Credits

This publication was developed and curated by the Museum Guild during the 2020-21 academic year. The Museum Guild is a group of undergraduate students from local colleges and universities who work toward representation, inclusion, and advocacy for student voices in the museum space. Working as a group and with the guidance of the museum’s Academic Programs staff, they develop projects and programs that highlight student interests and promote diversity and community engagement while creating critical dialogue around the RISD Museum’s collection. 

The 2020-21 Museum Guild was:

Maggie Chang (RISD 2022, Sculpture)

Angelique Dina (Rhode Island College 2021, Black Studies major, Anthropology and Theater minor)

Yiwei Chen (RISD 2022, Interior Architecture)

Kaanchi Chopra (RISD 2021, Industrial Design, concentration in Nature, Culture, Sustainability Studies)

Amrita Desmet (RISD 2024, Industrial Design)

Serenity Flagg (Johnson and Wales University 2022, Media and Communications)

Jane Freiman (Brown University 2022, Comparative Literature and American Studies)

Hannele Hellerstedt (Brown University 2021, Architecture and French and Francophone Studies)

Eden McKenna-Bateman (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 2023, Art History)

Colin Orihuela (Brown University 2024, Visual Art and American Studies)

Laura Wittwer (Roger Williams University 2021, Art History and Music)

Their ideas could not have been executed without the design and implementation work of Ophelia Duchesne-Malone (Brown University 2022, Art History and Visual Arts), who was the 2021 Arts Intern in Graphic Design at the RISD Museum. 

Support, supervision, and guidance was provided by RISD Museum staff:

Derek Schusterbauer (Senior Graphic Designer)

Brendan Campbell (Graphic Designer)

Carson Evans (Digital Media Fellow)

Jeremy Radtke (Assistant Director, Digital Initiatives)

Alexandra Poterack (Associate Educator, Public and Academic Programs

The team is proud to share the incredible work of the artists who agreed to contribute to the publication, and grateful to them for their time and generosity in sharing aspects of their creative practice. They are:

Aryana Polat (RISD 2021)

Cassidy Argo (Moore College of Art and Design 2021)

Belu-Olisa Pierre Sarkissian (Brown University)

Cierra Johnson (School of the Visual Arts 2024)

Foli (University of Toronto 2021)

Katherine Bahena-Benitez (Sacramento State University 2021)

Lauryn Levette (RISD 2021)

Niko Woron (School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2023)

Shyam Arya (Brown University 2022)

Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo-Ross (RISD 2021)

Yiqing Lei (RISD 2022)

Zeinab Ajasa (School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2021)

Yuqing Liu (RISD 2023)