“I knew I wanted to make a change, so I was looking into graphic design and that's when I learned about RISD CE—I decided to take that leap of faith and I'm so glad I did.” —Steven Lucas, RISD CE Graphic Design certificate graduate and instructor Are you a RISD [...]

"Everyone sees differently–students start trusting their process more once they see their drawings developing in ways they hadn’t imagined.” —Taleen Batalian, RISD CE Drawing instructor; recipient of the 2020–2021 RISD CE Teacher of Excellence award Are you a RISD CE instructor who would like to be featured by #risdceSPOTLIGHT? Fill [...]

“The purpose of this class is not necessarily to produce a series of pen and ink illustrations, we still teach this as a traditional course that’s content-heavy. Students learn different things than they were intending to and ultimately everybody improves.” —Amy Bartlett Wright, RISD CE Natural Science Illustration instructor and certificate graduate [...]