“Ain’t gonna work on Markie’s farm no more.” I am slowly withdrawing from IG in favor of other platforms that are non-algorithmic, federated, and/or allow for sustained attention. The primary move is the relaunch of the NewLights IDE(A/O)(B)LOG(Y/UE) as a free newsletter. It feels great, and long overdue (to me, anyway), to get back into a public writing practice. The IDE(A/O)(B)LOG(Y/UE) will be mostly essays and interviews, about all things book & print & the infrastructures that support them. The first post, with more details, is up already. Links to the new platforms are in the link place.
This IG account will remain intact, but primarily as an archive and a finding aid for my real work. You might still see me occasionally liking and commenting here. & maybe we’ll see each other irl someday…
VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: NewLights Press - @newlightspress
The NewLights Press is an interdependent printer & publisher working at the intersection of artists’ books, collaboration, and experimental text/image//making. Founded in 2000 by Aaron Cohick and currently based in Louisville, KY. All of our work is made by hand using riso, letterpress, and other processes.
Collectors, librarians, book artists— you have to get your hands on this incredible resource, the Artist’s Book Year Book 2026/27 edited by @sarah.bodman and Tom Sowden, published by Impact Press at the Centre for Print Research at UWE Bristol. It contains listings of book arts galleries, centers, studios, and book artists from around the world. This issue features an article by Aaron Cohick @newlightspress , artist pages by ABYB founder Tanya Peixoto @bookartbookshop , Paul Laidler, Vanessa Donnelly, Rachel Simmons and many more. Also the cover design is 🤩🤩🤩So excited to dig into this book over the summer! Wouldn’t it be cool to visit all of these locations? #bookart #artistsbooks #artistsbookyearbook #artlibraries
Piecing together titles for a new chapbook by Douglas Kearney. @douglas.kearney Poems written out of a text by Fred Moten. These will be scanned on the Riso glass and reprinted until they're all nice and smudgy.
CeLOUbrate Print @celoubrateprint at @portlandmuseumky today! Saturday, April 18, 10 to 5 pm. We're inside the museum today because of the weather. I also have a print in the show currently up at the museum. Come on up! Come on in!
I made some very quick Riso prints from scanned wood type. The prints are for local distribution (for now) but PDFs with color separations are available for free download on the NLP site. 8.5 x 11. Use as you like!
My offering for the #codex2026 parade: Day Book, a text-image-material poem about reading, time, memory, mortality, and living with metastasizing fascism. A book of hours, a book of the dead. Each copy is a new day. Each copy is a going forth.
174 pages, drumleaf binding with sewn-in booklets. Collagraph, Riso, delamination, and mixed media drawing. Variable edition of 12. More images, info, and a video of a complete pagethrough are on the NLP website.
Registration closes soon! And we start next week! There are still a few spots left! Online through @mnbookarts
This workshop will be a close, nitty-gritty look at all aspects of collaborative publishing as a creative practice: ethics, responsibilities, risks, but most of all possibilities. There will be spreadsheets, lists, diagrams, and conversation. Participants will work through a complete plan for a publication, fictional or real, and build customized digital tools along the way. This workshop is designed for beginners or folks that have done a few publications but want to think through their practice with others.
More info in the link place. MCBA does have scholarship options available.
In October I started a new series of posts on the NewLights IDE(A/O)(B)LOG/UE (on Substack and Patreon, linked in bio) where at the end of the month I post a selection of my studio process pics. So far it's been an enjoyable archival practice, so I thought I'd share it here. The IDE(A/O)(B)LOG/UE newsletter is my main "social" media these days...
The Ulises Carrion print in this image is courtesy of @emilylarned
I am very! excited! to be teaching a new! workshop (online through @mnbookarts ) called "Collaborative Publishing Deep-Dive." As the title implies it will be a close, nitty-gritty look at all aspects of collaborative publishing as a creative practice: ethics, responsibilities, risks but most of all possibilities. There will be spreadsheets, lists, diagrams, and much discussion. Participants will work through a complete plan for a publication, fictional or real, and build customized digital tools along the way. This workshop is designed for beginners or folks that have done a few publications but want to think through their practice with others. It's the first step in toward a long-running dream of an advanced professional practices curriculum for artist-publishers. More info in the link place. MCBA does have scholarship options available.
Tomorrow's SAS reading will include a collaborative group: @servanebriand Patrick Allen Fenton, and Samuel Mignot.
Born in Paris, Servane Briand is a printmaker and book artist based in San Francisco. In 2019, she started the project Passages of Babel, an exploration of the space in-between idiolects, a collaborative project on language, poetics and translation.
Patrick Fenton is a Bay Area-based artist, designer, and educator whose work delves into the intersections of time, place, identity, transformation and interfaces. He is passionate about the role of visual maker spaces and print as catalysts for building creative communities and sparking self-expression
Samuel Mignot is a writer and programmer interested in how digital processes influence and change how we engage with and create art
They will be reading from an ongoing, collaborative project called Arise by Any Other Name. "Each person has a personal language, what George Steiner calls an 'idiolect'; to work on a project together, and to experience it, is to translate. Arise by Any Other Name is a reflection on how every book is constantly changing; that—as a post-modern Heraclitus might put it—you cannot step into the same book twice, but that this is fundamentally what makes books worth reading."
The reading is tomorrow night, Wednesday, Nov. 5 at 8pm E / 7 pm C / 6 pm M / 5 pm P. On Zoom! Register through the link in bio.
SAS is brought to you by your friends @gorhamab and @newlightspress
