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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New Gem Colors on Crystal Pearls, Crystal Pearl Rivets, Crystal Pearl Buttons & Cabochons Hotfix, Chessboard Family Snap Fasteners, Decorative & Jeans Buttons, Rivets, Crystal Mesh Balls, Mini Rondelles Innovation Flag, Trends Spring / Summer 2013
Swarovski, Visual + Material Resources, and Fleet Library
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New Gem Colors on Crystal Pearls, Crystal Pearl Rivets, Crystal Pearl Buttons & Cabochons Hotfix, Chessboard Family Snap Fasteners, Decorative & Jeans Buttons, Rivets, Crystal Mesh Balls, Mini Rondelles, Trends Spring / Summer 2013
Swarovski, Visual + Material Resources, and Fleet Library
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Wave Family Flat Back, Bead & Pendant, Rhombus Flat Back Hotfix, Dufflecoat Crystal Button, Rivoli Fancy Stones, Shell Fancy Stone, Organic Oval Fancy Stone, Column Beads, Ellipse Pendant Flag 2, Trends Spring / Summer 2013
Swarovski, Visual + Material Resources, and Fleet Library
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Wave Family Flat Back, Bead & Pendant, Rhombus Flat Back Hotfix, Dufflecoat Crystal Button, Rivoli Fancy Stones, Shell Fancy Stone, Organic Oval Fancy Stone, Column Beads, Ellipse Pendant Innovation Flag, Trends Spring / Summer 2013
Swarovski, Visual + Material Resources, and Fleet Library
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Wave Family Flat Back, Bead & Pendant, Rhombus Flat Back Hotfix, Dufflecoat Crystal Button, Rivoli Fancy Stones, Shell Fancy Stone, Organic Oval Fancy Stone, Column Beads, Ellipse Pendant, Trends Spring / Summer 2013
Swarovski, Visual + Material Resources, and Fleet Library
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Materials Education and Research in Art and Design: A New Role for Libraries - Session 3. RISD Faculty
Carol Terry, Mary-Ann Agresti, Charlie Cannon, Mary Anne Friel, and Neal Overstrom
Faculty from Rhode Island School of Design representing Interior Architecture, Industrial Design, and Textiles detail their thoughtful interactions with materials.
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Artist's Book Ideation Cards
Barbara Tetenbaum, Julie Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
108 cards : color illustrations. "Barb Tetenbaum developed the original set of artist's book ideation cards for use in her teaching practice. This version was further developed and designed in collaboration with Julie Chen"--Colophon card. Two decks of offset printed playing cards enclosed in an acrylic box. "The Artist's Book Ideation Cards deck was designed as an aid to the book artist, to jump start a new project or inform one in progress. There are two decks in the set: Category Cards containing approximately eight cards in each of the seven categories (text, image, structure, paper, layout, technique and color) and 54 Adjective Cards of which three are 'wild cards.' Choosing a card randomly from each of the seven categories and five cards from the adjectives offers an unexpected recipe for a project"--23 Sandy Gallery website. Digitally designed and offset printed. Open edition. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
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Materials + Process: An Exhibition of Student-Made Materials
Diana Wagner
Diana Wagner, RISD graduate student in Industrial Design and graduate assistant in the Materials Resource Center (MRC) at the Fleet Library, received an ACP grant to curate an exhibition of materials made by RISD undergraduates. Twenty-five students from multiple departments submitted 148 material samples that were exhibited in May at the MRC. The exhibition, Materials + Process, drew wide interest and is documented in a catalogue (see PDF). Until now, the MRC’s collection of material samples—about 18,000 and growing—have all been drawn from the commercial sector. A jury of three materials experts selected 10 samples from the exhibition to enter the MRC collection, and the MRC plans to continue building the collection of student-made materials. The identification of criteria for considering new materials—ingredients, making process, technical capabilities, aesthetic qualities, innovation, and potential applications—sharing of students’ material innovation, and dialogue generated by this project may inspire both faculty and students to teach and learn from material making and process in new ways.
