List of Rhode Island School of Design people

This is a list of notable people from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Notable alumni

Academia

Business

Politics

Architecture

  • Raëd Abillama (BFA 1992; BArch 1993); Lebanon-based architect
  • Deborah Berke (BFA 1975; BArch 1977; Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts 2005) — Dean of Yale School of Architecture; Principal of Deborah Berke Partners.
  • Preston Scott Cohen (BArch 1983) — Gerald M. McCue Professor in Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD); Principal of Preston Scott Cohen, Inc.
  • Richard Levine (BArch 1962) — Professor, green architect, and sustainability pioneer
  • Alice Malhiot (BArch 1910) — believed to be the first Canadian woman to graduate from an architectural school
  • Michael Maltzan (BArch) — Principal and founder of Michael Maltzan Architecture
  • Sam Posey (BFA Painting 1966) — New England car racer, painter and architect.[13][14]
  • Ira Rakatansky (BArch 1942) — Providence-based architect[15]
  • Hashim Sarkis (BArch 1987) — Architect[16]
  • Nader Tehrani (BArch 1986) — Dean, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union (2015—present), professor and head of the Department of Architecture, MIT (2010—2014); principal and founder of NADAAA
  • Clifford Wiens (BArch 1954) — Canadian architect[17]

Interior design

Art collectives

Art collectors and art dealers

Digital arts

  • Rebecca Allen (BFA 1975) — Pioneer of early computer art, installation art, interface design, and professor[1]

Guggenheim fellowships

MacArthur Fellowships

Multimedia, mixed media and installation

Painting

Photography

Printmaking

Sculpture

Fashion

Film and television

Actors

Furniture design

  • Amy Devers (MFA Furniture Design 2001) — Furniture designer; television personality[77]
  • Hank Gilpin (MFA 1973) — Furniture designer and woodworker[78]
  • Judy Kensley McKie (BFA Painting 1966) — Furniture designer[79]
  • Brodie Neill (MFA Furniture Design 2004) — Furniture designer[80]
  • Josh Owen (MFA Furniture Design 1998) — Furniture designer[81]
  • Emi Ozawa (MFA Furniture Design 1992) — Artist[82]
  • Matthias Pliessnig (BFA Furniture Design 2003) — Furniture designer[83]
  • Misha Kahn (BFA Furniture Design 2011) — Artist
  • Charles Tsunashima (BFA Industrial Design 1997, MFA Textiles 2000) — Furniture designer, Tama Arts University faculty
  • Janice Smith (MFA 1981) — Furniture designer
  • Rosanne Somerson (BFA Industrial Design 1976) — Furniture designer; RISD professor, Furniture Design department head, Provost, and RISD President from 2015–present
  • David Wiseman (BFA Furniture Design 2003) – Home decorative arts and craft.[84]

Glass

Graphic design

Illustration

Industrial design

Literature

Music

Musical bands

Bands formed by students while attending RISD

Black Dice – Formed in 1997
Les Savy Fav – Formed in 1995
Lightning Bolt – Formed in 1994
Talking Heads – Formed in 1974

Textiles

  • Cynthia Schira (BFA 1956) — textile artist known for adding relief and irregularity to weavings made on a Jacquard loom[94]
  • Ruth Adler Schnee (BFA 1945) — a founding figure of contemporary textile design in America and best known for her modern prints and abstract-patterns of organic and geometric forms.[95]

Notable current and past faculty

Fine Arts Division

The Fine Arts Division includes the following departments; ceramics, film/animation/video, glass, illustration, jewelry and metalsmithing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and textiles.

Ceramics

Film/animation/video

Illustration

Jewelry and metalsmithing

Painting

Photography

  • Diane Arbus — Photographer
  • Harry Callahan — Photographer, former Chair of the Department of Photography
  • Joe Deal – photographer, Professor Emeritus, former Provost
  • Ann Fessler — author, filmmaker, installation artist, former Department Head and Graduate Program Director
  • Henry Horenstein — Photographer
  • Aaron Siskind — abstract expressionist photographer who, with Callahan, founded the photography department at RISD

Printmaking

  • Andrew Raftery — engraver; has taught in the printmaking and painting department since 1991[101]
  • Brian Shure — master printmaker, realist painter, teaching from 1996 to 2016[102]
  • Carol Wax — printmaker, visiting artist and faculty in the printmaking department

Architecture and Design Division

The Architecture and Design Division includes the following departments; apparel design, architecture, furniture design, graphic design, industrial design, and landscape architecture.

Architecture

Furniture design

  • Tage Frid — RISD professor of Woodworking and Furniture design from 1962 until 1985[103] also connected to the industrial design program.[104]
  • Jens Risom — Furniture design

Graphic design

Industrial design

Experimental and Foundation Studies Division

Liberal Arts Division

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