February
24–26, 2022
24–26, 2022
Boston University
School of Visual Arts
School of Visual Arts
Speakers
Jeffrey Altepeter
Jeffrey Altepeter has been the Bookbinding Department Head at North Bennet Street School since 2007. He is an alumnus of NBSS as well as the American Academy of Bookbinding. Jeff has worked for Harcourt Bindery, Harvard University and also as a self-employed bookbinder. In both his teaching and bookbinding practice Jeff specializes in traditional leather binding with an emphasis on historical structures, materials and techniques.
Kelli Anderson
Kelli Anderson is an artist, designer, animator, and tinkerer who pushes the limits of ordinary materials to seek out possibilities hidden in plain view. Her books and projects have included a pop-up paper planetarium, a book that transforms into a pinhole camera, a working paper record, and techniques for misusing office equipment to create animations. Intentionally lo-fi, she believes that humble materials can provide entry into the endless, tunneling complexity of our world, making those wonders accessible on a multi-sensory, rich, human level. She is currently completing writing Alphabet in Motion, an interactive book on the relationship between typography and technology with Letterform Archive.
Kyla Arsadjaja
Kyla Arsadjaja is an Indonesian graphic designer based in Brooklyn, working across print and digital media. She is currently working as a designer at Linked by Air and has experience in publications, branding, exhibitions, motion design, and interactive design with clients in the arts, cultural and education industries. Kyla is interested in exploring discourse within the intersection of dance, technology and graphic design. Recent collaborators include Ulises, Wendy’s Subway, Cornell AAP, Yale School of Architecture, Dance Studies at Yale, and Danspace Project. She has led workshops at the Royal College of Art, University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Cornell AAP, and LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore. She holds an M.F.A. in Graphic Design from Yale School of Art.
Graham Atherton
Graham Atherton is a designer and illustrator from Cleveland, Ohio. The child of professional musicians, Graham started college as a music performance major, following in his parents’ footsteps. He ultimately graduated from Boston University with a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy (2017). Graham is currently pursuing a MFA in Graphic Design at Boston University and is particularly interested in exploring the historical relationships between politics, music and art.
Erik Benjamins
Erik Benjamins is a Los Angeles-based artist and writer. His work forefronts body-to-body empathy, sensory engagement, and duration to celebrate the possibilities and frictions of embodied knowledge. A central throughline to his multidisciplinary practice is a commitment to expanded writing, which materializes on and off the page. Recent projects have brought him to the Banff Centre, Canada; Spring Workshop, Hong Kong; the Van Eyck Academie, Netherlands; the Institute for Art & Olfaction, Los Angeles; the Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, and to Chengdu, China on a Traveling Fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, his graduate alma mater.
Rachel Berger
Rachel Berger is a designer in California. Her work investigates the relationship between design and culture through writing, self-initiated projects, and freelance work with non-profit organizations. In 2021, Berger received a Berkeley Civic Arts Commission grant to work with middle school students to explore the past, present, and possible futures for the city of Berkeley. Her recent project, "Shooter Box," a multi-disciplinary investigation of the U.S. military's use of Microsoft Xbox controllers as battle equipment, was featured in Forbes and Boing Boing. Berger's book, A Toolkit for Gathering, was published by Art Practical in 2020. Berger's writing on design, culture, and education has been published by MIT Press, Bloomsbury, and Chronicle Books. She is Chair and Associate Professor of Graphic Design at California College of the Arts.
Somnath Bhatt
Somnath Bhatt is a designer, artist, and writer who lives between Ahmedabad and New York City. His work has been shown at MoMA PS1, Art Week Dubai, the ICA London, and Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète, among other venues. Selected clients include Instagram, the New York Times, Reebok, HYEIN SEO, and the musicians Nicolás Jaar and Mitski. Currently, he is an independent Art Director at Bloomberg. He also works as a contributing editor at MOLD Magazine and AIGA Eye on Design. Somnath believes in the power of the unseen, the chaos of myth, and that labor has the right to all it creates.
Joshua Brennan
Joshua Brennan is a Boston-based artist and arts educator. At Boston University, his roles include an Adjunct Faculty position teaching printmaking at all levels and managing the state-of-the-art printmaking facilities as Technical Associate. He holds a BA in Graphic Design and Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin and an MFA in Studio Art and Printmaking from Indiana University. Armed with great reverence for all things print-based, he finds the meeting points between the traditional and experimental to push the boundaries of his art. These results often take the form of abstractions that evolve into self-referential meta-abstractions. Josh routinely exhibits in solo and group exhibitions and has received a number of awards. In addition, his works reside in collections, including The Kinsey Institute, The Contemporary Crafts Museum, and the Kyoto International Woodprint Association.
Sonel Breslav
Sonel Breslav is the Director of Fairs & Editions at Printed Matter, Inc., a leading non-profit organization dedicated to the distribution, understanding, and appreciation of artists’ books and related publications. Sonel leads the development and production of the annual NY and LA Art Book Fairs, and produced the 2021 Virtual Art Book Fair along with the platform’s free and accessible online archive. Previously, she was the National Chapters and Programs Manager at ArtTable, the foremost professional organization dedicated to advancing the leadership of women in the visual arts. From 2013–17, Sonel was the Director of Murray Guy, New York, where she curated exhibitions of work by gallery artists such as Matthew Buckingham, Alejandro Cesarco, Leidy Churchman, Moyra Davey, An-My Lê, and Zoe Leonard, among others. In 2012, Sonel founded Blonde Art Books, an independent organization and publisher dedicated to promoting small-press and self-published art books through exhibitions, talks, online exposure, and book fairs.
Ernest A. Bryant III, L.P.I.
