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Creatress: A Woman's Hand, Susan Isherwood Gibbs

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

Using stylized and abstracted sculptural interpretations of She—Great Mother, Mother Nature, Earth Goddess, Creatress, Gaia, female sexuality, and the feminine aspects of nature; a wide range of differing chemicals and temperatures for the development of various clay bodies; and a vivid color palette to reflect ideas, feelings, and moods, I present a story of woman as metaphor for Earth and nature, an immense organic, ecological, and conscious whole. Incorporating found objects (natural and manmade) and fibers (organic and synthetic) with my clay imagery, I offer an awareness of the roles ofwomen from around the world in the spiritual and psychological …

Fables, Ruins, And The “Bell’Imperfetto” In The Art Of Dosso Dossi, Giancarlo Fiorenza

Art and Design

No abstract provided.

Review Of G4m3rs, By Kiyash Monsef, Bryan-Mitchell Young

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

No abstract provided.

The Transformation Of A Middle School Industrial Shop To A Modular Industrial Technology Lab And Communicating This Transformation To The Local Community, Lynn Figg

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this graduate project was to describe the transformation of a middle school industrial arts shop to a modular industrial technology lab and the subsequent public relations effort to communicate this transformation to the local community. This project facilitated a better understanding of what a modular industrial technology lab is, what it looks like, and how it meets the needs of the industrial technology curriculum.

A PowerPoint presentation was created to explain to the diverse audiences how the change from a traditional industrial arts "shop" class to a modular industrial technology lab at an intermediate school took place, …

Waiting For Words, Alisha Van Hoose

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

Untitled, Blake Bazel

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

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Untitled, Blake Bazel

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

A Portrait Of Nangsao Dungjai, (Nangsao) Dungjai Pungauthaikan, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Culture

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

Pine Needles And Cones, Peter Freedman, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

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

True To Life, Julie Chen, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume (unpaged) : 12 leaves of color plates. Title from portfolio box. Text "block" has 12 leaves of color plates that are manipulated by the reader. Includes instructions on "How to work this book"--Colophon. "... letterpress printed using a combination of pressure plates, woodblocks, & photopolymer plates. It was assembled and bound at Flying Fish Press with expert assistance from Macy Chadwick. The image that appears on each page is one section of a long, continuous visual timeline that can never be viewed all at once. In an edition of 100 copies.--Colophon. Library has copy no. 36, signed by …

The Conversation, Macy Chadwick, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

accordion; slipcase cover; cover; page spreads; accordion partially unfolded. number 37 of 50 copies, signed by the artist

Race Race, Brian M. Johnson, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Culture

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

To Lily And Clark, Christine Elizabeth Gallagher, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Stories

This book was completed for Jan Baker's Graduate Studio class.

Nets, Jen Bervin, Unkown Risd Student, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

150 leaves. The texts of Shakespeare's 150 sonnets have been "stripped ... bare ... to make the space of the poems open, porous, possible ..."--Working note. The full text of Shakespeare is printed in light gray type, with the author's selected words printed in darker type. The title is derived in this manner from the word Sonnets. Library has a 2nd copy in Artists' Books: B458Ne. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

Atlas, Esther Chak, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Culture

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

Visionaire 44: Toys, Red Set And Black Set, Stephen Gan, Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos, Greg Foley, Karl Lagerfield

Visionaire

5 toys, 1 set of snap-off pieces : plastic, color ; 11 x 7 x 4 cm + 1 case (15 x 47 x 4 cm) + 1 sheet (15 unnumbered panels : color illustrations ; 13 x 98 cm, folded to 13 x 7 cm), Five character figures created by five fashion designers. A second set of characters, the red/black set, created by five different fashion designers, issued as an alternative Visionaire 44. Title from accompanying sheet, which includes pictures of both red and black sets of characters. "Editor-in-chief Stephen Gan; editors Cecila Dean, James Kaliardos; creative direction/toy design …

Yellow Wallpaper. Selections, Crystal Cawley, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[2], 20 pages, [5] pages of plates : color ill. ; 29 cm. 5 colograph relief prints; mounted paste paper frontispiece. Illustrated paste-down end papers (collographs). Issued in an illustrated dust-jacket (frottage and acrylic paint on tracing paper, laminated with acrylic medium). "The text ... first published in New England Magazine, January 1892 ... This book was designed and produced by Crystal Cawley. It was typeset and printed at Wolfe Editions ..."--Colophon. Edition limited to 30 numbered copies. Library has copy no. 22.

A Sphinx's Field Guide To Questionable Answers, Michael Kuch, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[34] pages (unpaged) : color illus. (some folded). Printed by Art Larson. "... type from the banks of Horton Tank ..."--Colophon. "... meant as a kind of celebration of the merging of The Double Elephant Press' studio with the studio of Art Larson's Horton Tank Graphics ... The wood-type in the book comes from Larson's collection ..."--Accompanying description of the work, (1 sheet ([1] page)) laid in. "A key to the wood type in the order of appearance" ([1] folded leaf) laid in at end. Chiefly wood type specimens and color woodblock prints on folded leaves. Edition limited to 150 …

Small Gifts, Karen S. Kunc, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 sheet : color illustrations . Author information from colophon. "This book began at midsummer with etchings made in Kustavi, and aquatints made at home in the fall. The text is handset and the paper is handmade of grasses and old sheets. All completed at winter solstice by Karen Kunc."--Colophon. Issued in an edition of 18. Bound in boards covered with blue, grey, and red paper. Text consists of a Finnish folk song. Color etchings and aquatints printed on handmade paper of grasses and cotton rag. Letterpress printed text. Accordion folded into covered boards. Library has copy no. 8.

