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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8th Annual Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2022 Virtual Reception
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Lois Harada
Recording of the 8th Baker & Whitehill Annual Student Artists' Book Contest Virtual Reception, held via zoom Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 at 6:30pm. Hosted by RISD Dean of Libraries Margot Nishimura, Special Collections Librarian Claudia Covert, guest juror Lois Harada, President of the New England Chapter of the American Printing History Association (APHA) Alice Beckwith and Special Collections Associate Ariel Bordeaux. Honorable mentions and award winning entries announced.
Grand Purchase Prize | $500 My Grandmother by Jinghong Chen 2023 Illustration, Laurie Whitehill Purchase Prize | $375 Clocks in Space by Pei-Jung Hsieh 2025 EFS, American Printing History Association - New England Chapter Purchase Prize | $375 Ghost Bikes by Elizabeth Long 2024 Illustration, Librarian's Choice | $250 A Modern Retelling of Little Red Riding Hood by Robbie Li MADE 2022 + Kennice Pan 2023 Illustration
Honorable Mentions | $100 How does it feel to have clouds swoop in your face by Zimu Fang 2025 EFS, Zone: Apollinaire, Simpson, Chang by Naya Lee Chang BRDD 2024 Furniture, Histor, February 14, 2018 by Yadelis Gomez 2025 EFS.
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Community conservation & engagement through the architecture of public transportation
Liam Costello
A good public transportation system......should be extensive, quick, and efficient, while also being equitable and accessible as well as environmentally friendly and resilient to cope with climate change and rising sea levels. Until the 1980s, Philadelphia had an extensive streetcar network. From 1977 until 1992, however, all lines serving northern Philadelphia were abandoned, leaving the city’s once-expansive public transit system a shell of its former self. The communities formerly served by streetcar have the lowest average household income in the city and are mainly communities of color. Additionally, many of these residents do not own cars. Therefore, the people who have been deprived of reliable, electric public transportation are the people who need it the most. This against the backdrop of ever-increasing greenhouse gases and pollution as well as rising sea levels, makes the need for a clean, efficient, environmentally friendly & resilient transportation system ever greater. My thesis uses Philadelphia’s streetcar infrastructure as an example to redesign the principles of the American public transportation system by weaving green urbanist streetcar infrastructure deep into the urban fabric, while exploring the different ways that public transportation can interact with and serve the community.
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Practice makes perfect : finding inspiration in art education
Mercedes Rose Crespo
Divergences in art are symbolic of the complexities of life. When the trajectory of our lives change so does our work. This thesis project is a reflection of the art making process and how it is affected by the influence the arts has on our lives. Seeking artistic inspirations led me to Rhode Island where there is creativity in everything from the coffee shop atmosphere to the museums. This is a showcasing of my experience during my course of study at the Rhode Island School of Design’s Master of Arts in Art + Design Education program. Through photographic inquiry and creative art making I have collected a visual archive of my time rediscovering the complexities of artistry, the education process, art institutions, and many other art enriched experiences that can be connected to the influence art education has on our society. My learning process was also influenced by academic readings that have informed my understanding on becoming an educator in the arts and participating in better research practices as a graduate student. I feel confident in my position about the impact that art making has on our culture and the importance the education of those art practices has beyond our experiences in school and that is why it is important to include those learning experiences in our education. As an artist I believe that art education should follow us outside of the classroom. Teaching people how to utilize their skills creatively so they may succeed outside of the art classroom and allow their knowledge in art education to inform their lives makes for well informed art makers in our communities. In this thesis I will talk about art education's impact on my artistic process, how I use my education in art as a tool to communicate visually, how art education creates artists in our communities and how one can continue their education outside of school.
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A-Z of Art and Design Education
Santrupthy Das, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
Entry for the 9th Annual Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, March 02, 2023, Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Andre Lee Bassuet.
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Sacred pleasures : a patronage festival of the erotic and play
David Dávila
Sacred Pleasures emphasizes human connection and experience. The transcalar use of the erotic and play in spatial design can redefine the current cultural value of production and capital. The proposal addresses three scales of these socioeconomic and spatial conditions: system, architectural, and human scale. The erotic is used as power and resistance. Play is used as a method to achieve agency and to mediate human connection.
