Outside of Woods-Gerry House on the east side of campus, a massive pot rack hangs from one of the property’s ancient oak trees. The assembled pots and pans clank together when the wind stirs them, ...

Furniture Design and Architecture students in the collaborative fall studio Site Specific Furnishings are taking inspiration from work by renowned architect Louis Kahn to design site-specific ...

Open to students in every major, Interdisciplinary Hot Casting explores a range of traditional and non-traditional techniques ...

An international group of thinkers, makers, and educators interested in spatial phenomena, complex systems, and ...

Since earning a dual degree from RISD and Brown in 2017, designer Nik Bentel BRDD 17 ID has carved out a niche in the home goods market for his tongue-in-cheek objects that play off contemporary ...

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 ...

A new exhibition at the RISD Museum presents the first-ever US survey of work by artist and RISD alum Liz Collins 91 TX/MFA 99. Curated by Kate Irvin, Liz Collins: Motherlode (on view through January ...

Artists, alumni, faculty and community members gathered at Woods-Gerry Gallery in June for the 20th anniversary of RISD’s Project Open Door (POD). Run by the Teaching + Learning in Art + Design (TLAD) ...

It’s early in the spring semester, and students in a lighting design course offered through the Furniture Design department are just beginning to consider ideas for their final projects. Junior Ankita ...

How do artists make the leap from ideation to creation? How do they experiment and collaborate with other artists to create complex pieces using a variety of mediums? First-year students in a ...

“Since this is probably the last opportunity I’ll have to design furniture completely outside the frame of historical context, I wanted to take advantage of that freedom and create a knock-down table ...

“Mixer … misher?” Senior Phillip Walker 25 PT bursts out laughing and pays the price for his mistake by taking a lap around the circle of students assembled in ...