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Application Now Open: Wintersession Travel Courses 2020

Applications are now open! For five weeks between the fall and spring semesters, RISD offers undergraduate and graduate students rich global learning opportunities through Wintersession Travel Courses . These classes are designed to give art and design students the opportunity to embed themselves in a new cultural context, to learn from local artists and designers and to develop their creative practices in a new and inspiring environment.

Wintersession 2020 Travel Courses include:

• Australia: Witness Tree Project
• France: Photography in Paris
• Japan: Papers, Temples & Print
• Mexico: Color, Mestizaje & Design Futures
• Mexico: Material Propositions: Oaxaca
• Mexico: Pre-Columbian Architecture and Traditional Crafts/Pre-Colonial to Contemporary

Wintersession Travel Courses

RISD Wintersession Travel Courses are rich, short-term global learning opportunities, led by RISD faculty, that take place for up to 5 weeks between fall and spring semesters.

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RISD pivots to online start for Wintersession classes

In-person classes to resume jan. 14 with restrictions.

The Rhode Island School of Design announced Tuesday that its Wintersession courses will begin remotely from Jan. 6 to 13, RISD Spokesperson Jaime Marland wrote in an email to The Herald. Currently, RISD plans on resuming in-person Wintersession classes Jan. 14. The condensed winter semester that is required for almost all RISD students will end Feb. 9, before the start of the school’s spring semester.

RISD’s online start comes in tandem with universities nationwide choosing to delay a return to in-person learning due to the recent surge of the COVID-19 omicron variant. Rhode Island College and the Community College of Rhode Island both announced Wednesday that the first few weeks of classes will be held remotely.

Brown expects to begin the spring semester with in-person classes on Jan. 26, according to a Dec. 21 email from President Christina Paxson P’19.

RISD’s updated Wintersession 2022 Protocol encourages students to delay returning to campus until in-person classes resume. Students unable to change their travel plans may still come to campus but must participate in pre-travel testing within the 72 hours before departure in addition to testing within 72 hours of their return.

“We anticipate that this extended arrival window will provide for a safe and manageable re-entry to campus for our students,” Marland wrote.

To accommodate students during this period of restrictions and changes, all RISD Wintersession classes will follow a Pass/No credit grading system instead of the usual letter-based grading system , according to RISD’s Wintersession 2022 Protocol.

Marland noted that RISD’s in-person Wintersession classes will follow the school’s original COVID-19 Protocol, which includes a ban on indoor events and gatherings, a regular weekly or bi-weekly testing regime, indoor mask-wearing requirements and limited seating in dining halls.

RISD also requires students to receive a COVID-19 booster shot by Feb. 1 or within two weeks of becoming eligible, similar to Brown’s requirement announced Dec. 14 that all students, faculty and staff must receive a booster before the first day of the spring semester or within 30 days of eligibility.

Unlike last year, in which Brown students were unable to enroll in courses at RISD for Wintersession due to Brown’s adoption of a three-term academic calendar, this year Brown students are eligible to participate in the school’s Wintersession, despite public health challenges and the overlap in RISD’s Wintersession with the start of the Brown’s spring semester.

Currently, Brown’s Wintersession is being held entirely online, running from Dec. 21 to Jan. 21.

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Summer Programs

Summer at RISD is a time to ask new questions and stretch your creative practice into new areas. Whether you are a current RISD student looking to challenge your thinking in a global context or a K-12 student who wants to stretch your talents, you will find classes and programs that inspire curiosity.

RISD Global summer offerings

RISD Global’s summer offerings provide opportunities to expand your point of view as an artist, designer and engaged global citizen. They are open to current students (undergraduate and graduate) enrolled at RISD or in other art and design programs, recent grads, and art and design professionals. Whichever you choose, these credit-bearing experiences immerse you in inspiring contexts for creative problem-solving.

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RISD Pre-College summer residential program

Our summer Pre-College program is perfect for rising high school juniors and seniors ready to experience RISD firsthand. It will bring you into our studios, introduce you to faculty and students from around the world, and push your creative practice to unexpected places. Throughout the five-week program, you’ll experience total immersion in art and design and create exciting work for your portfolio.

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Advanced Program Online year-round intensive

High school students in grades 10–12* can also take part in the Advanced Program Online, a year-round, college-level art and design experience. The curriculum consists of focused studies in drawing and design, plus featured topic studios. Every aspect of the certificate program stresses the skills and thinking you need to build a standout portfolio for college applications. 

The program takes place over four-week blocks in the summer, fall and spring.

* for the summer session, students entering grade 10 and those who just graduated are eligible to enroll.

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Youth and teen camps and courses

Our full-day summer camps let young artists ages 6–12 create a wide range of work that brings their ideas to life. Summer camps happen at Tillinghast Place, our beachside grounds in nearby Barrington, RI.

For teens ages 13–17, RISD CE offers courses for you to explore your interests and make work in many mediums. Online courses  run year round while in-person courses  are available during the summer on RISD’s campus in Providence, RI.

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Wintersession Shoe Design 2016: Northern Europe

This collection documents the RISD Global 2016 Wintersession travel course Northern Europe Shoe Design: Perception, History & Prototyping as well as the resulting student exhibit. Alongside fabric artist and RISD Senior Critic Kathleen S. Grevers, Apparel Design students travelled to Northern Europe to study the creative cultures of Germany, Netherlands and Belgium. While abroad, students used the experience of footwear design as a way to more deeply understand and expand their own personal design process through the practice of creative introspections inspired by Da Vinci's methods as well as from Northern European history, design practice and cultural aesthetic.

Students engaged in a series of studio, factory, museum and gallery visits where sketchbooks were used as visual and reflective journals to practice insightful daily exercises to advance their design process and footwear designs. The final student shoe designs represent the influence of these explorations, and the manifestation of an expanded design methodology.

Submissions from 2016 2016

Documentary Film: Wintersession Shoe Design 2016 , Zexi Qi, Kathleen S. Grevers, Apparel Design Department, and RISD Global

Documentary Film: Stahl Opening Center of Excellence Castelfranco , Stahl, Apparel Design Department, and RISD Global

Documentary Film: Wintersession Shoe Design 2016: Stahl Campus , Stahl, Apparel Design Department, and RISD Global

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