POSTPONED—15 Years of Draft: A Retrospective of the RIT Student-Run Publication
Tia Weiss. Macpherson Playground, 2017. Draft Fifteen.
James Kane. Untitled, 2019. Found photographs. Draft Sixteen.
Adam Ranz. Untitled, 2019. From maybe the light is longing to be heard, 2019. Draft Sixteen.
Jacob Polcyn-Evans. Lunar Circle, 2019. Draft Sixteen.
Jaemi Rowe. Untitled, 2016. Draft Fifteen.
The George Eastman Museum will host 15 Years of Draft: A Retrospective of the RIT Student-Run Publication. The exhibition and the publication are organized and executed by photography students in the College of Art and Design at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).
In 2005, a group of photography students at RIT devised Draft in response to a challenge posed by their bookmaking professor, Owen Butler, to create a school-wide magazine in which students could express themselves outside of critiques and academia. In the past fifteen years, the student-run publication has grown from a stapled packet of images to a photographic magazine and exhibition; recently, it has also incorporated moving media and featured work from college and university students across New York State.
Today, Draft’s initial mission remains: to create a platform for emerging artists to become a part of something bigger than themselves.
Organized by Draft magazine with support from the Rochester Institute of Technology and the RIT Alumni Association. For more information, visit draftmags.com and follow @draftmags on Instagram.