A Pause Is Not A Break is an exhibition on the intersection of sound and architectural practice. Curated by Assistant Professor Jess Myers, the show brings together three sound works by Myers in collaboration with Adriene Lilly, Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia of WAI Architecture Thinktank, as well as Ilze Wolff of Wolff Architects in collaboration with Cara Stacey.

A month-long, student-curated exhibition brings together artists and designers of color from RISD and beyond to illuminate the diversity of the Black experience.

2022 MLK Series keynote speaker Eddie Glaude, Jr. invokes legendary jazz musician John Coltrane in a powerful and forthright call to action.

SEI Fellow Jane’a Johnson studies violence, visual culture and how race is reflected in archives and museums.

Faculty, curators and librarians come together for a semester-long seminar on decolonization that builds on the institution’s commitment to advancing social equity and inclusion.

Interior Architecture students debate the fate of Civil Rights leader Rosa Parks’ former home in Detroit.

Visiting artist Dionne Lee questions the makers and motives behind historical American landscape photography.

Since August 2019 RISD has raised $15 million to fund a new program that recruits and supports outstanding graduate students.

RISD launches a job search for no fewer than 10 new faculty members specializing in race, decolonization and cultural representation.

Rhode Island School of Design is hiring 10 faculty members focused on race and decoloniality in the arts as part of a wider plan to tackle systemic racism.

Director John W. Smith announces deaccession of Head of a King (Oba) and plans to bring needed focus to Native American art and design via New Americas Research Initiative.

Activists Lucas Michael and Mary Ellen Carroll rally fellow artists to help children still detained at the US border.

Connecting from home this spring, Graphic Design students and faculty are rethinking what—and how—they make.

The Rhode Island Foundation names Assistant Professor of Illustration Eric Telfort a 2020 MacColl Johnson Fellow.

Visiting artist Dread Scott shares his vision for change with RISD students.

Students in three Wintersession travel courses learn through hands-on work with local artisans in Mexico.

Multidisciplinary artist Jazzmen Lee-Johnson works to transcend the legacies of enslaved peoples and gender inequality.

Social justice visionary Michelle Alexander delivers RISD’s 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. keynote address.

RISD’s 10 new full-time faculty members are bringing new perspectives to campus and helping to diversify the curriculum.

An ongoing exhibition highlights the work and personal stories of 20 RISD community members living with disabilities.

Associate Professor Paula Gaetano-Adi experiments with an interesting way of helping first-year students let go of their assumptions.

Thanks to two generous gifts, exceptional graduate students selected for the Society of Presidential Fellows will have tuition-free access to a RISD education.

Commencement keynote speaker Bryan Stevenson urged the Class of 2019 to combat injustice with hope and creativity.

Consider new visions of design theory and practice with author, anthropologist, and philosopher Arturo Escobar in conversation with RISD faculty, Namita Dharia, Jess Brown, Ramon Tejada, and Ijlal Muzaffar. Studio practices are explored through the lens of justice, ethics, and the environment. 

Interior Architecture students are working with the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island to reimagine and reconfigure Providence’s Cathedral of St. John.

A conversation with Matthew Shenoda, RISD’s first vice president of Social Equity and Inclusion.

An ambitious symposium considers how the bones of a ruined house can spark dialogue about memory, preservation and institutionalized racism.