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List of Rhode Island School of Design people

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

Notable alumni

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Academia

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Business

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Politics

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Architecture

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Interior design

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Fine Art

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Art collectives

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Art collectors and art dealers

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Digital arts

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

Guggenheim fellowships

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MacArthur Fellowships

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Multimedia, mixed media and installation

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Painting

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Photography

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Printmaking

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Sculpture

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Fashion

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Film and television

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Actors

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Furniture design

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Glass

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Graphic design

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Illustration

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Industrial design

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Literature

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Music

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Musical bands

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Bands formed by students while attending RISD

Black Dice – Formed in 1997
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Fang Island – Formed in 2005
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Les Savy Fav – Formed in 1995
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Lightning Bolt – Formed in 1994
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Rubber Rodeo – Formed in 1980
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Talking Heads – Formed in 1974
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Textiles

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  • Pia Camil (BFA 2003) — contemporary artist[128]
  • Cynthia Schira (BFA 1956) — textile artist known for adding relief and irregularity to weavings made on a Jacquard loom[114]
  • Ruth Adler Schnee (BFA 1945) — a founding figure of contemporary textile design in America, best known for her modern prints and abstract-patterns of organic and geometric forms[129]

Notable current and past faculty

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Fine Arts Division

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

Ceramics

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Film, animation, video

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Illustration

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Jewelry and metalsmithing

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Painting

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Photography

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  • 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

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  • Andrew Raftery — engraver; has taught in the printmaking and painting department since 1991[137]
  • Brian Shure — master printmaker, realist painter, teaching 1996–2016[138]
  • Carol Wax — printmaker, visiting artist and faculty in the printmaking department

Sculpture

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  • Gilbert Franklin (1919–2004; BFA 1941) — sculptor, teacher 1942–1985, and former dean of fine arts[139]

Architecture and Design Division

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

Architecture

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Landscape architecture

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Furniture design

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  • Tage Frid — RISD professor of Woodworking and Furniture design 1962–1985[140] also connected to the industrial design program[141]
  • Jens Risom — furniture design

Graphic design

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Industrial design

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Experimental and Foundation Studies Division

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Liberal Arts Division

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References

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