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The RISD Museum of Art welcomes members of the press to learn more about upcoming exhibitions, programs and the permanent collection. If you are a member of the press and would like to receive ongoing press announcements from the RISD Museum of Art, please send an email with your contact information including your press affiliations.
Press contact: Donna Desrochers
phone: 401 454-6793
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For images contact: Carol Cutler
phone: 401 454-6322
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PRESS RELEASES
2010
RISD Museum Unveils Renovated Galleries
Lynda Benglis
Advance Schedule of Exhibitions
Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor
Siebren Versteeg: In Advance of Another Thing
The Figure: Contemporary Works from the Collection
Pat Steir: Drawing Out of Line
2009
The RISD Museum Associates | Free Annual Holiday Party
Joe Deal: New Work
Director Hope Alswang Resigns
Inner City by Arnie Zimmerman and Tiago Montepagado
The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650
Nature/Artifice
The RISD Museum Announces Response to Economic Crisis
The RISD Museum of Art Presents Two Exhibitions
Marcel Breuer | Design and Architecture
Carl Ostendarp | Pulled Up
Chihuly Chandelier Installation
Sarah Ganz Blythe, Director of Education
2008
David Stark Presentation + Luncheon
David Macaulay | Building Books
Beth Lipman | After You're Gone
Museum Awarded $1M Mellon Grant
Chace Center Press Kit
Mario Buatta presents inaugural Ethel S. Lerner Memorial Lecture
Music Friday presents Santa Mamba
Museum Acquires Aaron Douglas Painting
Exhibition: Styrofoam
Museum Associates Gala
Mierle Ukeles Lecture
Museum Celebrates Black History Month
2007
Evolution Revolution
Suzanne Fortier named Director of Museum Development
Chihuly at RISD
Gail Silver Memorial Lecture: Nick Cave
Music Video/Silent Film
Henry Horenstein | Honky Tonk
Kenneth Jay Lane
NEH Announces Challege Grant
Main Gallery Refurbished Unveiled
Gala: Garden Party with Carolyne Roehm
Public Art: Commission by Jonathan Bonner on Benefit Street
Site Specific Installation: Sitings 2007
2006
Re-Viewing the Twentieth Century
Wunderground: Providence, 1995 to the Present
Exhibition Schedule: November 2006-March 2007
Exhibition: Käthe Kollwitz
Fantastic Tales: Photography of Nan Goldin
Urban America, 1930-1970
Feathers, Flowers, Fangs, and Talons
Turn Left at the Camel: Uzbekistan Textiles
An-My Lê
RISD Print Collaborations
Eternal Egypt kiosk
Jenny Holzer: Gail Silver Memorial Lecture
Ray Williams: New Director of Education
Museum Associates Editions: Kirsten Hassenfeld
Lippitt Bequest
Gorham Silver
Goodnight Moon
2005
David Rockefeller's $1MM Gift
Term Limits (.pdf)
Export/Import (.pdf)
Alexis Rockman: Manifest Destiny (.pdf)
Hope Alswang Appointed Museum Director (.pdf)
Edgar Degas: Six Friends at Dieppe (.pdf)
Graduate Student Exhibition 2005 (.pdf)
2005-2006 Advance Schedule of Exhibitions
Betty Woodman's Il Giardino Dipinto
Frederick Sommer's Photographs and Musical Scores
Chazans' Choice: Gifts of Contemporary Art
