Exploring Collapse
Focusing on the concept of “collapse” in relation to the dynamic and static forces of systems change, the symposium will take place in Providence, Rhode Island, from September 21 to 23.
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Rhode Island School of Design Presents Grad Show 2022
Graduate student work representing 19 disciplines is featured in a digital publication and returns as an in-person exhibition at the Rhode Island Convention Center.
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RISD Continuing Education Returns to In-Person Classes This Summer; Expands Online Offerings
Summer programming includes in-person and online courses for adults, teens, and middle school students, including Pre-Collegiate Programs.
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RISD Continuing Education Launches 150 Online Courses, Pre-College Applications Now Open
Online spring programming includes courses for adults, teens, and middle school students. Young artists and designers can also apply to the Pre-College residential summer immersive.
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RISD Pre-College Returns to Campus This Summer, Announces Online Option
Applications are now open for RISD Pre-Collegiate Programs, which offer a residential summer immersive and a year-round online intensive.
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A Feminist Art Collective Gets a Historic Home
The Wedding Cake House in Providence was acquired in 2017 by Dirt Palace Public Projects, and now is full of vibrant work from 150 artists.
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Two Artists Ask: “Can We Think Across Borders Like Plants Do?”
Responding to violence at the US-Mexico and Israel-Palestine borders, Jess X. Snow and Gavriel Cutipa-Zorn painted a two-story mural addressing the ways plants can traverse vast lands.
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A Silver Exhibition's Classist Undertones
Despite the artistry on display in this Gorham Silver exhibition, I found it difficult to suppress a kernel of class hatred in looking at it.