Notable Current and Past Faculty
- Diane Arbus – photography
- Thomas Bosworth - former Chair of Department of Architecture, now Seattle architect, Professor Emeritus University of Washington
- Mairéad Byrne - poet
- Harry Callahan – photographer, former Chair of the Department of Photography
- Tage Frid - furniture design
- Henry Horenstein – photographer
- Norman Isham - Rhode Island historical architect
- Jhumpa Lahiri – creative writing, author of The Namesake (film)
- David Macaulay (B.Arch. 1969) – Illustrator and author
- Richard Merkin (M.F.A. 1963) – Professor Emeritus, painter, appears on the cover of The Beatles album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Barry Moser - illustrator
- Mihai Nadin – theorist, semiotics, computational design
- Ootje Oxenaar – Dutch graphic designer, designer of acclaimed but now vanished Dutch currency
- Janet Perlman animator, Oscar nominee for The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin
- John Prip - silver design
- Karim Rashid – industrial designer, formerly of industrial design department (1992)
- Jens Risom - furniture design
- Michael Rock – graphic designer, writer, now design professor at Yale University MFA graphic design program
- Aaron Siskind - abstract expressionist photographer who, with Callahan, founded the photography department at RISD
- Friedrich St. Florian – architect, designer of National World War II Memorial
- Steven Subotnick – professor in animation
- Chris Van Allsburg (M.F.A. Sculpture 1975) – children's book author/illustrator, Caldecott winner for Jumanji and The Polar Express
- Carol Wax, printmaker
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