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Publication Date
12-1-2022
Description
LAURIE WHITEHILL PURCHASE PRIZE | $375 Purchase prize winners receive a cash reward and the books are added to the Fleet Library at RISD Special Collections' Artists' Book collection. Entry for the 9th Annual Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, March 02, 2023, Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Andre Lee Bassuet.
Keywords
artists' books, Baker & Whitehill, Laurie Whitehill Purchase Prize, award
Disciplines
Book and Paper
Student Status
Undergraduate student
Year of Graduation
2027
Major
Experimental and Foundation Studies
Faculty / Course
Martie Holmer, EFS Design Studio
Materials + Techniques
Box, laser cut paper, printed paper, water color
Student Narrative
Humpback whales move around the pacific ocean starting from Hawaii, Alaska, to California. The book shows their journey all the way to Hawaii to California. Normally, they go to Alaska, where they can get abundant food source - creel shrimp. Then they go to California Bay to give a birth for their child. The book documents and follows the birth of humpback whales and their life underwater.
Photo Credit
Hannah Nigro, PH 2025
Recommended Citation
Kim, Danielle; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "100 days for birth" (2022). 9th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2023. 60.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_bookcontest9th2023/60