RISD Museum Announces Appointment of Clara Fecht as Senior Director of Development
The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and the RISD Museum are pleased to announce the appointment of Clara Fecht as senior director of development, RISD Museum, effective May 18, 2026. Fecht joins the college and museum at a pivotal moment as RISD embarks on the planning and implementation of a new strategic plan and advances its ongoing, ambitious fundraising efforts. As a key member of RISD’s Institutional Advancement senior management group, Fecht will execute a comprehensive fundraising strategy
RISD Museum Opens “Ways of Looking,” A New Model Expanding How Visitors Engage with Art
This March, the RISD Museum opened Ways of Looking, a pair of introductory galleries designed to transform how visitors enter and experience the museum. Rather than functioning as a traditional orientation space, Ways of Looking presents the RISD Museum Way, the museum’s distinctive framework for engaging with art through four lenses: process, meanings, origins, and connections. The galleries serve as both welcome and provocation, offering visitors practical tools while inviting them to
