The Gay Plague

Authors

Andrew Pumpelly, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Files

Publication Date

12-1-2023

Description

Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.

Keywords

artists' books, Baker & Whitehill

Disciplines

Book and Paper

Student Status

Undergraduate student

Year of Graduation

2027

Major

Experimental and Foundation Studies

Faculty / Course

Martie Holmer, Studio Design

Materials + Techniques

Guanche and Gold leaf on paper

Student Narrative

This collection of medieval manuscript inspired paintings tells a tale of the origins of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and how it developed and spread alongside the stigma surrounding it as a “gay disease”

Photo Credit

Miles Tong 2025 FAV

Recommended Citation

Pumpelly, Andrew; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "The Gay Plague" (2023). 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024. 37.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/bookcontest10th2024/37