The recent Film/Animation/Video alum and Student Academy Award-winning animator reflects on his passions for problem solving, ...

When Brooklyn-based lighting designer and RISD alum David Weeks 90 PT created the Cubebot toy robot some 25 years ago, he was just looking for a new type of project to keep his creative wheels turning ...

We continue to deal with a massive volume of snowfall removal and its logistical consequences. Therefore, RISD will reopen on a limited basis on Thursday, February 26 and Friday, February 27. This ...

Due to the volume of blizzard snowfall and to allow for the safe and timely removal of snow, RISD’s winter weather closure will be extended through Wednesday, February 25 at 7:00 am. Please carefully ...

Modeled on our EFS curriculum, this one-semester program for first-year students is a unique, immersive option for students beginning their RISD journey. Our celebration of the Class of 2026 is part ...

VERY, VERY WHITE—EVEN IN MIDSUMMER, reports Michael Lye 96 ID in recalling his week in Iceland last summer. “White snow, white fog, white sky—just completely white,” the longtime RISD faculty member ...

How can environmentalists help fellow citizens understand the importance of clean waterways and a diverse aquaculture to our long-term planetary health? That is one of the key questions a team of RISD ...

How can we apply the strategies we observe in the natural world to our own design research? Why have the characteristics of living creatures evolved in the ways that they have? These are the kinds of ...

Students in a recently revamped gardening club called the RISD Regenerative Earth Collective (RREC) are using a small plot of land on Defoe Place, behind the Congdon Street Baptist Church, to build ...

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 ...

In early March, 300 art and design enthusiasts came together in person and via livestream for TEDxRISD, the second annual student-organized event bringing together student, faculty and alumni speakers ...

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 ...