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,...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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...
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.
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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 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”...
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...