Barbie's First Steps

Authors

Sarah Dunn, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Files

Publication Date

5-1-2020

Keywords

artists' books, Baker & Whitehill

Disciplines

Book and Paper

Student Status

Undergraduate student

Year of Graduation

2021

Major

Printmaking

Faculty / Course

Jessie Karlsberger

Materials + Techniques

Crayola Crayons on cotton with batting

Student Narrative

A quilted book about my experience with ballet. How it served as a comforting and freeing act while simultaneously existing to control and manipulate my mind and body. Comparing this to when I was a child playing with Barbies. Although the barbie was under my control, it offered me freedom and comfort in the form of play. However at the same time, the Barbie influenced my body image and feminine ideals in the same way ballet did.

Recommended Citation

Dunn, Sarah; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "Barbie's First Steps" (2020). 7th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2021. 13.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/bookcontest7th2021/13