#detroit zine fest

[sennamaticart]

A cover I made for a new Zine! I rushed to get the zine finished before the Detroit Zine Fest, which is today! Hopefully ill get to trade some copies with other zine artists! (and put my extra copies up in my shop!)

[thebardon]

🐱 Cat Guy 🐱 New Riso print fresh off the presses. Gearing up for Detroit Zine Fest in March!

[skiddykid]

detroit zinefest haul and table 🧛🍄

it was my first time tabling on this scale! it was super fun and talking with folks about zines and everything else was definitely worth the stress of prep hehe

I'll have thr remainder of my stock online soon (hopefully next weekend)

haul with all the artist handles here:

[yieldingtides]

Upcoming Zine Fests for 2023

Heyo! I’ll put this announcement sometime on my other social media but here are the zinefests that I’ll be attending for this year!

March 4th: Detroit Zine Fest  @ The Jam Handy (2900 E Grand Blvd) 11AM - 7PM

May 20th: Chicago Zine Fest @  Plumbers Hall (1350 W Washington Blvd) time TBA

I’ll put this info under my pinned post once I get more info! But going to try to apply to other regional zine fests (maybe outside my area? California perhaps?) 

[elvenking42]

There's a zine Fest happening in Detroit and I'm SO desperate to find someone to go with me to it. Mostly because I can't drive and it's too far to Uber

[aokvisualartist]

Working on a sketchbook zine for Detroit Zine Fest! While I’ve kept intense yearly journals / project sketchbooks, I’ve never created a ‘greatest hits’ like this. I’m really enjoying the process! I think I’ll be really excited to look back at these each year as well, so this might become an annual practice like my Holiday Letter zine. I think it would be cool to return to these drawings that I otherwise forget since they aren’t ‘polished’ end projects. 

[dnaartists]

DnA is here! We've got our website up-and-running, and we're excited to share that we'll be tabling at Detroit Zine Fest in March. Keep an eye on our feed for updates!

[stolenchapstick]

tomorrow i will be at detroit zine fest from 11a-7pm at the jam handy! the event is free, i have new merch and comics for sale ~ i will also put them up online. if you come say hi i'll give you this sticker !!

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LA / MATERIAL GIRLS: Palms

PALMS presented by MATERIAL GIRLS March 16 - April 7, 2019 opening reception March 16, 7-10pm

MATERIAL GIRLS is pleased to present Palms, the collective’s first show in LA featuring small sculptures by 15 artists. It is an established social contract that one is permitted to “look but not touch” art objects. Palms invites visitors to temporarily transgress this boundary- allowing them to touch, hold, and move the objects within the context of the exhibition. The works rest on a large curvilinear plywood platform that re-directs the automatic choreography of art viewership. Instead of left to right, front to back, viewers will be encouraged to slowly wind through space. With this direct tactile understanding of the work, and a constantly changing “curation” depending on interaction, visitors are entrusted with an art viewing experience that is both fluid and communal.

Each artist was asked to present an object holding boundaries and touch in mind. These considerations emerge from the MATERIAL GIRLS’ broader interest in tactility and bodily awareness of space as a feminist undertaking. In preparation for this exhibition, the participating artists contributed writings and images to a zine, Fronds, that is available to read and purchase at the exhibition.

Palms features the work of:

Yesenia Bello Cameron Cameron Cara Chan Jisoo Chung Devra Freelander Hilliary Gabryel Julieta Gil Ling-lin Ku Claire Lachow Gracelee Lawrence Amelia Lockwood Ofelia Marquez Nina Sarnelle Rachael Starbuck Amia Yokoyama Rachel Youn

MATERIAL GIRLS is a feminist collective of sculptors and digital artists formed in 2016. Founded by Cameron Cameron, Devra Freelander, Hilliary Gabryel, Claire Lachow, Gracelee Lawrence and Rachael Starbuck, MATERIAL GIRLS organized to create a space for emerging, under-represented artists and thinkers in the patriarchal art world. They are committed to making and sharing work, fostering conversation, and supporting one another through their practice. While each member of MATERIAL GIRLS retains a vibrant and active independent studio practice, they come together to collaborate on site-specific installations and projects. MATERIAL GIRLS has co-authored immersive installations, organized exhibitions, and exhibited works at Random Access Gallery (Syracuse, NY); SPRING/BREAK Art Show (New York, NY); SVA Curatorial Practices (Brooklyn, NY); ALT ESC: No Vacancy 3 (Brooklyn, NY); Trestle Projects (Brooklyn, NY); the Church Troy (Troy, NY); the Museum of Human Achievement (Austin, TX); and Sadie Halie Projects (Minneapolis, MN.) materialgirls.work @material.grls

