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Half In Dream: The Tangle In The Grid, Abbey L. Paccia

Masters Theses

Half in Dream: The Tangle in the Grid discusses the form and content of a physical art installation by the same name. The site-specific installation is a large three-dimensional collage of natural ephemera collected from the area around Amherst, Massachusetts, which interacts with natural lighting conditions to illuminate a gallery-facing image of ever-moving light and shadow. The written work elaborates some of the many details within the structure of the artwork, and reveals the philosophies, embodied practices, and methodologies that informed the visual work's creation. Woven throughout are reflections on phenomenology, walking practice, General Systems Theory, collective making, narrative arts, …

A Perfect Escape: Fantasy, Place And Narrative In Adolescence, Cydney Cherepak

MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture

This essay explores the realms of special places, the literary genre of fantasy, narrative, and comics. These topics are traversed alongside subjects of adolescence and the creation of stories for middle-grade readers. Framed with personal stories, as well as peaks into my process, I investigate these subjects through the lens of my own life and work, specifically my thesis project, a comic for middle-grade readers titled Beyond the Castle Walls. Beginning with adolescence in association with special places, I consider the work of developmental psychologists David Sobel and Edith Cobb as they pin-point the role of secret forts, nature, …

Ephemerals, Julia Abbott, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

No abstract provided.

From The Dirt Up: Layering Story, Place, And Environmentalism Within Three Picture Books, Lucinda Rowe

Children's Book Writing and Illustrating (MFA) Theses

The world is changing before our eyes – species are going extinct, the amount of habitat available to wildlife has decreased, and children are spending less time outside than in the past. Through analyzing environmental ideology within early childhood education and children’s literature, I demonstrate that picture books can inspire nature conservation, appreciation, and stewardship by encouraging outdoor play and exploration. I compare picture books that successfully demonstrate eco-consciousness without being didactic, how my thesis fits within the current environmental movement, and how it helps stretch the definition of what is considered eco-writing.

This thesis consists of three illustrated picture …

Leaf, Peter Lyssiotis, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

2 volumes. "Leaf was completed in 2017. The paper is Magnani Pescia 160 gsm. and the pre press work is by Chris Boone. The offset printing is by Redwood Prints. The book has been bound by Pohlmann Binders.. in an edition of 10 with 3 artist's proofs."--colophon. Illustrated endpapers. Signed by the author. At the edge of a forest, a man sees a mysterious woman working at a table, sewing words on a collection of leaves. By asking a series of questions, the man ultimately discovers the true meaning of her work.

James Kao Interview, Alice Haller

Asian American Art Oral History Project

Artist Bio: James Kao was born and raised in Houston, Texas. After studying philosophy and focusing on the texts of Ludwig Wittgenstein at the University of Chicago, he worked as a bakery buyer for a specialty foods retail chain in Southern California. In 2001, James forwent his corporate career and returned to Chicago to take classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he received an MFA from the Painting and Drawing Department. He is Assistant Professor of Art at Aurora University in Aurora, IL, and is co-founder and co-director of 4^th Ward Project Space in …

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.

The Agrarian Standard, Scott Thorpe, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

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

Monas (Unity): Notes On Time And Seasons, Louise Kohrman, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

4 stab bound booklets, enclosed in an Asian wrapped portfolio, held with bone clasps; portfolio cover; first opening; title page; interior spreads; four volumes; two volumes open; portfolio closed, with four volumes fanned out. Each booklet, through abstract images and poetry, offers personal musings on nature and life, creativity, and time, within the changing seasons. RISD Alumna

Plant Deconstructions, Louise Kohrman, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

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

Handmade Paper, Elizabeth E. Eddins, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

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

Winter Garden, Leland Burke, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

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

The Flower Book, Stacey Dietz, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

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

Seasonal Turns: Four Accordion Books, Bea Nettles, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

4 accordion fold books, enclosed in a plastic box; cover; four small books; three accordion books; two interior spreads . The four seasons are depicted through images of nature and human interactions with it.

Looking At The Sea, Sonia Chia, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

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

Tending Gardens: A Book On Friendship, Andrew Scro, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

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

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, Dennis Mabry, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

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

The Shakespeare Garden, Tamar Kondy, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

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

Garden Journal, Ellen Dessloch, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

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

Broken Sky, Arpie Gennetian, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

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

Sowing Fields, Kathleen Mallow, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

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

Crosscurrents, Claudia G. Thompson, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

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

Four Seasons Of The Wind, Athana A. Katsiaficas, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

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

The Stars Do Their Rounds, Susan Lawler, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

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

Tides, Christina Walker, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

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

Splash!, Janet Thuerer, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

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

Flamingo In The Dark, Bea Nettles, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

case bound in hard cover, foil stamped cover text; cover; interior pages. A series of complex layered photo montages in color.

Hana Shishū (花詩集) | Flower Poetry Collection, Kawarazaki Kōdō, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Pattern, Ornament, and Decoration

Classical patterns for dyeing. Volumes : color illustrations ; 31 cm. Folding books, Acordion style binding.

CONTENTS: 1-3. Mon'yō no maki -- 4. Hamon no maki -- 5. Mizu no maki -- 6. Unka no maki -- 7. Shikishi no maki

Library has no. 5 only. Gift of the Estate of Sol P. Kaufman. Volume is an accordion style fold, illustrated endpapers on the front board. Each page spread contains 6 or more stenciled blocks of patterns designs. Volume number from applied strip on front cover, hand calligraphed in Japanese.

First Forms Of Art : Pt.2. Crystal Forms, Hans Carl Perleberg, T. H. Schenk

Nature

2 v. : 80 leaves of plates ; 36 cm. Cover title. In portfolio. "This collection of 156 different forms of crystals was produced by microphotography. Professor T.H. Schenk, of Austria, experimented several years in order to bring about interesting designs through the action of acids on various metals..."--Pt. 2., cover page verso. Pt. 1. Nature -- Pt. 2. Crystal forms. Library has Pt. 2 only ; Plates: 1-20.

Etude De La Mer : Faune Et Flore De La Manche Et De L'Océan V. 2, Mathurin Méheut, Maurice Pillard Verneuil

Nature

Volume 2 of 2 : illus. (some color) ; 37 cm. Edition: Nouv. éd. Includes index. Gift of Edwin C. Parker.