3 Minute Strike, @christiancasas_
“The following works explore how we can embody our emotional legacies and how the labor of healing from trauma can become a place of artistic expression-specifically, abstraction-not only as an aesthetic convention but as a verb.”
Over 90 pages of risograph printed reproductions that represent a large body of originals that utilize watercolor, oil pastel, graphite, concrete poetry, video, and steel-plate monoprint.
Printed by @cereal.box.studio
Do You Like Me? ….( •̯́ ₃ •̯̀)
Beautiful anthology from @secretroompress , featuring 40 love-lorn pages from four Portland based artists of romance comics celebrating the tense, eager, silly, strange, and anxious nature of love.
Shush is an art + comic series from @secretroompress highlighting new work by a single artist in each issue.
Shush•quietly reading art…🫧
Full series at the shop! Shush 01-03
This upcoming Wednesday! We are excited to host Mark Nozak on his tour for his new book from Coffee House Press ‘…Again’. He’ll be joined from Chicago by Ken Taylor (whose new book 57 wyomings was just released by Black Square Editions) and the brilliant Aitana Benitez of Milwaukee!
Thank you to @flybyonscreens and @aantonioov for bringing us all together, see you there!
ANNOUNCEMENT: the 3rd installment of our book fair series is happening the first weekend of June in Milwaukee.
It features the finest, weirdest, wonderful-est booksellers the upper Midwest has to offer. Plenty to go wild about.
Our friends @melon.mke are hosting it in their gorgeous space in Walker’s Point.
We’re mixing up some of the vendors between the two days, to give you more opportunity to find more new favorite (mostly 2nd hand) books.
FRI June 5, 6-9PM (Party-style w/ drinks & music & your best book friends)
@melon.mke@mushroombooks@mikemildew@esr.books@ixtlanbooks
Intelligent Elephant Books
SAT June 6 10AM - 6PM
@melon.mke@mushroombooks@mikemildew@ixtlanbooks@perpetualbooks (Chicago)
@madisonpaperbacks & @augiesbooks (Madison)
Tell your friends. Bring your parents. Your former college roommate doesn’t have plans those days, surely.
Spread the word.
See ya soon.
Image by the always amazing @museum_putty !
Extremely grateful for the opportunity to have had host a magical @ordinary_risks dinner at @melon.mke 💚 very happy to have an excuse to make an extravagant floral arrangement >:3
I designed the menu as a notebook to accompany a bibliomancy activity for the lucky attendees, along with a recipe card for the GREENEST of coconut curries. These would not have come out so beautiful without the magical @bearbear.co printing touch!!!🐻💚
Thank you @lainietookthis for the beautiful photos!!❣️
Melon + Bughouse bring you an evening with the delightful sounds of:
Singing in the Rain -
Expierimental electronic project of Madison-based musician Preston Clopton; utilizing tape loops, drum machines, and a variety of hardware to create ambience with elements of IDM, drone and noise music.
Friendly Spectres -
The solo moniker of Madison-based multi-instrumentalist Cami Scheller. Synth and guitar music for dancing through the end times.
Dave Schoepke -
Milwaukee-based drummer, composer, and educator with a vast repertoire across experimental and contemporary music. Through music he explores the interplay of percussion, unique electronic devices, and natural environments.
see you there 🎵🌳🎶🐛
