Exhibitions
Josef Albers (1888–1976) was part of the select group of artists who were commissioned in the 1960s to create original works to beautify RIT’s “new” Henrietta campus, which opened in 1968. These art pieces were diverse, including metal sculptures situated along walkways, abstract tapestries swathed on walls, and ceramic tableau that interrupted the rectilinear Brutalist modern architecture.
Past Exhibitions
Though photogravure, by its very name, is considered a modern photomechanical process, its origin
Please join RIT Goudy Award-winning type designers, Kris Holmes and Chuck Bigelow, for a lecture
Exhibition Opening: Thursday, Septmeber 28, 2017, 6:30 p.m.
On September 22, 1958 the United States Post Office saluted “the proud profession of journalism b
Dynamism is a term applied in physics to describe energy, force, and motion.
Shakespeare in Fine Press commemorates the 400th anniversary of the death of William Sha
Ed Benguiat has seen monumental transitions of the typography industry.
The Cary Collection is pleased to announce a landmark acquisition of a letter written by the fame
Very few surviving printing presses carry with them a known legacy of their work.
The RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Frede
A group of RIT Mechanical Engineering students spent the 2014-2015 academic year in their senior
Albert Schiller (1898-1970) was a talented, creative, and well respected advertising typographer
This exhibition celebrates the sesquicentennial of the birth of Frederic W. Goudy.
October 9, 2014 marks the 45th anniversary of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Insti
From eye-catching book covers to multi-media collages, the Cary Graphic Arts Collection’s spring
Events for the Exhibition, free and open to the public
From photographic portraits to the elegant layouts of Harper’s Bazaar, the Cary Graphic
From gilt edges to fore-edge paintings, the Cary Graphic Arts Collection's fall exhibition, “Edge
In 1906 appeared a collection of essays called The Building of a Book in which various e
In Hereford Cathedral in England, there is an old and venerable library of books, most of which a
The Stephen Neil Cooper Synchronic Collection of Comic Books is comprised of 202 comic book title
Ismar David immediately felt Blaise Pascal’s compassion and purity of thought, reaching out from
As printing from movable type was perfected in the fifteenth century, the mysteries of its practic
A collection of printers' medals is interesting not only because it offers a visual record of gre
“Graphic Communications Through the Ages” commemorates significant milestones in the history of c
The Graphic Design Archive (GDA), was inaugurated in the mid-1980s when RIT’s R.
The Cary Graphic Arts Collection, on the occasion of the Future of Reading conference at RIT (Jun
As the long winter nights wind down, and we become weary of the blustery weather in Western New Y