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 at BCA Plaza while supplies last, and as a PDF download. Hear from Zoë and others about the project on BCA’s YouTube channel.
This past fall, MFA students in Graduate Studio 1 were asked to make a work in response to an object from Special Collections at the Providence Public Library. Ingrid Schmaedecke’s work, “Rights of Nature,” was a response to The American Woods by Romeyn Beck Hough.
Variable ‘L’ exploring resolution and pixel structure as ornamentation by Kartik Tuli, BFA 2021. Produced in Kelsey Elder’s fall 2020 elective exploring computation and type design.
Prof. Anastasiia Raina lectures at MICA, “From human-centered to bio-centered design”
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.
Spring 2021 GD Electives
There’s a stellar line-up of hybrid and remote offerings for spring 2021. Browse through the selection and discuss options with your adviser.
This past fall, juniors in Design Studio 3 were asked to create a video about an issue that matters to them. The above video is from Samaaya Jayamaha. See all the videos at this Vimeo showcase.
The Graduate Fall Position Presentation is a point of departure: an event—this fall, on Zoom—that demonstrated a theoretical position and visual progress in the first semester of the final year. See Kit Son Lee’s presentation on our Vimeo channel.
This Area is for Reflection, Prayer and Meditation, an exhibit of found Filipino hand-lettered type, is on view in the first floor hallway cases of the RISD Design Center. See more of Corinne Ang’s work.
Animation by Vaishnavi Mahendran. See graduate work at the 2020 Grad Show
With the pandemic, 2020 master’s thesis projects were presented online via Zoom. Each student produced a book and an online repository for their work. A few appear below.
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