The college hosts between two and four student exhibitions per year in its public galleries. RISD GD has its own exhibition space, The GD Commons. Learn more at commons.risd.gd
RISD GD has 12 full-time faculty and 30 part-time faculty. A list of everyone is on risd.edu. Full-timers teach six courses a year, advise students and contribute to department and college culture. Our current full-time faculty are: Pouya Ahmadi, John Caserta, Lucinda Hitchcock, Bethany Johns, Anther Kiley, Minkyoung Kim, Hammett Nurosi, Anastasiia Raina, Nancy Skolos, Paul Soulellis, Ramon Tejada, Franz Werner.
The Graduate Program accepts about 16 students annually into a two or three-year track.
RISD GD runs 110 courses a year that teach BFA and MFA candidates both material and critical thinking skills. See our Spring 2022 electives for a look at one semester of electives.
We aim to make our work visible outside the classroom. These are projects that were part of a class and pushed into wider view or happened outside the classroom. See an archive of our web projects
The risd.gd faculty stand in solidarity with our Black and Indigenous faculty and students of color, with our POC faculty and students, and with the Black Lives Matter movement. We are unanimous in working together against racism and discrimination, toward a just and equitable future. Read our anti-racism statement
The website was designed and developed by Julian Kelly and Rohan Chaurasia in the spring of 2019. We welcome submissions of fonts, images and news from students, faculty and alumni. Contact risd.gd@risd.edu