Paper Cuts

Guest: Zach Clark Host:  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on June 13, 2023 (background friends: Paul Shortt and Louis M. Schmidt) Zach Clark is an Oakland based artist and educator. Since 2016 he has published as National Monument Press , a publishing project focused on supporting uniquely American stories through small edition artist books, zines, printed ephemera, and curatorial projects, comple...

Guest : Scott Russell Morris Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on June 13, 2023 Scott Russell Morris is a writer and enthusiast. He lives in South Korea where he teaches writing and makes art. He is the creator of Magpie Zines , zines about tarot, magpies, and found meaning. He often digs through the trash. His first essay collection,  Points of Tangency , is forthcomin...

Guests : Rachna Soun, Sam Fedorova (StrangeLens), Kate Fitzpatrick, and Chas Wagner Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on April 1st at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop Late Comeback Press Late Comeback Press is a micropress based out of Northern Virginia and is run by three Asian-American women. Late Comeback primarily focuses on mental health and representing Asian-American culture in its mos...

Guest : Phil Hutinet Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on March 22 and April 6, 2023 Phil Hutinet , a third generation Capitol Hill resident, is the publisher of East City Art , DC's Visual Arts publication of record, which he began in 2010. In 2012-2013, his work east of the river at ARCH Development led to the founding of the Anacostia Playhouse and the Anacostia...

Guest : Lindsay Buchman Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on March 02, 2023 Lindsay Buchman is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and publisher living and working in Philadelphia, PA, and Saratoga Springs, NY. Her work explores image-making and writing through print and lens-based media, artist books, and installation. Buchman holds an MFA from the University of Penns...

Guest : Julia Arredondo Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on September 15, 2021. Julia Arredondo is an artist-entrepreneur who is currently a Resident Fellow at the Lunder Institute for American Art. Originally from Corpus Christi, TX; Julia is heavily influenced by the small, family-based businesses she grew up around. Formally trained in printmaking and specializ...

Guest : Corina Reynolds Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on September 1, 2021. Corina Reynolds is the Executive Director of Center for Book Arts in New York City. At CBA, she has focused on connecting artists across distance and time through a diverse program of exhibitions, panels, conferences, and classes. Her passion for the art of the book has led her to curate exhibitions, organ...

Guests : Matt Austin and Melanie Bohrer Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on August 10, 2021 Matt Austin designs, produces, and publishes projects motivated by systems of care. He is currently a founding member of the Candor Collective , a designer with Em Design Studio , and maintains a consistent newsletter about his work. Formerly he was a co-owner of Candor Arts , part of the found...

Guest : Alex Belardo Kostiw Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on June 1, 2021. Alex Belardo Kostiw is a graphic designer, artist, and educator. Her practice deals in poetic and iterative elements, visual structures of comics, and conceptually driven forms. Like dense knots, her publications invite interactive, intuitive reading—even as they resist full unravelling. By exploring ambigu...

Guest : Hyojoon Jo Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded at Corners, CC in Seoul, South Korea on March 4, 2021. Corners Studio is a Seoul based office for graphic design of Daewoong Kim and Hyojoon Jo founded in 2012. Our practice focuses primarily on creative direction and visual communication strategies through typography, conceptual and content-related approaches. Our work includes for...

Guest : Aurora Diaz Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on February 12th, 2021 Aurora Diaz is an art worker and ceramicist hailing from New Jersey| New York. She founded and was creative director of the Bettys, an experimental art collective that ran from 2014-2020. thebettys.com @bettycrit.club

Guest : Paul Shortt Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on January 31st, 2021 Paul Shortt received his MFA in New Media Art from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute. He has participated in over 80 group and solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally. His works engage the public in physical interactions and c...

Guest : Nicholas Hurd and Sarah Lopez. Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on October 15th, 2020 Radix Media is a worker-owned printer and publisher based in Brooklyn, NY. They publish new ideas and fresh perspectives, prioritizing the voices of typically marginalized communities to get to the root of the human experience. Radix started out as a commercial print shop...

