Students explored the materials’ shared properties and fast-and-loose production methods, which provided opportunities for collective critical reflection.

From cold-pressed watercolor paper to ribbons and film photography, the prize-winning submissions represented original approaches to bookmaking.

Ever-changing exhibitions throughout the academic year are generally on view for two to three weeks and are organized by curators from Campus Exhibitions working in conjunction with representatives ...

Landscape Architecture straddles the interface between the cultural and natural worlds, addressing design issues inherent in a range of typologies and scales, from specific sites to global systems.

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 ...

Furniture Design at RISD offers an intensive immersion in materials research and exploration in the process of making furniture and objects. In this major you investigate some of the most important ...

Students in RISD’s graduate degree programs are critical thinkers and makers who delve deep into creative practice, investigate intriguing concepts and innovate in the studio. Learn more at risd.edu.

Interior Architecture alumni go on to find creatively satisfying work around the world. Some launch their own practices while others join larger firms or smaller studios. In addition to practicing as ...

Modeled on our EFS curriculum, this one-semester program for first-year students is a unique, immersive option for students beginning their RISD journey. Informed by critical and decolonial theory, ...

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 ...

In the first year, sophomores focus on developing both creative intelligence and technical facility. Courses in illustrative problem solving nurture original thinking and conceptual clarity, while ...