Biographies Yesenia Bello is an artist and arts administrator living in Chicago, IL. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2016). Her practice stems from lived experiences as a first generation Mexican-American, retracing sensations that arise from slowly losing her native tongue. Her work has been presented locally at places like 6018 North, The Overlook Place, DfbrL8r Gallery, and Chicago Artists Coalition, where she participated in HATCH Projects (2016-2017). Between 2011-2016 she was co-organizer of Walla Fest, a volunteer run gathering around the Philadelphia area. yeseniabello.com @yeseniabello

Cameron Cameron lives in Los Angeles. She received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2014, attended Virginia Commonwealth University Summer Studio Program in 2015 and received an MFA from UCLA in 2018. Cameron uses sculptural interventions to compensate for generic imagery, and questions how the mundane may represent the feeling of loss or longing around the disorder of the day-to-day. She has participated in Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Ox-Bow School of Art, Grin City Collective Residency, and the Art Students League of New York. cameron-cameron.com @winter_shorts

Cara Chan lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.  Chan creates large-scale architectural and body-based sculpture often involving gestural interaction and exchange. She received her BFA from New York University (2009) and her MFA from University of California, Los Angeles (2017), and has been an artist in residence at Banff Center for the Arts, ACRE Projects, Vermont Studio Center, Ox-bow School of Art, Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop, and Lighthouse. cara-chan.com  @caraachan

Jisoo Chung is an LA-based multi-disciplinary artist working primarily through video, photo, enactment, and installation. Chung’s work pays attention to the failures that we encounter in our daily lives such as failure of communication and translation, failure of exhibiting, and currently more focusing on the failure of daily-based technology. Exhibitions and screenings include Los Angeles; 1748 adams, Socal MFA juried exhibition, Pomona, Seoul; Screening Project: Dongshi Sangyoung, Museum CICA, Gallery Aloq Episode. Chung received a BFA from Seoul National University, and is currently an MFA candidate at UCLA. chungjisoo.com @jigu.nee

Devra Freelander is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her work explores geology and climate change from a millenial and ecofeminist perspective. Freelander received her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her BA from Oberlin College. She is a founding member of MATERIAL GIRLS, and has participated in the Women’s Studio Workshop Residency (2018),  Arctic Circle Residency (2017), Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship (2017), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency (2016-2017), and the Virginia Commonwealth University Summer Studio Program (2013). She is represented by CIRCA Gallery. devrafreelander.com @devrafreelander

Hilliary Gabryel lives and works in Queens, NY. Her work is aspirational, echoing the immediacy of the consumerist market and commenting on luxury and feminine expectations. She received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a founding member of MATERIAL GIRLS and co-founder of the interdisciplinary Ridgewood, Queens project space ERA VI VII VI (2014-2016). Her work has been shown in New York, NY; Austin, TX; Minnesota, MN; Richmond, VA. Residencies & awards include the Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, the Wassaic Project, ASMBLY Session #1, and VCU Summer Studio Program. hkgabryel.com @hilliarygabryel

Julieta Gil lives and works between Los Angeles and Mexico City. She holds an MFA in Media Arts from UCLA. Her creative research incorporates installation, sculpture, 3D animation and print to explore topics of simulation, and the overlappings that occur between the virtual and physical. She was a grant recipient of Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and the Arts (2015–2016) and co-founder of FEMMEBIT, an experimental video festival held in Los Angeles. She has exhibited in spaces such as Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, Anchorage Museum, Nevada Museum of Art, National Museum of Art (Mexico City), Future Gallery, Human Resources and Zuecca Projects. julietagil.com @julietagilg

Ling-lin Ku is a Taiwan born, U.S. based artist currently living and working in Austin, Texas. Her sculpture and installation work explores language, everyday life, play and fetish through diverse materials and digital fabrication. Ku was selected to participate in the International Studio and Curatorial Program and Vermont Studio Center, and her work has been exhibited throughout the US. She is currently an MFA candidate in the University of Texas at Austin’s Sculpture and Extended Media program, and an art columnist for KUROSHIO FOCUS online media. linglinku.com @linglin_ku

