Featured Artist: Hammad Abid at Textile Arts LA for series of work “Architecture of Tangible Memory”. His work calls attention to displacement and forced migration as a disruption in the continuity of place, relationships, identity, memory, and time. With emphasis on materiality, form, texture and color he explore the relationship of architecture's power to shape the memory of home.

Hammad Abid MFA TX ‘21 | RISD Research Perspectives

From a lineage of Indian weavers steeped in textile traditions, Abid's material investigations situate concepts of place, displacement, and memory into the experimental weavings and jacquard.

This series highlights the intersections of art, design, theory, social justice, and research in interviewed conversations within the RISD community, its faculty, and students. Interviews and videos created by Holly Gaboriault, MA Global Arts + Cultures '21.