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.

athenanaylor.com

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.

Digital issues are free on our website. We sell full-color print copies on our website, in select bookstores, and at zine festivals and art book fairs. Learn more at girlsonfilmzine.com, or find us on Instagram at @girlson80sfilms.com.

Stephanie McDevitt, Co-Founder/Editor

Stephanie's one big disappointment in life is that she wasn’t old enough to fully appreciate popular clothing styles in the 1980s, as she was mostly attired in paisley sweatsuits. A full-time editor and occasional freelancer, Stephanie looks nostalgically back on '80s films such as Ernest Goes to Camp, Adventures in Babysitting, and Can’t Buy Me Love and wishes she could pull off the hairdos of Cindy Mancini and her friends.

Janene Scelza, Co-Founder/Editor

Janene spent a hefty part of her teens combing musty video stores and public libraries for all the '80s movies she could find. There were lists! Janene's got plenty of favorites from the decade, but it’s stylish indie films like Desperately Seeking Susan, Repo Man, and The Terminator that she loves best.

We’re based in the DC metro area.

girlsonfilmzine.com

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."

Paper received his MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2020 and earned a Bachelor's degree in Studio Art from Macalester College in 2008. His practice is informed by a background in community organizing that centers anti-racist education, decolonial movements, and transgender justice. He was formerly a leadership team member at the Transgender, Gender-Variant and Intersex Justice Project, Unsettling Minnesota and the Catalyst Project. He publishes a collaborative artist newsletter, Tree News, with artist Erin Mallea. 

Bekezela Mguni is a queer Trinidadian artist, radical librarian, and educator. She has over 15 years of community organizing experience in the Reproductive Justice movement and holds an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh. She completed her first micro-residency at the Pittsburgh creative hub Boom Concepts and was featured in the 2015 Open Engagement Conference. She launched the Black Unicorn Library and Archive Project. The Black Unicorn cultivates libraries as sites of learning, possibility, and freedom celebrating the literary and artistic contributions of Black women, queer, Trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people.  Honoring the far-reaching influence their storytelling has had on the lives of generations worldwide. She was a featured artist of the 2017 Activist Print Project, a partnership between, Artist Image Resource, BOOM concepts, and the Andy Warhol Museum.  Bekezela is a Boom Concepts studio member, a community space and gallery dedicated to the development of artists and creative entrepreneurs. She is currently the Artistic Director at Dreams of Hope which affirms the voices and leadership of LGBTQ youth through the arts. 

Adriana Monsalve is an artist, cultural worker and collaborative publisher working in the photobook medium. Along with Caterina Ragg, Monsalve is co-founder of Homie House Press, a radical cooperative platform that challenges the ever-changing forms of storytelling with image and text.

Within her photographic practice, Monsalve is an archivist and visual communicator who produces in-depth stories on identity through the nuances in between race, gender, and immigrant adjacent experiences.

Within her cultural work as a collaborative publisher, she holds space for and with underrepresented communities through the multidisciplinary platform of Homie House Press (HHP); a cooperative playground where fotos become books, a safe space for secret stories and an open house for honest content that meets at the intersection of personal, political, and poetic. She is rigorously pushing towards finding ways for photographers and publishers to cultivate the capacity for care and tenderness within structures that actively work against their manifestations. She defines intimacy as the experience of being genuinely seen, heard, and held by another person or group of people.

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.

www.zachclarkis.com

www.nationalmonumentpress.com

@zachclarkis

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 forthcoming 2024 from Cornerstone Press. You can find him online at www.skoticus.com or on Instagram: @MagpieZines

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.

Late Comeback Press

StrangeLens is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores themes of dreams, the subconscious, and the Internet pop culture in the digital dark ages. She graduated from George Mason University in 2021 with a Master's degree in Arts and Visual Technology.