Guests : Julie Sheah and Evyan Roberts Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on August 12th, 2020 in collaboration with Transformer as part of the E17: Zines program. Julie Sheah is a graphic artist whose drawings explore the horrors and curiosities of otherwise ordinary subjects. She has a keen interest in the surreal and absurd and is an avid connoisseur of puns. As...

Guests : Athena Naylor and Late Comeback Press (Rachna Soun and Caroline Kim) Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on August 5th, 2020 in collaboration with Transformer as part of the E17: Zines program. Athena Naylor is a cartoonist originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, now living in Washington, DC. Through comics, Athena considers what makes the mundane meaningful a...

Guest : Stephen Grebinski Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on April 14th, 2020 Stephen Grebinski ’s work concerns itself with reimagining and activating the memories and desires embedded in archival and found photography that is often clouded by camp and nostalgia. His books and works on paper tangle together queer bodies, architecture, and the persistent baroque...

Guests : Ayana Zaire Cotton and Jennifer Lillis Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Adriana Monsalve Recorded on July 29th, 2020 in collaboration with Transformer as part of the E17: Zines program. Ayana Zaire Cotton is a transdisciplinary artist, designer, technologist, and educator, visualizing and collectively crafting a post-work future. Her practice is rooted in black feminist, pedagogy...

Guest : Anna Bugbee Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on April 6th, 2020 Anna Bugbee is the founder of Goldbrain Press , a collaborative publishing project producing interactive hand-made book and print works using a variety of media. After graduating with a degree in printmaking she worked for three years at a fine-art screenprinting studio in Brooklyn that is now...

**This episode originally aired on Clocktower Radio in 2016** ROAD, READ, BLOG, FEST, PROMOTE, DISTRIBUTE Guest :  Sonel Breslav Host : Christopher Kardambikis Recorded in Brooklyn, NY Blond Art Books: Established by Sonel Breslav in 2012, Blonde Art Books is a Brooklyn based organization dedicated to promoting self-published art and poetry books through exhibitions, publications, book fairs,...

Guest : Paige Landesberg Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on March 11th, 2020 in Brooklyn Paige Landesberg is a Brooklyn based artist who creates interdisciplinary artworks and curates public programming. She is committed to the idea of multiples and making work that is portable, accessible, multi-use and therefore pragmatic. In addition to her object practice, as an art-worker,...

Guest : Leslie Diuguid Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on March 10th, 2020. Du-Good Press was established in spring 2017 to offer a collaborative and fresh approach to screen printing across the arts.  Focusing on a new wave of rising contemporary artists across multiple platforms, Du-Good Press offers hand screen-printed fine art editions of emerging and mid-career artists. &nb...

Guests : Matt Davis and George Wietor Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on November 16th, 2019 at at the Chicago Art Book Fair. Matt Davis is the founder and director of Perfectly Acceptable Press , a Risograph print studio and publishing house in Chicago. Besides doing contract printing for artists all over North America, Perfectly Acceptable publishes 8-10 titles per year spanning th...

Guest : Eric Von Haynes Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on November 16th, 2019 at at the Chicago Art Book Fair. Eric Von Haynes is conceptual artist and printmaker who founded Flatlands Chicago in 2007, focused on producing publications and other printed ephemera for artists worldwide. Flatlands aims to be a community-minded space for artists to create, inspire and share ideas. flatl...

Guests : Nicole Killian, Danielle McCoy, Gonzalo Guerrero Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Adriana Monsalve Recorded on April 12th, 2019 at the Los Angeles Art Book Fair and September 21st, 2018 at the New York Art Book Fair nico fontana is the publishing initiative of Nicole Killian , concerned with a queering of language, objects, bodies, and spaces. Nicole Killian’s work uses graphic d...

Guests : Mary Tremonte of Justseeds // Darin Klein & Friends Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Produced by Jake Nussbaum and Clocktower Radio Recorded on February 12th, 2016 at the Los Angeles Art Book Fair // Originally presented by Clocktower.org Darin Klein & Friends : With an ever-expanding network of friends and collaborators, Darin Klein curates and organizes dynamic and engaging...