The Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design, which counts Pratt and RISD among its members, has signed on to an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit against ICE.
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Rhode Island School of Design Presents Senior Show 2020
Experience a range of fine art and design work by recently graduated seniors in a digital publication.
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RISD’s Grad Show 2020 Is Now on View
Graduate student work across 16 disciplines is featured in a digital publication produced by Rhode Island School of Design.
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RISD Continuing Education Launches 130+ Online Summer Courses
Online summer programming includes classes for adults and teens, credit-bearing courses, and the new Advanced Program for High School Students.
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How Alumni Mentorship Is Part of RISD’s Plan to Adapt to Distance Learning
Over 1,500 alumni and 600 students have already registered on a digital platform by the Rhode Island School of Design that is designed to connect alumni and students to one another.
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Art Students Demand University Accountability and Reimbursements During Pandemic
Students at some of the most renowned art universities in the country, including the Rhode Island School of Design, Yale, and NYU Tisch, are sounding alarm bells about their schools’ handling of the COVID-19 crisis.
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The Realities Facing Art Schools Today: A Conversation With RISD President Rosanne Somerson
The Rhode Island School of Design is one of the world’s premiere art schools, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t face the same challenges all universities and colleges confront. We talk to the head of RISD to learn about how they’re adapting.
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A Unique Program Pays You to Visit Museums as a Guest Critic
A conversation with Maia Chao and Josephine Devanbu, the founders of Look at Art. Get Paid., a program that pays people who wouldn’t otherwise visit art museums to visit one as guest critics of the art and the institution.
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One Museum’s Complicated Attempt to Repatriate a “Benin Bronze”
The RISD Museum has held this Benin bronze head in its collection for 80 years. “No one would have given it up unless under duress,” the curators say. But tracing its provenance and repatriating it is no simple matter.
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An Animated Teaching Tool That Breaks Down How Criticism and Ideology Work
“(Some of) The Mechanics of Critique” is an instructional video by Lisi Raskin that unpacks how Enlightenment Era philosophies and epistemologies affect how we engage with the world around us.
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Apply for Rhode Island School of Design’s Global Summer Studies: Engaging Ideas and Practices Across Cultures
For summer 2019, RISD launches a set of studio and liberal arts courses in the Azores, Berlin, Denmark, Japan, South Africa, and at RISD’s site in Rome. Applications are due April 11.
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Rhode Island School of Design’s 2018 Graduate Thesis Exhibition
Graduate student work across 16 disciplines to be featured in showcase of hundreds of RISD artists and designers.
