MFA计划通过强调视觉和批判性素养来支持从事严格跨学科实践的艺术家。雕塑课程的重点是工作室实践，与来访艺术家的慷慨小组对话，讲座和会议以及工作室选修课，以提高每位艺术家的技能和制作方法。这种方法培养了紧密的学生群体，鼓励他们将彼此视为终身朋友和同事。我们有意识地发展批判性话语和跨学科研究模式，以积极支持各种工作和思维方式。雕塑专业的学生可以使用先进的技术，并鼓励他们从事社交和替代实践。MFA候选人在RISD居住两年，进行深入的个人研究和创意活动。在第二年，通常邀请研究生在6周的冬季课程中教授他们构想和发展
Emphasizing visual and critical literacy, the Sculpture MFA program gives you support to develop a rigorous interdisciplinary practice. The curriculum foregrounds studio praxis, generous group conversation, lectures and meetings with visiting artists, and studio electives that enhance your skills and methods of making. Through this approach, you and your fellow degree candidates form a lifelong creative community. The Sculpture program curriculum supports your participation in critical discourse and the development of interdisciplinary research modes that actively support varied ways of working and thinking. Here you also have access to advanced technologies, and we encourage you to pursue social and alternative practices. MFA candidates engage in two years of intensive individual research and creative activity while at RISD. During the spring of the first year, you may also propose a self-designed course, with the possibility of teaching it during the five-week Wintersession.