Each year, Special Collections at RISD Library hosts a juried student artists' book contest to promote engagement with the book arts, investigation of the Library's artists' book collection, and creative production in the book form at RISD. The contest and accompanying exhibition attract between 30 to 50 submissions from RISD undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students. All of the entries are displayed in the annual Library exhibit. A team of RISD faculty members and professional artists serves as jurors, selecting prize winners from the submissions. All prizes are purchase awards, and the selected student-made artists' books become part of the Library's collection. This year is the 5th installment of this program. 

View all of the entries in Digital Commons @ RISD. 

Our RISD: For the Love of Books by Jingwen Zhuang 19 PH

Grand Purchase Prize ($500)

• Telltales - Clarisse Angkasa BFA, Illustration 2019

Laurie Whitehill Purchase Prize ($375)

• Dad, I love you - Joseph Inglima BFA, EFS 2022

Printing History Purchase Prizes ($375 each)

• Roses Blooming - Adèle Roncey BFA, EFS 2022
• Untitled - Yujiang Wu BFA, Graphic Design 2021

Honorable Mentions ($100 each)

• The Market - Florence Liu BFA, Printmaking 2019
• The Bookbinder - Yvonne Liang BFA, Printmaking 2021

RISD undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students are

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

(December 2017 - December 2018).

The winning purchase prizes will be added to the

Fleet Library at RISD's Artists' Book collection.

• All entries must be original work by the artist.
• Only one entry per student.

We are happy to announce that Erica Mena-Landry is this year's juror.

Erica is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and book artist. They hold an MFA in poetry from Brown University, an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa, and an M.Phil in Culture & Criticism from the University of Cambridge.  Erica is currently a visiting lecturer in book arts and poetry at Brown University. 

Look for the next call in Fall 2019.   Thank you!

Claudia Covert

Special Collections

Fleet Library, 2nd Floor, Room 201

risdspecial@risd.edu

401-709-5923