Ernest A. Bryant III, L.P.I., is a transdisciplinary artist and critic. His interests include drawing, printmaking, nature, new media, conflict, aesthetics and value. Bryant is the founder and host of the online forum and discussion series “Criticism and Value,” a forum for sharing experimental essays about art, criticism, and hosting live public conversations between living and non-living national and international artists. Ernest is an SEI research fellow and assistant professor in the Experimental Foundation Studies Division, and the Illustration department at RISD. He was an inaugural fellow and faculty for the Yale Prison Education Initiative, and taught for the BARD Micro-college at the Brooklyn Public Library. Bryant has served as a resident critic and teaching fellow at the Yale Norfolk School of Art, as a guest critic, in Graphic Design, at Pratt Institute, in Sculpture and Textiles at RISD and in Painting at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Bryant was in residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Shangyuan Art Scene in Beijing, China. He has received fellowships for his work from the Jerome Foundation, the Bush Foundation, Yale University and RISD.
Dan Byers
Dan Byers is John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. His recent projects there include the exhibitions Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping (2022, with the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis); Diedrick Brackens and Katherine Bradford (2021); Tony Cokes: If UR Reading This It's 2 Late, Vol II (2020, with Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London and ARGOS, Brussels); Jonathan Berger: An Introduction to Nameless Love (2019, with PARTICIPANT, INC, New York); Anna Opperman: Drawings (2019); and Liz Magor: Blowout (2019, with the Renaissance Society at University of Chicago). Previously, he was Mannion Family Senior Curator at the ICA/Boston, and Richard Armstrong Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art, where he was co-curator, with Daniel Baumann and Tina Kukielski, of the 2013 Carnegie International.
Kevin Cadena
Kevin Cadena is a Colombian-United-Statesian new media artist, designer, and educator currently born & based in Queens, NY and raised in Orlando, FL. As a designer and teacher, he collaborates with local non-profits organizations, educational institutions and independent artists on projects ranging from websites to accessible print material. The latter work includes curriculum guides for teachers, portfolio development guides for high schoolers and (you might’ve guessed it) co-op development field guides for business owners in the Bronx.As an artist, he is Informed by the digital platforms of his upbringing such as video games, creative software, and the web. Kevin captures the innate joy created when dynamic media responds to our inputs. His narratives proceed to unfold around this initial experience with the user’s input becoming a main exploratory tool.
Francesca Capone
Francesca Capone is a visual artist, writer, and materials designer. Her work is primarily concerned with the creation of materials and a poetic consideration of their meaning. She is interested in how tactile forms simultaneously serve as functional surfaces for daily life and as a mode of communication or symbol within the cultural paradigm. Her series Weaving Language (information as material, 2018; self-published, 2015) and books Woven Places (Some Other Books, 2018), Text means Tissue (2017) focus on textile poetics. She has exhibited at Whitechapel Gallery in London, LUMA/Westbau in Switzerland, Textile Arts Center in NYC, and 99¢ Plus Gallery in Brooklyn. She has been an artist in residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and Andrea Zittel's A-Z West. Her academic work includes lectures and workshops at Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design, Reed College, University of Washington, and Alberta College of Art and Design, among others. She is represented by Nationale, Portland, US.
Juliette Cezzar
Juliette Cezzar is a designer, educator, and writer based in New York City. Her award-winning design practice spans a variety of media for cultural clients. She is a tenured Associate Professor and former director of Communication Design at Parsons School of Design. She has also served as President of AIGA NY and has been a board member of The Brooklyn Rail since 2018. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Tech and an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University.
Claudia T. Covert
As Head of Special Collections at the Rhode Island School of Design’s Fleet Library, Claudia Covert helps members of the RISD Community connect to objects for inspiration, discovery and learning. She is in charge of collection development—rare books and artist's books, donor relations, reference, instruction, and the library's exhibitions. She holds an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh and has continued her study of books and their preservation at the Rare Book School and North Bennet Street School. Prior to coming to RISD, Claudia was Library Director for the Corcoran College and Museum of Art in Washington, DC. Claudia’s research in RISD’s dazzle camouflage collection has been cited in a number of publications, and she’s served as an expert on dazzle for museum exhibitions and press articles. Other research interests include pop-up and movable books, artists’ books, and miniature books. She is the founder and leads both the Baker + Whitehill Student Artists’ Book Contest and RISD’s Unbound art book fair.
Luiza Dale
Luiza Dale is a graphic designer based in Brooklyn, New York. She teaches at Parsons School of Design and runs a small press called Quickbooks. Her work explores how live performance can remain, happen, or begin in print and digital reproductions. Luiza maintains an independent practice designing publications, websites, and identities, often alongside Laura Tolomelli and Tuan Quoc Pham. When working together, the trio goes by The Aliens. Luiza received an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2021.
Claudia de la Torre
Berlin-based artist and publisher Claudia de la Torre (1986, Mexico City) studied Fine Arts at La Esmeralda in Mexico City, and holds a master's degree from the Art AcademyKarlsruhe. Since 2011, she’s served as director of the publishing house backbonebooks and director of the ABW (Artists' Books Workshop) She has been awarded several scholarships and grants, including the Shannon Michael Cane Fellowship - Printed Matter NYC. National Fund for the Arts, México, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Frida Kahlo scholarship DAAD, Germany (2016) and the Baden-Württemberg Scholarship. De la Torre has been invited to teach and give lectures in numerous places such as the Kunstakademie Karlsruhe, HKDM Freiburg and the École Supérieure des beaux-arts de Nîmes, France. Her work is part of diverse collections, including the Thomas J. Watson at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), the Faber Birren Collection of Books on Color at the Yale Library, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection and the MoMa (NYC). She constantly takes part in book fairs and exhibitions worldwide.
Ben Denzer
Ben Denzer is an artist, designer, and publisher interested in how information is cataloged and preserved. He designs and publishes Catalog Press (a small edition artist press) and runs the Instagram @ice_cream_books. Ben has taught courses at SVA, Parsons, RISD, and the Center for Book Arts and has recently served as an artist-in-residence at Mount Auburn Cemetery and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Tim Devin
Tim Devin is an artist, writer, and proud self-publisher. His projects celebrate communities and the DIY spirit, and have been covered by NPR and Canadian Public Radio. As a self-publisher, Tim runs Free the Future Press; his publications are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Museum.
