Undergraduate and graduate students are invited

to enter an artists' book they have completed in the past year

(December 2014 - December 2015).

The winning entries will be added to the

Fleet Library at RISD's Artists' Book collection.

Purchase prizes:

1st - $500 sponsored by Elkus|Manfredi

2nd - $375

3rd - $250 Laurie Whitehill Award

Special Recognition: 

Gift Membership to the American Printing History Association

All entries will be on exhibit from February to May, 2016.

Prizes will be awarded at the exhibit opening during

February 24, 2016 at 6:30pm, 1st floor of the Library.

The contest is open to current undergraduate and graduate Rhode Island School of Design students.

• All entries must be original work by the artist.
• Only one entry per student.
• Entries must have been completed between December 2014 and December 2015

Entries are due by December 16, 2015 at 4:00pm.  

Bring completed entry form and artists’ book to:

Archives and Special Collections Reading Room

Fleet Library, 2nd Floor, Room 201

Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30-4:30pm.

The jurors are:

Jim DiMarcantonio

Lara Henderson

Masha Ryskin

1st - $500 sponsored by Elkus Manfredi

Florence Liu - In Memory of January 28, 1986

2nd - $375

Kathia St. Hilaire - The Travel

3rd - $250 Laurie Whitehill Award

Vanessa Nieto Romero - Absent Body

Special Recognition: Gift Membership to the American Printing History Association

Maddie Brewer - 1999-

Images of all of the entries can be found in RISD Digital Commons.

Items not added to the Fleet Library at RISD collection can be picked up on or after May 16, 2016. If this is not possible please contact us to make arrangements.

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Thank you to our sponsors!  

Claudia Covert or Ariel Bordeaux

Special Collections

Fleet Library, 2nd Floor, Room 201

risdspecial@risd.edu

401-709-5923