Claire Lachow is an artist & writer whose work exists between physical and digital environments, fixating on the cultural and political predicaments of commodification, desire, language, and identity. She is the recipient of a 2019 Red Bull Arts Detroit residency & fellowship. Selected exhibitions include the Governors Island Art Fair, Super Dutchess, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Local Host Gallery, and Schema Projects. Lachow received a BA from Oberlin College and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. clairelachow.com @clayore

Gracelee Lawrence recently returned from Thailand where she was a visiting artist at Chiang Mai University. She received her MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media at the University of Texas at Austin in 2016 and her BA in Sculpture from Guilford College in 2011. She is a co-founder of Pig and Pony Gallery and a contributing writer for the International Sculpture Center Blog. She has shown work internationally and was a 2016–17 Luce Scholars Fellow, a recipient of the 2015 UMLAUF Prize, the 2013 Eyes Got It Prize, and the 2011-12 Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artist Grant. graceleelawrence.com @gleeleelawlee

Amelia Lockwood is a visual artist whose use of ceramic processes privileges trace, error, mutation and collapse. Lockwood received her BFA from Syracuse University (2012), completed post-bac studies at University of Colorado, Boulder (2016), and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles. @amiamia

Ofelia Marquez is a first generation Mexican- American artist based in Los Angeles. She received her MFA in sculpture at UCLA and is currently an art restorer at Aleksei Tivetskys Art Restoration and Conservation studio. Ofelia Marquez has recently exhibited at: Human Resources, The Mistake Room, Anonymous Gallery, New Wight Gallery, the William Rolland Gallery of Fine Art, Avenue 50, and REDCAT. ofeart.wixsite.com @ofemarquez

Nina Sarnelle is an artist and musician with a BA from Oberlin College and MFA from Carnegie Mellon University.  A founding member of the Institute for New Feeling and dadpranks, she’s recently shown work at Whitechapel Gallery, Hammer Museum, Getty Center, Ballroom Marfa, MoMA, Istanbul Modern, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, NADA Miami, MAAT (Lisbon), Fundacion PROA (Buenos Aires), Black Cube (Denver), Southern Exposure (San Francisco), Recess (NY), Akademie Schloss Solitude, UNSW Galleries (Sydney), Project 88 (Mumbai), Villa Croce Contemporary (Genova), CCA Santa Fe, MWoods (Beijing), and MoCA Cleveland. ninasarnelle.com @ninasarnelle

Rachael Starbuck is currently living and working in Austin, TX. She received her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin in 2017 and her BFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011. She is co-founder of curatorial collective Partial Shade. She has been a resident at ACRE Projects, The Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside, The Wassaic Project and The Vermont Studio Center and has shown work in Richmond, VA; Providence, RI; Chicago, IL; Austin, TX; Houston, TX; New York, NY; and London, UK. rachaelstarbuck.com @starbuckra

Amia Yokoyama grew up in Illinois, in a bi-lingual, bi-cultural, bi-racial, bi-religious household. This experience of the world carries her. Amia is a multi-media artist who works with experimental animation, video, 2D mixed media, and installation. Amia dropped out of University of British Columbia for her B.Sci in Sustainable Development, and received a BA from New York University in 2010, and an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts in 2017. She has received fellowships from Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Women in the Media, and United Plankton Charitable Trust. amiayokoyama.com @iamamia

Rachel Youn is an artist living and working in St. Louis, MO. They use sculpture and new media to poke fun at hierarchal narratives embedded in objects and lifestyles. Sourcing from home furnishing stores and oriental goods peddled on craigslist, their work collapses notions of authenticity and artifice through the lens of identity. They received their BFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2017 and has exhibited at the Sheldon Art Galleries, Parapet Real Humans, the Millitzer Gallery, the Luminary and Flood Plain, the Bermuda Project, and Open House. They are a recipient of the Regional Arts Commission Artist Support Grant and the Vermont Studio Center Fellowship. rachelyoun.com @rachelyoun

[streetcatzinefest]

SCZF 2018 Exhibitor List

Philistines Zine Co. (Columbus, OH) >Philistines

Philistines is a collection of stories, art, letters, and social commentary. Send anything that can be scanned and printed to philistines (dot) zine (at) gmail (dot) com Curated by Stephen David

https://philizine.tumblr.com/

Hannah Williams, HRW (Parma Hts, OH) >Relative Strangers, Smoking Dreams, Tag Along, and others

