January 9 - 14 2012
Bridget and I are in South Bend / Notre Dame, Indiana at Saint Mary's College installing
ILSSA Every Day Work, an exhibition at the Hammes Gallery. The show will open Friday February 3
and run through early March. More on this soon!
December 3 - 17, 2011
For a two week found typography project, I'm enjoying a stint as Visiting Professor of graphic design at Ludong University in Yantai, China! You can see some photos of Yantai over on my tumblr.November 2011
After a 13 year hiatus, my ancient zine Muffin Bones is back with issue #20! But it is sad and subtitled Basil is Dying, as
it is a eulogy to my cat who died this summer. If you read Muffin Bones back in the day, you may recall him.
You can both laugh and cry for the middling price of $2; or even better: your zine in trade; or if you prefer: $2 in stamps. The old
fashioned way of zine correspondence is always preferred: 1069 Connecticut Ave, Suite 4-310, Bridgeport CT 06607.
But if you're in a hurry, Paypal works too: send $2 (or $10 for a package deal of this new zine plus Parfait issues 3 & 4, the
Wanna Trade? zine exhibition guide, & recent letterpress ephemera) to emily--(at)--redcharming.com. Thank you and long
live cats everywhere!!
November 12 & 13, 2011
Save the date for the American Fabrics Arts Building's annual Open Studios. And save the time: 10am - 5pm each day. I'll be printing letterpress motivational posters on-demand! We'll ply you with snacks! Homemade snacks. And beverages, likely not handmade. Preservation Sound will be selling new handmade audio gear. I'll have some new stuff to show, promise, like Muffin Bones #20 (did anyone ever think that day would come? I did not). We're the first space on the 3rd floor, bizarrely labeled #310. Hope to see you there! Which is here: 1069 Connecticut Ave, Building 4, Bridgeport CT, 06607.October 2011
Bridget and I talk about ILSSA with the charming Eleanor Whitney of the New York Foundation for the Arts!Summer 2011
What am I up to? Vegetable gardening, basket weaving, tag saling, mandolin playing, cat grieving, zine making, floor loom weaving, book designing, flea marketing, editing and hand type-setting an interview with the much-admired ladies of Bloodroot... and rethinking, redesigning, and (i.e. also recoding by hand) this website! It is a work-in-progress. Kindly pardon any craziness. Thanks!July 18 - 22, 2011
I taught a super-fun (thanks to a most excellent group of graduate students!) 5-day workshop, Design Thinking for Artists, at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY.July 8 - October 16, 2011
Our ILSSA publications are in very good company in the exhibition Fine and Dirty: Contemporary Letterpress Art at the Star Tribune Foundation Gallery in the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. The exhbition will tour after that, making a stop at NYC Center for Book Arts, so keep any eye out for a location near you!May 27 - July 6, 2011
As an outgrowth of my paper Splits, Trades, Reviews, & Distros; Zine Culture as Model, I am curating an exhibition, Wanna Trade?, about a 90s zine trading network at Asheville Bookworks. You can download the resulting publication over here, or write me if you'd like a hard copy. Big thanks to Asheville Bookworks for making this project a success!April 7, 2011
I'm honored to be a guest speaker at Matvei Yankelevich's interdisciplinary MFA Creative Writing & MFA Visual Art Art of the Book course at Columbia University. Thanks Matvei!March 18, 2011
Saint Louis, MO: Thanks to our generous host, Washington University, Impractical Labor is very pleased to be in town for the SGCI, publishing An Obsolete Technology Guide for the Citizens of St. Louis in collaboration with (ILSSA members!) All Along Press. If you're in town, stop on by, say hello to Bridget, and pick up a copy! Work of mine will also be on exhibit in the IMPRESS(ed) exhibition of contemporary letterpress prints at Webster University. Update! Images of the exhibition here.March 2011
The online arts journal The Highlights has published my hypothetical syllabus proposing a course investigating the institution as art practice. A big heartwarmed THANKS to those who've written inquiring if they could enroll!January 13 - 16, 2011
On Friday the 14th over at the College Book Art Association Conference in Bloomington, Indiana, I'll be presenting a paper entitled Splits, trades, distros: Zine Culture as Model, discussing the formal qualities and social strategies of 90s zines and zine culture.November 13 & 14, 2010
Save the date! Building-wide Open Studios here at the American Fabrics Arts Building: 10 am to 5 pm, 1069 Connecticut Ave, Bridgeport CT. Olmsted Audio (handmade audio electronics) & I are in Suite 310, come say hello! We can show you what we've been working on and feed you snacks.October 13 - 16, 2010
Bridget & I, representing ILSSA, will discuss technology & collaboration with our friends SCAP and Preacher's Biscuit Books on a panel entitled Unevenly distributed: high, low, and mixed technologies in three artists organizations. This is all happenin at the Mid-American Print Council (MAPC) New World/Old World Conference at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Hope to see you there!July 30, 2010
If you are in Chicago on July 30th, be sure to check out Copy Jam! 2 at the Printer's Ball at Columbia College, Chicago. You can trade in your (free!) admission ticket for a photocopy of my project, or that by one of my many talented cohorts.May 28 - July 4, 2010
Recent work of mine is included in Pressed: An Exhibition of Letterpress Printed Ephemera, in Denver, Colorado.May 18, 2010
Bridget Elmer & I will talk about ILSSA *live* accompanied by our friend the overheard projector. 6 pm at Apex Art, 291 Church Street, NYC. If you miss it, you'll be able to listen to the podcast via Bad at Sports, who kindly organized this event. Update! video and podcast are both up.February 11 - 14, 2010
At the upcoming CAA Conference in Chicago, I'll be presenting about ILSSA on a panel entitled Hypo-technology: Artists remix the Anachronistic and the Obsolete with the Present. Excited also to: visit Public Collectors, Quimby's, eat what those Chicagoans call "pizza."January 18, 2010
Bridget & I are interviewed about ILSSA on Printeresting!January 15 - February 20, 2010
The Stock project is included in the exhibition Collections as Evidence of Now at Zygote Press Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio.January 11 - 17, 2010
I'll be a visiting artist at SCAP at Florida State University, working on translating the Cross-platform cross-stitch project to letterpress. More on that over here!Dec 5 & 6, 2009
Letterpress holiday cards printed on-demand and while-you-wait, live, two days only! You determine what the card says. I will typeset and print it while supplies last & time permits, 10am to 5pm both days. $2 per card & envelope; no minimum, no maximum. Hope you like Corvinus Bold. In midnight blue.November 2009
Bridget & I, as the ILSSA Co-Operators, are very proud to contribute an essay to Temporary Services's new publication ArtWork: a national conversation about art, labor, & economics. Download it or request a copy for the price of shipping from Half Letter Press.November 14, 2009
Building-wide Open Studios here at the American Fabrics Building. 10 am to 5 pm, 1069 Connecticut Ave, Bridgeport CT. Olmsted Audio Experiments & I are in Suite 310, come say hello! It is free, open to the public, lots of snacks, you can't lose.September 27, 2009
ConnCreatives.com recently and graciously interviewed me on everything from my history in self-publishing to my thoughts on the role of graphic design, the nature of design education, and the impact of changing technology.