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Blockprint September 16, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The September 16, 1968 issue features articles on an address by Dean Donald Lay on the state of RISD, civil strife in Chicago, advocacy for Eugene McCarthy's Presidential bid, RISD Film Society, GRE testing, graduate study grants, a record review, a Chicago meeting of the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, and other events and notices.

Blockprint May 13, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The May 13, 1968 issue features articles on a new exhibition at the RISD Museum, a high school artwork display at Trinity Rep, a new Brown creative publication "Taliesin," a Midland Mall design contest, a Designers In Drama production of Harold Pinter's plays, and other events and notices.

Blockprint May 6, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The May 6, 1968 issue features articles on the film "Closely Watched Trains," a James Brown visit and performance at Brown, a new season at Trinity Square Repertory Theatre, the resignation of RISD's Associate Dean of Students, and other events and notices.

Spectrum 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from 1968 is formatted as a portfolio, with over 30 loose pages of student artwork, including photographs, drawings, paintings, woodcuts and art in other media. Likely published in May.

Blockprint April 29, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The April 29, 1968 issue features articles on a Rhode Island organization "People Against Poverty," a foreign graduate grants program, a joint humanities lecture series between RISD and PC, faculty promotions, RISD preferences in the 1968 Presidential election, Juan Bardem's film "Death of a Cyclist," an upcoming lecture by Father Daniel Berrigan, a production of "Phaedra" by Trinity Square Repertory Theatre, a new music venue called "Rubicon," and other events and notices.

Blockprint April 22, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The April 22, 1968 issue features articles on the establishment of Wintersession (called Intersession initially), a RISD Museum lecture by Edouard Roditi on dada and surrealism, electronic music, the Newport Jazz and Folk Festival schedules, a coordinated strike to protest the Vietnam War, and other events and notices.

Blockprint April 15, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1960s. This issue of April 15, 1968 covers the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., including editorials concerning the event, as well as more local news related to the school. Also included is a double page spread of photographs from the school's COLAB program of the year.

Blockprint April 8, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The April 8, 1968 issue features articles on a lack of interest in student councils, a pottery and glass exhibition of RISD grad students at the Abacus Gallery, a new album by jazz musician Charles Lloyd, a meeting of the RISD Committee to End the War in Vietnam, an interfaith conversation in Homer Lounge, a trip to the Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) headquarters in Greenwich Village, a forum on aggression, an anti-Vietnam war protest in Boston, President Lyndon B. Johnson's about face on Vietnam, an alumni seminar, and a …

Blockprint April 2, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The April 2, 1968 issue features articles on the "March of Humanity" mural in Mexico City, a faculty statement supporting students who protest the Vietnam war, the Peace Corps and draft deferments, a new music group "The Rotary Connection," a photography exhibit sponsored by the Camera Club of Providence College, a "Yip-In" demonstration by Alan Ginsberg at Grand Central Station gone awry, a Dada and surrealism exhibit at MoMA, and the Student-Faculty committee, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint March 25, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 25, 1968 issue features articles on a Jimi Hendrix Experience concert at Brown, a convocation with Reverend William Sloane Coffin, a Black Power teach-in with Black artist Dana Chandler, an exhibition of RISD Professor Tom Segouros' work, a project by senior Architecture students, a disappointing Photography exhibition, Trinity Square Repertory Theatre, musical group Country Joe and the Fish, the superiority of the RISD foundry, and a poetry reading by James Dickey, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint March 11, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 11, 1968 issue features articles on new rules for the Blockprint staff as determined by the Student Council, the Peace Corps, an upcoming lecture by the Reverend William Sloane Coffin Jr., a student exhibition at the Providence Art Club, the allowance of "homosexuals" into the military to fight in Vietnam, rehearsals for a new prodcution at Trinity Square Repertory Co., COLAB, monthly meetings of the New England Chapter of the American Foundrymen's Society, new records, a Black Power "teach-in," a folk music concert at Memorial Hall, and other events …

Blockprint March 4, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 4, 1968 issue features articles on an informational faculty meeting about unionization, a Rascals concert at the Rhode Island Auditorium, a faculty meeting on operations at RISD with Bayard Ewing, the RISD Committee to End the War in Viet-Nam, a Tissot exhibition at the RISD Museum, a folk music concert in Memorial Hall, a Student Council meeting, the formation of a RISD Student Association, and the comic "It Makes You Think" by Bill Plimpton.

This issue also includes an insert commemorating Take-A-Break Weekend, with photographs of Janis Joplin and …

Blockprint February 26, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 26, 1968 issue features articles on the faculty exploring unionization, an article in "Eye" magazine advocating for women to be drafted, the policy for dances held at RISD, and the pleasures of Sundays, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint February 19, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 19, 1968 issue features a reprint of a critical Brown review of the RISD faculty art show, a response to the Brown review, an article promoting a proposed Wintersession, a brief review of Trinity Square Repertory Company's production of "Years of the Locust," an advertisement for a Chambers Brothers concert, and an events calendar.