Ryan Diaz
Ryan Diaz is a designer, writer, and educator based in Cambridge, MA. His practice explores community building through collective performance, emotion as material, and lateral pedagogies of vulgarity, schmaltz, and joy. He received his MFA in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design and was a Chronicle Books Design Fellow, board member for Au Dance Collective, Writer's Corps Ambassador for On the Boards, 2020 MOMUS Emerging Critics writing resident, and exhibitor for Art in Odd Places NYC with Hannah Lutz Winkler in 2021. He is indebted to his experiences in community organizing, queer writing collectives, facilitating survivor-focused self-defense training for immigrants and students, and alternative art and design education. He maintains an independent design practice while serving as a visiting assistant professor and AICAD fellow at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a part-time lecturer at Northeastern University and Boston University.
dispersed holdings
dispersed holdings is an artist-run platform for publishing and experimental listening practices founded in 2015 by Sal Randolph and David Richardson. For two years (2016–18), dispersed was sited in the former Bowery apartment of the artist Eva Hesse. Since leaving that space, dispersed holdings has published three books: Speed of Resin (2019), a meditation on impermanence and an homage to Hesse; Reading Room (2020), a document of the "Ambient Reading Spectacular" residency series and an exploration of the practice of reading; and Reading Now (2021), a follow-up to Reading Room that considers reading practices amid lockdown.
Ben DuVall
Ben DuVall is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. His work synthesizes historical and conceptual research through a variety of processes, alternately becoming drawings, exhibitions, books, oral histories, billboards, websites, guided walks, radio broadcasts, or sculptural objects, balanced on the border of art and non-art. He is a member of the exhibition-making collective Darling Green and host of The Condition of Music on Seyðisfjörður Community Radio.
Daniel Eatock
Born in Bolton and currently living in London, former graphic designer Daniel Eatock displays an ongoing interest in proposing problems; problems to which he sets about formulating solutions. These problems themselves often cannot be understood before they have been solved, resolved or contradicted, yet in applying a rational mind to the irrational world, Eatock channels inventiveness seeking out unsuspected connections from the mold of everyday life. Within Eatock’s diverse output he has collaborated with Channel Four television on numerous projects including the multifarious Big Brother ident. As co-developer of the ubiquitous Indexhibit web Content Management System, Eatock is the face behind more websites than you may have to date cared to notice, including his own. In 2008 Princeton's Architectural Press published Eatock’s monograph Imprint. Entirely authored and designed by Eatock, the book is distinguished not only by its (deceptive) lack of apparent order but also by the fact that each individual copy in the run of 4,000 is unique.
Familiar Strangers
Familiar Strangers is a press dedicated to venturing outside the confines of traditional architectural knowledge networks to discover what lessons experts in horror and other speculative genres might have for designers of the built environment. It was founded by Ethan Zisson, Hyung Cho, Matthew Wagstaffe, Nicholas Miller, and Steven Rodriguez in the winter of 2018 in the concrete basement of 180 York Street in New Haven CT.
Tatiana Gómez Gaggero
Tatiana is a Colombian graphic designer, printmaker, and educator based in Providence, RI. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication Design at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt). She is a partner at Counterform: Community Design and Print Studio, where she works on community oriented projects related with language, culture, social change, health, education, and environment. She is also a contributor to the research project on Latin American graphic design, Gráfica Latina. Tatiana holds an MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Design from the Universidad de los Andes, in her native Bogotá.
Shiraz Abdullahi Gallab
Shiraz Abdullahi Gallab is a designer, educator, and publisher who was born but not raised in Khartoum, Sudan. She is interested in language, form, and specificity, alongside media, Black studies, and popular culture. In her work and research, Shiraz pursues text as a generative device and publishing as a source of disruption. She is the author of Headgear and Sapphire Tears and the founding curator and co-author of Samples and Parallels. Her work has been featured in IDEA Magazine, Amalgam, Eye on Design, Women of Graphic Design, Spine Magazine and Ficciones Typografika.Shiraz is an Assistant Professor at Rhode Island School of Design and has previously lectured and taught at California College of the Arts, Purchase College, Yale School of Art, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BA from the University of Chicago.
Ritu Ghiya
Ritu Ghiya is an artist who works as a designer and web developer. Her digital works channel the serendipity and ephemera of the offline world. Her design work has been featured in AIGA, Apple Music, and the Walker Art Center; select clients include Marian Goodman Gallery, GOAT, Printed Matter, and lucky risograph.
Nina Gozzi
Nina Gozzi is a designer born and raised in Rhode Island. She graduated from Saint Anselm College in 2016 with a BFA, and subsequently moved to San Diego where she spent the last five years working as an in-house graphic designer for a complex securities law firm. In 2021, she ventured back to New England to pursue her MFA in Graphic Design at Boston University. Nina has developed a strong interest in sustainable design and actively looks for ways to keep sustainability at the forefront of her practice. Currently, she works as a graphic designer for Fidelity Investments in Boston.
Kris Graves
Kris Graves (b. 1982 New York, NY) is an artist and publisher based in New York and California; and creates photographs of landscapes and people to preserve memory. Kris Graves Projects collaborates with artists to create limited edition publications and archival prints, focusing on contemporary photography and works on paper that address issues of race, identity, equity, gender, sexuality, and class. MONOLITH EDITIONS was founded by Kris Graves and is a Black-owned publishing house dedicated to showcasing work from artists of color across mediums that address issues of race, identity, equity, gender, sexuality, and class.
James Hoff
James Hoff is an artist from Brooklyn, New York. He is a co-founder and executive editor at Primary Information, a non-profit arts organization founded in 2006 to publish artists’ book and writings. Primary Information facilitates intergenerational dialogue through the simultaneous publication of new and archival books, providing a new audience for out-of-print works and historical context for contemporary artists. Since its founding, the organization has published over 150 publications, including facsimile editions of Art-Rite, Black Art Notes, Cornelius Cardew’s Stockhausen Serves Imperialism, Godzilla: Asian American Art Network, The New Woman’s Survival Catalog, and Womens Work as well as new works by Lutz Bacher, DeForrest Brown Jr, Tony Conrad, Dara Birnbaum, Constance DeJong, Alexandro Segade, Martine Syms, and Flora Yin-Wong, among many others.
