Paper Cuts

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 Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) Cupcake Award. In 2023, she was a recipient of the Wherewithal Research Grant from the Washington Project for the Arts.

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 four regular writers including Dr. Rhonda Baughman and Janene’s brother, Matt, who co-writes with her on essays. We have also had many guest writers over the years. We recently published our 21st issue, about adventure films of the 1980s, and will publish our next issue, on 80s movies about aliens, around Halloween.

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, and political conditions. Often public and collaborative in nature, her work manifests in a range of media including installation, film, photography, and writing. She sent vibrations from a giant fungus throughout the atmosphere and currently publishes Tree News, a newsletter about trees, people and places. Erin holds a MFA from Carnegie Mellon University (2019) and is an Assistant Professor of Art at the Pennsylvania State University School of Visual Arts.

Paper Buck is an interdisciplinary visual artist, printmaker, and writer. His recent work is focused on place-centered research that critically explores white settler constructions of conservation, ecology, and the "American Landscape."

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, completed largely through collaboration with other artists. He is one half of Chute Studio, an East Oakland based Risograph publishing studio, and is a lecturer at California State University East Bay. His work and collaborative publications have been shown and collected across North America, Europe, & Japan.

Guest: Scott Russell Morris

Hosts:  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis

Recorded on June 13, 2023

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 most subtle, authentic light and detracts from the palatable or exotic, as depicted in Western media. We build our zines intricately and by hand to represent the connection between our art, our identities, and our community, as pieces of us to you.

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 Pennsylvania and a BFA from California State University Long Beach. Exhibitions of her work include the LA Art Book Fair at The Geffen Contemporary, MOCA; Tokyo Art Book Fair, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1; SPRINT Milano, Spazio Maiocchi; TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image; and Torrance Art Museum. She has participated in artist talks and panels at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), and The Print Center. Her work is included in the Rare Book Manuscript & Library at the University of Pennsylvania, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the New York Public Library, and SFMOMA. She is a recipient of the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, and her work has been featured in Hyperallergic and The Hopper Prize Journal. As an extension of her practice, she runs an independent artists' books and publications project, Seaton Street Press, to collaborate with artists through publishing and distribution.

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, organize conferences and panels, publish books, and teach about the book arts in the US and abroad. She has an MFA in textiles from Cranbrook Academy of Art and, in 2012, she co-founded Small Editions, an artists’ book publisher and curatorial residency program in Brooklyn, NY with the goal to expand the public understanding of artist books. During her time at Small Editions she published over 30 books which are now held in some of the most prestigious public and private collections across the globe, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Over the years she has overseen the production of hundreds of books including books about artist’s books, design, architecture, photography, and contemporary art. In 2021, she and two collaborators founded Book Art Review, a new serial publication that ventures to develop, diversify, and propel critical discourse in the book arts.

Guests: Matt Austin and Melanie Bohrer

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on August 10, 2021

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 ambiguities of language, her work is a liminal space for feeling out complicated realities of identity, human intimacy, and other worlds. Alex received an MFA in Visual Communication Design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in English literature from the University of Chicago. She has participated in such shows as the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, LA Art Book Fair, and Chicago Art Book Fair. Her work is in the special collections of several libraries and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She lives and works in Chicago.

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 formats such as prints, posters, publications, exhibitions, signage, marketing materials, websites and visual identities. We have produced works for artists, designers, cultural institutions, and small–big brands.

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.

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 conversation that examine everyday experiences and cultural norms often in humorous ways through books, videos, prints, and temporary public art.

He has participated in over 30 national and international art book and zine fairs, such as the Printed Matter Art Book Fairs in New York City, NY and Los Angeles, CA, the Vienna Art Book Fair in Vienna, Austria, and the Editions fair in Toronto, Canada. In 2019 he published How to Art Book Fair, a practical and humorous guide to tabling, selling and participating in an art book fair. His artist books are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, and the Fisher Fine Arts Library at the University of Pennsylvania.

