Stories about studios + projects
Drawn from Nature’s Lab
Designers Rachel Doriss 99 TX and Molly Haynes 14 TX create a new textiles collection for Pollack inspired by RISD’s Nature Lab.
Dolls of Dissent
Boston-area artist and curator Kimberly Becker 90 TX speaks out on behalf of women everywhere against injustice and inequality.
Here in RI: Providence Backs Local Designers
Three entrepreneurial alumni and a current faculty member earn 2019 Providence Design Catalyst awards in support of their practices.
Redefining the Meaning of Monuments
Students in a multidisciplinary fall studio create powerful, site-specific installations at historic Fort Adams State Park in Newport, RI.
Spenner Comes Full Circle
RISD staff member and alumna Polly Spenner 10 TX reflects on her creative process and 28-year relationship with RISD.
Eckhaus Latta Follows Its Own Lead
With their first museum exhibition ever—at the Whitney—fashion favorites Mike Eckhaus 10 SC and Zoe Latta 10 TX continue to defy the desire to define their evolving practice.
Textiles for HPV Prevention in Mali
Eliza Squibb 13 TX designs “storytelling cloths” to communicate with West African women about the vital importance of vaccinations to fight cervical cancer .
Questions of Identity
Brown/RISD dual degree student Nadia Wolff BRDD 21 TX considers how religion relates to race, sexuality and global colonization.
Learning on a Lakota Reservation
Working on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota, Social Innovation Fellow Elizabeth Schweizer 19 TX built intergenerational connections through the arts.