On was an interdisciplinary graduate periodical established by RISD graduate students in 2006. It featured essays and student work that related to a general issue theme. On was intended as a quarterly publication, but it is unclear if further issues beyond the first were ever published.
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5th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2019
Special Collections and Fleet Library
Call for entries poster for the 5th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2019.
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5th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest Exhibition and Opening Reception 2019
Special Collections and Fleet Library
Exhibition and Opening Reception poster for the 5th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest.
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RISD Zine Collection Launch & Opening Reception
Special Collections and Fleet Library
Jan. 30th, 2019, 6:30pm
RISD Library, 15 Westminster St., Picture Collection, 2nd Floor. Free and open to the public.
The RISD Library ZINE COLLECTION launch celebration & Rolling Egg event with special guest Jacob Berendes, creator of Rolling Egg & Mother News and a tour of the new Zine Collection!
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A Place Here Vol. 2: Thoughts and Recipes for the Growing Season
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Beth Brown Ables
Cover for A Place Here Vol. 2: Thoughts and Recipes for the Growing Season, from the RISD Zine Collection.
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What Tolokonikkova Told Me: Notes from Read & Riot, a Pussy Riot Guide to Activism
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Nike Desis
Cover for What Tolokonikkova Told Me: Notes from Read & Riot, a Pussy Riot Guide to Activism, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Names Carved into Aspen Trees by Sheepherders, Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Alex Lukas
Cover for Names Carved into Aspen Trees by Sheepherders, Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Names Written in Soot on the Ceiling of Gothic Avenue, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Alex Lukas
Cover for Names Written in Soot on the Ceiling of Gothic Avenue, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Song of My Father, Silence of My Father
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Frederick Moe
Cover for Song of My Father, Silence of My Father, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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One Cabin Twice
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Nathan Pearce
Cover for One Cabin Twice, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Fiancé cove. Episode one, Synonyms for Passion
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Marc Pearson
Cover for Fiancé cove. Episode one, Synonyms for passion , from the RISD Zine Collection.
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Otherwise : on reconnecting to life, facing the climate crisis, and shaping the future
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Emma Lucille Percy
Cover for Otherwise : on reconnecting to life, facing the climate crisis, and shaping the future , from the RISD Zine Collection.
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State of Mind : an exploration on emotions (experienced by those with mental illness)
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Reflective Zines
Cover for State of Mind : an exploration on emotions (experienced by those with mental illness), from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Do You Speak Sencond Gen?
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Sophie Wang
Cover for Do You Speak Sencond Gen?, from the RISD Zine Collection.
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Snow Monkeys
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Meghan Whitmarsh
Cover for Snow Monkeys, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Tell me about a class at RISD : classroom experiences of multilingual, international Graduate students at the Rhode Island School of Design
Madeline Conley
This thesis explores the experiences of multilingual, international graduate students at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Through interviews with eight international and multilingual graduate students from different RISD departments, the researcher asks students to identify what helps and hinders their learning. The author situates interviewee responses in the context of scholarly literature that examines the experiences and predicted challenges faced by multilingual international students enrolled in art and design schools and more broadly in higher education. Further, this thesis’ research questions are examined within the complexities of and ongoing conversations about creating a more equitable and inclusive RISD and the potential of its recently adopted Social Equity and Inclusion initiative. The emergent themes that surfaced from the literature review and the interviews are used not only to raise questions about the nature of the students’ experiences, expectations and the challenges they faced, but in doing so to suggest broader implications for teaching and learning at RISD and beyond.
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Contesting Borders: Interchanges Between Uncredentialed Artists and American Vanguards
Lynne Cooke, Academic Affairs, Graduate Studies, Liberal Arts, Fine Arts Division, and Theory & History of Art & Design Department
Since the last century, the relationship between vanguard and self-taught artists has been defined by contradiction. The established art world has been quick to make clear distinctions between trained and untrained artists, yet at the same time it has been fascinated by outliers whom it draws selectively and intermittently into its orbits. Curator Lynne Cooke explores shifting conceptualizations of the American outlier across the twentieth century. She reveals how these distinctions have been freighted with a particularly American point of view as she investigates our assumptions about creativity, artistic practice, and the role of the artist in contemporary culture.
Lynne Cooke is the Senior Curator for Special Projects in Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, where she recently curated “Outliers and American Vanguard Art.” Prior to her present position, she was the deputy director and chief curator at the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, and the curator at the Dia Art Foundation. Cooke has taught and lectured regularly at the University College London, Syracuse University, Yale University, Columbia University, and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. She was a co-curator of the Venice Biennale in 1986, the Carnegie International in 1991, and was artistic director of the Biennale of Sydney in 1996.
Dr. Cooke established herself during the mid-80s as a writer on contemporary artists of the period, including British sculptors Anish Kapoor and Bill Woodrow, and American artist Allan McCollum. During her years at Dia, Cooke organized a number of exhibitions of younger American women artists and worked to bring greater recognition to women artists who contributed to the minimalist period; she also organized significant exhibitions aimed at introducing European artists of the 1980s to the American public.
Cooke has curated exhibitions at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Whitechapel Art Gallery and Hayward Gallery, London; Third Eye Center, Glasgow; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Tamayo Museum, Mexico; and elsewhere. In 2006, she was the recipient of the Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and in 2007, she co-curated the exhibition “Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years,” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has written widely about contemporary art in exhibition catalogues and in Artforum, Artscribe, The Burlington Magazine, and Parkett, among other magazines.