Jinu Hong
Jinu Hong is a graphic designer, art director, and educator currently based in New York City, working across print and digital media, exhibitions, video, and branding. He often collaborates with clients/friends from the art, architecture, culture, and fashion industry, which he’s always feeling excited about. He has worked or teamed with Museumhead, Coldframe, Soundial, Seoul Dance Center, Vogue Italia, Yale School of Architecture, Verizon, OnePlus, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, etc. Jinu is currently working at Alexanderwang art team as a senior graphic designer. He holds an MFA in graphic design from Yale University and BArch from Korea University. He has taught a video class at Parsons School of Design and a branding class at Pratt Institute and been a visiting critic at Yale University, Boston University, and Parsons School of Design.
Riley Hooker
Riley Hooker's practice moves across graphic design, independent publishing and art—with an emphasis on close collaborations with artists and architects. Hooker’s design practice "Chaos and Precision" stems from the belief that chaos is the neutral state of the universe, order is illusory, and a moment of precision can provide clarity amongst chaos—an axiom for design itself.In 2015 Hooker launched Façadomy—a publishing project exploring paradox and desire. Hooker's work with queer collective "House of LaDosha" was featured in Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon at the New Museum in New York in 2018. During F/W 2021 Hooker was a technology resident at Pioneer works in Brooklyn. In April 2022 his work will be exhibited in Doing Language: Word Work at the ICA in Richmond, VA, where Hooker has lectured and taught. Hooker’s writing has been in PIN—UP Magazine, The Architect’s Newspaper, and the Walker Art Center’s blog “The Gradient.”
Randi Hopkins
Randi Hopkins is Director of Visual Arts at Boston Center for the Arts, where she oversees the BCA’s recently launched Studio Residency program, as well as its Public Art Residency and Mills Gallery exhibition programs. Recent Mills Gallery exhibitions include Combahee’s Radical Call: Black Feminisms (Re)awaken Boston, co-curated by Arielle Gray, Cierra Peters and Jen Mergel, Raafat Majzoub: GROUNDS, curated by Artemis Akchoti Shabazi, Mithsuca Berry: The Sun Knows No Impostor, curated by Sienna Kwami, and Catalina Schliebener: Growing Sideways, curated by John Chaich. Hopkins co-founded the annual Boston Art Book Fair at Boston Center for the Arts in 2017 and has initiated ongoing programs including Run of the Mills and the GERTRUDE'S artists salon series. She was formerly Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, was co-founder and co-director of Allston Skirt Gallery, and wrote a weekly arts column for the Boston Phoenix. Independent projects and activities include organizing a multi-state, multi-venue exhibition of Barbara Bosworth’s photographs as independent curator for the National Park Service and teaching art history and curatorial practice in the Art & Music Department at Simmons College in Boston.
Claire Hungerford
Claire Hungerford (b. 1990) is a graphic designer based in Los Angeles and New Haven. Her first job was assisting the mushroom purveyor at local Farmer's Markets. For about a decade, Claire was a figure skater. She studied South Asian Languages and Physics at the University of Chicago. There were two years where she designed window installations at Anthropologies throughout the midwest. She is more comfortable as a facilitator than a maker or author. A central element of her work over the last few years– for both self-driven and agency-projects– relates to developing original concepts for creative endeavors. These can be in the form of books, packaging, posters and installations. Certain book projects, like Exquisite Course and Earth Café, have been public-oriented mix of culinary art, design and games, invoking notions of “relational aesthetics." She shares relational art’s concern with the social sphere; she is most engaged when her projects involve a public. She is currently working towards her MFA at Yale.
Furqan Jawed
Furqan Jawed is a graphic designer interested in tropes of seduction within images, and re-thinking familiar images in everyday-consumption. The resultant works take the form of publications, projections, websites and videos.
Zak Jensen
Zak Jensen is a graphic designer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts and working on things like books, identities, exhibitions, apparel, printed matter, and other kinds of products and editions. He currently leads the graphic design department at Harvard Art Museums.
Paul John
Working at the intersection of printmaking and institution building Paul John is the founder and director of Endless Edition, and a printmaker, based out of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York City. Endless Editions, is a publishing and curatorial initiative founded in 2014 with a mission is to produce and disseminate books or prints by emerging artists, irrespective of age, gender identity, creed, or race. Endless Editions has published more than seventy titles and has supported more than sixty artists. Work by Endless Editions has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art Library, New York; the New York Public Library; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as many others. Endless Editions has organized over twenty exhibitions; established a residency program, The Copy Shop Residency, which has hosted numerous artists from around the world; and held educational seminars at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Queens Museum of the Arts, New York; Pioneer Works, New York; the School of Visual Arts, New York; Kunsthall of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway; Oppland Kunstsenter, Lillehammer, Norway; The Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, Sweden; and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. In 2017 Endless Editions co-produced the first ever Brooklyn Art Book Fair with Bruce High Quality Foundation University, and has been the sole organizer since. BKABF is a free event for both vendors and the public.
Chad Kloepfer
Chad Kloepfer is an art director and graphic designer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He studied at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and has since worked as the senior designer at the Walker Art Center, the art director of Artforum magazine, and in 2010 co-founded the studio Kloepfer-Ramsey-Kwon with Jeff Ramsey and Hyo Kwon. He currently works as the art director of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Throughout his career he has put an emphasis on book design for cultural clients, both domestically and abroad. From working on a small booklet series to a large monograph his approach is always to find a meaningful relationship between the form of a book and its content.
