Curated by GD faculty Christopher Sleboda and Kathleen Sleboda, “ZZZZZZZZZZZ: Excavating Form Within Design Education, displays student work from their spring 2021 elective “Newly Formed.” The exhibition is up until August 1, 2021 at Is a Gallery in Shanghai. See a lecture about how the course was structured.
Browse our Fall 2021 electives
The goal is to be back on campus this fall with a lineup of hybrid courses. These courses are available for registration starting in June.
Documentation from Cathy Park’s Senior Degree Project Presentation. Also see Cathy's Commencement 2021 undergraduate student address about how she and her peers have challenged racial bias, and lays out a plan for confronting systemic injustice on the road ahead.
See work from the MFA class of 2021 on the RISD Grad Show website
Seniors created video trailers to promote their semester-long Degree Projects. Degree Projects included an optional in-person exhibition and 30-minute Zoom presentation.
See research projects from Anther Kiley’s spring elective, Critical Issues Studio
Sunho Lee (MFA 2023) created a film-title inspired sequence in response to a countdown assignment in Ron Pearl’s Motion Design elective. See more of Sunho’s work.
Refresh Memory by Amy Choi (BFA 2021) was created in this past spring’s Computational Poetics course, taught by Kathy Wu. See more projects in the course reader.
Revisit this past spring’s Code Lab featuring video and text demos
Sophomores finished the year with a group installation of a book. Each section of the course designed their own volume and presented that volume in a classroom on the 2nd floor of The Design Center. See the assignment on the course website.
A selection of posters from Nancy Skolos’ elective Reframing the Poster was up in the GD Commons in early May.
Color & Collaboration: A collection of Risograph prints [from various departments] was visible on the first floor of The Design Center in early May. Curated by Bryson Lee and Alejandro Molestina.
In conjunction with the Boston Center for the Arts’ exhibit Combahee’s Radical Call: Black Feminisms (re)Awaken Boston, MFA candidate Zoë Pulley designed a zine of the first published version of the 1977 Combahee River Collective Statement. The newspaper is available as a PDF download. Hear from Zoë and others about the project on BCA’s YouTube channel.
Presentation by RISD GD MFA alumni Tatiana Gómez and José Menéndez. How to aim to build strength, confidence, and trust in our communities through design by doing what you can with what you have? Part of the 2021 MFA Biennial.
Visit the custom made Senior Show website to see student work
Clara Balaguer joined us as part of the ‘remote’ 2021 Spring Speaker Series. See other lectures on our Vimeo channel.
Below: zzz by Everett Epstein (MFA 2021), from the spring 2021 course, Newly Formed