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The Goldilocks Variations
Allen Ahlberg, Jessica Ahlberg, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations. "Includes a ""book within a book"" titled Goldilocks: the play, which contains both pop up and lift-the-flap elements. Walter Lorraine Children's Book Collection Fund."
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Film Animation Video Senior Show 2012
RISD Archives and Film, Animation & Video Department
The poster documents the 2012 Film Animation Video Senior Show held in the RISD Auditorium during the 2012 spring semester.
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From Environmental Aesthetics to Narratives of Change
Nathalie Blanc
Environmental aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that originated in the English-speaking world and is developing in France. It aims to take a new look at how relationships with the environment are constructed. Often addressed from a landscaping, technical or scientific angle, such relationships have remained largely unaddressed from a cultural perspective, i.e., one that includes a series of practices and values that represent a human group. In this article, I will address environmental aesthetics and how they point up tensions between fixed and static visual representations of the environment in the future and representations that can accommodate ordinary encounters, relationships in the form of narratives, “life productions,” anecdotes, and constantly changing values.[1]
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The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Rhode Island
Alison W. Chang
Exhibition Notes, Number 41, Summer 2012. RISD Museum was the recipient of fifty contemporary works from the celebrated collectors Dorothy and Herb Vogel. Both worked as civil servants throughout their lives so they never had extraordinary means with which to build a collection, but acquired more than 4000 works since their marriage in 1962. Their commitment to minimal and conceptual art is well-known, but their taste was much broader and included work rooted in Abstract Expressionism as well as figurative compositions. Most of the collection was given to the National Gallery of Art. The gift to Rhode Island is part of a broader effort to spread their collection across the United States with fifty works going to one institution in each of the fifty states.
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Guide to Being Alone
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Julia Arredondo
Cover for Guide to Being Alone, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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That's Not OK. Boundaries for the Conflict-Avoidant
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Breanna Boland
Cover for That's Not OK. Boundaries for the Conflict-Avoidant, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Moon Grls : A Zine About My Childhood / renewed obsession, Sailor Moon, lil book of crap / cut drawings… talk about indulgent! - very basic (probs not 100% accurate)
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Michelle Chrzanowski
Cover for Moon Grls : A Zine About My Childhood / renewed obsession, Sailor Moon, lil book of crap / cut drawings… talk about indulgent! - very basic (probs not 100% accurate), from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Samson, Milwaukee's Biggest Celebrity, 1950-1981
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Kelly Froh
Cover for Samson, Milwaukee's Biggest Celebrity, 1950-1981, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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The Simple History Series: Collection One
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and John Gerlach
Cover for The Simple History Series: Collection One, from the RISD Zine Collection.
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Tropical Depression : So Be 96
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Kevin Arrow
Cover for Tropical Depression : So Be 96, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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1001 Black Men : Black Nerds, Afro-Geeks, and Dungeon Masters with Soul
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Ajuan Mance
Cover for 1001 Black Men : Black Nerds, Afro-Geeks, and Dungeon Masters with Soul, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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A Second History
Zhang Dali, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 136 pages. "In his book A Second History, Beijing-based artist, Zhang Dali, examines the widespread use of photographic manipulation carried out by the Chinese government during the regime of Mao Tse-tung (1949-76). Using a compare and contrast format this artist book presents a chronological sequence of original, unmodified images together with their doctored doppelgängers which were manipulated in party-run, photo labs in the 50s, 60s and 70s for the Chinese propaganda market." -- From www.bywaterbros.com.
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Artification and the Aesthetic Regime of Art
Aleš Erjavec
The author discusses “artification” and attempts to ascertain whether some common features can be found between artification and Jacques Rancière’s aesthetics, especially his notion of the “aesthetic regime of art.” The author argues that Rancière’s project of “art become life” can be employed as a common denominator of both theoretical frameworks, that of artification and that of the aesthetic regime of art. Nonetheless, the art to which Rancière’s notion primarily applies is different from art in the traditional sense, which seems to form the empirical basis of the notion of artification.