Emily Larned
Emily Larned has been writing, editing, designing, printing, and publishing as a socially engaged artistic practice since 1993, when as a teenager she made her first zine. She is co-founder of Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts (ILSSA, est. 2008), a union for reflective creative practice, which explores members’ immaterial working conditions through participatory projects, publications, and exhibitions. Through her imprint Alder & Frankia (est. 2016), she publishes new collaborations and reissues of feminist archival material. Emily's handmade artist books, zines, & publications are collected by over 80 institutions internationally, including the Tate, the Brooklyn Museum, the V&A, & the Smithsonian, & are exhibited around the world. Her work has received design accolades from the AIGA and the Type Directors Club. She graduated from Yale School of Art with an MFA in Graphic Design and is currently Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Kit Son Lee
Kit Son Lee is a designer, developer, and artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Through a form-agnostic practice spanning web experiences, interactive installations, graphic systems, and language (natural and programming), they appropriate the methods of contemporary computation towards the collective sabotage and reimagination of their inequitable control structures. Kit is a co-founder of Codify Art, a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to supporting queer and trans artists of color, and an editor at Queer Aesthetics, an open-access journal pursuing equitable representation in the arts. They have spoken at the Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, The Public Theater, and PRINTED MATTER LA Art Book Fair, and have contributed writing to The Art Happens Here: Net Art Anthology (Rhizome, 2019). They received their MFA in Graphic Design from RISD in 2021. Currently, Kit is a Visiting Fellow at the Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology, Connecticut College, and teaches at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.
Zhongkai Li
Zhongkai Li's practice navigates between design, publishing, image-making, and curatorial practice. His recent cross-media practice examines the interplay between narration and iteration in physical and digital space.Li is the founder and director of IS A GALLERY in Shanghai, established in early 2020. The alternative gallery is dedicated to engaging with local and international artists, curators, and educators with exhibitions, publications, and public programs centering around the various community-based practices. The gallery recently co-published Karel Martens's first Chinese-English Bilingual publication Uranus with Roma Publications. Upcoming publications this year include Radical Return, co-published with Boston University Art Galleries, Karel Martens: Portrait Shanghai, co-published with Bananafish Bookstore in Shanghai, and Somnath Bhatt: Heartbeats of a Cave. Li is currently the Digital Designer at the Carnegie Museum of Art and serves as the Design Director of AIGA Pittsburgh. He holds an MFA in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art.
Megan N. Liberty
Megan N. Liberty is an arts writer and editor based in Brooklyn. She is the Art Books section editor at the Brooklyn Rail and co-founder of Book Art Review. She was a 2019-20 AICA/USA and Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation’s Arts Writing Workshop participant, and has an MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Elaine Lopez
Elaine Lopez is a Cuban-American designer, researcher, artist, and educator whose work explores the intersection of cultural identity, equity, and diversity within the field of design. Elaine acquired her BFA from the University of Florida (2007), and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (2019), both in graphic design. She is currently a faculty member in the Communication Design program at Pratt Institute's School of Design. Elaine has been awarded the AICAD Postgraduate Teaching Fellowship at the Maryland Institute College of Art where she taught in the undergraduate and graduate Graphic Design programs.
Adam Swift Lucas
Adam Swift Lucas is a graphic designer, publisher, and educator based in Kansas City, MO. He runs NOS Press (pronounced en•oh•es for “New Old Stock”), a small independent publishing studio, that designs, prints, and produces mostly books and printed matter in close collaboration with artists and other fine folk, specializing in a holistic approach to creating publications. Adam is currently an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Kansas City Art Institute and one-half of NEW NEW NEW, a joint art and design initiative with his partner, Rachel Ferber.
lucky risograph
lucky risograph is a POC-owned print, design studio, and publisher based in Chinatown, NY. Primarily working through the medium of risograph printing, we create a wide variety of printed matter ranging from fliers to art books. Risograph is an eco-friendly medium utilizing non-toxic ink derived from rice bran and print stencils made from natural fiber. Since its establishment in 2018, we have continued to incorporate the eco-conscious and affordable nature of risograph into our everyday practice, working with diverse artist communities within NYC and across the globe. By working with collaborators to reimagine their art, we were able to translate many digital and physical pieces into art books, zines, and prints. Beyond publishing, we also devote our time to the proliferation of the riso art community by annually hosting Sounds About Riso, a risograph market event first launching in 2019. We created lucky risograph to educate and connect with creators from different realms of art, and to fulfill our mission, we’ve offered in-person and online workshops, DIY lessons, and open studio hours. We strive to uplift and help folks in our communities create art with purpose.
Lisa J. Maione
Lisa J. Maione is a designer, artist and educator. Her creative practice investigates the nature of the screen as a material and as a mode of perception between images, reading and memory. Her scholarship engages design history, typography and data visualization and UX/UI design. For over 15 years, she has run for instance, a design practice, working on collaborative projects in the arts, architecture, publishing, education and research institutions. Lisa holds an MFA and BFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and a post-graduate certificate in Typeface Design from Type@Cooper NYC. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Kansas City Art Institute.
Mike Mandel
Mike Mandel is a conceptual photographer known for his artist's books: Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971; Seven Never Before Published Portraits of Edward Weston, 1974; The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards, 1975; and Making Good Time, 1989. In 1977, Mandel and Larry Sultan collaborated on the seminal photographic book Evidence, a book comprised of file photographs from engineering, corporate and government agencies. A publication of Mandel’s 1970s conceptual projects Good 70s was published by J & L Books and D.A.P. in 2015. In 2017 The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibited a solo show of this work. In 2017 People in Cars was published by Stanley/Barker and Robert Mann Gallery. Mike Mandel has received three NEA grants and a Fulbright Fellowship. His recent book, Zone Eleven, a series of surprising photographs by Ansel Adams retrieved from various Adams archives, was published by Damiani in 2021. He is represented by Robert Mann Gallery in New York.
José Menéndez
José R. Menéndez is a Puerto Rican graphic designer and educator, with a background in marine science communication and landscape architecture. He is an Assistant Professor at the College of Arts, Media, and Design at Northeastern University in Boston, and has been a critic at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). José is also a partner at Counterform, a Community Design and Print Studio in Providence, RI. His research is intertwined with his practice and teaching. He is currently pursuing research in the following areas of study: Latin American Graphic Design with an emphasis on Caribbean Graphic Culture, Community Design Initiatives, and Ecological Narratives in the Landscape. José holds a BSLA in Landscape Architecture from Temple University, an MFA in Graphic Design from the RISD, and an MMA in Marine Affairs with a specialization in science communication from the University of Rhode Island.
