RIT Art Purchase Prize collection
Scope and Contents
The Art Purchase Prize collection contains artwork of College of Art and Design graduate students dating from 1972.
Dates
- 1972 to the present
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open to researchers.
Biographical / Historical
The RIT Libraries Art Purchase Prize program has awarded purchase prizes to graduate students of the School of Art and the School of Design annually since 1972. Works are purchased for the permament collection from MFA thesis exhibits. The selection committee complement for the award has changed over the years and now includes the Art and Photography Librarian and the RIT Archivist. The goal of the program is twofold: to select the best work and to capture the diversity of work made by RIT students in the programs.
Extent
241 as of 2018 Item(s)
Language
English
Overview
The RIT Libraries Art Purhase Prize program has awarded purchase prizes to graduate students of the School of Art and the School of Design annually 1972. Works are purchased for the permament collection from MFA thesis exhibits.
Arrangement
Works are arranged individually in boxes and on shelves. Some are on display throughout the Wallace Memorial Library building.
Physical Location
Items in the collection are displayed throughout The Wallace Center and stored in many locations within RIT Archive Collections. See the finding aid for the most current locations.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Pieces are purchased for the collection each year, usually during Spring semester.
Accruals
Works are purchased from MFA thesis exhibitions and added to the collection each year.
Processing Information
Finding aid created by Becky Simmons in October 2011.
- Art -- Competitions -- New York (State)
- Art -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- Rochester
- Art in universities and colleges -- New York (State) -- Rochester
- Rochester Institute of Technology. College of Art and Design
- Rochester Institute of Technology. College of Fine and Applied Arts
- Rochester Institute of Technology. College of Imaging Arts and Sciences -- Awards
- Rochester Institute of Technology. School for American Crafts
- Rochester Institute of Technology. School of Art
- Rochester Institute of Technology. School of Art and Design
- Rochester Institute of Technology. School of Design
- Title
- RIT Art Purchase Prize collection
- Subtitle
- RIT Art Collection
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Becky Simmons
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the RIT Archives Repository