Hands-on fall studios encourage students to incorporate contemporary technologies and platforms into their evolving creative ...

Fall 2025 Regeneration Studio focuses on biomimicry research in structures, materials, mechanisms, and interfaces.

Interior Architecture alumni go on to find creatively satisfying work around the world. Some launch their own practices while others join larger firms or smaller studios. In addition to practicing as ...

Landscape Architecture straddles the interface between the cultural and natural worlds, addressing design issues inherent in a range of typologies and scales, from specific sites to global systems.

During your two years in residence here, you take on a serious investigation of the possibilities and realities presented by contemporary painting.

Informed by critical and decolonial theory, environmental science, sound studies and more, the Digital + Media curriculum supports you in developing a robust research agenda and independent studio ...

Students in RISD’s graduate degree programs are critical thinkers and makers who delve deep into creative practice, investigate intriguing concepts and innovate in the studio. Learn more at risd.edu.

Literary Arts and Studies draws on a wide range of literary traditions, genres, periods and theoretical approaches to let students pursue in-depth studies in literature and writing. Concentrators ...

The benefits we offer RISD employees include medical and dental insurance plans, a 403 (b) retirement plan with employer contributions, paid time off and many more. People who work here also enjoy ...

Modeled on our EFS curriculum, this one-semester program for first-year students is a unique, immersive option for students beginning their RISD journey. In the first year of the program, sophomores ...

In Film/Animation/Video (FAV) you explore the art of the moving image, learning to master the tools needed to articulate a creative vision, whether using film, animation, installations, interactive ...