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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Romantic | The Seduction of Touch Transfers Flag 8 (detail), Trend Fall / Winter 2015/16
Swarovski, Visual + Material Resources, and RISD Color Lab
These unique volumes of textile flags featuring Swarovski crystals were gifted to the Visual and Material Resource Center in 2017 from a local jewelry supplier. Twenty-four volumes dating from 2004-20017, they are a visual feast of color and texture created by individual artisans. Complete volumes may be viewed in the Visual and Material Resource Center, Fleet Library, second floor of 15 Westminster St, Providence, RI.
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Mealspace : beyond the table
Lauren Tedeschi
This is a chronicle of a tableware enthusiast who set out to share her ideas by designing for the everyday eater. The quest began with questioning what an ideal meal experience is and why it revolves around a static, flat table. What are the aspects of present-day eating scenarios that could be improved upon? I considered the conventions of dining, studying traditional forms, materials and spaces related to this practice, and proposed new ways of eating. I designed props for establishing a new kind of mealspace, the objects and events paired together as performances. Each project or act is documented here as an entity in itself and as a catalyst for the next experiment. This book could be flipped through like an encyclopedia or viewed from beginning to end. The work illustrates alternately different approaches of how eating could be. My investigations revealed no singular answer but rather a wider understanding of what enjoyment looks like beyond the table and beyond food itself. Eating is about creating a space, one that can be entered — only then can one experience a meal.
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Alumni Address | Kara Walker | RISD Inauguration
Kara Walker
Kara Walker’s alumni address. The Inauguration of Rosanne Somerson, RISD’s 17th President. October 9, 2015 | Providence, Rhode Island
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Kindred: Alone, Beside, and Among
Kelly Walters
The purpose of the exhibition is to explore issues of identity and race among
African-American artists and designers at RISD. We hope to connect the RISD
community to prints, photographs, sculptures, and corresponding audio/video of
students talking about their experience. The exhibit space will use performance as
a catalyst to start meaningful dialogue and foster connections across campus. We
see this as a platform to fully engage the RISD community, staff, faculty, and
students in a conversation about the cultural context of their work. In our
respective disciplines we are both exploring topics of race and racism and
provoking conversations on difficult subject matter. Tia is conducting historical
research that investigates racial tropes within seventeenth- and eighteenth-century
Providence that are still germane today. Kelly is unearthing historical artifacts
throughout American history as a way to better understand her own culture.
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Collection 14
Poster for the 2014 student Apparel Design Department runway show held at the RI Convention Center. (back)
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Collection 14
Poster for the 2014 student Apparel Design Department runway show held at the RI Convention Center. (front)
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Film / Animation / Video Senior Show 2014
RISD Archives and Film, Animation & Video Department
The poster documents the 2014 Film Animation Video Senior Show held in the RISD Auditorium during the 2014 spring semester.
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SHOW TELL / TELL SHOW: A Half-day of Events on the Subject of Exphrasis
Center for Arts and Language
Poster for SHOW TELL / TELL SHOW, Thursday, February 6, 2014, Metcalf Auditorium. Panel discussions feature writers influenced by visual art and artists influenced by literature, or whose practice blurs the distinctions between word and meaning, image and matter. Student Exhibition and reading feature objects and texts by student's in Sam Leader's Wintersession course "Exphrasis and its Reverse: Writing from Art, Art from Writing". Co-sponsored by the Academic Commons Program and the Writing Center.
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The RISD Global Classroom: Conversations Among Students and Faculty
Center for Arts and Language and Office of International Student Services
Poster for The RISD Global Classroom panel discussion and Q & A, Tuesday, February 25, 2014 in the Chace Center auditorium. This panel discussion—featuring two RISD faculty members, three current students, and one alum—will explore multiple perspectives, opportunities, and challenges related to RISD’s rich global learning on campus, online, and in the world. Panelists Farah Abdelhamid (J&M ’15), Agustina Bello (Textiles ’13), Eduardo Duarte (Assistant Professor, Intar), Ryan Mather (ID ’15), Mingfei Song (Intar, ’14), and Kevin Zucker (Associate Professor, Painting) will discuss topics including global internship experiences, American academic experiences in a global context, global online education, and the impact of international education on art and design careers. Organized by The Writing Center, Global Partners & Programs, and the Office of International Student Services as part of Academic Affairs’ year-long “Mapping Learning” series.
