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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

No abstract provided.

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

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

No abstract provided.

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

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

No abstract provided.

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

No abstract provided.

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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Pot Calling The Kettle Black, Kevin Mccoy, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 28 unnumbered pages. Black people in America have been taxonomized as "savages" or "lazy" and dehumanized by mainstream media which are derivatives of early scientific racism. Back in the 19th century, blackface was used primarily by white performers to demean Black people and as a source of entertainment. The titling of this publication, Pot Calling the Kettle Black, is an idiom used in the Black household to underscore blatant hypocrisy. This publication offers critical observation of the use of blackface and its variations found deeply embedded in cartoons, pop culture, the fashion industry, and beyond.-- Work / Play.

In Today's News: Alpha Males & Women Power, Kaamna Patel, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 46 pages . "Reappropriates images from print media in India to comment on patriarchy and gender roles."--colophon. Title from last page of book. "Image sources : Mumbai Samachar, Janmabhumi, Mumbai Mirror, Mid-day, Times of India, Hyderabad Times." In Todays News: Alpha Males and Women Power is a photobook by Kaamna Patel wherein she appropriates images from print media in India to comment on prevalent patriarchies and pre-determined gender roles. Using the semiotics of images, In Todays News attempts to reveal the dominant ideology of a people at a particular time in their history, while leaving room for the …

Stratum, Jihae Kwon, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

8 unnumbered leaves. Cover title. Edition of 8, signed by the artist. "Inspired by Queen Liliʻuokalani's song Kuʻu Pua I Paoakalani, Stratum is about the importance of land and soil from the perspective of land and soil. Written, designed, and bound by Jihae Kwon ... February 2019"--Colophon. Wooden board covers, title laser cut into cover board. Stab, sewn binding. All leaves laser cut text and designs. Glassine papers bound in front and back. Colophon written in pencil. Library has copy 6.

24-Hour Armed Security, Josh Macphee, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

16 screenprints : color ; 1 pamphlet ([12] pages : color illustrations ; . Pound the pavement ; #21 A set of 16 screenprints housed in a hand cut and assembled enclosure (40 x 32 cm) accompanied by a 12 page stapled booklet. Limited edition of 20, signed by the artist. Library has copy no. 3. Numbered and signed on the verso of the enclosure.

I Sit And Sew, Lise Melhorn-Boe, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations . Limited edition of 12 copies signed and numbered by the artist. Pages sewn in fold cloth wrapper. Set in Goudy Old Style. Screen printed. "Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson's poem was published in Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets (1927)".--Cf. Colophon. "Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson's poem is in the voice of a woman, during WW1, who wishes she were doing something more active to help the soldiers, rather than sitting and sewing. The book's format is modelled on a WW1 'housewife,' a soldier's sewing kit. As it unfolds, the viewer will find sewing tools …

Fashioning, Denise Bookwalter, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

20 unnumbered pages : illustrations Limited edition of 32 numbered copies. Title from colophon. "To read the book please put your hands into the cover handles and open your arms."--Colophon "Fashioning is the second book collaboration between Denise Bookwalter and Lee Emma Running. In Fashioning the artists continue their work with their intimate relationship with clothing. Clothing retains the story of the wearer. In Fashioning the artists capture their relationship with clothing by making rubbings of embellishments found on personally significant garments. The drawings directly capture a moment in the life of the textile. The textile contains its own evidence …

Sidereal, Sara Langworthy, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

72 unnumbered pages (some folded) : illustrations "This book is made in its entirety by Sara Langworthy in Iowa City, Iowa"--Colophon. Edition of 35 numbered copies, signed by the artist. "Inspiration came from 'The heavens : an illustrated handbook of popular astronomy" by Amédée Guillemin. All text in Sidereal is excerpted from Guillemin's writing and reassembled here. The star images are drawn from plates presented in The heavens ... The afterword is a direct transcription found on page 311 of the fourth edition"--Colophon. "The images are printed from collagraph blocks paired with pressure print templates"--Colophon. Black, handmade paper over boards, …

No New Theories, Kameelahjanan Rasheed, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

