
Issue 20 — Winter / Spring 2025
Technologies
Manual 20 (Technologies) considers the history and future of art and technology by examining artworks that combine manual techniques and handiwork with non-human productive agents associated with industry or technology.

Manual: a journal about art and its making, a twice-yearly publication, uses the collections, exhibitions, and collaborations of the RISD Museum as an impetus for essays and interviews, artist interventions, and archive highlights. A fusion of academic arts journal and design magazine, Manual is a resource for engaged conversations about art, design, and the impact of creative making by curators, artists, scholars, and educators.

ISSUE 16 / OBJECT LESSON
"Our cradleboards are living beings"
A Conversation with Vanessa Paukeigope Jennings & Carl Jennings

ISSUE 15 / OBJECT LESSON
Deceptive Decor: Uncovering Arsenic in Eighteenth-& Nineteenth-Century Wallpapers
Emily Banas


ISSUE 16 / OBJECT LESSON
To You
Stephen Truax

ISSUE 15 / PODCAST
Green
Manual, a podcast about art & its making

ISSUE 14 / ARTIST ON ART
Butterfly Hymnals That Won't Disturb the Pleasant
Shuriya Davis
Cover image:
Edna Andrade
1917–2008, b. in Portsmouth, Virginia;
worked in Philadelphia
Gray Moons, 1969
Screenprint on paper
Sheet: 73.7 × 73.7 cm (29 × 29 in.)
Gift of the Estate of Edna Andrade 2009.114.1