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A digital reinterpretation to Daniel Marot's clock print, merging old and new, exploring time's essence through evolving dimensions

A summer intern describes her experience delving into the RISD Museum's databases, searching for human elements

What happens when an analog object is brought into a digital space or when an analog object inspires a digital work?

The Back Side Story is a textile book/zine that, with cute and brightly-colored patchwork and embroidery, documents the civilians daily life, sufferings, and resilience under the Chinese government

This piece is in conversation with the Gee’s Bend quilt

We were inspired by the Paracas mantle because it has become fragments that are dispersed all around the world without contex

Inheritance, the headpiece pictured above, and Legacy, the video shown below, are designed to live in the pluriverse.

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

Students in Mariela Yeregui's Decolonial E-Textiles class create radical, critical, situated, and anticolonial projects that combine textile techniques with simple and low-tech electronic mechanisms.

A summer intern meditates on the medium of murals and how they appear on RISD’s walls, using Photoshop to understand what is lost when seeing incomplete works out of context.

A summer conservation intern’s investigation into the uses of infrared photography in recording Samoan siapo and the significance of new visual information gained.

Curatorial intern Grace Xiao reflects on viewing artwork that embraces instability, disruption, and restlessness, making room for open interpretations in the gallery.

How do we describe images and the experience of looking at images? Student Grace Xiao reflects on the process of writing alt text for "Variance: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability."

In 1971, a group of radical students in Providence produced stirring silkscreen posters. Their images contributed to the vibrant visual culture of antiwar protest.

Jane'a Johnson's students explore how blackness is created and recreated as a visual phenomenon in self-directed essays drawing on museum visits and course texts

RISD student Abena Gyampo traces the history of the hypersexualization of black bodies from the early 19th century to contemporary popular culture