Perzines centered on a certain subject-- for example Smoking Dreams is about smoking, Tag Along is about graffiti. Also: vintage photos and ephemera, cut and paste art, and recurring themes of nature and Cleveland.

http://wemakezines.com/members/hrw7005/

Ben Wright-Heuman - Cartoonist Extraordinaire (New Albany, OH) >The Letters of the Devil, CosPain, The Man in Green, The Light Outside the Window, Trinary My work is multigenre. I have a mystery graphic novel, a humor comic strip collection, and minicomics covering horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and memoir. I have a little bit of everything for everybody! www.BWHComics.com

Courtney Hahn (Fort Wayne, IN) >Drop Out, Enough Space for Everyone Else, Podunk My work is cute, consistent and versatile. While I tend to explore the same themes, I try to keep the subject matter and styles interesting and fresh.

http://www.courtneyartstuffs.com/

Michael Fehskens (Columbus, OH) >R-Complex, Tariffs for Tsavo, The Travels of Tabby Timbuck Michael Fehskens is a midwestern artist and author. Born in Pennsylvania and graduated from Columbus College of Art & Design, where he studied illustration and comic art. 

Wrote and illustrated children's books and graphic novels full of animals, lush landscapes, and psychedelic cosmic nonsense. His unique style is often compared to a combination between Alex Grey & Doctor Seuss.

www.michaelfehskens.com

The Dollhouse & friends (Columbus, OH) >The Dollhouse/Local Cool Kids The Dollhouse is a feminist art zine that I publish every month! I will also have a few zine buds bringing their projects too! The Dollhouse is also a venue in Columbus! https://www.instagram.com/Thedollhousezine/

*Draw Down Books (New England Region, USA) >World Order, La Joconde et le cadre, Luck, White Bricks Draw Down Books is a designer-run publishing platform based in New England, producing small and unique books & zines with a focus on graphic design, photography, typography, illustration, and architecture. We also operate an online shop where we distribute zines by graphic design students and professionals, Riso-printed zines, and other publications. In addition to publishing the work of others, Draw Down publishes our own photo, design, and illustration work.

Draw Down feels it is important to highlight and support zine and artist book culture. We contribute regularly to http://stencil.wiki/fairs and highlight different artist book and zine fairs via Twitter. It's important for us to support fairs of different sizes and scales - we think zines are an empowering art form, a site for art production, writing experimentation, and cultural criticism.

https://draw-down.com/

*Liz Tetu (Minnesota) >Lipstick, Spacebian Lipstick is a smart punk perzine playing with drag, humor, photography, and the construction of comic strips to talk about trans issues. Black & white, 12-pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Spacebian is a cute funny comic that follows Sam, a Sapphic sun-scrubber, and her butch tech-savvy friend Tyler as they both discover the hidden perils of space. Black, white, & grey, 16-pages, around 4.25 x 5.5 inches. I'm a white, bi, butch Bear from MN. I print my zines at the local library and hand assemble them with my swinging compatriot, the fanciest hand-operated Swingline stapler you've ever seen. I usually contribute to larger zine projects; look for me in Exposure: Queer Masculine Sexuality, Cartoon Punk: Artists Against Fascism, and Queer-Spirit Charity Zine - Issue 1!

https://busyliz.weebly.com/

*Matthew Scott Gualco (Brooklyn,CA) >Frank Oceans, Emai Ejaculation,Doom/Doomed/Dooms Much of my art comes from my own dyslexic misunderstanding of the world and my misadventures therein. I have a mixed-bag of zines, posters, and wearable swag that make light of the highbrow art world and our own lowbrow pop culture. I genuinely want to make people smile when they interact with my art and invite them to contemplate the sacredness of some of our value systems.

http://www.matthewgualco.com

StudMuffinZine (Olmsted Falls, OH) >StudMuffinZine Politics, music, art, comics, poetry, stories, and fart jokes. Circa 2002.

http://studmuffinzine.tumblr.com/

*The Panoptic Press (Webster, NY) >Various works Comics and limited run print including zines, photo publications, collage, and artists' books.

http://www.thepanopticpress.com/

Zuri - Juste Milieu (Detroit, MI) >Juste Milieu Lit + Art Zine , Not Too Far from China , Woes of a Well-Lit City

