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RISD Founder’s Day: March 22nd, 1877

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RISD’s founding mission—to educate its students and the public in the creation and appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to make lasting contributions to a global society through critical thinking, scholarship and innovation through both the college and museum—holds true today. #RISDFoundersDay #RISDServes #RISDGives #InternationalWomensDay #RISDArchives

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The first RISD classes took place at Hoppin Homestead and on October 24, 1893 Waterman building was dedicated. To this day, Waterman is home to the @risdnaturelab + Experimental and Foundation Studies. #RISDFoundersDay #RISDServes #RISDGives

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RISD was founded and nurtured by a small group of women more than 40 years before women in America gained the right to vote. In 1877, Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf urged 34 members of the Rhode Island Women’s Centennial Commission to invest their group’s surplus funding of $1,675—which they had raised for RI’s contribution to the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876—in founding a school of art and design. Pictured: class photo from 1892 #RISDFoundersDay #RISDServes #RISDGives

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RISD Founder’s Day: March 22nd, 1877

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