Ryan Gerald Nelson
Ryan Gerald Nelson is a visual artist whose works include large-scale silkscreen works on paper and canvas, experimental printmaking, monoprints, works using found materials, artist books, photography, sculpture, and writing. Nelson’s body of work visually and conceptually investigates his own developing theory of the Image by breaking down and depicting different stages of the metamorphosis of the Image as it traverses a myriad of mediated landscapes. Nelson is a graduate of Minneapolis College of Art & Design (BFA, 2007) and Yale University School of Art (MFA, 2015).
Be Oakley
Be Oakley is a writer, facilitator, and publisher based in Queens, NY. They received their MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2018. Oakley is currently a Part-Time Lecturer in Print and paper at School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, NY. They have been a part of projects, programming and exhibitions including The Center for Book Arts (Imperfect Archiving, Archiving as Practice 2021), Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (Excess and Refusal 2021), Cleveland Institute of Art Reinberger Gallery (Title TBD 2020), The Studio Museum in Harlem (Radical Reading Room, 2019), MoMA PS1 (Past and Future Fictions, 2018), The International Center of Photography (Queering the Collection, 2018), among many others. Their work has been featured in Italian Vogue, The Baffler, Eye on Design, Art In America, Hyperallergic and many others.
Mar González Palacios
Mar González Palacios lives and works in the ancestral lands of the Quinnipiac, the Paugussett, and other Algonquian speaking peoples, presently known as New Haven, CT. Mar is the Associate Director for Special Collections at the Robert B. Haas Arts Library, Yale University, where she provides leadership for the department and is responsible for selecting new acquisitions, teaching and organizing exhibitions with the collection. Mar holds an MLIS from the University of British Columbia, a BFA from ECIAD (now ECUAD) in studio art, and BArch from the Universidad Iberoamericana. Mar’s previous work in libraries includes positions at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the University of Oregon, and the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to their background in libraries, and art, architecture, and design, an intersectional lens informs Mar's interest in artists’ books as a formal and conceptual medium.
Julian Parikh
Julian Parikh is a graphic designer whose artistic practice is grounded in education as well as organizing, community building, and collaborating with other QTBIPoC creatives. They received their MFA in Graphic Design and BS in Communication from Boston University. They design across a variety of mediums, from print and publication work to time-based media. Their work focuses on their queer, trans, and biracial identity as well as their cultural background and finding community within these spaces. They explore narrative storytelling and how queer forms of experimentation can help us better communicate content and ideas.
Lisa Pearson
Lisa Pearson is a publisher, editor, designer as well as the founder of Siglio Press, an independent publishing house driven by its feminist ethos and committed to publishing uncommon books that live at the intersection of art and literature. In the fourteen years since Pearson started Siglio in a garage in Los Angeles, Siglio titles have won two AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers awards and garnered high praise from the New York Times, London Review of Books, The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, among dozens of other media. Siglio is now located in a barn in the Hudson River Valley, New York.
Jordan Phillips
Jordan Phillips is a formally trained metalsmith and Boston native with a BFA in Metalsmithing and 3D Media from California State University, Long Beach. As an undergrad, she focused on stone setting and enamel—the process of fusing layers of glass on metal to achieve depth of color. After working as a metalsmith and fine art jeweler in California, she moved back home to Boston to pursue an MFA in Graphic Design at Boston University, exploring the synapses between analog and digital makerspaces. Through a deep curiosity for materiality and firm understanding that fine art, craft and digital design are integral hand-in-hand partners to her process and work, Jordan explores the space between 2D and 3D-design through the incorporation of a multitude of media and materials. The end result is a personal practice built on deep curiosity and exploration, appreciation for process and desire to learn.
Plantas Press
João Doria de Souza (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) holds an MFA in Graphic Design from the Yale University School of Art (US, 2014) and was a resident at Jan Van Eyck Academie (NL, 2016). Currently Guest Faculty at Konstfack (SE) and recently Adjunct at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design / Form and Theory Institute. His publication projects have been awarded internationally — shortlisted at Best Book Design from All Over the World (Stiftung Buchkunst/DE, 2020); Best Dutch Book Designs (NL, 2020), Tokyo Art Directors Club (JP, 2020), Årets Vakreste Bøker (NO), among others. He co-coordinated the academic forum of the Oslo Architecture Triennale (NO, 2019) and participated on the short residency "How to: not make an architecture magazine" at the CCA Montréal (CA, 2018). Doria also co-founded The Ventriloquist Summerschool and runs Plantas Press, showing projects / talking at Aperture Foundation, Pioneer Works, Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair, Magical Riso and more.
Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Bio coming soon.
Corina Reynolds
Corina Reynolds is the Executive Director of Center for Book Arts in New York City. At CBA, she focuses on connecting artists across distance and time through a diverse program of exhibitions, panels, conferences, and classes. Recently, she and two collaborators founded Book Art Review, a new serial publication that ventures to develop, diversify, and propel critical discourse in book arts.Her passion for artist books has led her to curate exhibitions, organize conferences and panels, publish, and teach about book arts in the US and abroad. She has an MFA in textiles from Cranbrook Academy of Art and, in 2012, co-founded Small Editions—an artists’ book publisher and curatorial residency program in Brooklyn, NY that aims to expand access and knowledge of artist books. At Small Editions, Reynolds published over 30 books which can be found in numerous public and private collections, including the Met, MoMA, and the Whitney.
Nicholas Rock
Nicholas Rock is a Designer and Strategist. He has spent time at design studios in New York and Boston and has operated his design and strategic consulting studio, Station, with his wife Amanda since 2011. Nicholas has led projects on everything from architectural publications to brand strategy to user experience collaborating with various design studios across the country on work with clients such as Harvard Graduate School of Design, Apple, American Express. In addition to his design practice, Nicholas is an Assistant Professor in Graphic Design and the Director of Graduate Studies at the School of Visual Arts, Boston University. Nicholas spent eight years in the Army and is a veteran of the war in Iraq. In 2018 Nicholas was awarded "Volunteer of the Year" for his work with Peace Love, an organization using expressive arts programming for mental health awareness.
