The RISD Museum partners with the Studio Institute’s Arts Intern Providence Program to offer one part-time winter/spring internship pos

I begin with the assertion that textiles are agents-deemed-objects.

A summer intern reflects on diversity in the museum's Western European galleries and suggesting curatorial strategies for greater visibility

In this series, RISD Museum curator Dominic Molon considers the importance and setting of the studio, and calls on Rhode Island artists.

Exploring the process and context behind "School House Long House", a new work created by Providence/Newport artists Jed Hancock-Brainerd, Rebecca Noon, and Jeremy Radtke.

Exploring the process and context behind the series "Self Portrait as . . .", works created by Newport artist Sue McNally.

This rare example of Gorham's "Mythologique" flatware service was purposefully left unfinished as they are samples, combining elaborate hand-worked detail with mechanized brute force.

In this series, RISD Museum curator Dominic Molon considers the importance and setting of the studio, and calls on Rhode Island artists.

Drawing in a museum is a way of slowing down and experiencing artwork on a nonverbal level.

Composer Shawn Greenlee's experimental sound work Substitutions is inspired by the Chinese lithophone in the RISD Museum's Asian art collection

Inventories have been occurring almost since the beginning of museum practice, but they have changed entirely from their original form.

Curator Maureen C. O'Brien discusses American drawings and watercolors in the RISD Museum collection

Albert Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany, but came to the United States with his family in 1832 and settled with them in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Eastman Johnson was raised in Maine in a family of eight children, and

William Stanley Haseltine first studied painting in Philadelphia with t

Childe Hassam, a successful young book and magazine illustrator, made h

Reginald Marsh, the son of American artists Fred Dana Marsh and Alice R

Five works on paper in the RISD Museum’s collection follow the arc of C

Over the course of his artistic life, Marsden Hartley sought unmediated

For conservators, fabrics incorporating metallic components raise complex questions about construction, materials, and manufacturing techniques, all of which impact how an object will be stabilized and displayed

RISD's ancient art collection includes a vase that demonstrates how one Greek potter perfected international marketing and became one of the most prolific artisans in ancient Athens.

This article explores the concept of purity in criticisms of Inuit prints by briefly introducing the history of printmaking in Cape Dorset and looking at 1970s Western art historians' expectations of Inuit art.

2017 Artist Fellow Walker Mettling delves into the history and context of a previously overlooked textile with colonial origins.