Curated Exhibitions
Exhibitions that showcase graduate thesis writing and research at RISD.
Over the past two decades, the Division of Graduate Studies has supported an exhibition in September that highlights the processes, dimensions, and dynamics of graduate student research and the written thesis. Anne, in conjunction with other collaborators, has brought remarkable vision to this project in each of its iterations.
Interior Atlas: Ways of Research
In the process of writing a thesis, the worlds of visual thinking and making live in tandem. Connections emerge and are understood together through slowing evolving paths of dedicated research: speculative, experiential, experimental, formal, analytical, and critical.
There Are Many Ways of Telling / 18 Perspectives on Voice
“Voice” is distinct.
It comes through in every word. It’s the quality in all writing that tells us who the author is, and what their values are. Voice is meant to occupy space — to be read, heard, and understood.
Formative & Persisting
The Formative and Persisting exhibition highlights how the graduate written thesis is carried forward in the world, post-RISD. Its six categories: blueprint, catalyst, method, monograph, pedagogy, and research suggest a variety of ways in which the thesis can be formative and persisting.
Document. Document. Document.
The serial enunciation of Document. Document. Document. invokes the emergent, multiple, and malleable forms and persistent, if amendable, afterlives of documents that prefigure, accelerate, unsettle, and invariably influence and guide the unfolding of thesis-based research.
Showcase / The Thesis Book
Drawing from the collection at the RISD library, this exhibition features examples of the written thesis book and offers visitors the chance to read through examples from each graduate program at RISD.
To Write This Work
A selection of Rhode Island School of Design Master's Thesis at the Sol Koffler Graduate Student Gallery