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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Field Notes on the American Sasquatch : A Guide
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and David Norman
Cover for Field Notes on the American Sasquatch : A Guide, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Oral History Transcript | Interview with Robert Hamilton, March 18, 1998
Robert Hamilton, Barbara (Bunny) Harvey, RISD Archives, and Frank Muhly
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Oral History Interview with Robert Hamilton, March 18, 1998
Robert Hamilton, Bunny Harvey, RISD Archives, and Frank Muhly
Interview of Robert Hamilton, conducted by Barbara (Bunny) Harvey from her studio in Providence, RI on March 18, 1998. Hamilton speaks of what the Rhode Island School of Design was like in the 1930s when he first attended the school along with serving in the Air Force during World War II and teaching G.I.s when he returned to RISD. Hamilton also recalls the dynamics of the people he worked under at RISD, like Robert Frazer, Gordon Peers, and Albert Bush-Brown. Along with this, Hamilton discusses his dislike of Conceptual art and how his own work is influenced by jazz and improvisation.
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Drawn from the Collection: Part of the Fabric
Holly Hughes
Exhibition Notes, Number 4, 1998. Artists who use fiber as their medium have offered up images to artists with paint on their hands for millennia: images of human beings, propositions about the natural world, and an abstract formal language of potent and unrelenting power. The rotating exhibitions of Asian textiles in The RISD Museum’s collection offer the opportunity to visit an extraordinarily well stocked and organized attic of collective memory. These textiles are tickets to travel through time and space. Through them we can meditate in a Zen garden, embroider the afternoon away, accept a dinner invitation from a high official, examine a palace paradise, fly with a dragon. The depths, the surfaces, the rhythms, the stories, the colors, the iconography, the implications as source and inspiration all seem unlimited, overwhelming.
Ten artists were asked to look, to study, to feel, to respond, to be part of the fabric. They have individually selected works from The RISD Museum’s Asian textile collection and in dialogue with their choices have produced their own artwork. Each artist’s selection and the resulting creation are displayed together in this exhibition. As a teaching method and an adventure, I hope that this show encourages every student and every viewer to see the Asian textile collection, decorative arts, and the Museum as an irresistible set of experiences upon which to draw.
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Things Exist for a Reason
Andrew Kuo, Fleet Library, Special Collections, and Jan Baker
This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.
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20th International Festival of Latin American New Cinema (20 Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, 1-11 Diciembre de 1998)
Fleet Library, Visual + Material Resources, and Paris Volta
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Far Horizons
Scott McCarney, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
maze book, folded and enclosed in a printed wrapper; cover; interior; interior, folded out. An accordion variation made by folding a piece of paper printed on one side into 12ths and cutting it so that the resulting accordion flow turns in multiple directions. Once unfolded, the resulting poster resembles a tradional quilt pattern called "Far Horizons".
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The Cabaret of Dead Souls: Harvesting Russian History Ticket (Front)
Mia Moran, Matt Murphy, James Wynn, and Katia Popova
Ticket for eleventh annual RISD Cabaret The Cabaret of Dead Souls: Harvesting Russian History.
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The Cabaret of Dead Souls: Harvesting Russian History Ticket (Front)
Mia Moran, Matt Murphy, James Wynn, and Katia Popova
Ticket for eleventh annual RISD Cabaret The Cabaret of Dead Souls: Harvesting Russian History.
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Architecture Lecture | Graham Morrison, March 12, 1998
Graham Morrison, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Architect Graham Morrison provides a survey of architectural facades, primarily Italian, followed by a discussion of projects created by his firm Allies and Morrison. Projects include "The Mound" in Edinburgh, the British Embassy, Dublin, and the Hayward Gallery, London.
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Seasonal Turns: four accordion books
Bea Nettles, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
4 accordion fold books, enclosed in a plastic box; cover; four small books; three accordion books; two interior spreads . The four seasons are depicted through images of nature and human interactions with it.
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Architecture Lecture | Dennis Playdon, October 15, 1998
Dennis Playdon, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Architect and Professor Dennis Playdon gave a lecture titled "Drawing and Geometry: The Architecture of 17th Century Rome" richly illustrated with drawings, plans, and photographs. He taught in the RISD Department of Architecture, 1998-1999.
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One Night
John Risseeuw, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
instant book, pamphlet stitch cover; cover; interior spreads. Sounds are experienced through nonsensical words, using type size and color to convey intensity.
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A Radical Vision
Molly Schoenhoff, Fleet Library, Special Collections, and Jan Baker
This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class, Printed Books.
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Annual Report to Health and Education Leadership for Providence (H.E.L.P.)
Paul Sproll and Department of Teaching + Learning in Art + Design
Narrative summary of arts education programming as part of Project New Directions, describing students' and teachers' engagement.
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Hybrid Cartographies: Seoul's Consuming Spaces
Jeannie Meejin Yoon, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 folded sheet. "Text/ photographs/ concept/ design, Jeannie Meejin Yoon" Accordion fold, printed both sides of single sheet. Artists' statement: like my experience of the city, this detour/map is not linear. it has been laid out on the front and back of a 60 cm x 60 cm flat surface. A 12 cm by 12 cm module was inscribed to create a 25 square grid on both sides. the surface was in turn cut along the module line, beginning on the bottom right hand corner and spiralling inward the center module. the manipulate surface was then folded in on itself in such a way as to connect the center-front module to the corner-back module -- an obtuse way of arriving at a moebius strip. when completely unfolded, it has no beginning and no end, no front and no back, no inside and no outside. This was my experience of Seoul. Hybrid cartographie, about three building projects in the modern city of Seoul, Korea is a maze book-- made up of complex folds as in an accordion book but twisting and moving in multiple directions as it is unfolded. When completely unfolded the book's pages formthe shape of a mobius strip. Directions for unfolding the book are found on each page in the form of arrows and instructions, but the reader is warned at the beginning that the book is both a map and a detour. Includes bibliographical references.
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Collection '97
RISD Archives
Poster for the 1997 student Apparel Design Department show held at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium.
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FibreOptics International, Inc
RISD Archives
This video is not available online due to copyright and privacy issues. Video can be accessed and viewed in RISD Archives, Fleet Library 2nd Floor Rm. 201. Contact risdarchives@risd.edu for more information. Promotional video and relevant news casts.
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Senior Printmaking Exhibition
RISD Archives
Poster for a student, senior show of Printmaking at Woods-Gerry
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The Beat Generation Ticket (Back)
RISD Archives
Ticket for tenth annual RISD Cabaret The Beat Generation.
