Rhode Island School of Design is the preeminent school of art anddesign. With more than 22,000 alumni, the college enrolls about 1,900undergraduates and 400 graduate students from nearly 50 countries. After arigorous freshman foundation program, the college offers degree programs inthe fine arts, architecture, design disciplines, and art education groundedin the liberal arts. RISD alumni are a defining force in contemporaryculture; just a few examples of RISD's distinguished alumni roster areDavid Byrne, Jenny Holzer, Dale Chihuly, David Macaulay, Jamie Carpenter,Seth MacFarlane and Kara Walker. Four out of the five John D. and CatherineT. MacArthur Foundation Fellows in 2006 went to