Jae Rossman
Jae Rossman is the proprietor of the jenny-press. Under this imprint she publishes the Book Arts Essay series, which is held by 50 libraries in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Her chapter, “The Book as Art,” was published in A Companion to the History of the Book (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019). Her articles on the book arts have been published in the Journal of Artists’ Books and Openings: Studies in Book Art. She also investigates how handling physical books enhances learning, such as in her publication “Hand in Hand: Collections for Haptic and Object-Based Learning” (in Transforming Print, ALA Editions, 2021). Jae is a PhD candidate in Library and Information Science (LIS) at Simmons University and holds a Master’s in LIS from Simmons and a Master’s of Modern History from Drew University. She has worked in academic libraries for 25 years.
Katherine M. Ruffin
Katherine M. Ruffin is the Director of the Book Studies Program and Lecturer in Art at Wellesley College. She has directed the activities of the Book Arts Lab in Clapp Library at Wellesley College since 2000 and her teaching practice is focused on incorporating letterpress printing, bookbinding, and papermaking with various aspects of the liberal arts. Katherine teaches the history of the book at Simmons University and teaches the history of typography and printing at Rare Book School with John Kristensen of Firefly Press. She has also taught the book arts in the Printmaking Department and the Masters of Art Education Program at the Boston University College of Fine Arts.Katherine holds an M.F.A. in the Book Arts from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from Simmons University. Her studio practice is focused on letterpress printing and she has published under the imprint of Shinola Press since 1994.
Rush Print
Rush Print is an annual publication on untamed typography and found fonts, content-edited & graphic-designed by graduating participants of Graphic Design Arnhem, A graphic design department of ArtEZ University of the Arts. In 2020 Fall, The publishing practice is initiated by Dong Bin Han & Benjamin McMillan who launched the inaugural issue #0 – "Bad Type". Each issue is keen to deliver a distinguishing message around typography and feature a momentum of conducting design practices in and out of the Arnhem academy. #0 Bad Type was an attempt to enlighten underground type design works and to interview the type designers. The current issue #1 – "Ding Ding' showcases various dingbat fonts and typeset specimens to tell a story of the non-linguistic and decorative typeface. The next issue will be launched around summertime this year. Readers can have copies in their local booksellers.
Anika Sabin
Anika Sabin is the Executive Director of Capricious Foundation, an arts organization, international photo award and publishing house based in New York focused primarily on supporting intersectional, queer perspectives in the fine arts. First joining Capricious in 2010, Sabin has edited and produced over 50 publications, from photo monographs to speculative fiction and poetry.
Curtis Scott
Curtis R. Scott is Associate Publisher at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where he oversees strategic planning for a wide-ranging publishing program that includes exhibition and collection catalogues, research publications, international coeditions, and children’s books. Over the past thirty years, he has served in a variety of leadership roles in the museum publishing and university press communities, producing award-winning titles that unite engaging content with visually compelling graphic design and exceptional production values. He held editorial positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Princeton University Press before joining the Clark Art Institute, where he built a multifaceted publications department that grew to include book publishing, exhibition and graphic design, ephemeral publications, the website, and digital media. At the Princeton University Art Museum he served on the senior management team, overseeing publishing, graphic design, marketing, and communications
Andrew Scripter
Wing Club is the creative studio of Andrew Scripter, artist and designer based in Portland Maine. Through Wing Club, Scripter produces posters, art books, and other print media with the key intention of utilizing “print as medium” with an emphasis on stencil based printing (risograph and screen printing). Scripter also serves as Vending Coordinator for the New England Art Book Fair, a small artist book fair that occurs every October at SPACE Gallery in Portland. SPACE gallery is also currently hosting his large scale installation titled “Instruction Manual for Giant Tents” which is on view through March 2022.
Molly Sherman
Molly Sherman is a graphic designer, artist, and educator based in San Antonio, Texas. Her practice operates at the intersection of socially engaged art and design. It transforms traditional formats—from print to digital—into platforms that engage audiences in participatory dialogue and reciprocal exchange. Her collaborative work has been presented at venues such as Artpace, the Centre Pompidou, the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the Matisse Museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, the Portland Art Museum, Texas Woman’s University, and the University of Texas, San Antonio. Sherman holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University. She is an assistant professor in communication design and co-advisor of the MFA in Communication Design program at Texas State University
Christopher Sleboda
Christopher Sleboda is a designer, illustrator, curator, organizer, and educator. He currently is an Associate Professor of Art at Boston University, where he teaches graphic design in the University's School of Visual Arts. From 2005 to 2020, he served as the Director of Graphic Design at the Yale University Art Gallery. During his tenure, Sleboda worked closely with graphic design students in the Yale MFA program and organized public events like the Odds and Ends Art Book Fair as well as talks by visiting graphic designers. Sleboda has also served as adjunct faculty at RISD since 2016. Sleboda is the co-founder of Draw Down Books, a platform that designs, publishes and sells titles that focus on graphic design, typography, photography, illustration, architecture, and art. Draw Down has offered Sleboda opportunities to curate exhibitions, exhibit and speak at artist book fairs, and take an active role in the independent publishing community.Sleboda’s work is featured in over a dozen books about graphic design, product design, and illustration. Over the past twenty years, he has designed numerous publications and exhibitions, and authored three monographs, Cleon Peterson (2015); Hardcore Fanzine: Good and Plenty, 1989-1993 (2019) and I Got Something to Say — Poster Inventory, 2013–2021 (2022).
Kathleen Sleboda
Kathleen Sleboda is an art director, graphic designer, and illustrator. Her work crosses disciplines and often weaves together the acts of making, curating, collaborating, and documenting. She is co-founder and design director of Draw Down Books, principal of the illustration studio Gluekit, and from 2013 to 2019 she curated the website Women of Graphic Design. Kathleen was formerly an archivist at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, where her focus was on the preservation of audio and visual materials as well as on improving community access to collections created by and about American Indian and First Nation peoples. Kathleen designs books and printed materials for cultural institutions while lecturing and writing about graphic design, independent publishing, Indigenous knowledge systems, and the preservation of cultural heritage. She currently teaches graphic design at Boston University, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Connecticut. Originally from San Francisco, she graduated from Yale University and holds Masters degrees from the University of British Columbia. Kathleen is Nlaka’pamux and a member of the Coldwater Indian Band of Merritt, British Columbia.