The juste milieu, the happy medium, between reality and art. JM was created to give independent writers and artists a space to have their works published, in print and online. With at least two issues per season, JM shares the work of poets, storytellers, photographers, and illustrators.

http://www.literaryhomegirl.com/

Meg Has Issues (Atlanta, GA) >Cat Therapy, Cat Detective, Damn Hipsters, Open In Case of Emergency

My comics mostly consist of cats, terrible humor, self care, and absurdity. I create works on a variety of subjects (mostly my cat) with the goal of making people smile.

www.meghasissues.com

*Mattias Gunnarsson (Göteborg, SWEDEN) >Various works The publications I make are either collections of drawings out of sketchbooks or they are part of ongoing processes where I collaborate with others. My zines are traces of the work I do.

www.mattiasg.se

New Cult + Cheering and Waving Press (Lancaster, OH) >New Hearts New Bones, Hypernormalisation, Haddonfield, MOLESTED

Our longest running zine (est 2010) New Hearts New Bones focuses on political, social, and theological commentary on recent local and global events. The zine often includes collage work. Our latest zine MOLESTED tells a story of childhood sexual abuse and healing with a focus on prevention and support. We also focus on feminism, economics, global warming, and morality in our zines. Our work is meant to spark conversations and open dialogues about topics that are not normally discussed, especially in public spaces.

This is the second year that Cheering and Waving Press (CWP) has organized Street Cat Zine Fest in Lancaster, OH. This year in partnership with New Cult.

http://newcult.org/ https://cheeringandwaving.tumblr.com/

*mail in exhibitors

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[skiddykid]

✨️new sticker design✨️

this'll be debuting at detroit zine fest in march and then will be available online afterwards :^)

[yieldingtides]

Changes [April 2024 Update]

April is Poetry Month! I might be publishing some poetry or things that I feel confident sharing (mostly will be posted on my patreon if you do follow me there). Till then, this month is prep work. Or pre-prep work. Going back to do in person spaces with zines and comic stuff, I thought about different ways to update my table display? I think I’m at a good start with what I have, but this year I’ll be changing so much. I hope it’s not too much since it’s really fun meeting new people and sharing the zine/comic love. 💖

Updates for this Month:

Detroit Zine Fest! April 6th @ the Jam Handy! If you’re around the area, please stop by to say hi! I’ll post my table location on the day of!

After a week of DZF, I'll be updating my etsy if you want to buy my zines and other goodies!

Still taking my time with OIYD! (honestly it's hard getting back in my usual practices with comiking but I will try!). I'll try to update its mirrors this month once everything is settled after my zine prep things! lol

Oh yeah. Coals and Lilacs? First Arc is completed. 😎 Patrons will be seeing the rough draft format soon as I'm starting to write the second part!

[yieldingtides]

Poetry and Lines [March 2024 Update]

Lately I’ve been revisiting Anna Swir’s work and the imagery still dances in the mind. I often find myself writing or thinking of short snippets of poetry when I’m in nature, a crowd, or observing in general. It’s a lot quicker than a sketch. Though, like a drawing, painting a picture with words is also a skill I like to refine more.

Maybe this is me trying to achieve an impossible goal. Like wanting to write more, to draw more, till my body can’t keep up. There’s a lot I would like to do, but it’s nearly two months and I feel I’ve done a lot. Crazy, huh. The world’s revolving faster and it’s harder to slow down. Poetry, in that sense, makes me pause and perceive the finer details in life. I wish there’s more of that, more moments closer to humanity.

I think that would be a good way to start a day, hm?

Some updates for this month:

I mentioned this on OIYD’s website, but the comic will take a short hiatus so I can prepare for Detroit Zine Fest. April 6th @ the Jam Handy! If you’re around the area, please stop by to say hi!

[yieldingtides]

Detroit Zine Fest 2023

Thanks ya’ll who came to visit me yesterday. PINE is nearly sold out (got one copy left but I’m going to print some more!)

I’ll be releasing my online shop very soon for those who want a physical copy of my zine. Links will be provided in the pinned post!

[yieldingtides]

PINE

A woman describes living in a stranger’s home for one winter day.

A horror short story zine. This will be debuting next week at Detroit Zine Fest. Hope to see you there if you’re in the area! Please check my pinned post for more info!