On Monday evening, Rhode Island School of Design President Crystal Williams told the RISD community that one international student’s visa was revoked.
On Saturday, the Rhode Island School of Design’s Fleet Library hosted RISD students, local artists and designers for the 2025 UNBOUND Art Book Fair: a celebration of “books, zines and experimental printed matter,” according to the event’s website.
On Friday, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha and 20 other attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration “to stop the dismantling of three federal agencies” that support public libraries, museums, workers and small businesses, according to a press release from Neronha’s ...
On Friday, Rhode Island District Court Chief Judge John McConnell Jr. ’80 ruled that the Trump administration violated a March 6 preliminary injunction by freezing Federal Emergency Management Agency funds.
The protest was one of over a thousand similar rallies nationwide expected to take place on Saturday.
The agency stated that the rollbacks are “the biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history.”
Camila Salinas, a sophomore studying painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, has amassed 1 million followers and 87.7 million likes on TikTok.
On Tuesday evening, Carla Liesching, a South African artist, gave a guest lecture at the Metcalf Auditorium at the Rhode Island School of Design. The event was open to the RISD community as part of the RISD Photo Gary Metz lecture series.
The lawsuit challenges federal actions threatening funding received during the Biden administration.
Fabian Schmidt was hospitalized after allegedly being subjected to “violent interrogation.”
On Tuesday afternoon, approximately 70 Rhode Island School of Design students rallied outside 20 Washington Place — a RISD administrative building known as Prov-Wash — in response to the RISD administration’s request to relocate a pro-Palestine art exhibit on campus.
The Rhode Island House Judiciary Committee held a hearing for the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025 on March 26, offering a forum for debate on a bill that restricts the manufacture, sale, purchase and possession of assault weapons, which include AK- or AR-style rifles and certain shotguns. ...
Plaintiffs argued that the grants have more uses, although provisioned during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In March, the Providence Place Mall instituted an updated code of conduct and a Youth Guidance Program.
The ACLU R.I. filed a lawsuit against the NEA, alleging that the agency’s recent changes to funding requirements are unconstitutional.
The increase requires approval from the Rhode Island General Assembly.
At a March 12 hearing, teachers, legislators and authors debated whether book bans should be permitted.
Politicians have long called for the privatization of Amtrak, which has operated for over 50 years.
Several health care workers agreed that their industry has continued to struggle since the pandemic.
The idea for the two cities’ sisterhood was born out of a friendship between two people across the globe.
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