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Enroll now and be ready to go when the summer term starts on June 20. From travel photography and plein air painting, to illustrating botanicals and marine species, you'll find creative pursuits that take advantage of the summer season. These summer-themed courses are enrolling now: Travel Photography Whether on a vacation or a day [...]
Year-round online programming for youth continues this summer with RISD’s pre-collegiate online certificate and new teen courses. Since 2020, the development of effective and engaging online art and design programming for teens has been a focus of Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education (RISD CE). In addition to online courses and certificate programs [...]
Custom Programs Create the future with RISD CE Custom Programs. RISD CE Custom Programs delivers customized learning experiences that meet the specific goals and needs of your organization and community. CE Custom Programs seeks sustainable, collaborative and reciprocal partners that are interested in joining RISD’s creative community. Our innovative programs and courses [...]
This summer, join us in person or online for our art and design programs for youth and teens of all levels. Find inspiration in your surroundings at our full-day youth summer camps or maximize your creativity from home or in the classroom with our in-person and online teen courses. [...]
"My Journey with RISD Continuing Education began when I completed a faculty swap with my lecturer position at the University of Washington. Charles was teaching at RISD CE but wanted to perform research activities I was performing at the UW. I wanted to switch my focus from engineering students to art and design students [...]
2023 RISD Summer Teen Art Institute at the HD Shanghai School RISD Continuing Education is excited to announce the return of the Summer Teen Art Institute in Shanghai, China. After a successful inaugural program in 2022, the institute will return in 2023 bigger and better than ever. The RISD Summer Teen Art Institute is [...]
Popular series continues, helps students and practicing artists develop their business ideas, studio practice, and freelancing. Whether you're an emerging or established studio artist, a freelancer, or looking to start your own company, online courses in the Entrepreneurship in Art and Design series will give you the skills you need to succeed. For emerging [...]
After a two-year delay due to the pandemic, RISD Continuing Education (CE) faculty and staff are celebrating the residential Pre-College program’s 50th anniversary this summer. With the return to in-person learning, 430 high school students are getting a taste of RISD life this summer. This unique program immerses students in a six-week college-level curriculum [...]
"My journey to RISD CE began when I was taking an anatomical portrait class at RISD CE and someone had mentioned being in the Natural Science Illustration certificate program; I felt that it was the perfect unification of my career, my education and my interests. Adjusting to the pandemic was tough, but to be [...]
“My journey to becoming a RISD CE instructor began when I was asked if I could adapt my abstract painting class into an online format. Setting up asynchronous courses was a challenge because I had never filmed myself doing demonstrations before. In the classroom it’s easy to see if an exercise is getting across [...]