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Visionaire 64: Art John Baldessari Blue Edition Samsung Galaxy
John Baldessari, Samsung Galaxy, Stephan Gan, Cecilia Dean, and James Kaliardos
10 leaves of color plates : portraits + 1 case Title, statement of responsibility, limited edition statement, and sponsor name from top of case. "Editors Stephen Gan, Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos; creative direction, cover design Greg Foley"--Accompanying sheet Ten black and white self-portraits ("selfies") taken by celebrities, with embossed color additions by John Baldessari
"For 64 ART, Visionaire collaborates with legendary conceptual artist JOHN BALDESSARI. The issue is divided into 3 editions: Red, Green, and Blue. Each edition contains 10 loose 12X18 inch black & white portraits with embossed color interventions by John Baldessari. Sold separately in a limited quantity of 500 numbered copies. The case converts into a horizontal or vertical display using the built-in foldout stand. The Blue edition features Lupita Nyong’o, Ai Weiwei, Kate Upton, Dustin Hoffman, Psy, Kirsten Dunst, Kate & Laura Mulleavy with Catherine Opie, Cameron Diaz, Michael Stipe and KAWS. 64 ART exploits the current ease of digital and emailable self-portraits with the time-honored craftsmanship of printmaking. Created in partnership with Samsung." -- publsiher's website https://visionaireworld.com
Edition of 500 copies. Library has copy no. 6. Gift of Gregory E. Foley, RISD Alumnus, AP 1991.
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Visionaire 64: Art John Baldessari Green Edition Samsung Galaxy
John Baldessari, Samsung Galaxy, Stephan Gan, Cecilia Dean, and James Kaliardos
10 leaves of color plates : portraits + 1 case Title, statement of responsibility, limited edition statement, and sponsor name from top of case. "Editors Stephen Gan, Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos; creative direction, cover design Greg Foley"--Accompanying sheet Ten black and white self-portraits ("selfies") taken by celebrities, with embossed color additions by John Baldessari One of the portraits is listed as being taken by someone other than the subject.
"For 64 ART, Visionaire collaborates with legendary conceptual artist JOHN BALDESSARI. The issue is divided into 3 editions: Red, Green, and Blue. Each edition contains 10 loose 12X18 inch black & white portraits with embossed color interventions by John Baldessari. Sold separately in a limited quantity of 500 numbered copies. The case converts into a horizontal or vertical display using the built-in foldout stand. The Green edition features Gisele Bündchen, Maurizio Cattelan, Drake, Julianne Moore, Scarlett Johansson, Bill Cunningham & Antonio Lopez, Neil Patrick Harris, John Waters, Lionel Messi and Yoko Ono. 64 ART exploits the current ease of digital and emailable self-portraits with the time-honored craftsmanship of printmaking. Created in partnership with Samsung." -- publsiher's website https://visionaireworld.com
Edition of 500 copies. Library has copy no. 6. Gift of Gregory E. Foley, RISD Alumnus, AP 1991.
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Visionaire 64: Art John Baldessari Red Edition Samsung Galaxy
John Baldessari, Samsung Galaxy, Stephan Gan, Cecilia Dean, and James Kaliardos
10 leaves of color plates : portraits + 1 case Title, statement of responsibility, limited edition statement, and sponsor name from top of case. "Editors Stephen Gan, Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos; creative direction, cover design Greg Foley"--Accompanying sheet Ten black and white self-portraits ("selfies") taken by celebrities, with embossed color additions by John Baldessari
"For 64 ART, Visionaire collaborates with legendary conceptual artist JOHN BALDESSARI. The issue is divided into 3 editions: Red, Green, and Blue. Each edition contains 10 loose 12X18 inch black & white portraits with embossed color interventions by John Baldessari. Sold separately in a limited quantity of 500 numbered copies. The case converts into a horizontal or vertical display using the built-in foldout stand. The Red edition features James Franco, Miley Cyrus, Marina Abramovic, Ranveer Singh, Yuna Kim, Karlie Kloss, Pedro Almodovar, Drew Barrymore, G-Dragon and Ed Ruscha. Visionaire 64 ART exploits the current ease of digital and emailable self-portraits with the time-honored craftsmanship of printmaking. Created in partnership with Samsung." -- publsiher's website https://visionaireworld.com
Edition of 500 copies. Library has copy no. 6. Gift of Gregory E. Foley, RISD Alumnus, AP 1991.
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Mechanical Reproduction in an Age of High Art
Chris Barker
This paper reopens the question of the place of high art in the period identified by Walter Benjamin as the age of mechanical reproduction. Walter Benjamin, Bruno Latour, and Adam Lowe are wrong to think that mechanical reproduction has transformed the concept of art, destroying the aura of art or transmitting that aura from original to copy. The concept of art cannot be redefined by the modern change in the capacity to reproduce art unless art was initially defined primarily by its uniqueness/nonreproducibility. Photographic reproduction has caused major changes in the visual arts and in the way we consume art, but reproductive techniques have a long, continuous history that includes the production and reproduction of exact, artistic copies.
