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Rhode Island School of Design

By Hand: Women & Books: Exhibit

Description

In 1900 Charles Meunier, a French bookbinder, cast a pewter and bronze plaquette of an anonymous woman at a bookbinding sewing frame.  In the 1960s Warja Lavater started making wordless accordion books filled with symbols that would later be described as artists' books.  This exhibit explores women's roles in bookmaking at the turn of the 20th century from papermaking to book cover design to women as book artists' at the turn of the 21st century.  

 

Poster

Curator

Special Collections Librarian, Curator of Collections

Profile Photo
Claudia Covert
she/her
Contact:
2nd floor, 203
401-709-5927

Exhibit Cases

A selection from the The 7th Annual Baker + Whitehill Student Artists' Book Juried Contest and Exhibition

 

Secret Communication System - Honorable Mention

Jocelyn Salim

Illustration 2023

Digitally printed on rice paper

 

Ramen with White Privilege - Honorable Mention

Sarah Park

Apparel Design 2022

Beading, hand sewing, machine sewing, painting, felting

 

Waiting for Democracy - Laurie Whitehill Purchase Prize

Naya Lee Chang

Furniture Design 2024  

die-cut cardstock, binders board, fabric, aluminum

A selection from the The 7th Annual Baker + Whitehill Student Artists' Book Juried Contest and Exhibition

 

If We Could Make It Out Alive - Grand Purchase Prize

Jonathan Dewanto

EFS 2024

Fabric, Hand Embroidery

 

How to be a CaNniBal in the 21st Century? - Honorable Mention

Vidhi Nayyar

EFS 2024

Paper, inkjet printing, Indian ink and Acrylic paints

 

A Book of Happiness - American Printing History Association - New England Chapter Purchase Prize

Shuyan Chen

Illustration 2023

Ink and gouache on paper