❉ WORKSHOP ANNOUNCED ❉
Finally! as requested by so many excited about this form— I am teaching this shapeshifting diamond book structure at Spudnik @spudnikpress on May 9th / 10 - 4
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This one-day workshop invites participants to learn fundamental bookbinding practices to construct an experimental book form that can be displayed and experienced in multiple ways. We will explore how books can expand, transform, unfold, and occupy space—functioning as both narrative structures and sculptural objects.
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Participants will be guided through the development, material exploration, and hands-on construction techniques to create a flexible book form that shifts between states (e.g., flat, dimensional, geometric, or sequential)
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No prior bookbinding experience required but encouraged!
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Sign up @ /classes/may-9-building-a-shapeshifting-artist-book-with-bex-ya-yolk/
Stoked to be guest faculty at Pratt @prattinstitute this summer teaching an intensive:
̠D̠̠i̠̠s̠̠o̠̠b̠̠e̠̠d̠̠i̠̠e̠̠n̠̠t̠ ̠P̠̠u̠̠b̠̠l̠̠i̠̠s̠̠h̠̠i̠̠n̠̠g̠ a̠̠t̠ ̠t̠̠h̠̠e̠ A̠̠r̠̠t̠ ̠B̠̠o̠̠o̠̠k̠ ̠F̠a̠̠i̠̠r̠
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This intensive provides necessary and practical skills to produce artists’ book and zine editions with the goal of exhibiting and selling work at art book fairs and zine fests around the world. Students will engage in all aspects of book production with an emphasis on experimental fabrication methods to more compellingly engage with the contemporary independent publishing ecosystem. Studio work will be supplemented with field trips, equipment and bookbinding demonstrations, and advisory from currently practicing presses and independent publishers.
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Emphasis will be made to ways artists’ publishing has been used to disrupt convention by means of fostering community and making inclusive spaces for folks historically excluded from the commercial publishing canon writ large.
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June 22 - July 3 🖨️
𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘹 𝘣𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 🧱🌊 is an archive of drift bricks
found
scavenged
unearthed
spit up
on
in
near
by
next to
close up
east of
west of
Lake Michigan
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Making its debut at @indexartbookfair in México City
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Specs:
Lotus fold
~ 8ft at full length
Book board w/ concrete textured additive
Rene typeface
Edition of 30
#papersarchive
Can’t think of a better way to kick off the New Year than exhibiting at @indexartbookfair in Mexico City, January 15 — 18🇲🇽
IABF is bringing together independent publishers from all over the world, creating a space for dialogue, reflection, and experimental book works currently in the artist publishing ecosystem
Excited to be showing THUNGRY internationally 🔗🪢
That’s a wrap on fall book fair season! THANK YOU for all the support 🧱 From September to November, THUNGRY exhibited in NYC, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and home court— Chicago. Tabling with other publishers + book makers while meeting so many people who also love books is the heartbeat of a publishing practice— arguably the best part.
THUNGRY will be back at it in January with new titles dropping in 2026 🛼
𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙨 𝙬𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙝𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 / 2025
A bookwork utilizing motion sensor mechanics to turn a page without touch
Now on view in ‘Sacred Containers: Capsules, Conduits, and Other Stories’ curated by @foxinthecove at @cacoalition until October 9
THUNGRY will be exhibiting at the Center for Book Arts @centerforbookarts , BOOKsmART Artists’ Book Fair at Art on Paper @artmarketproductions this week [ Sept. 4-7 ] in NYC
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Excited to be among a small but mighty selection of book artists’ tabling this mega event 📖
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See you soon NY 🗽
‘𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵’ is an editioned chapbook that touches on a specific form of naming colonization that is used to devalue and invalidate queer + native communities. Our communication is inherently linked to our sense of safety— how it’s used can heal or harm. Naming erasure is a foundational tactic of ongoing colonialism that still exists. This work reflects lived experience while encouraging naming practices that go beyond White settler, heteronormative colonialism.
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Edition of 40
5.5” x 18”
2025
I would heart up for another night of talking + performing books with @__bench_press and @smingsmingbooks 🐯🎛️
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Thank you Vivian for sharing Sming Sming with us for a night + RTS for hosting
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The Bay Area has been so good to us— we’ll be bouncing back soon
back in the Bay Area— on residency with @__bench_press 🗜️ at @realtimeandspace spending deep time in the studio
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With the last many months focused on teaching across 3 institutions, making new work feels like remembering
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a quick book made during a group draw/make—hang organized by @h_marsh_schenck at @hoofprintchicago
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The works everyone made within a few tender hours will be contributions in a larger publication 🛰️ so, brb.
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#papersarchive
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