Student stories
Questions of Identity
Brown/RISD dual degree student Nadia Wolff BRDD 21 TX considers how religion relates to race, sexuality and global colonization.
Queering Space
Students in a thought-provoking Wintersession course question societal norms that shape our everyday lives.
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.
Water in the Desert, Ceramics in the Landscape
In a cross-disciplinary fall studio, Landscape Architecture and Ceramics students explored ideas for preserving water resources—and ways of life—in the American Southwest.
Probing Issues of Race
Graduate student Kelly Taylor Mitchell MFA 18 PR translates elements of her personal history into evocative installations and artist’s books.
No Fish Were Harmed in the Making of This Crit
Industrial design students set up shop in the Nature Lab, designing aquaponics systems with potential application on campus.
Learning to Take Risks
First-year students present impressive work at their first end-of-semester critiques and get valuable feedback from faculty mentors.
Visualizing the Environment through Comics
For a new class in Literary Arts and Studies, students are exploring—and making—sequential art that challenges how we understand the natural world.
Earning Meaningful Support
With support from the newly established Seth MacFarlane
Endowed Scholarship Fund, aspiring filmmaker
Naomi Bradford 19 FAV is focused on bringing her creative vision to
life.