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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Aloneness
Gwendolyn Brooks, Leroy Foster, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Cover printed in blue and black and with illustration. Photo portrait of the author on back cover. Photograph by Howard Simmons. Stapled binding. Library has second printing January 1983. Inscribed to Martha Drake and signed by the author.
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Luigi Nono Czerwony Plaszcz (Red Coat, by Luigi Nono)
Fleet Library, Visual + Material Resources, and Jan Mlodozeniec
Poster for Red Coat, a music piece by the avant-garde Italian composer Luigi Nono, performed by the Warsaw Opera
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Skrzypek Na Dachu (Fiddler on the Roof)
Fleet Library, Visual + Material Resources, and Wieslaw Walkuski
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Comix & Stories From The Balloon Vendor
Fred Schrier, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
The Adler Archive of Underground Comix, Gift of Bill Adler.
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With a long day's ridin' ahead, a man needs a good breakfast. | Frosted Flakes
Visual + Material Resources and Fleet Library
Cereal magazine advertisement
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Black Emergency Cultural Coalition
Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, Johansen, and RISD Archives
Black ink illustration of RISD campus and Providence, East Side hillside buildings, atop hands clasped in handshake. Text reads: Friday - March 27. Panel discussion with: The Art Workers Coalition & The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition regarding Artists & Community. 7:30 pm Refectory
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Coalition of Minority Students, Concerned Students, and Concerned Professional Staff Meeting with Trustees' Executive Committee May 12, 1970
Coalition of Minority Studemts, Concerned Students, and Concerned Professional Staff and RISD Archives
Coalition's request and administration's reponse regarding meeting with the Trustees' Executive Committee, May 13, 1970.
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Coalition of Minority Students, Concerned Students, and Concerned Professional Staff Position Paper March 16, 1970
Coalition of Minority Studemts, Concerned Students, and Concerned Professional Staff and RISD Archives
Coalition of Minority Students, Concerned Students, and Concerned Professional Staff Position Paper.
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Waterman Exterior with cars arriving at Museum for George Waterman Collection of Vintage Racing Machines 1969-1970
Experimental and Foundation Studies Department
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Waterman Exterior with cars arriving at Museum for George Waterman Collection of Vintage Racing Machines 1969-1970
Experimental and Foundation Studies Department
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10:56:20 PM EDT 7/20/69 (Man on the Moon)
Lou Dorfsman and CBS Corporate Entertainment and News Divisions
CBS News Television Division Commemorative Promotion Literature. The historic conquest of the moon as reported to the American people by CBS News over the CBS Television Network.
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Directions in the Work of Black American Artists | Barry Gaither
Barry Gaither, Maurice Burns, and RISD Archives
Poster using the three colors of the Pan-African flag, showing portrait omage of Dr. Barry Gaither, Curator for the Museumof the National Center of African American Artists. Derivation of previous poster (May 5 1970). May 4, 1970 was the date of the Kent State University campus shootings, where 4 anti-war protestors were shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard. RISD, as well as campuses across the U.S., shut down as students went on strike in protest of the Kent State killings. It is likely that the May 5 lecture was canceled and rescheduled for October 20, 1970 [see May 5, 1970 poster for same lecture].
Text reads: Lecture by Barry Gaither "DIRECTIONS IN THE WORK OF BLACK AMERICAN ARTISTS" Tuesday Oct. 20 8p.m. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Curator, Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists.
Read more about Barry Gaither at ncaaa.org. Poster designed by Maurice Burns, read more at mauriceburns.com.
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Directions in the Work of Black American Artists | Barry Gaither
Barry Gaither, Maurice Burns, and RISD Archives
Poster using the three colors of the Pan-African flag, showing portrait omage of Dr. Barry Gaither, Curator for the Museumof the National Center of African American Artists. May 4, 1970 was the date of the Kent State University campus shootings, where 4 anti-war protestors were shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard. RISD, as well as campuses across the U.S., shut down as students went on strike in protest of the Kent State killings. It is likely that the May 5 lecture was canceled and rescheduled for the fall [see October 20, 1970 poster for same lecture].
Text reads: Lecture: DIRECTIONS IN THE WORK OF BLACK AMERICAN ARTISTS by Barry Gaither, Curator, Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists. Tuesday, May 5, 1970 8 p.m. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Memorial Hall, Entrance through the museum.
Read more about Barry Gaither at ncaaa.org. Poster designed by Maurice Burns, read more at mauriceburns.com.
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Black Artist in Graphic Communication
Dorothy Hayes, Reynold Ruffins, Mahler Ryder, and RISD Archives
Poster for traveling exhibition of Black graphic designers. Held at Woods-Gerry gallery.
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Notebook on Water, 1965-66
Joseph Kosuth, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 envelope ([15] leaves : illustrations, map (1 folded)) Title from envelope.
Originally a component of “Artists & Photographs”, the acclaimed boxed set of printed multiples by leading artists of the 1960s published by Multiples Inc. Notebook on Water comes as an envelope with 13 sheets of Kosuth’s conceptual practice, including handsome offset prints on a black background displaying dictionary definitions of aspects of water, one per page. Ice, water, steam, oxygen, hydrogen, and snow are accompanied by an introductory page of printed handwritten (by Kosuth) statements from Ad Reinhardt and Donald Judd, a map of the world, and a photograph of a radiator. – Printed Matter, Inc.
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Wystawa Grupy Artystow Wegierskitch (Group Exhibition of Hungarian Artists)
Fleet Library and Visual + Material Resources
Poster advertising a group exhibition by Hungarian artists, organized by the Office of Artistic Exhibitions in Sopot (Poland), August 1970
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Anti-Vietnam War Petition by RISD Museum
RISD Museum and RISD Archives
Anti-Vietnam War Petition by RISD Museum employees and staff.
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Grapefruit : A Book of Instructions
Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations. "First printing" Originally published in a limited edition of 500 copies by the Wunternaum Press in Tokyo in 1964. This new edition contains material from the original, and pieces and drawings done in subsequent years by Yoko Ono. Gift of Glenn Gissler.
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Administration Response to Position Paper May 1,1970
Talbot Rantoul and RISD Archives
RISD President memo responding to student demands.
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President Rantoul Letter Responding to Student Activism January 21, 1970
Talbot Rantoul and RISD Archives
President Rantoul Letter Responding to Student Activism.
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President Rantoul Letter to Trustees Regarding Concerned Students May 7, 1970
Talbot Rantoul and RISD Archives
President Rantoul Letter to Trustees Regarding Concerned Students.
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President Rantoul Response to Coalition of Minority Students, Concerned Students, and Concerned Professional Staff Position Paper April 15, 1970
Talbot Rantoul and RISD Archives
President Rantoul Response to Coalition of Minority Students Concerned Students And Concerned Professional Staff Position Paper.
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President Rantoul Response to Coalition of Minority Students, Concerned Students, and Concerned Professional Staff Position Paper April 2,1970
Talbot Rantoul and RISD Archives
President Rantoul Response to Coalition of Minority Students Concerned Students And Concerned Professional Staff Position Paper.
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President Rantoul Statement Regarding Failed Negotiations with the Coalition of Minority Students, Concerned Students, and Concerned Professional Staff April 1970
Talbot Rantoul and RISD Archives
President Rantoul Statement Regarding Failed Negotiations with the Coalition of Minority Students Concerned Students And Concerned Professional Staff introducing a call to vote on a committee to form a college senate.
