ELSEWHERE, on view in GD Commons through 9/26🖼️
This exhibition revisits Elsewhere, the 2026 MFA Graphic Design Thesis Exhibition, originally on display this past spring. This reinstallation offers another opportunity to spend time with the projects, ideas, and practices that formed the original show.
There exists a place just beyond our current bounds. Beyond the imaginary lines that divide our space, the edges of the frame that shorten our perceptual capabilities, or the economy of the gallery wall that dictates our imagination. A place where how we see can bend from the edges of here to somewhere else. Elsewhere chases this place, engaging the thresholds of here not as obstacles to overcome, but as sites of generative possibility.
Participants:
Andrea Mato (andreamato.com)
Avrie Allen (avrie.world)
Barbara Cutlak (barbaracutlak.com)
Clara Cayosa (clarasees.com)
Deborah Khodanovich (dvorit.ca)
Faith Kim (faithkimkim.com)
Hailey Lee (yeliaheel.com)
Jo Zixuan (jozixuan.com)
Kevin Tomas (kevintomas.work)
Lucy Nguyen Pham (@lucynguyenpham)
Ritu Mantri (@arem.grafik)
Saachi Mehta (saachimehta.work)
Shrishti Chatterjee (shrishtichatterjee.com)
Thea Kim (theakim.work)
Tonia Yuqi Zhang (toniazhang.com)
Zairan Liu (liuzairan.com)
Exhibition restaged by @kamber.work with @dvoritdvorit
Theses: Theses can be viewed online at:
digitalcommons.risd.edu/graphicdesign_masterstheses/
This exhibit continues in the hallway where a collection of thesis books are on display, offering a closer look into MFA research, process, and work. Book exhibition curated by Doug Scott.
RISD Campus Community Welcome Reception 🪅
Join President Williams to kick off the academic year at our Campus Community Reception—an afternoon dedicated to celebrating our community and bringing students, faculty, and staff together.
Make sure to RSVP and join us for food trucks, art activations, and music!
Software Saturday Workshops: FIGMA x InDesign 🖥️ 📘
September 19
11–1 pm, FIGMA 🖥️
2–4 pm, InDesign 📘
—Open to all GD Students. No sign-up needed.
RISD GLOBAL: Study Abroad Info Session 🗺️
An information session for GD Juniors (and sophomores who want information for future plans) who are interested in studying abroad in the Spring of 2027. Global exchange applications are due on October 1.
For more information, visit RISD GLOBAL.
Software Saturday Workshops: Photoshop x Illustrator 📸 🖼️
September 26
11–1 pm, Photoshop 📸
2–4 pm, Illustrator 🖼️
—Open to all GD Students. No sign-up needed.
GD Speaker Series Fall 26 🎤
Renata Graw, Normal, Chicago
Friday, October 16th
12 pm / GD Commons
& Roundtable discussion @ 1:30 pm (by sign-up)
Richard Turley, Food.xyz, NYC/London
Friday, October 23rd
12 pm / GD Commons
& Workshop with students on Saturday, Oct. 24th (by sign-up)
Elana Schlenker, Studio Elana Schlenker, Pittsburgh
Friday, October 30th
12 pm / GD Commons
& Studio visits with MFA in CIT (by sign-up)
Plus, Saturday Software Workshops / GD Gallery Shows / Roundtables / Advising Days
Sign-up information will be sent to all students via email.
Check out risd.gd for more details.
Fall 26 events identity and poster design by Maham Momin
RISD's News and Events Calendar 📅
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🍦Welcome Back GD Ice Cream Social
Come say hi, catch up, meet the entire GD community and get some RISD GD swag before classes begin on Wednesday, 9/9.
✏️Fall 2026 Semester starts 9/9/26
↑2026–2027 @ RISD GD↑
The Fall '26 semester begins on Sept. 9th.
Celebratory Graduation Breakfast
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.
Degree Project (DP) trailers 🎬
Come view the work of GD'26 as they prepare for Degree Project reviews next week!
Come watch / the first-ever GDee’s
🎞️ 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
Collect & share & come listen as Doug Scott talks about curating, exhibiting, and learning from examples of design.
In conjunction with UNBOUND book fair.
PANEL DISCUSSION: Collecting and Creativity
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.