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Certificate Graduation 2022

2024-02-12T11:31:22-05:00May 19th, 2022|

RISD CE Certificate Graduation Celebration Congratulations on completing your RISD CE Certificate! The Continuing Education team and the entire Rhode Island School of Design community is proud and amazed at your achievement. You worked hard, overcame obstacles, distractions and difficulties. This is an incredible achievement—and we are excited to [...]

Summer Intensives

2026-04-02T09:37:49-04:00February 9th, 2022|

Summer Intensives Online and studio courses (transfer credit) Tailored to college students and adult working professionals, RISD Continuing Education offers a selection of summer courses that are eligible for three (3) transfer credits. Create your own experience at Rhode Island School of Design this summer with art and design courses [...]

Scholarship Opportunities

2026-02-02T17:23:09-05:00October 4th, 2021|

Scholarship Opportunities With thanks to our generous donors and partnerships, RISD Continuing Education is able to welcome more than 100 scholarship students each year across our many programs. Through our various Partner Scholarships and the RISD Continuing Education Scholarship Fund, we are proud to support: students from historically underrepresented groups first-generation students low-income [...]

Student Spotlight: Susan Novich

2021-08-26T15:42:16-04:00August 26th, 2021|

“My family relocated from Pittsburgh, PA to Barrington, RI and, at that time, RISD Continuing Education was offering their programs at Tillinghast Farm, including a course for adult learners called Children's Book Illustration. I've always had an interest in children's literature/children's book illustration and after looking into RISD CE I saw that they had [...]

Student Spotlight: Katie Taylor

2021-08-26T16:06:57-04:00August 26th, 2021|

“A coworker of mine sent me the course catalog, suggesting I take a class to complement my role in the office. A year later, I'm on my way to completing a RISD CE Interactive Design certificate and building a portfolio entirely independent of my work experience! I always had an interest in web design [...]

Continuing Ed Enrollment Skyrockets

2021-08-11T16:02:39-04:00August 11th, 2021|

In moving its CE classes online, RISD opens the floodgates to passionate new students from across the US and around the globe. When RISD’s Continuing Education (CE) staff scrambled to transform tried-and-true studio classes into effective virtual learning experiences last spring, they had no idea what the long-term expansion opportunities would be. New data [...]

Student Spotlight: Haley Hartin

2021-08-26T16:09:46-04:00August 1st, 2021|

“I chose to take classes at RISD CE because, during coronavirus, it felt like my life was put on hold. College was not resuming the way I would have liked and no college-level programs interested me enough to add to my schedule — that is until I stumbled upon RISD CE's certificate programs. I [...]

Student Spotlight: Ava Varszegi

2022-05-31T11:38:39-04:00July 29th, 2021|

“My journey to RISD CE started when I was a kid taking RISD Young Artist classes. The variety of course content kept me entertained and it was refreshing to be in classrooms with students I didn't go to school with. In many ways, I had similar feelings as an adult; the studio environment is [...]

Student Spotlight: Simran A. Dargan

2021-08-26T14:29:30-04:00January 5th, 2021|

“I planned to complete my undergrad in Italy over the summer, but like most, my plans for 2020 were undone. I stumbled upon two RISD CE Online courses in 3D modeling and Augmented Reality that interested me as an aspiring art director constantly on the lookout for new mediums to engage with. Extended Reality [...]

Student Spotlight: Meghan Admirand

2021-08-26T14:45:15-04:00January 5th, 2021|

“My journey to RISD began when I was at a pretty low point in my life. I'd just come out of a terrible, year-plus long postpartum depression and I had made a lot of really terrible and unhealthy decisions for myself. It took a lot of time to come out of that hole I [...]

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