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A field guide to weeds: with illustrated taxonomy of the most pernicious and troublesome plants
Kim Beck, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 96 unnumbered pages. "Third edition of 1500 copies, 2014."--Title page verso. A Field Guide to Weeds masquerades as a 19th century pocket guide, but a guide in which the weeds themselves have taken over. Becks innovative project uses the physical form of the book as a metaphor for a crack in the city sidewalk: printed in luscious five-color printing, the common dandelion, pigweed, and poison ivythe very plants we ignore, step over, ignore, dig up, or scrupulously avoidcreep out of the gutter, up pages, and overrun the book. Multiple silhouettes overlap and repeat, drawing the readers attention to the overlooked. This third edition features a brown cloth cover and green ribbon marker.--publisher. "Typography and production by Garrick Gott"--Title page verso. Case binding. Offset printing.
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(dis)Functions: Marxist Theories of Architecture and the Avant-garde
Michael Chapman
This paper investigates the relationship between architecture and theories of the avant-garde in the critical projects of the 1970s, with a focus on the theories of Peter Bürger and Manfredo Tafuri. Both Tafuri and Bürger were writing from within the context of a radicalized Marxism and were fueled by an intellectual pessimism towards the totalizing systems of cultural production that questioned the role of resistance in aesthetics and the inability of the historical avant-gardes to engage within the political and economic fields of contemporary society. While there is a common ancestry to these two approaches, and mutual acceptance of the failure of the avant-garde project, the work of Tafuri has had an enduring influence on architectural history and theory, while Bürger’s synchronous work has attracted only a modest amount of scholarly attention in architecture despite its ongoing legacy in art theory and, particularly, within an American context. This paper argues that Bürger’s dialectical approach has a significance for architectural theory and presents a discursive position through which Marxism and architecture can be advanced. Through a detailed reading of these two approaches, the paper attempts to position architecture as a particular strategy of the avant-garde that overshadowed all fields of aesthetic production in the period.
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Together, Building the Sustainable New Economy
Robin Chase, President's Office, Jennifer Prewitt-Freilino, and Andrew Law
A transportation entrepreneur, Chase is the founder of Zipcar, Buzzcar and Veniam Works. She will talk about how we can build a sustainable new economy through collaboration and sharing.
RISD Interim President Rosanne Somerson worked with faculty members to select Chase as the featured guest speaker for the 2014 series. This conversation is co-hosted by Associate Professor of Industrial Design Andrew Law and Assistant Professor of History, Philosophy + Social Sciences Jennifer Prewitt-Freilino.
Chase's presentation,"Together, Building the Sustainable New Economy," will focus on transitioning from the old industrial economy to the new "collaboration economy," which is changing how we work, how we build businesses, and how we use resources. She will explore the future of this economy, with companies partnering with individuals to deliver local, customized, specialized goods—and how, as we confront a challenging future, we build a path towards community and abundance. "RISD is a place where critical makers are inventing the future every day," notes RISD Interim President Rosanne Somerson.
"New tools and methods are enabling bold, inventive ways of working, and systems of production and distribution that reshape our relationship to the world and to 'ownership.' We are thrilled to welcome Robin Chase to campus, to learn more about her leadership role in creating a sustainable new economy, and to hear her thoughts on our emerging culture of cooperation and sharing."
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Politics and Aesthetics: Partitions and Partioning in Contemporary Art
Jonathan Owen Clark and Joao Lima Duque
Jacques Rancière defined the “distribution of the sensible” as the effect of a type of aesthetico-political decision-making that creates a partitioning of the realm of the perceivable in relation to both art and society. The artworld itself constructs its own particular types of curatorial partitioning: between “art” and “non-art,” between “dominant, residual, and emergent,” and between “mainstream” and “periphery.” This essay examines certain “boundary effects” that develop as a result of the act of the partitioning itself and closely examines what arguably are two new categories in contemporary art: “crossover” and “interventionist.” Both categories have a certain relationship to a culturally constructed boundary or partition. In the former, we see a type of artwork emerge that is the result of the overdetermination of the partition itself. In the latter, artworks appear that are antinomically situated at both sides of a partition simultaneously.
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Please Tell Me More About Myself : The Dating & Relationship Issue
Special Collections and Fleet Library
Cover for Please Tell Me More About Myself : The Dating & Relationship Issue, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Moon : 16 Stories, Myths, and Comics about the Moon by 16 Authors
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Joseph Carlough
Cover for Moon : 16 Stories, Myths, and Comics about the Moon by 16 Authors, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Against Competition
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Marc Fischer
Cover for Against Competition, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
