Half Premonitions of the Moon

1 volume (36 cards, 2 accordion folded sheets, wooden instrument) : illustrations Edition of 45 copies. In paper binder with belly band enclosure. Half Premonitions of the Moon is an instrument, modular score, and set of performance instructions housed in a custom-built enclosure. The score and instrument were developed by Holland Hopson, a sound and media artist, composer and improviser. The enclosure was designed, printed, and hand produced by Sarah Bryant, a book artist who works under the name Big Jump Press. The customizable score is assembled from a set of 36 cards. This allows individuals or groups to use chance operations to create a unique version of the piece for each performance. The instrument itself is a custom-designed, laser cut bullroarer played by swinging it in circles on the end of a string. Bullroarers are some of the oldest and most widespread instruments in human cultures. They can be found across the globe from Australasia to Africa and the Americas They are often used to evoke natural phenomena such as wind and rain during ritual events. This musical work favors patience, stasis and quiet focus over drama, development and sudden contrasts. --Big Jump Press website. To create the score Hopson wrote code using Processing to generate and position graphic shapes on the page. Bryant converted the shapes to printing plates and used traditional printing and bookbinding techniques to convert Holland\u27s digital designs to a set of cards and an accordion folded housing. Presenting the project as a kit allows for the dissemination of the piece to multiple venues, including gallery spaces, outdoor performances, and libraries with collections of artist books. By creating this hybrid object, Bryant and Hopson hope to bring together audiences from the book art, music and visual art worlds. --Big Jump Press website. Letterpress printed from polymer plates and laser-cut oak on French Construction paper. Library has copy no. 32. Jan Baker Artists\u27 Books Fund.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_artistsbooks/1413/thumbnail.jp

Fairmont Color Card: FCC

1 box (8 folded sheets, 1 sheet) : color illustrations, mounted fabrics Title from front of folded sheets. Limited edition of 20 copies. Fairmont Color Card is an exploration of the roles of textile, color, and fashion in the origin story of landfill culture. Text for the project was culled from 1977-1978 Home Furnishing Color Card, produced by The Color Association of the United States, Inc. and The Wastemakers, written by Vance Packard in 1960. Designed and produced between 2019 and 2021, the project began in one place and ended in another. Materials for this project include my sheets, my clothes, and thread color matched to these textile samples the walls, hair, and skin found in my home. Produced in an edition of twenty copies, the fabric collages included in this project are all identical save for one, the card titled the significance of these private worlds, which is unique to each copy. --https://bigjumppress.com/section/507261-Fairmont-Color-Card.html Techniques include: Letterpress printed text from handset Bembo type, textile, and foil blocking. Materials for the enclosure include binders board, Duo Bookcloth, and fabric. --https://bigjumppress.com/section/507261-Fairmont-Color-Card.html Two-part cloth-covered box, letterpress printed colophon sheet mounted inside box lid. Strips of fabric, some knotted, mounted to inside bottom of box. Library has copy no. 9, signed in pencil by the artist. Jan Baker Fund.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_artistsbooks/1455/thumbnail.jp

Intertidal

20 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; Brain washing from phone towers informational pamphlets. Title from cover. Printed in an edition of 200 from linoleum blocks and handset metal type during the fall of 2017. Third in a series of three on the history, ecology, and communities around Jamaica Bay. --page [2] of cover. Continuous illustrations on each side of the folded sheet. Accordion fold binding, text hand sewn into cover. Brain Washing from Phone Towers, Informational pamphlets, Fall 2017, New York City, Sarah Nicholls, pamphleteer --Page 4 of cover. Library has copy no. 72, initialed by the artist.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_artistsbooks/1434/thumbnail.jp

Fairmont Color Card: FCC

1 box (8 folded sheets, 1 sheet) : color illustrations, mounted fabrics Title from front of folded sheets. Limited edition of 20 copies. Fairmont Color Card is an exploration of the roles of textile, color, and fashion in the origin story of landfill culture. Text for the project was culled from 1977-1978 Home Furnishing Color Card, produced by The Color Association of the United States, Inc. and The Wastemakers, written by Vance Packard in 1960. Designed and produced between 2019 and 2021, the project began in one place and ended in another. Materials for this project include my sheets, my clothes, and thread color matched to these textile samples the walls, hair, and skin found in my home. Produced in an edition of twenty copies, the fabric collages included in this project are all identical save for one, the card titled the significance of these private worlds, which is unique to each copy. --https://bigjumppress.com/section/507261-Fairmont-Color-Card.html Techniques include: Letterpress printed text from handset Bembo type, textile, and foil blocking. Materials for the enclosure include binders board, Duo Bookcloth, and fabric. --https://bigjumppress.com/section/507261-Fairmont-Color-Card.html Two-part cloth-covered box, letterpress printed colophon sheet mounted inside box lid. Strips of fabric, some knotted, mounted to inside bottom of box. Library has copy no. 9, signed in pencil by the artist. Jan Baker Fund.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_artistsbooks/1412/thumbnail.jp

