Housed in and administered by the Liberal Arts division, NCSS is an all-college interdisciplinary concentration that allows students to create their own pathway of study drawn from the fields of: ...

Sophomore year is your first in your selected major. During this year you will work with two assigned advisors—one in your major and the other from Liberal Arts. Your primary advisor will be assigned ...

Life After RISD is an ongoing series featuring alumni making outsized impact in culture and industry. Stay tuned for more ...

Faculty are assigned as advisors within departments or divisions. For full-time faculty, advising is an important responsibility. Disciplinary expertise is important for offering students avocational ...

Art and Computation and Sound—the new department focuses on networks and simulation, computational art making, and coding ...

Moderated by Provost Touba Ghadessi and Assistant Provost Margot Nishimura, panelists discussed the role of artists and ...

Modeled on our EFS curriculum, this one-semester program for first-year students is a unique, immersive option for students beginning their RISD journey. Throughout the 1.5-year degree program, the ...

For the second year in a row, a team of RISD printmakers has won the Iron Print Competition hosted by MassArt and organized by master printmaker Carolyn Muskat. Now in its 10th year, the competition ...

RISD’s Illustration department is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a sweeping exhibition in the ISB Gallery featuring work by over 200 alums. Organized by Department Head Robert Brinkerhoff, who ...

Scraps become stories in the Loop Lab—a pilot project that turns RISD’s own waste streams into raw materials for creative practice. An initiative of the Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab, the Loop Lab was ...