He has created temporary public art projects for Baltimore Office of Promotion for the Arts “Art on the Waterfront” program in Baltimore, MD, neon signs for the Inlight light festival in Richmond, VA, and a sign and print based public art project for the Arlington Art Truck, in Arlington VA. His videos have been shown at the Museum of the Moving Image, The Phillips Collection and Whitespace Gallery. He has participated in residencies at The Luminary, in St. Louis, MO and at Montgomery College in Silver Springs, MD.

Shortt has spoken about his work at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri. He has been written about in Hyperallergic, the Washington Post, Bmore Art and Review Magazine. Shortt works as an arts administrator and educator is currently based in Florida.

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 in 2010, and expanded into literary publishing in 2017. The collective is currently made up of Lantz Arroyo, Nicholas Hurd, Meher Manda, and Sarah Lopez.

Nick Hurd is a California ex-pat with 20 years of printing and design experience. He holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from the California College of the Arts, both in printmaking.

Nick is an expert in letterpress, bookmaking, business card design and all forms of specialty stationery. He is notoriously patient and loves the challenges inherent in using antique printing equFuturipment. Nick relishes tinkering with our Heidelberg Windmill, but he also handles our wide format printing.

Nick is also a tattoo collector, maple syrup enthusiast, soccer fan, and amateur gardener.


Sarah Lopez comes to Radix with a BA in Social and Historical Inquiry from Eugene Lang College and a BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design at The New School. It was there that she fell in love with all things print while working in the printmaking studio.

She has a strong background in graphic design and visual communication, with an inclination toward independent and DIY publishing. Her taste for indie publishing started with her appreciation for zines, and developed as a zinester tabling zine fairs.

Sarah has worn many hats at Radix Media: she started out running our digital press and various bindery equipment, and helped launch our publishing arm with outreach and publicity. She currently manages our social media and does a lot of our graphic design.

Outside of work Sarah enjoys curling up with a good book, spending time outdoors, and taking care of her plants.

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 a first-generation Taiwanese-American, growing up in rural Texas gave her an odd sense of humor that came from grappling with social isolation, Otherness, and dual culture identity. Today she lives in Washington, DC where she continues to draw and create visual puns through her artists’ books.

Evyan Roberts (she/her) is a queer, fat, black, femme who is deeply committed to intersectional feminism and #blackgirlmagic. She lives in MD and is currently pursuing a Masters in Social Work, where she intends to keep working to promoting equity for sex workers and trans folx. Her writing has appeared in the poetry anthology A Garden of Black Joy: Global Poetry from the Edges of Liberation and Living, as well as online literary journals such as Kissing Dynamite where she was the featured poet for August 2019, Ithaca Lit, Not Your Mother's Breast Milk, Rogue Agent, and elsewhere.

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 and how big stories reside within small, everyday events. Alongside her self-published collections of autobiographical comics, Athena has had work featured in The Lily and Nat. Brut. Her comic The Checkout Counter was published through the podcast-publishing venture Paper Cuts.

Her work can be found at athenanaylor.com and on Instagram @athena.naylor.

Late Comeback Press is a Northern Virginia micropress run by Rachna Soun and Caroline Kim, specializing in avant-garde zines. Late Comeback Press’ name derives from the French term l’esprit de l’escalier – thinking of the perfect reply a little too late. As two Asian-American artists, they live within the hyphen, struggling, at times, to convey language that exists in one culture but not in the other. Communication and existentialism are the center of their art, flourishing in the space before choices are made, when the possibilities can seem paralyzingly endless or distinctively finite.

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 impulses of desire. From mid-century physique magazines to Liberace’s home decor, the excess and homoeroticism of classicism create a fantasy world cobbled together from leftovers. He is currently starting a riso press with friends in Pittsburgh, PA

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, mutual aid, open source philosophy, labor, and black aesthetics research. This research has manifested in her work via independent publishing, virtually teaching software engineering to students worldwide, and an experimental clothing line as a platform for researching labor studies and aesthetics. As an artist, designer, and software engineer Ayana feels “educator” is a title that most resonates with the full possibilities of her mediums, goals, and practice.

