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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Solaris Fancy Stones & Flat Backs, Sweet Heart Fancy Stones, Trilliant Fancy Stones, Dome Beads Large & Small, Crystal Coin Pearl, Xilion Triangle Pendants, Urban Pendants, Clover Pendants, Chessboard Sew-On Stones, Heart Crystal Buttons Trends Fall / Winter 2014/15
Swarovski, Visual + Material Resources, and Fleet Library
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Star Flat Backs, Crystal Fabric New Effects, Crystal Rocks & Crystal Fine Rocks New Effects, Crystaltex Chaton Banding (Honeycomb), Brilliant Zipper, Rhombus & Chessboard Pins, Rose Gold Plating For Cupchains & Findings, Catch-Free Cupchain Innovation Flag 3, Trends Fall / Winter 2014/15
Swarovski, Visual + Material Resources, and Fleet Library
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Star Flat Backs, Crystal Fabric New Effects, Crystal Rocks & Crystal Fine Rocks New Effects, Crystaltex Chaton Banding (Honeycomb), Brilliant Zipper, Rhombus & Chessboard Pins, Rose Gold Plating For Cupchains & Findings, Catch-Free CupchainInnovation Flag, Trends Fall / Winter 2014/15
Swarovski, Visual + Material Resources, and Fleet Library
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Star Flat Backs, Crystal Fabric New Effects, Crystal Rocks & Crystal Fine Rocks New Effects, Crystaltex Chaton Banding (Honeycomb), Brilliant Zipper, Rhombus & Chessboard Pins, Rose Gold Plating For Cupchains & Findings, Catch-Free Cupchain, Trends Fall / Winter 2014/15
Swarovski, Visual + Material Resources, and Fleet Library
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Glamour | Demure Decadence Components Flag 11 (detail), Trend Fall / Winter 2014/15
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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Glamour | Demure Decadence Components Flag 11 (detail), Trend Fall / Winter 2014/15
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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Glamour | Demure Decadence Components Flag 11 (detail), Trend Fall / Winter 2014/15
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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Smell and Anosmia in the Aesthetic: Appreciation of Gardens
Marta Tafalla
In his Critique of the Power of Judgment, Kant defined the garden as a visual art and considered that smell plays no role in its aesthetic appreciation. If the Kantian thesis were right, then a person who has no sense of smell (who suffers from anosmia) would not be impaired in his or her aesthetic appreciation of gardens. At the same time, a visually impaired person could not appreciate the beauty of gardens, although he or she could perceive them through hearing, smell, taste, and touch. In this paper I discuss the role of smell and anosmia in the aesthetic appreciation of gardens. I accept the Kantian idea that the appreciation of a garden is the appreciation of its form, but I also defend that, at least in some cases, smell can belong to the form of gardens and, consequently, the ability or inability to smell influences their aesthetic appreciation.
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New Horizons
Bruno van den Elshout, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
212 pages : all color illustrations. Title from case. Edition of 2012 numbered copies. Flatbook. Issued in paper wrapper and slipcase. Book design: Rob van Hoesel. On New Years Eve 2011 artist Bruno van den Elshout launches his camera-machine on the roof of a hotel on the beach in The Hague (NL). His goal is to capture the North Sea-horizon one year round. The camera-machine takes a picture of the horizon once every hour of 2012. That is 8,785 images. When these images start to arrive from the machine, the horizon suddenly reveals his surprisingly overwhelming appearance. Gray, grim, ordinary, or wild, waving, with skies reminiscent of The Hague School paintings in the late 19th century. Sometimes tranquil misty, unreal calm or bombastically colorful. The result is an incredibly surprising collection of images.
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Material Potential | Recontextualizing Material Libraries
Diana Wagner
Material libraries are growing resources that offer an opportunity for artists and designers to discover a variety of materials. These collections are composed in a traditional taxonomy, pairing materials based on composition. Samples are typically commercially made and are displayed independent of context, means of production, cultural significance, and application.
Through making we learn a material’s potential: the transformation it can make, the form it can take, and the new composites we can create. This generative experience lives in the studio and workshop. But how can we introduce this language of process, critical thinking, and making to activate and challenge a material—and a maker’s—potential within the context of the library?
In an effort to gather a response to this consideration for material potential within a material library, I conducted a series of interaction- and experience-based surveys to collect the emotional, associative, and logical qualities of materials.
I have translated this research into a discursive method for navigating the traditional taxonomy Material Potential | Abstract and linear structure of a material library. This tool challenges the visitor to collect, arrange, and annotate their own collection and classification of materials based on a series of prompts that draw attention to materials’ aesthetic, ephemeral, and ontological qualities.
The way we place objects in an arrangement generates a dialogue between materials in terms of their qualities, components, and process that parallels the way we view and discuss works of art and design in the studio, museum, or through user interaction. Introducing this new material rhetoric—juxtaposed against the static structure of the material library—recontextualizes a material’s potential and provides a foundation for the infinite arrangements, associations, and applications.
