This collection includes all of the student newspapers currently uploaded by the Archives in reverse chronological order. For issues of individual student publications, please visit the Student Newspapers homepage. Higher resolution scans and the physical documents can be requested by contacting the Archives.
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Blockprint January 15, 1964
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The January 15, 1964 issue is the first of the year and features articles on the appointment of Martha Paisner as Associate Dean of Students, a tution increase, Take-A-Break Weekend, the renaming of the Textile Building to the Jesse Metcalf Building, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Blockprint December 16, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The December 16, 1963 issue is a literary supplement and features advertisements for sophomore weekend at RISD featuring John Hammond, an essay on Mondrian, poetry, drawings, photographs, and creative writing.
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Blockprint December 11, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The December 11, 1963 issue features articles on the dedication of the "Orpheus Ascending" scuplture on Benefit Street, Sophomore weekend, women's shrinking waistlines, the European Honors Program, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Blockprint November 27, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 27, 1963 issue features a memorial cover to the recently assassinated John F. Kennedy and articles on the hiring of set designer Stuart Bishop, a visit from the Non Ferrous Society of New England, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Blockprint November 20, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 20, 1963 issue features articles on George Wallace's visit to Providence, a forum with a cith planner, the dedication of the "Orpheus Ascending" fountain on Benefit St., the Take-A-Break variety show, a review of "Hiroshima, Mon Amour," student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Blockprint November 13, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 13, 1963 issue features articles on a press conference from visiting Alabama Governor and noted segregationist George Wallace, the student council, the gardens of Rome, the function of the university, the junior class dance, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Blockprint November 6, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 6, 1963 issue features articles on a Ceramics Club lecture by Shoji Hamada, the creation of the National Arts Foundation, an Industrial Design Society lecture on yoga philosophy, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Blockprint October 30, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 30, 1963 issue features articles on a RISD Museum lecture on Gilbert Stuart, the Designers in Drama's upcoming production of "Lady Windermere's Fan," a RISD Museum exhibit on theater design, a junior class dance, a program on the atomic bomb, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Blockprint October 23, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 23, 1963 issue features articles on a reent Board of Trustees meeting, a student council meeting, and new building rules.
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Blockprint October 16, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 16, 1963 issue features articles on an art sale at the RISD Museum, a RISD Museum accession, federal aid to the arts, the Northern Students Movement, faculty appointments to the European Honors Program, the student council, RISD students' new dress shop in Providence, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Blockprint October 9, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 9, 1963 issue features articles on a student center, an NAACP membershpi drive, Designers in Drama auditions, a study abroad experience in Germany, the European Honors Program, a student death, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Blockprint October 2, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 2, 1963 issue features articles on a local concert by Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, and the Foggy Mountain Boys; the International Association; the refectory; a new RISD Museum exhibit on Tuscan painters; a film review of Fellini's 8 1/2; a construction project on Benefit Street; the March on Washington; student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Blockprint September 25, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The September 25, 1963 issue features a new layout and articles on convocation, club night, a new Sophomore Design course, a local meeting of the NAACP, movie screenings at the RISD Museum, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Blockprint September 18, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The September 18, 1963 issue is the first of the school year and features articles on faculty appointments, a new exhibit at the RISD Museum, an award-winning industrial design from a RISD student, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Blockprint May 22, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The May 22, 1963 issue is the last of the school year and features articles on new faculty appointments, faculty awards, the student council, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing, including a spoof last page.
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Blockprint May 15, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The May 15, 1963 issue features articles on the sailing team, a grant to expand the European Honors Program, a convocation lecture by Dr. Albert M. Bork, the apparel design department's Collection '63, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Blockprint May 8, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The May 8, 1963 issue features articles on a series of lectures on the relationship between art and science, the sailing team, the Architectural Society, a concert by Josh White, the RISD motorcycle club, a lecture by filmmaker Jonas Mekas, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Spectrum May 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from 1963 includes essays by RISD students that examine theories on art and artists, presented alongside an excerpt from Paul Klee's "The Concept of Analysis." The issue also contains artwork by RISD students, and inspirational quotations about creativity. Contributors include Asher Derman, Robert Gotsch, Loren Kerst, Bill Foster, Bix Lye, Henry Adler, Ilse Buchert, Carolyn Voigt, Ann Armstrong Meyer, James Baker, and Norman Laliberte.
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Blockprint May 1, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The May 1, 1963 issue features articles on the death of professor Albert E. Simonson, a lecture from a German design professor, Ceramics Club news, the RISD Museum's exhibit on Spanish art, The Maltese Falcon, Designers in Drama's production of The Rape of the Belt, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Blockprint April 24, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The April 24, 1963 issue features articles on an upcoming concert by Miriam Makeba, a RISD Museum lecture on the School of Seville, faculty appointments, industrial design, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Blockprint April 17, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The April 17, 1963 issue features articles on a RISD Museum exhibit on Spanish artists, Parents' Day, student council elections, an arts symposium at Princeton, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Blockprint March 27, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 27, 1963 issue features articles on RISD President Albert Bush-Brown's inauguration, an orchestra concert at Brown, film screenings and reviews, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Blockprint March 20, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 20, 1963 issue features articles on RISD President Albert Bush-Brown's inauguration, faculty promotions, the dormitories, Gabor Peterdi's crit, a lecture by Charles Eames, the screening of new wave films, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Blockprint March 13, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 13, 1963 issue features articles on RISD President Albert Bush-Brown's inauguration, a faculty appointment, the student council, an exhibit of illustration students' work, the RISD basketball team, a concert by Claudio Arrau, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.
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Blockprint March 6, 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 6, 1963 issue features articles on visiting critic Gabor Peterdi, a faculty exhibition at the RISD Museum, a lecture on structural engineering, a contemporary art exhibit at the Providence Art Club and Brown, the student union proposal, dormitories, an illustration field trip, a Japanese design exhibit at the RISD Museum, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.