Rhode Island School of Design - Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts

Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts

Commencement speaker indicated by *

2012
  • Wang Shu*
  • Rebecca Solnit
  • Studio Ghibli
2011
  • Arnold Berleant
  • Bill Moggridge*
  • Mierle Laderman Ukeles
2010
  • Seymour Chwast
  • Paula Granoff
  • Ruth J. Simmons*
  • Art Spiegelman
2009
  • Caterina Fake
  • Jonathan Ive
  • Roger Mandle
  • Sir Ken Robinson*
2008
  • Laurie Anderson*
  • Yo-Yo Ma
  • Ed Ruscha
  • Roberta Smith
2007
  • Gore Vidal*
  • Richard Leacock
  • Seth MacFarlane
2005
  • Kurt Andersen*
  • Deborah Berke
  • Zuzana Licko
  • Rudy VanderLans
  • Yuri Norstein
  • Eva Zeisel
2004
  • Nathan Lyons
  • David Macaulay*
  • Esther Metcalf Mauran
2003
  • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Dave Hickey*
  • Jenny Holzer
  • Jens Risom
2002
  • Henry Louis Gates Jr.*
  • Szymon Bojko
  • Ann Hamilton
  • Pauline Trigère
  • Adrian Cann
1993
  • Elizabeth Murray
1992
  • Magdalena Abakanowicz
1988
  • John Prip
  • Massimo Vignelli
1987
  • Frank Gehry
1986
  • Dale Chihuly
1983
  • Beatrice (Oenslager) Chace
Unknown Year
  • Louis A. Fazzano

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