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Sea Change Complete Set Edition
Anne Covell, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
2 volumes : color maps. Artist book complete set edition consisting of 2 limited edition works also sold separately. Cased in open cardboard folder. Both volumes signed by their creator[s]: Artist book signed by Ellen Knudson and Anne Covell; Catastrophe map building set signed by Anne Covell. Responsibility statement from colophons. "2019 artist's book edition from the Marjorie S. Coffey Library Endowment Residency at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida." --Colophons. "Letterpress printed from photopolymer plates by Boxcar Press on an SP-15 Vandercook Proof Press in the UF School of Art + Art History Type Shop on Somerset Velvet and Masa papers. The map layers were cut by hand and attached with wheat paste in the Sanborn "pasters" tradition and was co-produced by Anne Covell and Ellen Knudson, Associate in Book Arts, University of Florida."-- Colophon of artist book [Volume 1]. Sea change [artist book] -- [volume 2]. Sea change : Catastrophe map building set. "The system of mapping used in this edition was inspired by research and study of the print holdings of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Florida in the Map & Imagery Library, most notably Miami, vol.1, 1923 containing a record of 28 paper corrections dating from 1928-1950. Originally created to allow fire insurance companies to access risk and liability to urbanized areas within the United States, these maps were published in volumes that were bound and corrected by "pasters" who were employed to cut and glue over outdated maps until a new volume was produced.. Sea Change has adapted this system of mapping as a form of catastrophe modeling for projecting sea level rise on the Florida peninsula if action is not taken to combat climate change. The map images were drawn from worst case scenario predictions from the NOAA Sea Level Rise Viewer (https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/) --Colophons. Onion skin binding (originally developed by Benjamin Elbel) Library has copy 3 of 25 of Sea Change & copy 3 of 15 of Catastrophe map building set NCSS Collection.
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The social life of working waterfronts : strategies for renewing the social value of productive harbors
Evan Davenport
The Social Life of Working Waterfronts is an independent thesis project that envisions the expanded role of an urban waterfront as a landscape for both industry and everyday life. The project calls for new synergies between public and private stakeholders to challenge the cultural perception of industrial landscapes and renew social and ecological value of productive harbors. By integrating industrial processes with civic life, working waterfronts can begin to operate mutually for industrial and societal needs. This proposal aims to establish spatial and systemic commons between a declining city and its thriving commercial fishing port by engaging and celebrating the City’s identity as a working maritime community. New and adaptive forms of public-private relationships can begin to restore civic ownership of the harbor as a hybridized urban-industrial system. Grounded at the intersection of built and natural systems, landscape architects have the ability to mediate the complexities embedded in these urban landscape typologies and engage the various scales of cultural and physical production.
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Dismantling Bodies: The War on Terror, and the Wound Aesthetic of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000-2015)
Christopher J. Davies
This paper interrogates the aesthetic signature of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000-2015). Utilizing a selection of representative episodes airing during George W. Bush’s first term, I analyze how CSI mobilizes a particular aesthetic of wounding in which wound sites, bodily and geographic, may be understood to serve as vulnerable apertures through which underlying threads of critical engagement with the direction of the 9/11 discourse may be aspirated from within the body of the text. Specifically, I approach the wound sites of CSI as sources of war-on-terror critique that serve political double-duty. On the one hand, CSI’s injury-centric narratives and accompanying wound aesthetic provide a canvas against which the traumatizing realities of 9/11 could be mediated and moderated for a newly death-anxious audience. On the other hand, the wound aesthetic ironically provides a recuperative narrative about the state’s ability to respond to political violence and prosecute its perpetrators.
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Trustom Pond Lily Pads with Frog
Donna DeForbes and Fleet Library
Photo from RISD CE Landscape Photography course.
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The Afronauts
Cristina de Middel, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
88 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, facsimiles. Title from spine, and page [2] of cover. Publication information from colophon. [3rd] Edition of 1000 copies. First published 2012 ; 2nd edition 2016. Photobook by Cristina De Middel inspired by the short-lived Zambia space program started by school teacher Edward Makuka Nkoloso in 1964. Bound photobook of digital prints, with inserts including a map, artwork, letters, reproductions of vintage photographs and newspaper article. Some of the inserts are single and double gate-fold sheets printed on one side of translucent paper.
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Urban acupuncture : can the deliberate use of tactical interventions reinvigorate informal settlements?
Robert Samir Diaz Vicente
Due to the rapid development of informal settlements, essential urban conditions such as public spaces, infrastructure, and amiable living conditions are lacking from the urban context. These hyperly urban communities lack an overall organizational strategy that preserve their successes i.e. human scale, community interrelations, hyper functionality while addressing its downfalls organic chaotic growth and lack of general systems.
Conventional design and planning used in “formal’ urban spaces focus on long lasting strokes of urbanisation, this means that the built geography moves slow, and are designed for this slow pace changing. Informal Settlements are dynamic and perpetually rearranging themselves to suit the needs of the user/s. This calls for informal methods of tactics that address issues such as the relationship between public space, and the existing housing counterpart, waste collection, essential programmatic gaps, energy production, and water management in ways that does not involve removing, cutting or clearing.
Therefore it is necessary to have an alternative mode of intervention that introduces new tactics of addressing informal settlements problematiques. The goal is to improve living conditions for the occupants, while still maintaining the experiential essense of the urban fabric within the settlement itself. These interventions would be small in scale, and will start a conversation pertaining to space activation within the informal fabric, and would redefine the language of current spaces.
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Judith Maloney with Karen Idoine at a party 2019
Experimental and Foundation Studies Division and Judith Maloney