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Kindred (exhibition catalog)
Kelly Walters and Tia Blassingame
Kindred presents a selection of art and design work from artists who identify as being of African descent. The assembled graduate, undergraduate, and alumni students are among the 83 students on the RISD campus who share this African ancestry. The artists featured in the show demonstrate a cross section of ethnic affiliations which include Black, African- American, African American-European, Haitian, Trinidadian-Puerto Rican, Jamaican-Japanese, Caribbean-Filipino, Guinean-American, Nigerian-American, and Swedish-Ugandan. Students hail from the following departments: Apparel Design, Film/Animation/Video, Furniture Design, Glass, Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Painting, Photography, and Printmaking. The students work in and outside their formal disciplines to highlight the complexities of race, identity politics, gender stereotypes, homosexuality, religious freedom, Afro-futurism and the connections between nature, physical objects and the human condition.
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Sonnet 130
Ran Zheng, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
Undergraduate student. Year of Graduation: 2017. Major: Illustration. Class: Design. Faculty: Masha Ryskin.
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Sonnet 130
Ran Zheng, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
Undergraduate student. Year of Graduation: 2017. Major: Illustration. Class: Design. Faculty: Masha Ryskin.
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Sonnet 130
Ran Zheng, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
Undergraduate student. Year of Graduation: 2017. Major: Illustration. Class: Design. Faculty: Masha Ryskin.
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A Department of the Relationship of Ideas and Problems: An Attempt to Grasp the History and State of Interdisciplinary Study in the Undergraduate Fine Arts Curriculum at RISD
Kevin Zucker
Kevin’s project investigated how RISD’s fine arts curricula currently do and might better reflect the interdisciplinary realities of art production and reception. He interviewed faculty, students, and deans and conducted extensive archival research to create a series of case studies and highlight key issues, obstacles, and opportunities. He began by asking: “What existing courses in the undergraduate fine arts curricula aim to foster an interdisciplinary conversation similar to that taking place outside of academia? What existing courses offer possibilities for fostering this conversation? Which interdisciplinary efforts have stuck, which have fallen by the wayside, and why? What are the opportunities (and limitations) in existing models like concentrations, double- majors, ISPs, and CSPs? What points of curricular flexibility are common to multiple departments and therefore offer potential for integrated curriculum? Are there models within our graduate fine arts programs at RISD that could inform the undergrad curriculum?” His extensive responses fall into distinct categories and offer both an extensive survey of past efforts to foster interdisciplinary student and a wide range of possibilities for moving ahead.
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Common Knowledge
Hal Abelson, President's Office, Shona Kitchen, and Kevin Zucker
In the age of information, universities should be at the forefront of preserving and strengthening our information commons—the shared wellspring of ideas and innovation from which everyone may draw.
Faculty co-hosts: Shona Kitchen (Digital +Media) + Kevin Zucker (Painting)
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Concoctions 6: The Spice Series
Islam Aly, 23 Sandy Gallery, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
16 unnumbered pages. Unique Artist Book. Signed and dated on page [3] of cover. Flag accordion binding, handmade flax paper. Book extends out to 25 inches. Whole spices are part of the handmade paper. Spices have always been known for enhancing flavor and aroma. However, which kind of spices needed, when to add them, and in what quantities? This process is similar to preparing fiber and producing paper by hand. In my spice series, I wanted to document the spices we use at home in Egypt. In addition, I wanted to show how these spices appeal to the five senses in a book that have a unique touch and smell. I use different spices and herbs such as: black pepper, clover, cardamom, and coriander, anise, and hibiscus. Each spice reminds me of a memory: my mother's cooking, walking through the old streets of Cairo, drinking herbal tea in cold winters and sharing food with family and friends. I document these experiences and give the audience the opportunity to reflect on their own experiences when viewers smell, touch and see the pages of the book.--23 Sandy Gallery.
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Film Animation Video Senior Show 2013
RISD Archives and Film, Animation & Video Department
The poster documents the 2013 Film Animation Video Senior Show held in the RISD Auditorium during the 2013 spring semester.
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Beyond RISD | David Stark
RISD Careers and David Stark
Over-the-top event designer David Stark, Painting class of 1991, visited RISD on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 as the next speaker in the Career Center’s new series exploring the variety of paths alumni choose after RISD.
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MLK 2013: Harry Belafonte
Center for Social Equity & Inclusion and Student Affairs
2013 MLK Keynote award-winning artist and social activist Harry Belafonte discusses the role of "Artist activist". Poster designed by FAVOR Design & Communications.
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MLK 2013: Harry Belafonte
Center for Social Equity & Inclusion and Student Affairs
2013 MLK Keynote award-winning artist and social activist Harry Belafonte discusses the role of "Artist activist". Poster designed by FAVOR Design & Communications.
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MLK 2013: Harry Belafonte
Center for Social Equity & Inclusion and Student Affairs
2013 MLK Keynote award-winning artist and social activist Harry Belafonte discusses the role of "Artist activist". Poster designed by FAVOR Design & Communications.
