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We are happy to announce that starting July 1st Adela Goldbard (@adela_goldbard) became Department Head of Digital Media at @risd1877 adding to her role as Associate Professor of Experimental and Foundation Studies. 

She will be holding office for the 2026-2027 term as Shawn Greenlee (@s3g) takes on an exciting and very well deserved sabbatical. We can’t wait to step into a new year with such strong legacy by Shawn and continued mentorship with Adela and Mariela Yeregui (@mariela_yeregui) who recently started acting as Professor of the department.

Adela and Mariela have co-led the Digital + Media Seminar since 2025 and both have been known for highly stimulating roundtables, assignments, critiques, and group activities in the company of thinkers and makers that continue to reshape and challenge what digital art-making is. 

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Adela Goldbard is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar and educator from Mexico. Member of the National System of Artistic Creators of Mexico (SNCA), she holds an MFA as a Full Merit Fellow in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and a bachelor’s degree in Hispanic Language and Literature from the National University of Mexico (UNAM). 

Goldbard investigates how radical community performances can subvert the imposition of hegemonic narratives, and how performances of violence and destruction can become aesthetic tools of resistance against power. She is especially interested in how collectively building, staging, and destroying has the potential to generate critical thinking and social transformation. Goldbard’s investigation focuses on developing a poetics of violence and a decolonial methodology for participant artistic practice. 

Recent commissioned projects include a pyrotechnic play with/for the Mexican community of La Villita, Chicago (Gallery 400, University of Illinois, 2019-20), and a socially engaged art project with/for the P’urhépecha community of Arantepacua (FEMSA Biennial, 2020-21). She is currently working on a long-term participant project in the Peruvian Andes.

1. Adela’s Portrait in 2022. Photography by Sebastián Rico. 

“Invadieron por Mar, Respondemos con Fuego. Un Presagio.” [They Inva
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