9th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2023

AWARDS
Grand Purchase Prize | $500
How to Tame a Jaguar by Ashley Castañeda 23 IL

Laurie Whitehill Purchase Prize | $375
100 days for birth by by Danielle Kim 27 EFS

American Printing History Association - New England Chapter Purchase Prize | $375
Confession by Sihan Zhu MFA 23 PR

American Printing History Association - New England Chapter Purchase Prize | $375
Wolves by Jacob Davidson 23 IL

HONORABLE MENTIONS | $100
Snorkeling by Jinghong Chen 23 IL
The Sea of Tears by Jingjing Yang MFA 23 PR
Recorded in Fabric by Zoe Maxwell 26 EFS
The Chronicles of Sameri by Sun Ho Lee MFA 23 GD

JUROR
We are very happy to announce that Andre Lee Bassuet is this year's juror. Andre Lee Bassuet is an artist, designer and educator based in Rhode Island. She studied printmaking and papermaking in Japan and got her MFA at Osaka University of Arts on a Monbusho scholarship and a Bachelors from New York University in Graphic Communications. Originally from Brooklyn, New York but raised in both South Korea and the USA, she’s lived between two cultures and seeks her roots by exploring work on the body, nature and memory. She has participated in artist residencies at AS220 and Manhattan Graphics Center and exhibited in New York, Providence, Michigan, Florida, Seattle, Red Lodge, Kyoto, Osaka, and Shanghai. Her bookarts are in the Columbia University Libraries, Harvard Fine Art Library, MassArt Libraries, RISD Fleet Library collection, Western Michigan University's Special Collections as well as private collections. She is currently teaching bookbinding and printmaking at AS220 in Providence and will be teaching the Art of the Book at Brown University.

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Grandpa and Fishing Village

Cara Wang, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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.
A Cat's Busy Day

Lana Wang, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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.
Maybe We Are Eachother's Replica

Yirui Rita Wang, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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.
Memotone Musicassette

Maggie Weng, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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.
What My Mother Has Taught Me About Trees (a collection of lessons and memories)

Anna Winters, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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.
Carrier

Zhijing Wu, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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.
To See Blue Skies

Arete Xu, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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.
Memoire De Vente

Weicheng Xu, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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.
The Sea of Tears

Jingjing Yang, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

HONORABLE MENTION | $100 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.
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Linlin Yu, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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.
Book of Kodak

Haoxi Zhang, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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.
nothing/everything

Sabrina Zhang, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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.
Confession

Sihan Zhu, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION - New England Chapter 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.
Sunflower 向日葵

Shrume Zuo, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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.
The Wonders of the Human Head

Olivia Bartsch, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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.
TRSH GRLS ARCHIVE

Sharlene Deng, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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.
Grown With Love

Julia Hames, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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.
letters to ()

Yanru He, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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.
Polytechnique: 17:10, 17:20, and 17:30

Adeline Tousignant, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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.