Kate Fitzpatrick is an artist and educator based in Alexandria, VA. Fitzpatrick received a BFA in Painting from Clarion University of Pennsylvania (1997), an MA in art education from University of New Mexico, and an MFA in Visual Arts from George Mason University (2020). She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship (2016) where she spent a semester in India working on an art curriculum with local arts teachers. Fitzpatrick is also an art educator who was honored by the Northern Virginia Magazine as a "Northern Virginian of the Year" (2014) for her creation and implementation of an art and yoga program for youth in the Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention center. In addition, Fitzpatrick received the Agnes Meyer Teacher of the Year award by the Washington Post (2013). Fitzpatrick exhibits her work throughout the US and teaches for Arlington Public Schools.

The Mirror Society Quartet

Chas Wagner is a curator and organizer of The Print Party, specializing in independent magazines. Based in Pittsburgh, his work focuses on social activations of the print periodical; via retail pop-ups, bookshop lecture series' and the launching of a sport book festival (Bleed and Score) in Brooklyn. He thought about biking here on the 330 mile+ Great Allegheny Passage Trail, but the rainy forecast and heftiness of the books dampened the prospects of this dreamy ride.

The Print Party

Cap ABF

The first edition of East City Art’s Capital Art Book Fair took place at Eastern Market’s North Hall on April 1 & 2, 2023.  Over 30 exhibitors from across the DMV, the US and Canada presented books as works of art, editions about art or artists, limited run books, prints as well as DIY zines and graphic novels.  Exhibitors include artists, independent publishers, small presses, illustrators and photographers. East City Art partnered with Capitol Hill Arts Workshop and Hill Center to co-locate offsite programming during the fair. DC-based, award-winning artist Carolina Mayorga created an ephemeral, site-specific work using hand-cut vinyl pieces in Eastern Market’s North Hall titled "Capital Splash".

More about the Capital Art Book Fair

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 Arts Center, the relocation of Craig Kraft's studios and the production of the 2012-2013 LUMEN8ANACOSTIA festival. From 2015-2019 he helped coordinate the annual Gateway Open Studio Tour in Prince George's County. From 2013-2018, he also produced EMULSION, East City Art's annual regional juried show. Currently, he produces the Capital Art Book Fair, an East City Art project held at Eastern Market's North Hall. Hutinet has curated or produced over 150 group and solo exhibitions in his career. Hutinet’s reviews, profiles and features are published regularly in both East City Art and Hill Rag. A sought-after speaker and moderator, Hutinet makes regular appearances at regional panel discussions and artist talks. He is often interviewed by national and international media such as the BBC, Capital Community News, Euronews, Washingtonian Magazine, Washington City Paper, The Washington Post, WAMU, WJLA ABC News Channel 7/Channel 8, WTTG Fox 5 DC and WTOP.

Capital ABF

The first edition of East City Art’s Capital Art Book Fair took place at Eastern Market’s North Hall on April 1 & 2, 2023.  Over 30 exhibitors from across the DMV, the US and Canada presented books as works of art, editions about art or artists, limited run books, prints as well as DIY zines and graphic novels.  Exhibitors include artists, independent publishers, small presses, illustrators and photographers. East City Art partnered with Capitol Hill Arts Workshop and Hill Center to co-locate offsite programming during the fair. DC-based, award-winning artist Carolina Mayorga created an ephemeral, site-specific work using hand-cut vinyl pieces in Eastern Market’s North Hall titled "Capital Splash".

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.

Seaton St. Press is an artist-run, independent artists' books and publications project. Committed to exploring temporality, its name is a dedication to a former studio in Los Angeles, now based in Philadelphia. Seaton St. publishes and distributes titles that examine the intersections of site, language, and memory, including archival histories, social identities, and geographies. 

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 specializing in artistic forms of independent publishing, Julia founded Vice Versa Press and Curandera Press as her entrepreneurial debuts. Having launched QTVC Live!, a DIY home shopping channel, in January 2020 - Julia is now collaborating with moCa Cleveland on six brand new episodes. Stay tuned.

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.

Center for Book Arts