Jennifer Lillis is a multi-disciplinary artist, teacher, and administrator in Northern Virginia. She received her MFA in Visual Art from George Mason University in 2019, and her BA in Studio Art from Marymount University in 2012. Jennifer’s work explores the theme of transformation in the function and materiality of objects through the ritualization of her creative practice. She is currently the Gallery Manager at the McLean Project for the Arts, on the coordinating committee of MPAartfest, Adjunct Professor in Printmaking at George Mason University, co-producer of Paper Cuts, and founder of the print and book collective ELEMENTS.

Adriana Monsalve is an artist, book maker, and educator, located in the DMV. She is the co-founder of Homie House Press, a skeleton bones crew of femmes creating, publishing, and reclaiming their space and power in the foto book medium. Within her photographic practice, Monsalve is a storyteller & visual communicator producing in-depth stories on identity through the nuances in between race, gender, and immigrant adjacent experiences.

Transformer’s annual spring Exercises for Emerging Artists program is a peer critique and mentorship program created to support a selected group of DC-based emerging artists at critical points or crossroads in their professional growth and creative development. Centered on a different artistic discipline every year, this year’s iteration - E17: Zines - focused on zines and DIY publishing. E17: Zines artists include: Ayana Zaire Cotton, Jennifer Lillis, Athena Naylor, Late Comeback Press (Rachna Soun and Caroline Kim), Evyan Roberts, and Julie Sheah.

Intended to both advance artists' careers and build peer support, Transformer’s Exercises consists of comprehensive bi-weekly peer critique and mentorship sessions spanning several months to stimulate and encourage the participating artists as they create new work. Facilitated by Transformer staff, the participating artists receive mentorship and feedback from a series of mentors comprised of more established artists, curators, and other arts leaders.

Guest: Anna Bugbee

Hosts:  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis

Recorded on April 6th, 2020

**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:

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, Paige acts as the Curator of Books and Public Programming at Miriam, a new artist-run gallery and artist bookshop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She is committed to supporting and collaborating with artist publishers through independent projects as well, most recently with Brooklyn Art Book Fair and historically with institutions such as Printed Matter, Hauser & Wirth Publishers and Artbook @ MoMA PS1.

Miriam is a new, artist-run contemporary gallery dedicated to working collaboratively with artists to support their practices and foster inclusive art experiences. Housed in a 1,250 squarefoot former matzah factory in South Williamsburg, the gallery opened its doors in December 2019 with Books at Miriam, an exhibition interrogating art books as a creative medium across a variety of perspectives and practices, with over 50 diverse artist publishers’ works.

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.  Artists are selected by Du-Good Press’ intimate team of advisors, curators and founder and master-printer, Leslie Diuguid.

Guests: Matt Davis and George Wietor

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on November 16th, 2019 at at the Chicago Art Book Fair.

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.

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 design, publishing, video, objects and installation to investigate how the structures of the internet, mobile messaging, and shared online platforms affect contemporary interaction and shape cultural identity from a queer perspective. They are interested in the repetition, looping, and dissemination of content. They think about catnip and bird toys, scratching and the depths (or voids) of the desktop folder.
Nicole appreciates a good karaoke performance and is co-creator of annual publication ISSUES with Sarah Faith Gottesdiener. They are currently co-director of the Design, Visual Communications MFA and Assistant Professor in the Department of Graphic Design at Virginia Commonwealth University. They recently served as guest editor for the Walker Art Center's Soundboard and organized How Will We Queer Design Education without Compromise?

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

Guests: Taylor Mardis Katz and Misha Johnson

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on August 16th, 2019 at Free Verse Farm & Apothecary in Chelsea, VT.

Free Verse Farm is a co-creation of Taylor Mardis Katz and Misha Johnson, two artist/farmers with a passion for growing, eating, and sharing delicious and nourishing food and herbs.

