On (2006)

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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Matafunctional/MetaFictional Objects

Paolo Cardini
Annunciations - Figuring the Feminine in Renaissance Art

John M. Carvalho

Viewers of Renaissance representations of the Annunciation miss an important irony. Where Mary is figured as unimpressed by Gabriel's proposal, she is upholding a masculinist ideal of female virtue. Where she is figured as delighted by the news, she represents an alternative feminine ideal that continues to be attractive to women and feminists, today. Inspired by the writings of Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva, I figure Mary in Renaissance representations of the Annunciation as contesting an ideal of feminine virtue that would deny her sexual difference and deny her pleasure in fulfilling her role as the bride and mother of God.
MLK 2015: Danny Glover foldable origami poster (front)

Center for Social Equity & Inclusion and Student Affairs

2015 MLK Series Keynote, actor, producer and humanitarian Danny Glover speaks on “Creativity and Democracy: Social Change Through the Arts". Poster designed by FAVOR Design & Communications.
Neoplastic therapy : on violence and aesthetics

Mengyu Chen

The goal of this thesis is to create a new theoretical framework to examine and understand the meaning of an art object and its relational social existence. This thesis serves as a critique on contemporary media culture and hierarchical social oppression. At the same time, it adopts a pseudoscientific way to introduce notions of art’s autonomy and its opposition to social functionality. By merging political theories on individualism, capitalism, and metaphysics with foundational structures of art creation, I am attempting to construct a new system of thinking that challenges traditional ways of understanding mediums, functions and the viewer’s relationship with art objects. My thinking links beauty with violence as a necessary attribute to the creation of art. This argument is central to my thesis and to my theoretical framework. This book is also a formula for my own art practice and for being a good human artist. It records and inspires my life long study of aesthetics and of beauty as a metaphysical object.
Please Tell Me More About Myself : brown sugar // not for your consumption

Special Collections and Fleet Library

Cover for Please Tell Me More About Myself : brown sugar // not for your consumption, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
The Bettys : #bettyicon

Special Collections and Fleet Library

Cover for The Bettys : #bettyicon, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
Our dreams will walk on this earth

Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Nicole Acosta

Cover for Our dreams will walk on this earth, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
Mud Season

Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Joe Dery

Cover for Mud Season, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
The psycho-pathologies of modernity: J.G. Ballard's auto[dys]topias : an exercise in "quotation"

Special Collections, Fleet Library, and James Dickinson

Cover for The psycho-pathologies of modernity: J.G. Ballard's auto[dys]topias : an exercise in "quotation", from the RISD Zine Collection.
Picking Bones

Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Keet Geniza

Cover for Picking Bones, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
Picking Bones

Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Keet Geniza

Cover for Picking Bones, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
Art Life. Don't Quit Yr Day Job!

Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Nia King

Cover for Art Life. Don't Quit Yr Day Job!, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
Secondhand Emotion : a zine about love, anxiety, gender, race, and feelings

Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Cassandra L.

Cover for Secondhand Emotion : a zine about love, anxiety, gender, race, and feelings, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
Secondhand Emotion : navigating the politics of attraction in late capitalism through a nihilistic feminist lens

Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Cassandra L.

Cover for Secondhand Emotion : navigating the politics of attraction in late capitalism through a nihilistic feminist lens, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
A Truthagandist Primer : Effective and Informative Distribution for Activists

Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Sage Liskey

Cover for A Truthagandist Primer : Effective and Informative Distribution for Activists, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
The Long Hot Summer

Special Collections, Fleet Library, Esther Lui, and Priscilla Boatwright

Cover for The Long Hot Summer, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
Unintended Bookmarks : a collection of lost items (and other library related etceteras)

Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Naomi

Cover for Unintended Bookmarks : a collection of lost items (and other library related etceteras), from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
Peter Nicholson's Providence

Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Peter Nicholson

Cover for Peter Nicholson's Providence, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
In My Room : Raymond Pettibon interview

Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Raymond Pettibon

Cover for In My Room : Raymond Pettibon interview, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
Brown People for Black Power : On Confronting Anti-Blackness in our Communities

Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Brown and Proud Press

Cover for Brown People for Black Power : On Confronting Anti-Blackness in our Communities, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
Everything's Fine : And On And On

Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Anna Sellheim

Cover for Everything's Fine : And On And On, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
Publishing 'Zines for Prisoners : An Interview with Anthony Rayson

Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Temporary Services

Cover for Publishing 'Zines for Prisoners : An Interview with Anthony Rayson, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
Suggestions

Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Kelsey Smith

Cover for Suggestions, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
Providence Comics Consortium Cards

Special Collections, Fleet Library, and The Comics Consortium

Cover for Providence Comics Consortium Cards, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
Goda : Half-A-Comic About Some Different Birth Control Experiences I Have Had

Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Goda Trakumite

Cover for Goda : Half-A-Comic About Some Different Birth Control Experiences I Have Had, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.