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命 (Destiny), Ruyue Qi, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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Carry With, Carmen Ribaudo, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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Long-Spined Sea Urchins, William Roth, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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Interior Design Exploration, Deborah Sabo, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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Disregard, Neglect, Acknowledgment, Bartlomiej Saminski, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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Flatland, Olivia Schroder, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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Keep The Family Together, Olivia Stoltzfus, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

GRAND PURCHASE PRIZE WINNER $500 | Purchase prize winners receive a cash reward and the books are added to the Fleet Library at RISD Special Collections' Artists' Book collection.

Into The Deep, Kevin Wu, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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2019: 20-21, Stephanie Wu, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

LAURIE WHITEHILL PURCHASE PRIZE $375 | Purchase prize winners receive a cash reward and the books are added to the Fleet Library at RISD Special Collections' Artists' Book collection.

Rabbits Invading School. Damn., Tc Ye, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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Container And Contained, Heyue Zhao, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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From Bronx-Boys To Break-Boys, Xiaosheng Zhong, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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Read From The Last Page, Yiqun Zhou, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

HONORABLE MENTION $100 Awarded

Unfold: A Love Poem To Mars, Xu (Susie) Zhu, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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Ref, Shift-Lab, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 container, 15 parts. "REF is an investigation into the erosion of the physical reference area of the library, and the fundamental shift taking place in the way we ask and answer questions. This project was produced by the members of Shift-lab: Katie Baldwin, Denise Bookwalter, Sarah Bryant, Macy Chadwick, and Tricia Treacy. Artists worked individually and collaboratively to produce elements inspired by the traditional components of a physical reference section: Almanac, Atlas, Bibliography, Biographical Dictionary, Chronology, Concordance, Dictionary, Directory, Encyclopedia, Gazetteer, Guidebook, Handbook, Index, Manual, and Yearbook."--Big Jump Press. "As we designed our responses to traditional elements of the …

Urgency Reader, Paul Soulellis, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 252 pages. "Urgency Reader is a quick assembling of texts, risograph printed in Pawtucket, RI, and bound as a book at the last minute to launch at the Odds and Ends Art Book Fair at Yale University Art Gallery on December 6, 2019. Suggested topics from the open call included: urgency, craft, queerness, gender, transformation, kinship, race, survival.."--cover wrapper.

Grass, Kim Su-Yong, Xianlu Yi, Brother Anthony, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 12 pages. Limited to of 50 copies. Accompanied by folded sheet booklet ([6] pages ; folded to 13.5 x 10.5 cm) "Kim Su-yong, a poet who explored love and freedom as poetic and political ideals"--page [3] of cover. Wooden hardcover. Cover has blind carved designs. Title and author information embossed into covers. Accordion, flag book binding. "Kim su-yong is one of the most exceptional poets of modern Korea. He died at the relatively young age of 48 in 1968, but his poetry has become a symbol of freedom and revolution during the democratization of Korea. His last poem, …

A Single {Frame}, Liya Zhu, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 6 pages. Numbered edition of 12 copies. "printed in Caslon Old Style on French paper with watercolor and lino-cuts"--colophon. ".. [Produced] spring 2019 [for] Art 136: The Artist's Book course, taught by Tia Blassingame"--colophon. Combines handset letterpress, linocuts, watercolor, papercutting and an interactive element to express the significance of self."--Scripts Press.

The Black Banal, Tony Cokes, Elana Schlenker, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

15 leaves, unbound sheets. Issued in burnt orange cloth-covered portfolio with bright red-pink lettering. Title from portfolio. Portfolio held closed with a yellow elastic band.

"Designed by Tony Cokes and Elana Schlenker. Screeprinted in Ithaca, New York by Kaleb Hunkele. Slipcase produced in Jersey City, New Jersey by Conveyor Editions. Edition of 100. Second Edition"--Colophon, page [3] of portfolio.

The Black Banal, a limited edition, hand silk-screened portfolio, is a graphic blast of found text sourced and sequenced by Tony Cokes. Cokes channels the intense boredom and extreme anger generated by his encounter with the source material into an act …

Decomposition Book, Kelli Anderson, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 133 pages. A self-destroying notebook ... 2/3 usable lined sheets and 1/2 lines down the drain. -- author's website.00% recycled (30% post-consumer) paper made in French's hydroelectric-powered mill -- author's website. Small diagram card of the text laid in (4 x 8 cm) Three holes punched through the left-side of the text. Cover has black and white marbled pattern of a composition book. Perfect binding and black cloth over head of text block.

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