They are a small herb farm and apothecary in Chelsea, Vermont specializing in naturally-grown tisanes (herbal teas), culinary herbs, medicinals, and herbal remedies. Their farm is situated high in the hills of the White River watershed in the Upper Valley region of eastern Vermont. Their herbs and remedies are available at local farmers markets, stores, online, and through their Farmshare Community.

The Free Verse Residency honors the poetry that's a part of the farm's name (and the inspiration for how they plant, tend, and blend the herbs), Taylor and Misha have established a self-directed residency for poets and writers and makers of small artworks. This offering is for those who seek a quiet, secluded place to live and work, residing for a week amidst the herbs, vegetables, and wild fauna of their rural Vermont farm.

This is a residency for those who desire open space, solitude, and the companionship of a landscape that inspires awe, provides calm, and offers its abundance without an expectation of anything in return.

Guest: Bill Boichel

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on July 26th, 2019 at Copacetic Comics in Pittsburgh, PA.

Bill Boichel has been a fixture on the Pittsburgh comics scene for over forty years (absent 1982 to 1984, when he served as the director/manager of the exhibitions program at Pittsburgh Filmmakers).  Primarily engaged in comics retail, most notably as the owner/operator of BEM: The Store and The Copacetic Comics Company, he has also organized comics-centric events, and created, edited and published numerous micro-press comics under the BEM imprint, mostly between 1985 and 2000.

Guest: Jim Rugg

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on July 24th, 2019 in Pittsburgh, PA.

Jim Rugg is an Eisner and Ignatz-award winning comic book artist, book maker, illustrator, designer, and cat dad. Books include Street Angel, the PLAIN Janes, Afrodisiac, Notebook Drawings, Rambo 3.5, and Supermag. His YouTube channel Cartoonist Kayfabe will make you love comics even more!

Instagram and Twitter: @jimruggart

Guest: Imin Yeh

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded at Carnegie Mellon University on July 17th, 2019 in Pittsburgh, PA.

Imin Yeh is based in Pittsburgh, PA. She is an interdisciplinary and project-based artist working in sculpture, installation, and participatory events. Recent exhibitions include university galleries at Ithaca College and the College of New Jersey, San Jose Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), and at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco). She has been an Artist in Residency at Montalvo Art Center (Saratoga, CA), Blue Mountain Center (New York), Sandarbh Artist Workshop (Partapur, India), and at Recology San Francisco. She is a recipient of a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation and an Individual Artist Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Imin Yeh holds a MFA from the California College of Arts.  She is currently an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.

Guest: Mad Mohre

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded in Mad’s VW Beetle on March 14th, 2019 in Michigan. 

Mad Mohre is a mechanically-minded visual artist and designer concerned with play, surveillance, privacy and speculative feminism. She is the founder of Millimetre Press, a residency program housed in a restored Victorian studio for artists curious to explore limited editions through Riso + the artist’s book. Mad has most recently been a resident at The Wassaic Project and Paper Cuts. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, and exhibited nationally at Gallery 128 in NYC, River House Arts Gallery in Toledo, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, and other international venues. Her most recent design projects include work for Serial a podcast by the creators of This American Life, Corte by composer Trevor Gureckis of The Goldfinch, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry at BAM, and sculpted paper works for musician Bryce Desssner of The National. 

Mad received her BFA from Denison University and MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. She is the co-leader of the College Book Art Association’s Midwest Region and is an Associate Professor of Art at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan.

Guest: Colleen Itani and Kelly Lorraine Hendrickson of TZF and Alexa Turnbull of Seether Bookstore

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on February 23rd, 2019 at The Bark.

Tallahassee Zine Fest is an all inclusive festival allowing the Tallahassee community to showcase self published books and a variety of other types of printed matter. TZF is a platform for the DIY community and merges locals, academics, and anyone interested in printed media. People also travel into Tallahassee to sell work at a table, purchase zines, or just experience the festival. The atmosphere is casual which gives all attendees a chance to talk with each other face to face, about zines, zine related projects, and art work in general.

