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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9th Annual Baker & Whitehill Contest 2023
Special Collections and Fleet Library
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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Back When Tigers Used to Smoke
Gina Bae, 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.
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An Ode to My Aunties: Melted Into the Pot
Ava Buccino, 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.
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Only Shades of Red
Ally Casa, 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.
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How to Tame a Jaguar
Ashley Castañeda, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
GRAND PURCHASE PRIZE | $500 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.
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Envy
Jinghan Cheng, 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.
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composition diary
Shuo Yun (Julia) Cheng, 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.
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Snorkeling
Jinghong Chen, 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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The Seven Sins as told in verses by Edmund Spencer
Shuyan Chen, 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.
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A-Z of Art and Design Education
Santrupthy Das, 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.
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Wolves
Jacob Davidson, 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.
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Turnspit
Aimee 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.
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Building memories
Mariam Devadze, 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.
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Best Wishes
Helen Fan, 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.
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It’s All in Your Mind
Deanne Fernandes, 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.
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She Saw Red All Around Her
Clare Hawkinson, 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.
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Grimoire of a Lost Witch
Lily Hipp, 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.
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“Saved by T-shirt! - Mong Kok”
Oi Ying Valerie Ho, 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.
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My Wild Type Collection
Xinyu Hu, 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.
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All This By Which We Are Bound
Anne Irving, 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.
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80064
hyeonsoo jeong, 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.
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100 days for birth
Danielle Kim, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
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.
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The Book of Korean Proverbs
Narin Kim, 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.
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When I’m sad
Emelie Kropp, 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.
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I Went Fishing, and Caught a Shooting Star
Leah Lara, 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.
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Every Shade of Pink On Me
Roy Larmour, 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.
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A or B
Gahyeon (Gabi) Lee, 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.
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The Chronicles of Sameri
Sun Ho Lee, 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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Between Book and People
Youjin (Amy) Lim, 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.
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The Progressive Regression
Yifan Liu, 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.
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Concrete Poetry: a manifesto
Yining Li, 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.
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Raise the Red Lantern
Yuxuan Li, 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.
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Call Me by My Name
Shitong Lyu, 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.
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LOT 12
Nina Martinez, 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.
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Recorded in Fabric
Zoe Maxwell, 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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“Wall Book”
Cole Messinger, 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.
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The Lonesome Rider
Simone Nemes, 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.
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Mo(u)TH
Louis Nishimura, 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.
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Black Gold
Jenni Oughton, 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.
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The Perfect
Qiyang Peng, 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.
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"They'd Kill Us If They Knew": Transgression and the Western
Jessica Perkins, 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.
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Caught in the Canopy
Daniella Pozo, 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.
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Melancholy Nights
Alina Pringle, 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.
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Mamo Na Haloa
Jocelyn Salim, 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.
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The Road Trip
Jules Sharpe, 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.
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ריקודים (dances)
Hili Slav, 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.
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Masquerade
William Tian, 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.
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Category: Teenage Lesbians
Luna Tobar, 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.
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The Sun Never Sets : A Tangerine’s Journey to the West
Govind Uberoy, 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.
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Survive
Haeun Um, 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.