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If interviewing is in your future, get the guidance you need on how to best prepare! Our guide includes tips on:

✅ understanding the interview process
✅ portfolio presentation
✅ anticipating questions
✅ how to be an effective story teller
✅ asking smart questions

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Artworks Opportunity Alert 🚨

Check out this open opportunity at for an Architectural Designer I to join their team!

Learn more and apply on RISD ArtWorks!

The Investing in Artists: Tools & Equipment program will award grants of $1,000–$5,000 to individual craft artists to purchase artistic tools and equipment that support their ability to make object-based work. This program is open to individual craft artists, folk and traditional artists, and craftspeople in the United States and its Territories, with geographic eligibility rotating over the 2024–2026 funding cycle.*
Competitive applicants will present a clear request, demonstrate a sustained commitment to their discipline, and illustrate how funding will provide linchpin support – such as enabling the artist to get started in their field, meet demand, address safety requirements or other regulations, replace outdated or damaged equipment, or reach a higher standard of quality or craftsmanship. In other words, funding will support craft artists’ careers and their ability to make work. A total of $60,000 is available in the 2026 funding round.

Investing in Artists: Tools & Equipment is administered by the Center for Cultural Innovation ( ),a trusted intermediary focused on the economic security of individuals in the arts, with funding support provided by the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation.

*For the 2026 round of funding, craftspeople residing full-time in Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, or Virginia are eligible to apply.

Artworks Opportunity Alert 🚨

The has an open call for their artist grant opportunity for recent MFA grads!

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We experienced the amazing creativity unleashed in the spectacular RISD Grad Show 2026 opening night! So much stunning and thought provoking work. Congratulations to all of the graduating grad students (including our Graduate Assistant Peer Advisor - Jenny Richie 26 MFA TX)!

ArtWorks Opportunity Alert 🚨

Explore this opportunity from .residency for a one-month design residency in India!

Learn more and apply on RISD ArtWorks!

Congrats to all of the graduating RISD students! 🎉

Come see us to pick up your pre-ordered commencement tickets!

And remember, the Career Center is here for you even as alumni!

The Career Center team is hard at work preparing to give out graduation tickets starting tomorrow May 20! The balloon arch is back!