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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The Ox on the Roof
Marcin Gizycki and RISD Archives
The Ox on the Roof, 1989. Scene from Ox on the Roof bar, photo by Marcin Gizycki.
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The Ox on the Roof
Marcin Gizycki and RISD Archives
The Ox on the Roof, 1989. Honor to Henri Rousseau. The Ensemble, photo by Marcin Gizycki.
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The Ox on the Roof
Marcin Gizycki and RISD Archives
The Ox on the Roof, 1989. “The Breasts of Tiresias” by Guillaume Apollinaire. With Susan Becker and Mark Borok, photo by Marcin Gizycki.
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The Ox on the Roof
Marcin Gizycki and RISD Archives
The Ox on the Roof, 1989. “The Painter” by Roger Vitrac. With Michael Wodkowski, photo by Marcin Gizycki.
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The Ox on the Roof
Marcin Gizycki and RISD Archives
The Ox on the Roof, 1989. “Waking-Up” (“Entrance of the Mediums”) by André Breton and Bénjamin Péret. With Susan Becker and Julie Grass, photo by Marcin Gizycki.
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The Ox on the Roof
Marcin Gizycki and RISD Archives
The Ox on the Roof, 1989. Impossible Interview. With Andrea Dassow and Sol Armada, photo by Marcin Gizycki.
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Penny Dreadful Commission Comics No. 1
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Penny Dreadful Commission was a student organization at RISD that wanted to "demonstrate the range and expressive power of comic art by presenting a varied collection of work." All comics were student-submitted, and the publication was entirely student-run. Issue No. 1 is dated January 1, 1989 and features a front cover by Jason Fruchter and the comics "Words and Pictures" by Jason Lutes and Alexander Stadler, "Primemovers" by Craig Spearing and Noah Hensen, "Hammond Cheese" by Dave Kopperman, "Gone" by Douglas Bowker, "'I'm a Super Hero'" by Ed Shems, "Paranoia Will Destroya" by Adam Gould, "The Pedestrian" by Reid S. Mihalko" and "Epp II" by W. Tib-Tih.
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Penny Dreadful Commission Comics No. 2
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Penny Dreadful Commission was a student organization that wanted to "demonstrate the range and expressive power of comic art by presenting a varied collection of work." Issue No. 2 is dated February 1, 1989 and features a front cover by Martin Brown, a back cover by James Tost, a color insert by Erik Johnson, and the comics "Words and Pictures" by Jason Lutes, "Gallopin' Goosefeathers" by Mark Borok, "Average Joe" by Mike Foran, "Joe Bob and the Babe" and "Shoeless Joe and Earl Look at Art" by Jake [Austen], "Mr. Livedog" by Joe Fullerton, "Crosstown Traffic" by Adam Gould, "8-Ball" by Greg Benton, "No. 2 and I Was Small" by Brian Morgan, "Alexander and Daniel" by Alexander Stadler, "The 14th Floor" by Kristin L. Hansen, "A Child's Tail" by Joe Fullerton, "Primemovers" by Craig Spearing and Noah Hensen, "The Pedestrian" by Reid Mihalko, "Reports of HM Queen EII from Victoria and Vancouver" by Brian Morgan, and "Epp 2" by W. Tib-Tih.
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Penny Dreadful Commission Comics No. 3
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Penny Dreadful Commission was a student organization that wanted to "demonstrate the range and expressive power of comic art by presenting a varied collection of work." The issue of March 1, 1989 has a front cover by Peggy Pasternak, back cover by Alexander Stadler, and the comics "Mustafa and His Friends" by Joe Fullerton, "abe's shadow" by Jeff Nelson, "Pancakes/Coins" by Alexander Stadler, "The Truth (Under Emily's Bed" by Peggy Pasternak, "Untitled" by Nicole DePolo, "Untitled" by Jake Austen, "Untitled" by Adam Gould, "Spud Love" by Jason Lutes, "Mondo Man in T.V. Land" by Jenn-Jenn, "Untitled" by Mike Foran, "Terror in the Mirrow" by Terry Sapp, "Untitled" by Michael Lazarus, "Untitled" by James Tost, "Untitled" by Greg Benton, and "Menstrual Vogue" by Peggy Pasternak.
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Penny Dreadful Commission Comics No. 4
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Penny Dreadful Commission was a student organization that wanted to "demonstrate the range and expressive power of comic art by presenting a varied collection of work." All comics were student-submitted, and the publication was entirely student-run. Issue No. 4 is dated April 1, 1989 and features the comics "Lenny" by Greg Benton, "The Truth (Under Emily's Bed)" by Peggy Pasternak, "Samuel" by Jeff Fohl, "Terror in the Mirror" by Terry Sapp, "abe's shadow" by Jeff Nelson, and untitled comics by Joe Fullerton, Jake Austen, Jason Lutes, Rob Carter, Brennen McElhaney, Ed Shems, Michael Lazarus, Guy Jeff Nelson, Tom Albrecht, and Alexander Stadler.
