How was the object made? What materials and methods brought it to life?
Explore these resources to see the RISD Museum Way in action, revealing the creative processes, materials, and techniques behind each piece. Dive deeper into past articles that enrich the conversation around the museum’s ongoing work.
Scholar Gerry Beegan on “Processing Reproduction: Christiane Baumgartner’s Trails I and II” in Manual 20 (Technologies)
Earth historian Stephen Parman and Poet Josiah Luis Alderete: "Starring at the Aztec spider Monkey" in Manual 18 (Nature)
Assistant curator of Native art Sháńdíín Brown: “Meaningful Pasts Stewarded into the Present: It’s Up to Us,” in Manual 18 (Nature)
Artist Ronnie Goodman and Andrew W. Mellon Fellow Anita N. Bateman, on Goodman’s print The Birth of Occupy from Manual 12 (On Further Review)
Artist Lillian Webster reexamins the Narragansett Salad Set in (Re)tracing the Silver Seaweed: A Maker's Process
RISD faculty member Carol Lasch works with the collection: Structure/Skin: A Pedagogical Model
A Conversation with Bill Goldston (ULAE) and Shaye Remba (Mixografia) in Making Prints with Helen Frankenthaler