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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Graduate Thesis Exhibition 2010
Campus Exhibitions and Graduate Studies
The thesis work of more than 170 students receiving graduate degrees from Rhode Island School of Design [RISD] will be on display in RISD’s 2010 Annual Graduate Thesis Exhibition at the Rhode Island Convention Center. The work of graduate students in Architecture, Ceramics, Digital + Media, Furniture Design, Glass, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Interior Architecture, Jewelry + Metalsmithing, Landscape Architecture, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture and Textiles will be on exhibit from May 20 – June 5, 2010.
The exhibition, located in Hall A of the Convention Center in downcity Providence for the fourth consecutive year, is free and open to the public daily from 12-5 pm (12-8 pm on June 5, the day of RISD’s Commencement), with a public opening reception on May 20 from 6-8 pm.
The work selected represents the culmination of each student’s unique experience in RISD’s diverse, dynamic and demanding graduate programs. As in previous years, the 28,000-square-foot space will be custom-constructed, with more than 1,500 linear feet of walls forming a network of smaller galleries. This arrangement provides students ample space, allowing each the opportunity to showcase multiple pieces from their individual thesis work – the manifestation of two or three years of research, experimentation, critical thinking and finely honed skills.
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The Value of Fictional Worlds (or Why 'The Lord of the Rings' is Worth Reading)
James Harold
Some works of fiction are widely held by critics to have little value, yet these works are not only popular but also widely admired in ways that are not always appreciated. In this paper I make use of Kendall Walton’s account of fictional worlds to argue that fictional worlds can and often do have value, including aesthetic value, that is independent of the works that create them. In the process, I critique Walton’s notion of fictional worlds and offer a defense of the study and appreciation of fictional worlds, as distinguished from the works of fiction with which they are associated.
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Allowing the Accidental; the Interplay Between Intentionality and Realism in Photographic Art
Katrina Mitcheson
We experience photographs both as intentional and as prone to the accidental. The photograph is both capable of being an artwork with its own, constructed world and of drawing our attention to the reality of the objects used in creating it. In this article I employ the insights contained in the concepts of Barthes’ studium and punctum in order to explore how the artist’s intentions and the realism of photography interact aesthetically. I advance the idea that a unique aesthetics of photography can be rooted in the tension between the intentional, culturally coded message of a photograph and the emanation of a reality that escapes intentional control. Our aesthetic experiences of the artist’s intentions and the appearance of the real depend upon and enhance each other. I claim that the photographer can intentionally allow the accidental, leaving room for the audience to encounter a punctum, and that the control manifested in the photographer's work can serve to heighten the experience of the penetration of the studium by the punctum when it occurs.
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Local Conditions: One Hundred Views of Mount Rainier (at least)
Chandler O'leary, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 container box, 120 card-sized prints, 1 guide (50 pages). Consists of 120 card-sized prints in a container box (20 x 26 x 19.5 cm) and a viewing box with slats for inserting the cards to create different views of Mount Rainier. The container box has three drawers, two of which contain the cards and the last containing the viewing box and a guide to the cards called "Locator key." The top of the container box is a viewing platform to hold the viewing box. The container box is inserted in a five-paneled wrapper printed on the interior with an explanation and instructions for use. Wrapper has two Japanese-style bone clasp closures. Four pictorial labels depicting Mount Rainier from the compass points are affixed to the wrapper and sides of the container box. Container box, drawers, viewing box, and wrapper are cloth-covered boards. Guide is bound Japanese-style in indigo cloth. "Text and images were letterpress printed at Springtide Press. Images and topographic map patterns are hand-drawn and watercolored"--Interior of wrapper. Title from label mounted to portfolio wrapper. "Artist book consisting of viewing box and 120 image flats, illustrated and compiled from data collected in person, on location, over the course of two years. Housed in a set of drawers with nested stab-bound book and Japanese-style outer wrapper"--Description from artist's Web site.
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Presentation of Awards and Scholarships
Rhode Island School of Design
Presentation of the following awards and scholarships: Apparel Design Department Award of Merit, Apparel Design Department Medal of Achievement, Apparel Design Scholarship, Helen Byram Scholarship, Josephine and Bernard Chaus Scholarship, Rebecca Mellman Henry Memorial Scholarship, Robert Pacheco Memorial Scholarship, Joseph Piselli Memorial Scholarship, Mary Brown Polk Scholarship, Louise A. Shuster Memorial Scholarship and Textron Fellowship.
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Senior Thesis Collections
Rhode Island School of Design, Hannah Kittell, Gwendolyn MacLeish, Claudia Liu, Edda Thors, David J. Yoo, Andrea Valentini, Katelin Gibbs, Lindsay Perkins, Jessica Castellano, Christine Lee, Liz Giordano, Stephanie Gamble, Christina Yi, Heesun Huh, Alexandra Larson, Hailey Desjardins, Helen Lee, Cathryn Hunt, Lien Tong, Hayley Johnson, Rebecca Levin, Thea Jacinto, Evan Birch, Sheridan Irwin, Jenny Lai, and Scott Stevenson
PLEASE NOTE: Where applicable, the audio has been removed from this file due to copyrighted material.
The garments shown here were created in response to the Senior Thesis design challenge: create a complete collection that reflects your philosophy or the essence of your personal vision.
