The Waiting Room

Authors

Black Artists and Designers (BAAD), Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
RISD Archives, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Files

Description

The Waiting Room event poster.

Text Reads: Welcome to THE BAADEST Waiting Room, founded on May 3, 2017 in response to the blatant disrespect, and lethargic responses to BAAD's list of demands and the hours of free labor that SEA committee members volunteered in order to create concrete recommendations for the school to implement. We occupy this space as a display of discontent, disobedience, and radical self care in an institution that demands constant physical production. We demand that President Rosanne Somerson and administration members end the RISD cycle of two-faced bullshitting and back-stabbing. If we do not receive a response, we are more than happy [to] offer our art and design skills to build a crowdfunding campaign asking for compensation of the free labor that has gone wasted again.

In the meantime we wait.

Publication Date

2017

Keywords

BAAD, Black Artists and Designers, racial justice, The Waiting Room, poster, demonstration, sit-in, spa, pop-up spa, RISD students and institutional governance, discontent, disobedience, radical self-care, activism

Disciplines

Art Education | Race and Ethnicity

Recommended Citation

Black Artists and Designers (BAAD) and Archives, RISD, "The Waiting Room" (2017). Racial Justice. 15.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/archives_activism_racialjustice/15