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Collision, Judith Tannenbaum

Journals

Exhibition Notes, Number 37, 2010. Collision is an experiment in exhibition-making. It began when painter Jackie Saccoccio invited a group of artists (seventeen, including herself) to contribute works of their own choosing to a show in which paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, prints, videos, and various hybrid forms would literally collide: butting up against each other, overlapping, and even altering one another in an improvisatory fashion. Depending on their placement in the gallery as determined by the individual artists, the works could become entirely subsumed in the larger communal cacophony.

Most often group exhibitions in museums are conceived and organized by …

Tristin Lowe Under The Influence, Tristin Lowe

Journals

Exhibition Notes, Number 36, 2010. The moon, Earth's only satellite, has been a source of mystery and wonder since the beginning of recorded history, and probably before that as well. Inspired to understand its powerful presence and effects— from gravitational pull, tidal flow, and magnetic fields to its impact on animal and human behavior— artists and writers as well as scientists have studied the moon for centuries.

Using low-tech but labor-intensive methods and materials, sculptor Tristin Lowe has created an interpretation of the moon to fill the Museum's Lower Farago Gallery. Lunacy is an inflatable sphere, about twelve and a …

Office Of Multicultural Affairs (Oma) Annual Report 2009-2010, Intercultural Student Engagement Office, Anthony Johnson

Intercultural Student Engagement (ISE) Annual Reports

The Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) Annual Report 2009-2010 is a year in review containing a message from the director, staff updates, community programs, statistics and general report of the work of this office. Our Mission: People from all backgrounds bring value to the art and human conversations held at RISD. The Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) assists the RISD community-at-large in shaping a culturally inclusive and supportive environment that enables all its members the opportunity to fully contribute to and benefit from the total RISD experience. OMA coordinates enriching opportunities for cultural awareness, dialogue, and interaction. The office services …

2010 Program Booklet, Kate Cardoza Blackwell

Collection (annual runway show) 2007-2017

Official Collection 2010 Program distributed at the event.

Local Conditions: One Hundred Views Of Mount Rainier (At Least), Chandler O'Leary, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

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 …

Ho Mei Ah = [Good Taste], Renee Chan, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Food

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class, Printed Books.

They Die Slowly, Alessandro Brunetti, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Letters

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class, Printed Books.

Why?, Giacomo Traldi, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Letters

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

The Master's Written Thesis, Anne West, Graduate Studies, Center For Arts & Language

Thesis Writing

91 pages : illus. ; 26 cm; 2nd Edition. "This guide to thesis development is best used in discussion and negotiation with your Graduate Program Director and other thesis advisors. It may also be used as part of a workshop structure to explore in conversation with others the ideas and possibilities most appropriate to your own work." – Anne West, from the Introduction. "This remarkable handbook is a navigational instrument offered to assist each graduate student through the development of an independent, distinctive process of writing about—and with—one’s work." – Patricia C. Phillips, from the introduction. "The first edition of …

Annual Report Of The Risd Fleet Library 2009-2010, Fleet Library, Carol Terry

Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Yearbook, 2010, Risd Archives, Center For Student Involvement (Csi)

RISD Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

The Inventories, Sue Johnson, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

four miniature books; miniature books, accordion with board covers. Sequences of images from ephemera and original drawings in unusual juxtapositions, creating a kind of "visual poetry".

The Model Architect: The Panic Of '09, Karen Hanmer, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

drum leaf binding variation in hard cover, with leather spine; cover; interior spreads and pages. Samuel Sloan's 1852 publication of model designs for houses is updated with this reflection on the current US housing crisis.

Raising The Supine Dome, Amy Borezo, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

Double-sided accordion book. Text and illustrations printed on one side of board; white grid on gray background printed on reverse. Numerous cutouts reveal printed grid. Bound in gray paper-covered boards; in cloth-covered slip case, as issued. "Raising the supine dome, by Amy Borezo. Printed in an edition of 20 on Holyoke Fine Paper from 14 point Caslon hand-set metal type and photopolymer plates at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH in the fall of 2010. Titles set in Futura. Binding inspired by Deborah Howe's screen book."--colophon. Double-sided accordion book. Text and illustrations printed on one side of board; white grid on gray …

Konglish, Jana Sim, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Limited edition of 32 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "This book is about the differences between how language is observed and interpreted. My focus is on three languages which are Korean, English and Konglish (Korean + English) ... There are short, humorous stories in each language that I have personally experienced based on the differences of the languages and how they function in different cultures ... Two laser cut volvelles ... have mixture of both Korean and English alphabets. The book will be very different depending on what language you are able …

The Xeroxed Book, Eric Doeringer, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 185 pages. "The Xeroxed Book is based on Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Lawrence Weiner - an artists book published by Seth Siegelaub and John Wendler in 1969 that is more commonly known as The Xerox Book. The Xerox Book was conceived as an exhibition in book form: Siegelaub invited the seven titular artists to submit 25-page projects designed to be reproduced by the then-new technology of the photocopy. However, photocopying proved too expensive at the time, and the book was printed on a traditional offset press. The Xeroxed Book is …

How Books Work, Julie Chen, Clifton Meador, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

16 pages : color illustrations. "Written, designed, and produced by Julie Chen and Clifton Meador ... Fall 2010"--Colophon. Cover title. Unnumbered edition of approximately 300 copies. In paper portfolio with mounted color illustration including title. Offset printed; lasercut elements. Clifton Meador, RISD Alumnus, BFA Photography, 1980. Gift of Julie Chen. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

Bastokalypse, M.S. Bastian, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly ill.. Cover title. Book has text and illustrations on one side and a 52 meter frieze of apocalyptic imagery on the other side of accordion-fold paper board pages. Includes bibliographical references. Text in German English and French.

Red Radish, Elle Conyers, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

14 unnumbered pages . Cover title. No edition statement. Author name on last printed page. Accordion fold, printed on one side only, folds out to 5 x 46 cm. Second part of compound word begins the word on the next page. Student work likely completed for one of Jan Baker's Printed Books classes, Rhode Island School of Design. RISD Alumna, BFA, GD, 2010. Gift of Jan Baker.

Erotica Botanica, Catherine Michaelis, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

16 unnumbered pages : illustrations. Artist's book written, designed and created by Catherine Michaelis. Limited edition of 40 copies, signed "Catherine Alice" by the artist. "Enter the sensual Erotica Botanica through an unfolding caress of its leaf shaped pages. Delicate flowers with enticing organs float up from the folds above a bed of leaves and seed pods. Erotic verse, written by flowers and pollinators, inspires the viewer to contemplate the sexual desire of plants."--May Day Press blog, viewed 12/6/10. The deluxe edition ... has a ... wrapper with supporting top and bottom flaps and five pop-ups, (one delicately concealed in …

The Magpie's Nest, Catherine Stephens, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Animals

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class, Printed Books

Margaret, Elizabeth, Emma Canfield, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Stories

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class, Printed Books.