TZF was started in 2018 and is set for its second year with over 40 participants, lots of volunteers, and a small board of directors. It is constantly adapting and growing to fit the needs of the Tallahassee and national zine community. Big things are happening.

Colleen Itani is an interdisciplinary artist currently making work in Tallahassee, Florida. She has exhibited recently in Georgia, Florida, and New York. She teaches at Florida State University, Lafayette Arts Center, and Philly Art Center and she is the Director of Tally Zine Fest, which takes place annually. Itani is pursuing her MFA from Florida State University and received her BFA in Studio Art and BA International and Cultural Studies from University of Tampa.  Currently, she's fixated with the duplex housing structure and is making drawings exploring boundaries.

Guest: Denise Bookwalter

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on February 22nd, 2019 at the Facility for Arts Research at Florida State University. 

Denise Bookwalter works in a range of print media including traditional and digital processes, artist’s books, installations and dimensional prints. Her artists’ books utilize old and new print technologies to create collaborative artists’ books. Her work has been exhibited and collected in a variety of venues across the country and abroad. She received her BA from Northwestern University and her MFA from Indiana University in Printmaking. Denise currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida with her husband and twin girls. She is an Associate Professor of Art at Florida State University where she teaches printmaking and is Area Head of the Printmaking Department. She is the director and founder of Florida State University’s artists’ book press, Small Craft Advisory Press.

Guest: Jan Voss

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on November 22nd, 2018 at Boekie Woekie in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 

Boekie Woekie, books by artists, began paying rent for a tiny space in downtown Amsterdam on January 1st, 1986. It was then seen by its 6 founders (artists from 3 countries living in Amsterdam) as a shop for their own publications. After the first 5 years and some reshuffling of the group and with 3 of the founders left, Boekie Woekie began its second phase in a quite much bigger shop space around the corner and with a renewed concept resulting from the gained experience: the new shop opened for publications by others. There are now about 7000 titles - almost exclusively self published or small press books. Those who run it – Henriëtte van Egten (Dutch), Rúna Thorkelsdóttir (Icelandic) and Jan Voss (German) have continued their personal artists’ careers and since years count the shop itself as a sculpture in progress they work on concertedly. A small gallery space has belonged to Boekie Woekie from the beginning. There never came a stop to very small scale publishing (3 or 4 titles a year) which has lead to the yearly participation in one or two book fairs (Frankfurt, London, New York). The entirely self financing enterprise is Europe’s, if not the world’s, venue for artists’ books the longest in existence which carries books regardless to their author's fame.

Guest: Jo Frenken

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on November 19th, 2018 at the Magical Riso conference held at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands.

THE SECOND IN OUR COVERAGE OF THE MAGICAL RISO CONFERENCE HELD AT THE JAN VAN EYCK ACADEMIE IN MAASTRICHT, NETHERLANDS.

Guests: Igor Arume, Stephanie Lane Gage, and Justin Bailey

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on November 18th, 2018 at the Magical Riso conference held at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands.

RISOTRIP / Igor Arume

With more than 4 years of experience, Risotrip are constantly perfecting their printing method to ensure more quality and efficiency. Risotrip believes that the work goes far beyond a print service for clients, their mission is to help people create and produce their ideas.  They believe in the power of learning and collaboration between people. They know that a large part of the public is not familiar with the specificities of Risograph. Therefore, promoting activities such as WORKSHOPS and PALESTRAS are fundamental to share theoretical and practical knowledge and enable those interested to obtain the best results in this type of printing. 

Guests: Jesjit Gil, Moritz Grünke, and Mari Campistron

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded November 18th at Magical Riso held at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands.

Guest:  Quentin Mitchell and Kyle Quinn 

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded October 27th and 28th, 2018 @ /edition Art Book Fair, Toronto, Canada

Quentin runs Vide Press, a small Risograph printing and design studio located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that works with independent artists and publishers, non-profit organizations, and other Riso enthusiasts.