Eleven arts educators and a full-time librarian join the community, bringing a wealth of new knowledge and perspectives to ...

President Crystal Williams and Provost Touba Ghadessi welcome new and returning students and lead an emotional Convocation ...

Individual donors, foundations, and corporate partners stepped up to improve access and the student experience at RISD ...

This course will cover how to translate scripts into visual images with clarity and creativity. Students will study the language of film - both animation and live action- including different kinds of ...

RISD was founded and nurtured by a small group of women well before any woman in America gained the right to vote. That year Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf urged 34 members of the Rhode Island Women’s ...

RISD’s two Terra Carta Design Lab (TCDL) winners are BIOPOD, a human-scale ecosystem module designed to remediate water quality and restore vital urban marshes, and Shellf Life, a transformative ...

Where does perceived value come from and how do we as a society move from an extractive/zero-sum mindset into a more generative one inspired by nature? The question was posed by RISD alum Charlotte ...

In the first year of the program, sophomores learn fundamental design principles, the history of adornment and the traditional skills of the gold/metalsmith. You also begin to develop your own design ...

Following the first-year program in Experimental and Foundation Studies, in your sophomore year you begin the Photography BFA program by exploring analog and digital processes and techniques via ...

During your two years in residence here, you take on a serious investigation of the possibilities and realities presented by contemporary painting.

A multidisciplinary liberal arts department, History, Philosophy and the Social Sciences (HPSS) offers a wide variety of courses on the nature of human life—past and present—in its psychological, ...

Modeled on our EFS curriculum, this one-semester program for first-year students is a unique, immersive option for students beginning their RISD journey. The 75-credit Master of Design (MDes) in ...