Dave Solo
David Solo is a Brooklyn based collector, independent writer and researcher, and patron focused on artists’ and photo books and related art. He is a frequent speaker and writer on artists’/photo books in NY and Europe and is actively involved with a number of art and book institutions in London and New York serving on various boards and committees. David is a co-founder of the Book Art Review initiative with the Center for Book Arts in NY, co-organized Photo Poetry Surfaces as part of the Bristol Photo Festival, curated the Photobibliomania exhibition at the ICP library and has supported a wide range of publishing, exhibition and public programming activities in the artists’ book space. Most recently he is working on the global history of photography and poetry in book form as well as related photo-text topics. His professional career has been in the technology, risk and financial sectors.
Paul Soulellis
Paul Soulellis is an artist and educator based in Providence, RI. His practice includes teaching, writing, and experimental publishing, with a focus on queer methodologies and network culture. He is founder/director of Queer.Archive.Work, a non-profit community reading room, publishing studio, and project space, and Department Head and Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design. Paul writes and speaks about art, design, and experimental publishing internationally, was a Design Insights speaker at the Walker Art Center in 2018, and was a featured speaker at the Eyeo Festival in 2019. Paul is also the founder of Library of the Printed Web, a physical archive devoted to web-to-print artists’ books, zines, and printout matter, now housed at MoMA Library in NYC.
Panayiotis Terzis
Panayiotis Terzis is an artist, printer and publisher based in NYC. His work has been published by Nieves, Fantagraphics, Landfill Editions, Vice Magazine, and others, and he has been exhibited widely across the US and globally including at the Elizabeth Foundation, Printed Matter Inc., the Swiss Institute, Andreas Melas Presents (Athens, Greece). His illustration clients include American Apparel, Digitaria, Elsewhere Space, EyeBodega, McDonald’s, Bloomberg Digital, and others. Terzis is also the founder of the Riso publishing platform Mega Press. His artist books, zines and print editions are in the permanent collection of the MoMA Library, the Brooklyn Museum, the New York Public Library and the collection of Stanford University among others. Pan’s work has been featured on It’s Nice That, Booooooom, Juxtapoz, The Comics Journal, Atlas Obscura, and other venues. He teaches Risograph printing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and is a co-founder of the SVA RisoLAB.
Dimitry Tetin
Dimitry Tetin is a teacher and graphic designer from Austin, Texas. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Texas State University where he coordinates the Communication Design BFA Program. He regularly writes and presents about design education, typography and motion design and distributes and exhibits printed matter, videos, objects and websites about landscapes, cities, popular culture, and history through Track and Field (trackandfield.pub) with Marc Choi.
Ásta Þrastardóttir
Ásta Þrastardóttir is an MFA candidate in Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design. She specializes in editorial design, typography, and video. She received her BA from Boston University. She is originally from Iceland and based in Providence.
Anthony Tino
Anthony Tino is a creative producer and curator based in London, England. Tino is the co-founder of platforms such as Endless Editions and Fully Booked, projects which have enabled the publishing and dissemination of books by international artists at all stages of their careers. From 2017 – 2019, Tino co-directed the Fully Booked Dubai Art Book Fair, which primarily focused on highlighting works from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. Tino is currently working towards earning his MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy at Goldsmiths, University of London. His forthcoming exhibition Beyond Codex: Living Archives, co-curated with Shahar Kramer, opens at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in April 2022.
Melanie Uribe
Melanie Uribe is a Creative Director currently working in collectible brand merchandise for MLB leagues, and European Soccer Teams such as Barcelona FC, and Juventus FC among others. She is also Assistant Professor at Southern Connecticut State University, where her research focuses on exploring the notion of exhibition space as a medium that facilitates effective communication, information flow, and the sharing of narratives that are both personal and universal about the complicated experiences of immigrants; voluntary or involuntary. In her personal practice, Melanie works at the intersection of graphic design, printmaking, and book arts. She sees paper as an infinite field for visualization and creative thinking and a timeless material that can be used to design and create in contemporary ways. She earned a B.F.A. in Graphic Design from the University of Central Florida, and an M.F.A. in Graphic Design from Florida Atlantic University.
Reshma Vijayan
Reshma Vijayan is a current candidate in the Graphic Design MFA program at Boston University. Reshma obtained a BFA in Visual Arts from Stella Maris College in Chennai, India, and worked for several years as a professional designer before deciding to pursue her graduate education.
George Wietor
Issue Press is a tiny publisher and Risograph print shop operated by George Wietor in Grand Rapids, MI, USA. Since 2010, it has worked with an elastic mandate to publish captivating works by artists of all mediums that trade in humor, history, and exploration of place. In addition to publishing, Wietor has initiated several side projects dedicated to the growth of the international Riso community, including: stencil.wiki; An Atlas of Modern Risography; and with Matt Davis of Perfectly Acceptable Press, Wietor is a cofounder of the North American Risograph Conference (NARC), a gathering of Riso devotees held biannually in Chicago, Illinois.
Mary Yang
Mary Yang is a designer and educator based in Boston, MA. She is the founder of Open Rehearsal, a design practice that works with clients and collaborators in the arts, music, and academia. Her research and projects explore the relationship between design and music, exhibition design, and publishing in collaboration with curators and publishers including Harvard University's Houghton Library, New England Triennial 2022 (deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and Fruitlands Museum), Verso Books, the University of Washington Press, among others. She is an Assistant Professor at Boston University where she teaches in the Graphic Design undergraduate and graduate programs. Yang holds an MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in Communication Design from Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.
Chantal Zakari
Chantal Zakari is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and art educator; a Turkish-Levantine, and a US citizen, residing in the Boston area. In her work, she draws upon contemporary social issues by making connections through personal narratives, history and popular culture. Inspired by social phenomena she positions herself in relationship to a public or a subculture. Her studio practice freely combines research methodologies and artistic strategies borrowed from various disciplines such as photography, documentary, performance, storytelling, installation, graphic design and social interventions.
Graphic Identity by Chen Luo, MFA Candidate in Graphic Design at Boston University