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Penny Dreadful Commission Comics No. 5
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Penny Dreadful Commission was a student organization that wanted to "demonstrate the range and expressive power of comic art by presenting a varied collection of work." All comics were student-submitted, and the publication was entirely student-run. Issue No. 5 from May 1, 1989 has a front cover by Joe Fullerton, a back cover featuring the comic "Clawed McClawed in Big Trouble on Black Bison Ridge" by Mike Johnson, a letter from the editor by Jason Lutes, and the comics "Finnegan's Wake" by Joe Fullerton, "zhi-vot" by Vezna Gottwald, "Heroine" by Jeffrey Fohl, "Head Injury" by Jim Tozzi, "The Transaction" by Jason Mitchell and X, "The Man in Black" by Mike Johnson, "Turkish March" by Joe Fullerton, "The Ratstones" by Sly Sterling and Plato, "The Umpire Who Didn't Give a Shit" by Jake Austen, "Purple Haze" by Adam Gould, "Tabloid Tales and Newspaper Romance" by Brian McCarthy, "Ratstones Kids" by Willis, "Deadline" by Noah Hall, "Shark Attack" by David TenEyck, and "Remembering Houding" by Jake Austen.
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The Ox on the Roof
Agnieszka Taborska and RISD Archives
Poster for the 3rd annual student Cabaret performance.
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The Ox on the Roof (Le Boeuf Sur le Toit)
Agnieszka Taborska, Aleksander F. Wierzbicki, Malcom Coelho, Lucy Bourgealt, John Donalds, Georgy Harvey, Michael J. Townsend, Rene Dimanche Jr., Mila Hermanovski, Marly J. Rogers, Susan Becker, Treva Offutt, Christopher Watts, Michael A. Tashji, Sol Armada, Mark Borok, George Page, Sean P. Oakes, Edward L. Guttman, Susan Unger, Timothy McElreath, Michael Wodkowski, Carsten Stehr, Julie Grass, Andrea Dassow, Julianna Ellman, Lynn Jaworski, Donna Lavalle, Judith Ribicoff, Vivienne Cho, and Matthew McGuire
Program for the third annual RISD Cabaret held in the Cellar of the Providence Art Club. Design and layout by Treva Offutt.
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Division of Architectural Studies Fall Lecture Series 1988
RISD Archives
Poster for a lecture series located in the Bayard Ewing Building
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Painting Department, Rhode Island School of Design: Visiting Artists 1988-1989 / Mike Swenson
RISD Archives and Mike Swenson
Poster for a series of lectures sponsored by the RISD Painting Club with funds from the Student Board. Illustrated by a detail of David Smith"s "Untitled", 1960. RISD Museum; Mary B. Jackson Fund.
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Ken Horii classroom shot 1998, photo by MacDonald Wright
Experimental and Foundation Studies Division, Ken Horii, and McDonald Wright
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RISD/Arts & Humanities Lecture | Milton Glaser, Part 1 "Influence, Imitation, and Plagiarism"
Milton Glaser and RISD Archives
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Neopostmodrinism, or, Dieser Rasen ist kein Hundeklo, or, Gub²rzub² number 6, or, The incognita of Rita's deep time coexisting within central discoveries of the thermodynamic dichotomy of western thought : observed impregnant meanings & transhistorical justifications
Walter Samuel Haatoum Hamady, Perishable Press Unlimited, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[102] pages : illustrations . Alternate Titles: Neopostmodrinism; Neopostmodernism; Dieser Rasen ist kein Hundeklo. Half title: Neopostmodernism, or, Dieser Rasen ist kein Hundeklo, or, Gabberjab number 6. Series: Hamady, Walter. Interminable gabberjabb ; 6. No. 6 of the author's Interminable gabberjabb "series." Limited edition of 125 copies. Signatures: [1]⁴ [2]¹² [3]⁸ [4]¹⁰ [5]⁸ [6]¹⁰. Page count runs from [1]₁b to [6]₁₀a. [2]₉ and [2]₁₀, though joined to form a double leaf, have printing on one of the facing surfaces.
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Say, See, Bone : Lessons From French
Susan Elizabeth King, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[37] leaves . Title on 3 succesive leaves. Text consists of prose pieces by King, poems in French by Adloff and King's translation of Adloff's poems; letterpress translations, and corrections and comments printed as handwriting, appear on Japanese paper as overlays. "Designed and letterpress printed in an edition of 125 copies by Susan E. King at Paradise Press."--Prospectus. "The coptic binding was done by hand by Shelley Hoyt."--Colophon. Blue and white paste paper cover boards made by Susan King. Prospectus laid in.
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Dom Przy Carroll Street (The House on Carroll Street)
Fleet Library, Visual + Material Resources, and Eugeniusz Skorwider
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Seas of the Moon
Katharine Meynell, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
hand sewn signatures with metallic paper hand stitched to the cover pages, book enclosed in a denim cloth slipcase; cover; title page; interior spreads. Images of the poetically named "seas" of the moon's surface are conveyed with images of parts of baby clothes, implying the relationship between the full moon and childbirth.
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The Magic Toyshop : A Dimensional Storybook
Michaël Welply, Peter Seymour, Rodger Smith, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[10] p. : col. ill. (some fold.) Cover title. Stanley F. Moss Pop-Up Book Collection, Gift of Eugene B. Navias.