256 unnumbered pages : chiefly black and white illustrations First edition. "Interview by Jessica Lynne"--Colophon "1000 copies"--Colophon "No New Theories builds on Kameelah Janan Rasheed's accretive and associative installation work, bringing together xerox abstractions, poetic text fragments, and found as well as original photography to explore learning and unlearning as a spiritual, socio-political, ecological, and cognitive process. With No New Theories Rasheed freely assembles her own writing, autocorrect algorithms, and Oulipian poems (short texts generated with the help of imposed constraints) alongside visuals drawn from her personal image archive, pop culture, zoological journals, quranic verses, and other sources. The work …

History Of A Felling, Anne Covell, Sin Nombre Press, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume : illustrations. In 1846, the United States and Great Britain signed the Oregon Treaty to make the 49th Parallel the boundary between the United States and British North America, later known as Canada. The two countries formed the International Boundary Commission to survey and establish what is now Washington State's northern border with British Columbia. Starting at Point Roberts and working east across the Northern Cascades, a team of workers physically marked the border by clear-cutting a 20-foot wide swath through the rugged, previously undisturbed terrain. By 1860, a primitive line running from the Pacific Ocean east to …

Through The Lotus Gate, Katie Han, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 voume (unpaged). Metal spiral binding. Title and preface header also in Chinese. Gift of the author. RISD Alumna, Textiles 2016. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection.

Sea Change, Anne Covell, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Title from cover, letterpress title lettering in red, mounted on cover. Artist's name does not appear on the work. No edition statement. Constructed from offcuts, printer errors, and leftover remnants of the artist's numbered edition book with the same title. Pamphlet stitch with red thread. Purchased at Codex 2024.

Sea Change Complete Set Edition, Anne Covell, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

2 volumes : color maps. Artist book complete set edition consisting of 2 limited edition works also sold separately. Cased in open cardboard folder. Both volumes signed by their creator[s]: Artist book signed by Ellen Knudson and Anne Covell; Catastrophe map building set signed by Anne Covell. Responsibility statement from colophons. "2019 artist's book edition from the Marjorie S. Coffey Library Endowment Residency at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida." --Colophons. "Letterpress printed from photopolymer plates by Boxcar Press on an SP-15 Vandercook Proof Press in the UF School of Art + Art History Type Shop …

Gran Mar, Isabel Fernandez Echavarria, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

40 unnumbered pages : illustrations (1 folded, black & white. Title from artist's website. "Mayo de 2019" Photography, text, and design by Isabel Fernandez Echavarria. "A series of trips and over seven-year walks along the shores of the Pacific Ocean, steps of a major ongoing drift.. A wink to my pinhole camera and the 4x5" black & white film box in which my Gran Mar negatives and contacts travel with me."-- artist's website. Front cover and first page have a small pinhole opening. Black fabric over cover boards. Illustrated endpapers. English title translation: Great Sea. "At the beginning, it was …

The A To Z Of Conflict, Abdul Halik Azeez, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

106, 478, 430, xxxii pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. 'The A to Z of Conflict' is a tri-lingual artists' book by ten contemporary artists. It imagines what a commonplace children's ABC book would look like if all the entries were chosen in relation to words about conflict, and words born out of conflict. The project uses English, Sinhala, and Tamil, the three languages spoken in Sri Lanka, a country torn apart by a brutal civil war. From afar the compendium of entries testifies to the way language defines us linguistically, socially, and politically. Up close it reveals …

Wandering Stars, Sara Langworthy, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 20 pages. Edition of 33 copies, signed by the artist. Text is letterpress printed. Images printed from multiple layers of collagraph blocks and pressure print templates. The paper is Okawara Handmade. Size and shape of papers varies. Handsewn into black paper cover. This book is made from remnants of the artist's work, "Sidereal," also printed in 2019.

Solastalgia, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 170 pages. "Solastalgia" is a term coined over a decade ago by Australian professor of sustainability Glenn Albrecht, which he defined as "the pain experienced when there is recognition that the place where one resides and that one loves is under immediƯate assault.. a form of homesickness one gets when one is still at home." He originally described this emotion as being familiar to people who lived in sacrifice zones-- lands decimated by open-pit mining, or clear-cut logging. But it is quickly becoming, in an era defined by climate change, a universal human experience.--artists' website. Printed on a …