Graduating BFAs and MFAs: you are invited, along with your friends and families, to a celebratory reception with coffee and light breakfast—a chance to gather with faculty, staff, and guests before the graduate hooding ceremony that afternoon and Commencement on Saturday.

Come view the work of GD'26 as they prepare for Degree Project reviews next week!

🎞️ RISD GD is proud to present the first-ever GDee’s, a showcase celebrating motion and screen-based media.

The Premiere will take place on April 17 | 6–7 PM | GD Commons [ ▸ ] ⭐️

Come watch!

✨ Motion, Animation, & Narrative Pieces
🌀 Experimental Riso Loops & Variable Type
💻 System-Driven Studies, UI/UX, & Reels

Collect & share & come listen as Doug Scott talks about curating, exhibiting, and learning from examples of design.
In conjunction with UNBOUND book fair.

Please joins us for a panel discussion of collectors, creatives, and creative collectors.

The Unbound Art Book Fair kick-off event will be a panel discussion that brings together the perspectives of artists, educators, curators, collaborators, arts organizers to discuss how collecting and working in collectives supports creative practices and is a creative practice in and of itself. As the list of perspectives indicates, the three panelists each wear many hats and engage with collecting and collectives in their own way. The panel will feature Graphic Design faculty, Elizabeth Goodspeed and Doug Scott, along with Gee Wesley, a PhD student at Brown University / Modern Culture and Media + the co-founder of the Philadelphia-based nonprofit art bookshop, Ulises, and the founder of Afrophon.

Solidarity Publishing: Zines for Immigrant Justice and Beyond:
Come close the UNBOUND ART BOOK FAIR weekend with a conversation and zine fundraiser from Providence and Philadelphia based bookmakers MJ Sanqui of Binch Press and Connie Yu of Many Folds Press. They will be joined by GD Faculty kathy wu and GD BFA '27 Koji Hellman.

Our guests will speak about zine-making in community contexts as a vehicle of political education and solidarity. We will share the new zine, Visioning Towards Abolition: Asian American Solidarity (Feb 2026), which was created by kathy wu and Angela Chang and printed by Many Folds Press as an immigration defense fundraiser.

This event is funded and made possible by the Mr. and Mrs. Cho Fund for Asian and Asian American Arts.

Please join us this spring for our faculty search finalist community lectures.

Paper Color Guide: A Handbook for Designers, Artists, and Makers is a handbook and material library created by Anther Kiley and Jee Woo Kang with support from the RISD ColorLab. The book contains a detailed guide to working with paper (covering things like paper manufacturing, sustainability, grain, surface, weight, trim size, cutting, folding, gluing, and printing), along with a library of 200 paper samples, organized by color. Hand-bound in a limited edition, the book is intended as a resource for the RISD community and 
as a platform for research and pedagogy.

Anther and Jee Woo will be presenting the book, and talking about some of the things in it, so please join us!

Please join us this spring for our faculty search finalist community lectures.

Please join us this spring for our faculty search finalist community lectures.

Please join us this spring for our faculty search finalist community lectures.

Please join us this spring for our faculty search finalist community lectures.