Collect & Share

curating, exhibiting, and learning from examples of design

A lecture presented by GD Faculty, Douglass Scott

Collecting and Creativity

The Unbound Art Book Fair kick-off event will be a panel discussion that brings together the perspectives of artists, educators, curators, collaborators, arts organizers to discuss how collecting and working in collectives supports artist practices and is a art practice in and of itself. As the list of perspectives indicates, the three panelists each wear many hats and engage with collecting and collectives in their own way. The panel will feature two Graphic Design faculty, Elizabeth Goodspeed and Doug Scott, along with Gee Wesley, a PhD student at Brown University in the department of Modern Culture and Media as well as the co-founder of the Philadelphia-based nonprofit art bookshop, Ulises, and the founder of Afrophon. 

Moderated by Anther Kiley and Deborah Khodanovich.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SWAP SHOWCASE!

Join RISD international students as they present their zines, books, prints, and other paper-based creations. This is also an opportunity to swap with other folks, no sales involved.

RISD international students can sign up via this spreadsheet for a 5-minute slot to showcase your works.  

QUESTIONS?
email: ckaracas@risd.edu or risdunbound@risd.edu

Solidarity Publishing: Zines for Immigrant Justice and Beyond

Come close the Unbound Art Book Fair weekend in the GD Commons with a conversation and zine fundraiser from Providence- and Philadelphia- based bookmakers, MJ Sanqui of Binch Press and Connie Yu of Many Folds Press. They will be joined by GD Faculty kathy wu and GD BFA ‘27 Koji Hellman.

Our guests will speak about zine-making in community contexts as a vehicle of political education and solidarity. We will share the new zine, Visioning Towards Abolition: Asian American Solidarity (Feb 2026), which was created by kathy wu and Angela Chang and printed by Many Folds Press as an immigration defense fundraiser.

This event is funded and made possible by the Mr. and Mrs. Cho Fund for Asian and Asian American Arts.

PATHS IN PUBLISHING SERIES

ONLINE ALUMNI TALK WITH NELSON CHAN

Come and learn more about the art book publishing practice of RISD Photography alumnus and current faculty member, Nelson Chan! Followed by a conversation with students.

Nelson Chan was born in New Jersey to immigrant parents from Hong Kong and Taiwan and has spent most of his life between the US and Hong Kong (colonial and post-Handover eras). Nelson is a graduate of RISD, where he received his BFA in Photography, and a graduate of the University of Hartford, Hartford Art School, where he received his MFA. He has been exhibited at the Museum of Chinese in America, New York, NY; Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA; Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; and 798 Space, Beijing, China. His books are collected in the institutional libraries of the MET, the Guggenheim, SFMOMA, the Whitney Museum, the Harry Ransom Center, and MoMA, among others.

Nelson is co-founder of TIS books, an independent publisher that concentrates on limited-edition photobooks. He was production manager at the Aperture Foundation from 2016–19, and prior to his appointment at RISD, was an associate professor of photography at the California College of the Arts.

PATHS IN PUBLISHING SERIES

ONLINE ALUMNI TALK WITH HALIM LEE

Come and learn more about the multi-media publishing practice of Halim Lee, RISD GD MFA ‘23! Followed by a conversation with Nadine Macapagal and a student Q&A.

Halim Lee is a multidisciplinary graphic designer and design educator. She teaches graphic design and creative coding at Boston University, and approaches creative coding as both a pedagogical method and a manifesto-driven tool. By embracing diverse media, from print to digital, she strives to explore new possibilities in graphic design. She weaves humor, storytelling, and poetic computation together, and utilizes this mix to advocate for the power of positivity and brightness.