Archipelago, Richard Rose, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

24 unnumbered pages. Cover title. Editor, Philip C. Rose ; Design, PopKitchen, Inc. Grandpa vs. Slinky -- Il Turista -- Eye lines -- Manna -- B[or]n -- Whack-a-mole -- The Indelible shrinking man -- Chordata -- Projection -- Brother's keeper -- At eighty. Collection of concrete poems. Letterpress printing, red and black. Typeface, Legacy Serif. Pop-it note mounted inside backcover, to Jan from the author. RISD Faculty. Gift of Jan Baker.

Wrongly Bodied Two, Clarissa Sligh, Women's Studio Workshop, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

112 pages : illustrations, portraits. "Wrongly bodied two" relates the stories of Jake, a contemporary white male imprisoned in a woman's body as he transitions from female to male and Ellen Craft, a 19th century black woman who escapes slavery by passing as a white man. While photographing Jake's transition, Sligh becomes conscious of society's psychological response to the transgressive act of changing one's identity. Recalling Ellen Craft's journey to freedom, Sligh re-examines her own fears of crossing the forbidden boundaries of gender, race and class."--artist's webpage. "Produced during an artist residency at the Women's Studio Workshop .. The book …

Aunt Sallie's Lament (Altered), Margaret Kaufman, Claire Van Vliet, Ellen Dorn Levitt, Audrey Holden, Mary Richardson, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[24] pages : mounted color illustrations. "Limited edition of 120 copies signed by Claire Van Vliet, Mary Richardson, Audrey Holden and E.D. Levitt. ""This edition was made using the Permalin text block of the 1993 edition by Chronicle Books ... The design was made with Ellen Dorn Levitt and Audrey Holden who did most of the assembly and made the boxes with Mary Richardson.""--Colophon. Book bound in a diamond-shape with the left point blunted for the spine. Each page is a different combination of colors and geometric shapes resembling quilt blocks. Additional Japanese and handmade papers added to this edition. …

Abecé, Joan Lyons, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

hand sewn signatures with cloth spine and paper covered boards. Enclosed in cardboard wrapper with thread tie. Cover; interior pages and spreads. Colorful images of letters of the alphabet, as found in grafitti on various public surfaces in Mexico City.

Burn Down The Zendo, Michael Hannon, Carolee Campbell, David Brock, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

stab binding in the style of a Japanese "chomen" or account book, with nail for hanging book, housed in a lucite slipcase; prospectus exterior; front cover; interior pages. number 96 in an edition of 110, signed by the author. Designed and printed by Carolee Campbell. Kanji on cover by David Brock. "San Zendo" means Zen meditation hall or periodic question and answer session between student and teacher (from prospectus)

2004-2005 Risd Course Announcement, Risd Registrar's Office, Risd Archives

RISD Course Catalogs / Announcements

No abstract provided.

Sinclair Lewis, Sally E. Parry

Faculty Publications – English

This is a manuscript from a collection of essays published on the occasion of the exhibition of Grant Wood's Main Street, organized by the Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, January 13 - August 7, 2004.

2004 Portfolio, Risd Archives, Center For Student Involvement (Csi)

RISD Yearbooks

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Narrating Friendship: The Reciprocal Relationship Between J.B. Childers And Myself, James Thomas Engelmann

Theses and Dissertations

For the past ten months I have explored the life of a deceased artist named Joseph Barley "J.B." Childers. In the graduate catalog Gregory Volk summarizes Childers as, "an alienated Korean War Veteran, who took up painting as a refuge from his troubles, and who also doesn't exist. Childers who is naturally right-handed, painted everything left-handed because of a war wound, and so Engelmann, who is left-handed, painted with his right hand, which is quite a limitation." Of course, there's more to the story than that and the writings that follow will explain many of my reasons for pursuing this …

The Transformation Of Electricity In My Brain, Claire Watkins

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is an exciting and enthralling story about the history of the world as seen through the eyes of Claire Watkins. The story takes place in the dusty corners of her art studio in the old confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia. Ms. Watkins leads her audience through such unsuspecting places as her brain, the life of an African Dung Beetle, the center of an atom and the dark reaches of outer space. The story is inspirational and thought provoking. It will force you to see the world as an interconnected web that weaves your life together with the cosmos. A …

The History Of The World, Ruby Wescoat

Theses and Dissertations

This Thesis is my effort to understand what subjects I find interesting and why. In the processes of writing and making sculpture, I discovered that my underlying fascination is in history. I am interested in places and objects for their individual qualities, but I also want to know how they relate to the world. If I am drawn to an ancient place or object, I want to examine how it fits into the contemporary world, and visa versa. The complexity of these relationships is increased by the vast number of histories (or stories) that are intertwined in the world. Over …