A Counter Monument FUBU

Performance Documentation Becci Davis Happenings Artist In this durational performance, artist Becci Davis attempted to repair the ancestral wounds of American history, through a series of deliberate gestures. These ruptures are incurred through the continued presence of Confederate monuments in her home state and absence of public sites to make amends for the exploitation, mistreatment, and erasure of local enslaved populations.

"Two Boots" and Four Portraits

Brian Goldberg The RISD Museum’s 2009 acquisition of the Richard Brown Baker collection included two drawings by the English artist Howard Selina—Cowboy Hat (1974) and Two Boots (1974)—carefully and precisely rendered drawings in graphite on paper of well-worn, utilitarian garments.

Design as Repair

The Dosa Travel Coat Kate Irvin Curator Dubbed a travel coat by artist and designer Christina Kim, this is a garment made for journeys long and far, both real and imagined, for traversing territories in the mind as much as in the physical world.

Break Pot: Benefit Street

Performed on 11.08.2018 Happenings Artist Amy Lee Sanford, a Cambodian-American artist, evokes individual, social, and cultural repair in this powerful performance.

The Head in Focus

Benin Art and Visual History Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi How did this get here? The discovery of these treasures resembles that of a valuable manuscript. They are a new “Codex Africanus,” not written on fragile papyrus, but in ivory and imperishable brass.

Butterfly Hymnals That Won’t Disturb the Pleasant

Complacency, And Other Lullabies Shuriya Davis College Student Voices Writings based on a series of vernacular photos

Maces and Chains

The Ritual and Regalia of Commencement Caroline Scheving College Student Voices A summer intern explores the context of ceremonial objects significant to RISD’s past and present.

Artist Fellow Walker Mettling

on the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition Souvenir Textile Studio Notes Artist 2017 Artist Fellow Walker Mettling delves into the history and context of a previously overlooked textile with colonial origins.