Blockprint February 12, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 12, 1968 issue features articles on a bazaar/exhibition "Hydra," a proposal for Wintersession, Oscar Wilde plays at Trinity Rep, an increase in dorm fees, consequences of ignoring parking tickets, sports at RISD, and TAB updates, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint February 05, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 5, 1968 issue features articles on the faculty salary, rumors about the introduction of Wintersession, scholarship opportunities in Europe, the Peace Corps, a new production of "An Enemy of the People" by Trinity Square Repertory Company, Take-A-Break Weekend, and W.C. Fields, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint January 22, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The January 22, 1968 issue features articles on "The Bluegrass Kid" John Kornhauser, the new student group Hydra, Take-A-Break Weekend, and an upcoming exhibition by Robert Frank, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint January 15, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The January 15, 1968 issue features articles on the censorship of the publication "Avatar" in Boston, a news student communications effort "Hydra," Moby Grape, the Mystic Mexican, jazz musician Charles Lloyd, Take-A-Break Weekend, and the Grateful Dead, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint January 08, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The January 8, 1968 issue features articles on life in the army, marijuana laws in Rhode Island, a Picasso exhibit at MOMA, arrests in Boston for distributing the newspaper "Avatar," and transcendental meditation, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Zap Comix, No. 2, R. Crumb, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

Early issues were published by Apex Novelties and later reprinted by Last Gasp. Publisher became Print Mint with no. 3, Last Gasp with no. 10, and Fantagraphics with no. 16. No. 0 was drawn before issue no. 1 but published afterwards and numbered no. 0 to preserve the correct sequence. Zap Comics written and illustrated by Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, Gilbert Shelton, Spain Rodriguez, Robert Williams, Paul Mavrides. Zap Comix was an underground comix series which was originally part of the youth counterculture of the late 1960s. While a few small-circulation self-published satirical comic books …

1968 Portfolio, Risd Archives, Center For Student Involvement (Csi)

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Blockprint December 04, 1967, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The December 4, 1967 issue features articles on a protest on Hallloween, Bob Krywy, a sculpture by Michael Casey at Woods Gerry, the drafting of a Blockprint contributor, and a satirical piece on Lyndon B. Johnson, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint November 20, 1967, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 20, 1967 issue features articles on jazz musician Charles Lloyd, musician Alan Sondheim, Pete Seeger, Mike Bloomfield, an organ recital, school spirit at RISD, the underground film scene, television host Robert Jungels, draft protesters, Mexicans, and a photography exhibition of Guggenheim Fellows, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Zap Comix, No. 1, R. Crumb, Various Artists, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

17 volumes : illustrations. Began with no. 0 (October 1967). Ceased with no. 16 (November 2014). Early issues were published by Apex Novelties and later reprinted by Last Gasp. Publisher became Print Mint with no. 3, Last Gasp with no. 10, and Fantagraphics with no. 16. No. 0 was drawn before issue no. 1 but published afterwards and numbered no. 0 to preserve the correct sequence. Zap Comics written and illustrated by Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, Gilbert Shelton, Spain Rodriguez, Robert Williams, Paul Mavrides. Zap Comix was an underground comix series which was originally part …

Blockprint October 30, 1967, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 30, 1967 issue features articles on the March on the Pentagon, "Citizen Kane," marijuana laws in Rhode Island, Fred Sommers, the closing of the Crystal Tap, and Gilbert Franklin, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint October 23, 1967, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 23, 1967 issue features articles on the Montreal Expo, religion in art, Designers in Drama's production of "Too True to Be Good," an anti-draft protest at Kennedy Plaza, a Resistance church service in Cambridge, and the Film Society needing funding from the RISD Museum, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint October 16, 1967, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 16, 1967 issue features articles on a Tent Dance at the RISD Farm, a resurgence of interest in composer Gustav Mahler, a new arts initiative called FANDSO, the Hippie movement, a concert at which The Yardbirds failed to show up, and a draft protest at Kennedy Plaza, along with a review of the film "Bonnie and Clyde," an interview with leaders of Brown student group The Sons of Liberty, a review of the exhibition "Six Sculptors," and other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint October 9, 1967, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 9, 1967 issue features articles on WRIB DJ Chuck Stevens, drug laws in Rhode Island, Dracula, entertainment at RISD, an Industrial Design thesis project in Pawtucket, Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc, and the opening of the RISD Junior School, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Zap Comix, No. 0, R. Crumb, Various Artists, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

17 volumes : illustrations. Began with no. 0 (October 1967). Ceased with no. 16 (November 2014). Early issues were published by Apex Novelties and later reprinted by Last Gasp. Publisher became Print Mint with no. 3, Last Gasp with no. 10, and Fantagraphics with no. 16. No. 0 was drawn before issue no. 1 but published afterwards and numbered no. 0 to preserve the correct sequence. Zap Comics written and illustrated by Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, Gilbert Shelton, Spain Rodriguez, Robert Williams, Paul Mavrides. Zap Comix was an underground comix series which was originally part …

Blockprint September 18, 1967, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The September 18, 1967 issue features articles on hippies, the Montreal Expo 67, and the band Country Joe & the Fish, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.