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  We Sort of People Book Launch

  Leslie Tucker, Henry Horenstein, Margot McIlwain Nishimura, Fleet Library, and Photography Department

  Please join us on Wednesday, November 29, 6:30 pm, for a conversation between author Leslie Tucker and Professor of Photography Henry Horenstein 71 PH/MFA 73, moderated by Dean of Libraries Margot McIlwain Nishimura, about the duo's 26-year project to document and celebrate the last descendants of a little-known American clan of multiethnic origin: We Sort of People.

  Journalist and Writer Leslie Tucker and photographer and RISD professor Henry Horenstein 71 PH/MFA 73 began working together in 1997, when she invited him to Maryland to shoot a mysterious multiethnic family, the little-known Wesort clan: »We sorts are different from you sorts.« The project started as a genealogical search for a family whose roots stretched back to the founding of the first Catholic colony, it grew into a mystery about the multiethnic origins of America, then became a race against time as the Wesorts and their descendants disappeared and their stories died. While Horenstein photographed the last generation of Proctors and their disappearing world, Tucker recorded the conversations she had with the wise women of the family. A living archive emerges, with voices that portray the complex realities of their lives in their own words, as seen through their eyes.

  Published by Kehrer Verlag (Germany) Fall 2023. The event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

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  RE:Making: A Documentation of Work by Angela Lorenz Book Launch

  Angela Lorenz, Judith Tolnik Champa, Massimo Riva, Claudia Covert, Jennifer Liese, Margot McIlwain Nishimura, and Fleet Library

  Please join us Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 6:30 PM EDT at the Fleet Library as we celebrate the publication of RE:Making, a volume of 70 essays on historical observation, collections, transformation, and material applications in the work of book artist Angela Lorenz (Brown ‘87) from 1982 to 2022. Lorenz will be in conversation with Special Collections Librarian Claudia Covert, Editor Judith Tolnick Champa and contributors to the volume’s essays, including Massimo Riva, Jennifer Liese, and Margot McIlwain Nishimura.

  Description from the publisher, the jenny press, New Haven, CT:
  
  

  "With essays from over 70 scholars, collectors, librarians, curators, and journalists on Lorenz's work from 1989 to 2022. Includes a reflection from Angela on her juvenilia from 1982 to 1988. Edited by Judith Tolnick Champa with Jae Jennifer Rossman. Trade Edition. Color images of all works plus QR codes to videos. 200 pages."

  Books will be available for purchase and signing by the author. Free and open to the public.

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  Marcin Giżycki Animated Film Fest

  Marcin Giżycki, Theory & History of Art & Design Department, and Fleet Library

  The Fleet Library and dear friends of Marcin Giżycki (1951-2022) presented an evening of award-winning animated films on April 8th, 2023 at 6:30pm made by Marcin in Poland and in Providence, including “A Sicilian Flea,” “Panta Rei,” “Stone Story,” “Kinefaktura,” “Wave,” “Evening,” “Aquatura,” “Theatrum Magicum,” “FH,” “Arrow Game,”, “White Curtain”, and his most recent documentary, “RISD Cabaret Story,” devoted to the legendary wintersession class which ran from 1987 to 2000. See more: RISD Cabaret 1987-2000.

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  Repair: Sustainable Design Futures Book Launch and Celebration

  Kate Irvin, Markus Berger, and Fleet Library

  Repair: Sustainable Design Futures Book Launch and Celebration. A celebration of reparative words and worlds. Thursday, November 10, 5-7 pm. Fleet Library, first floor, Roger Mandle Building (15 Westminster). Edited by Markus Berger and Kate Irvin, Repair: Sustainable Design Futures (Routledge 2023) is a collection of timely new scholarship that investigates repair as a contemporary expression of empowerment, agency, and resistance to our unmaking of the world and the environment.

  To celebrate the book’s publication, Fleet Library hosts a festive and dynamic conversation with several of the book’s 25 local contributors and to expand and build on the volume’s chapter “Lexicon of Repair.” Guests brought their own words, thoughts, and cheer as all engaged with repair as a transdisciplinary and transcultural act that opens up possibilities for radically different social, environmental, and economic futures.

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  Avery Trufelman | Summon the Muse

  Avery Trufelman, Amy Devers, Matthew Bird, Hannah Carlson, Olivia Schroder, and Fleet Library

  Summon the Muse, Monday, November 7, 6:30-8:00 PM. Fleet Library, first floor, Roger Mandle Building(15 Westminster). Avery Trufelman, creator and host of Articles of Interest - a podcast about what we wear - will share her process and philosophy on making compelling audio stories, followed by a panel discussion with faculty members Amy Devers MFA 12 FD (host), Hannah Carlson, Matthew Bird 89 ID, and student host of rizdeology, Olivia Schroder 23 FAV.

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  Collecting Comics at Fleet Library | a panel discussion

  Bill Adler, Tim Finn, Claudia Covert, and Fleet Library

  Collecting Comics at Fleet Library | a panel discussion with Bill Adler, music journalist and donor of the Adler Archive of Underground Comix, Tim Finn 00 FAV, owner of Hub Comics (Somerville, MA) and library donor, and Claudia Covert, Special Collections Librarian, Fleet Library. Moderated by Susan Doyle, RISD Illustration (originally planned as Jaleen Grove, RISD Illustration). Introduced by Eric Telfort, RISD Illustration. Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 6:30 pm. Fleet Library, First Floor "Living Room", Roger Mandle Building (15 Westminster). In celebration of one of the great and growing strengths of the collections at Fleet Library, this freewheeling conversation about collecting comics, cartoons, and graphic novels from private, commercial, and academic perspectives took place on October 25, 2022. Also considered were the art, ephemera, and sometimes challenging issues related to the fields of comics and comix. The event was co-sponsored by Fleet Library, the Illustration Department, and RISD Institutional Advancement.

  View Comix from the Adler Archive of Underground Comix.

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  RISD Cabaret Story

  Marcin Giżycki, Agnieszka Taborska, Liberal Arts, and Theory & History of Art & Design Department

  The Fleet Library and dear friends of Marcin Giżycki (1951-2022) presented an evening of award-winning animated films on April 8th, 2023 at 6:30pm made by Marcin in Poland and in Providence, including “A Sicilian Flea,” “Panta Rei,” “Stone Story,” “Kinefaktura,” “Wave,” “Evening,” “Aquatura,” “Theatrum Magicum,” “FH,” “Arrow Game,”, “White Curtain”, and his most recent documentary, “RISD Cabaret Story,” devoted to the legendary wintersession class which ran from 1987 to 2000. See more: RISD Cabaret 1987-2000.

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  Lily Cole | The Impossible Project and the Gift Economy

  Fleet Library, RISD Provost, Pradeep Sharma, Academic Affairs, Steven Subotnick, Damian White, and Ryan Murphy

  Academic Affairs in conjunction with E'Ship & Community Service Club are pleased to welcome Lily Cole, fashion model, actress and social entrepreneur to campus for a talk at 6:30pm at the RISD Fleet Library. An advocate for socio-political and environmental issues, Lily has employed technology, writing, filmmaking and public speaking as means to build awareness and encourage dialogue. Two years ago, she began developing impossible.com, a social network that encourages users to exchange skills and services for free in the hope of encouraging a peer-to-peer gift economy.