The thesis resists from within the context of Puerto Rico, an island product of colonization by two entities, Spain and the United States of America. It addresses the relationship between Puerto Rico and the propagation of the imposed urban condition of plazas de recreo, or public plaza. The ritual is anchored by the material culture of two textile techniques, mundillo lace making and the cyanotype process. The patronage festival subverts the relationship of the colonist origins of plazas de recreo and Catholicism through the power of erotic, play, and procession. Sacred Pleasures displays how colonized bodies reclaim material, space, and autonomy.
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Fertilizer waste mistreatment facilities: investigating the barrier that keep waste in and attention out at Central Florida's phosphogypsum stacks.
Harsha Devaraj
This project investigates the physical and narrative barriers constructed by the phosphate mining and processing industry to dissuade public engagement with its phosphogypsum sites in Central Florida, USA. The barriers around PG utilize decades of misinformation, racial geographies, and misrepresentations of scale, origin, and risk to create powerful narratives about how we should imagine and relate to these materials. These barriers hinder sustained public attention to their sites, enabling extractive industries to expand while avoiding oversight and responsibility. Attention to how these barriers around phosphogypsum are constructed allows us to recognize these strategies at work in how we see and communicate about industrial wastes, and opens up the possibility of new and more generative relationships with these materials.
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Disoriented: navigating the nuances of communication
Ann Dinh
What happens when you lose your language?
With this loss comes emotional and cultural implications, moments of incompleteness, along with a power struggle. Within immigrant communities especially, there are issues of communication and comprehension between generations. U.S.-born children of immigrants must deal with both a generational and cultural gap, gaps exacerbated by both distance and time. All of this is compounded by the challenges of assimilating to Western culture. In confronting the loss of language, this thesis aims to develop new informal methods of communication, ones less reliant on established language structures, ones that can help interact with future generations.
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Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
Liberal Arts Division, Grist Magazine, Fix Solutions Lab, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Orion Magazine
Lecture, October 6, 2022. 6:30 pm, Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center/RISD Museum. Fix, Grist Magazine’s Solutions Lab, invites you to join a conversation about decolonizing and diversifying climate storytelling, as explored in its climate fiction contest, Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors. Imagine 2200 judges Grace Dillon, Arkady Martine, and Sheree Renée Thomas will join Fix’s Tory Stephens on the RISD campus to discuss the relationship between climate fiction and climate solutions. They’ll also touch on the craft of weaving climate into all forms of storytelling, and how building deeply intersectional worlds helps create visions for a planet grounded in justice and abundance.
This event is presented in partnership with the RISD Division of Liberal Arts and the RISD Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies Master’s program, Orion Magazine, and with support from NRDC.
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Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
Liberal Arts Division, Grist Magazine, Fix Solutions Lab, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Orion Magazine
Lecture, October 6, 2022. 6:30 pm, Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center/RISD Museum. Fix, Grist Magazine’s Solutions Lab, invites you to join a conversation about decolonizing and diversifying climate storytelling, as explored in its climate fiction contest, Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors. Imagine 2200 judges Grace Dillon, Arkady Martine, and Sheree Renée Thomas will join Fix’s Tory Stephens on the RISD campus to discuss the relationship between climate fiction and climate solutions. They’ll also touch on the craft of weaving climate into all forms of storytelling, and how building deeply intersectional worlds helps create visions for a planet grounded in justice and abundance.
This event is presented in partnership with the RISD Division of Liberal Arts and the RISD Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies Master’s program, Orion Magazine, and with support from NRDC.
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Don't Teach Your Children Violence / Don't!
Fritz Eichenberg, Fleet Library, and Visual + Material Resources
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Fritz Eichenberg / Holzstiche und Buchillustrationen
Fritz Eichenberg, Fleet Library, and Visual + Material Resources
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Not Forgotten - Amnesty International
Fritz Eichenberg, Fleet Library, and Visual + Material Resources
