Updates from the Museum of Art – RISD Academic Affairs

Brewer Presents at in Florence, Italy

Written on December 19, 2017. Posted in Updates from the Museum of Art.

Laurie Brewer (Associate Curator, RISD Museum) will present her paper, Sample: Inspiration in Museum Collections, at the forthcoming Costume Colloquium V, 14-18 November, 2018, held in Florence, Italy. The conference will examine archives, masterpieces,...

Brewer Invited to 2018 CSA Scholars’ Roundtable

Written on December 5, 2017. Posted in Updates from the Museum of Art.

Laurie Brewer (Associate Curator, Apparel Design) was recently invited to participate in the Costume Society of America (CSA) Scholars’ Roundtable, which recognizes those who exemplify high standards in costume scholarship and charges them with leading...

Hilton Als at the RISD Museum 10/26

Written on October 10, 2017. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Museum of Art, Updates from the Museum of Art.

Pulitzer Prize winning writer and cultural critic Hilton Als, chief theater critic for The New Yorker, presents the Gail Silver Memorial Lecture. Hilton Als began contributing to The New Yorker in 1989. He became a staff writer in 1994, theater critic...

Diversity Fellows! Training Day, 03/11 and 03/12

Written on March 6, 2017. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Updates from the Museum of Art.

TRAINING DAY is a live art diversity workshop, exploring the languages and performances of diversity and multiculturalism in American institutional spaces. TRAINING DAY replicates and deconstructs diversity discourse through participatory attempts...

RISD Museum and Sheridan Center Fall Workshops

Written on September 6, 2016. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Updates from & for Faculty, Updates from the Museum of Art.

Unframed Objects: A Sheridan-RISD Museum Workshop Series This Sheridan Center-RISD Museum collaborative workshop series invites instructors to explore object-based teaching and learning opportunities at Brown and beyond. Participants will learn how...

Call for Participation: Dementia Lab

Written on July 22, 2016. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Updates from the Museum of Art.

Call for participation: Dementia Lab: the Role of Design Essen Folkwang Germany + LUCA Belgium Essen, Germany 14th and 15th September, 2016 Design educators of all disciplines, design researchers and designers are invited to attend this two-day event...

RISD Museum Academic Open House 02/25/16

Written on February 23, 2016. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Updates from & for Faculty, Updates from the Museum of Art.

How can your class use the Museum? Join curators and educators to discuss object-based learning, your teaching goals, and brainstorm potential links to work in the galleries. RSVP Here

‘Questioning Aesthetics’ Public Symposium (11/12th March 2016)

Written on February 15, 2016. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts, Updates from the Museum of Art.

RISD, in conjunction with the Transdisciplinary Aesthetics Foundation, is hosting a public symposium, ‘Questioning Aesthetics’ on March 11th and 12th, 2016. Events will be held in the Old Library and Chace Center. The symposium, part of...

‘Jesse Burke: Wild & Precious’ opens at RISD Museum

Written on January 25, 2016. Posted in Updates from the Museum of Art.

“Jesse Burke: Wild & Precious” opens at the RISD Museum on Thursday evening, January 21, 2016. The exhibition is on view through September 25. Encompassing landscape, portraiture and still-life photography, “Wild & Precious”...

A Museum message: to faculty

Written on January 11, 2016. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Updates from the Museum of Art.

Dear Colleagues, Happy New Year! This past fall, the faculty mined the Museum’s collection in some uniquely inspiring ways. Sheida Soleimani used lithographs by Robert Pruitt as motivation for the creation of propaganda posters by her RISD Foundations...