Half Premonitions of the Moon

1 volume (36 cards, 2 accordion folded sheets, wooden instrument) : illustrations Edition of 45 copies. In paper binder with belly band enclosure. Half Premonitions of the Moon is an instrument, modular score, and set of performance instructions housed in a custom-built enclosure. The score and instrument were developed by Holland Hopson, a sound and media artist, composer and improviser. The enclosure was designed, printed, and hand produced by Sarah Bryant, a book artist who works under the name Big Jump Press. The customizable score is assembled from a set of 36 cards. This allows individuals or groups to use chance operations to create a unique version of the piece for each performance. The instrument itself is a custom-designed, laser cut bullroarer played by swinging it in circles on the end of a string. Bullroarers are some of the oldest and most widespread instruments in human cultures. They can be found across the globe from Australasia to Africa and the Americas They are often used to evoke natural phenomena such as wind and rain during ritual events. This musical work favors patience, stasis and quiet focus over drama, development and sudden contrasts. --Big Jump Press website. To create the score Hopson wrote code using Processing to generate and position graphic shapes on the page. Bryant converted the shapes to printing plates and used traditional printing and bookbinding techniques to convert Holland\u27s digital designs to a set of cards and an accordion folded housing. Presenting the project as a kit allows for the dissemination of the piece to multiple venues, including gallery spaces, outdoor performances, and libraries with collections of artist books. By creating this hybrid object, Bryant and Hopson hope to bring together audiences from the book art, music and visual art worlds. --Big Jump Press website. Letterpress printed from polymer plates and laser-cut oak on French Construction paper. Library has copy no. 32. Jan Baker Artists\u27 Books Fund.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_artistsbooks/1456/thumbnail.jp

Still Life with Bottles, Oysters and Hooves

1 folded sheet : color illustrations Brain washing from phone towers informational pamphlets. Title from folder. First in a series of three about Jamaica Bay. Edition of 200. Printed letterpress from metal type and linoleum blocks in April 2017. -colophon. Folded sheet (27 x 44 cm), printed on each side, folded twice and placed in paper folder (28 x 12 cm). Brain Washing from Phone Towers, Informational pamphlets, Spring 2017, New York City, Sarah Nicholls, pamphleteer --page [4] of folder.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_artistsbooks/1436/thumbnail.jp

Oxetanes from the Ring Contraction of ?-Triflates of ?-Lactones: Oxetane Nucleosides and Oxetane Amino Acids

?-Triflates of ?-lactones with potassium carbonate in methanol give efficient contraction of the ring to oxetane-1-carboxylates in which the oxygen substituent at C(3) of the oxetane is predominantly trans to the carboxylate at C(2), regardless of the stereochemistry of the starting triflate. The limitations of the procedure are discussed and compared with analogous reactions for the preparation of THF carboxylates. The potential of the contraction in the preparation of oxetane nucleosides (such as oxetanocin) and oxetane sugar amino acids (analogues of oxetin) as peptidomimetics with predisposition to form secondary structural motifs is illustrated

Make the earth say beans

1 volume. Cover title [Edition of 250] Linoleum cut and letterpress prints on paper. Do-si-do binding, instant book format, that unfolds to reveal additional text and illustrations. Enclosed in printed, paper cover. Brain Washing From Phone Towers is a series of informative and entertaining Informational Pamphlets produced by hand on a seasonal basis. --Provided by artist. Summer 2019 NYC --back cover.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_artistsbooks/1228/thumbnail.jp

Ramen with White Privilege

HONORABLE MENTIONhttps://digitalcommons.risd.edu/bookcontest7th2021/1025/thumbnail.jp

The Acclimatization Society

1 volume. The Acclimatization Society is a new limited edition pamphlet about birds that are local to New York City, their adaptations, and survival tactics. Focused on select native and invasive species in their urban habitats: the rock pigeon, red-tailed hawk, sparrows, and European starlings, the text also explores speciation--the process by which species adapt to circumstances, develop genetic mutations, and in time, evolve into new species. The title of the pamphlet references the voluntary associations in the 19th and 20th centuries that encouraged the introduction of non-native species into locations worldwide. Title from cover. In conjunction with Avifuana: Birds & Habitat on view at Wave Hill, April 7-June 24, 2018 --Colophon. Letterpress and linoleum (linocut) block prints on paper (24 x 55 cm) folded accordion style and sewn into printed cardstock cover with pamphlet stitch. Brain Washing From Phone Towers is a series of informative and entertaining Informational Pamphlets produced by hand on a seasonal basis. These small-scale publications combine text (handset in metal type) and image (carved in wood or linoleum) produced via obsolete technology in editioned works which are distributed at will to a chosen audience. The content of the series aims for historical interest, commemorative intent and a healthy dose of humor, and the distribution methods are based on the values of the gift economy. --Provided by artist.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_artistsbooks/1164/thumbnail.jp