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| RISD Continuing Education | |
|---|---|
| Name | RISD Continuing Education |
| Established | 19th century |
| Type | Continuing education division |
| Parent | Rhode Island School of Design |
| City | Providence |
| State | Rhode Island |
| Country | United States |
RISD Continuing Education
Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education offers non-degree and professional development courses linked to the Rhode Island School of Design and situated in Providence near College Hill. The program provides studio-based instruction and certificate pathways connected to the museum collections of the Rhode Island School of Design and to regional cultural institutions across New England. Students engage with curricula that intersect with practices showcased at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and other major museums and cultural centers.
The division operates within the broader context of the Rhode Island School of Design and collaborates with institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Modern, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Getty Center, the Smithsonian Institution, the Cooper Hewitt, the Frick Collection, the Brooklyn Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, the Louvre, the Centre Pompidou, the British Museum, the Barbican Centre, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, the Hammer Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It attracts students influenced by exhibitions and scholarship from the Royal Academy of Arts, the Prado Museum, the Uffizi Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the New Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, SFMOMA, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Kimbell Art Museum, and international biennials such as the Venice Biennale and Documenta.
Course offerings include foundation studies, painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, graphic design, illustration, photography, animation, industrial design, jewelry, and book arts, taught through workshop formats analogous to summer intensives at the Santa Fe Institute or professional programs at Parsons School of Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale School of Art, Columbia University School of the Arts, and the Pratt Institute. Certificates mirror practices found in programs at the Rhode Island School of Design, California Institute of the Arts, Cooper Union, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Cranbrook Academy of Art, while specialized short courses echo residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Banff Centre. Elective seminars reference techniques discussed in publications by Taschen, Phaidon, Thames & Hudson, and academic partnerships with Brown University, Providence College, and Johnson & Wales University.
Enrollment pathways accommodate adult learners, working professionals, recent graduates, and visiting students with processes comparable to continuing studies at Harvard Extension School, University of California Extension programs, Columbia University School of Professional Studies, New York University School of Professional Studies, and Boston University. Admissions for certificate tracks require portfolios and statements akin to submissions for the Rhode Island School of Design undergraduate application, Pratt applications, and Cooper Union materials; noncredit workshops enroll via online registration similar to platforms used by Coursera partners, edX affiliates, and community college continuing education systems. Financial aid, scholarships, and employer tuition assistance align with policies like those at the Fulbright Program, the National Endowment for the Arts grants, and state workforce development initiatives.
Facilities include specialized studios, digital fabrication labs with equipment comparable to makerspaces at MIT, Fab Lab networks, CNC routers, laser cutters, 3D printers, printmaking presses, kilns, darkrooms, and textile looms akin to those at Cranbrook, Rhode Island School of Design’s Fleet Library, and the RISD Museum galleries. Resource access draws on collections and archives paralleling those at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the Beinecke and Brown University Library systems, the Library of Congress, and conservation laboratories modeled after those at the Getty Conservation Institute and the National Archives. Collaboration spaces evoke studios at the Parsons Makerspace, the Cooper Hewitt design studio, and the Fabric Workshop and Museum.
Faculty include practicing artists, designers, craftspeople, historians, and curators whose careers intersect with institutions and figures such as Jeff Koons, Marina Abramović, Kara Walker, Ai Weiwei, Anselm Kiefer, Cindy Sherman, Gerhard Richter, Louise Bourgeois, Kara Walker, Kerry James Marshall, Olafur Eliasson, David Hockney, Yoko Ono, Marina Abramović, Damien Hirst, Mark Bradford, Julie Mehretu, Kerry James Marshall, and institutions including the Guggenheim, MoMA, Tate, Serpentine Galleries, Centre Pompidou, and the New York Public Library. Visiting lecturers and adjunct instructors maintain professional ties to galleries, art fairs such as Art Basel and Frieze, biennials, and award programs including the MacArthur Fellowship, the Turner Prize, the Praemium Imperiale, and the National Medal of Arts.
Students undertake projects informed by studio practice, portfolio development, exhibition preparation, and career strategies reflecting trajectories seen among alumni of Yale, RISD, Pratt, and Parsons. Outcomes include enhanced portfolios for graduate applications to institutions like the Royal College of Art, California College of the Arts, or Columbia’s School of the Arts; professional transitions into studios, galleries, museums, design firms, and startups listed in directories of major institutions such as Sotheby’s, Christie’s, IDEO, Pentagram, and Apple. Participants frequently exhibit in local venues such as AS220, The Steel Yard, and Providence Art Club, and present work at regional festivals and fairs including the Newport Folk Festival context for crafts and design markets.
The division partners with cultural organizations, municipal arts agencies, economic development bodies, and educational institutions including Brown University, Providence Public Library, Rhode Island Council on the Arts, Arts & Business Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Corporation for Public Broadcasting affiliates, local school districts, and workforce programs. Community programming includes collaborations with museums, artist residencies, public art projects, continuing education consortia, and civic initiatives modeled on partnerships between museums and universities such as those between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Columbia University, or the Getty and UCLA.