Paper Cuts

Guests: Eva Parra and Camilo Otero Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded at the Center for Book Arts in New York City on February 20, 2026 Calipso Press is an independent publishing project founded by Eva Parra and Camilo Otero. What began as a small experiment between friends in Madrid found its shape in Cali, Colombia, where Calipso became a space for making books and building community. Toda...

Guest: Paul John Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on December 11, 2023 and March 12, 2026 This episodes contains two conversations years apart. Paul John (he/him) is an artist, community organizer, photographer, and educator. His work is to connect people and create community via resource sharing, bookmaking, hosting events, and institution building. Paul cofounded Endless Editions and the...

Guest: Caroline Kern Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on March 2, 2026 Caroline Kern , formerly known as Caroline Paquita, is a visual artist living in New York City. Kern has been self-publishing since 1996 and formally started Pegacorn Press after purchasing her first Risograph stencil duplicator in 2009. Since then, she has released over forty artist books, zines, publications, and prin...

Guests: Christina and Courtney Long Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on March 11, 2024 and May 8, 2026 This episodes contains two conversations recorded two years apart. #Blkgrlswurld ZINE is an award-winning indie publishing house based in New York City. Led by Christina Long, MFA (Global Creative Director) and her younger sister Courtney Long (Senior Editor), since 2014. The press celebr...

Guests: Jalen Thomas and Chris Metzger Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on February 27, 2026 This is the third of three episodes focusing on the recent publication: Even the Score , guest edited by Lindsay Buchman and published by Homie House Press . Jalen Thomas is an interdisciplinary artist from Prince George’s County, MD. Her work combines photography, quilting, and design to examine B...

Guests: Lindsay Buchman and Heather Raquel Phillips Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on March 20, 2026 This is the second of three episodes focusing on the recent publication: Even the Score , guest edited by Lindsay Buchman and published by Homie House Press . Lindsay Buchman is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and publisher based in New York (NY) and Philadelphia (PA), whose work exp...

Guests: Adriana Monsalve and Unique Robinson Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on February 6, 2026 in Takoma Park, MD This is the first of three episodes focusing on the recent publication: Even the Score , guest edited by Lindsay Buchman and published by Homie House Press . Adriana Monsalve – (they/she) is an artist, educator, cultural worker and collaborative publisher working (mostly) in...

Guest: Jake Nussbaum Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on December 11, 2025 Jake Nussbaum is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and scholar. He works and researches in the intersections of creative practice and political organizing. The creative methods Jake uses emerge from the questions he asks with his  collaborators and community. In the past he has made art books, pirate radio stati...

Guest: Mary Tremonte Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on November 7, 2025 Mary Tremonte is an artist, activist, educator, and DJ based in Pittsburgh. A founding member of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative , a decentralized cooperative of social movement printmakers, she works with "printmaking in the expanded field," including printstallation, interactive silkscreen printing in...

Guests: Caterina Ragg and Adriana Monsalve Host:   Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on September 18, 2025 in Takoma Park, MD Caterina Ragg is a photographer, photo editor, designer, and cat lover based in Milan, Italy. Currently, her focus is on curating visual content and strategies, managing archives, and producing impactful editorial designs for diverse clients. She likes the 90s aesthetic, spi...

Elizabeth Ajunwa is a DC-based art librarian and memory worker. She currently serves as the Director of the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center at the National Museum of Women in the Arts . As Library Director, she oversees a collection of over 25,000 books and archival resources including zines and artists' books.  Elizabeth's journey in the library field began in public librari...

The start of our final season! Adam Griffiths is a cartoonist and arts administrator based in the Washington, DC area. He received his BA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and has also continued education at the Center for Cartooning Studies in White River Junction VT, where he took classes and received a BIPOC Scholarship.  Between exhibiting his art at various DMV region ga...

Guest: Athena Naylor Hosts:   Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on December 02, 2023 Athena Naylor Athena Naylor grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and now lives and works in Washington, D.C. She specializes in autobiographical comics and illustration. Her work has been featured in Nat. Brut and The Washington Post, and in 2021 she received an Honorable Mention for the Chicago Alte...

Guest: Stephanie McDevitt and Janene Scelza Host:  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on October 18, 2023 Girls, on Film Girls, on Film was founded in December 2017 by long-time friends Stephanie McDevitt and Janene Scelza (pronounced Skell-za). Girls, on Film is a quarterly zine about 80s films. For each issue, we discuss eight 80s movies related to a particular theme. We are currently a group of f...

Guests : Erin Mallea and Paper Buck of Tree News , Bekezela Mguni of the Black Unicorn Library and Archive Project , and Adriana Monsalve of Homie House Press. Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on September 9, 2023 at the Carnegie Museum of Art Erin Mallea is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the past and present of particular microcosms as entry points into larger environmental, social,...

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...