About the Workshop
Join us for one of our more advanced risograph workshops! Create an illustrated, hand-cut accordion zine with shaped pages from start to finish! Learn how to make a dummy zine, create custom cuts, and print and assemble a finished accordion zine!
In this class students will develop a two-color accordion-fold zines with shaped pages. We’ll go through developing student’s ideas by creating a dummy and sketches then move onto drawing final images. We’ll print a test copy of each zine in class and then assemble our final books. Through this simple introduction to shaped zines, students should be able to take the knowledge they’ve gained to create more complex hand-cut zines in the future.
At the end of the workshop, you'll walk away with your very own printed zine edition, a collection of the accordion zines made by fellow workshop attendees, and lots more tips and tricks on how to continue to create hand-cut zines for risograph printing!
Supplies Needed
A sketchbook for storyboarding the content of your zine.
We provide all other materials and tools!
Prerequisites
Participants must have taken the Riso Basics Workshop at Outlet to in order to take this workshop. If you have a special circumstance or any previous riso experience and would like to be considered for this advanced workshop please contact us!
Skill Level
Some risograph experience
No previous zine making experience necessary!
Workshop Fee & Ticketing
Your ticket includes the workshop, compensation for the instructor(s), an edition of your own lettering prints, a collection of the other prints made in the class, a few takeaways and goodies, digital downloads, and lots of hand lettering resources.
Interested in supporting Outlet and everything we do? Please consider a supporter add-on with your ticket—there are different options and the extra funds go to our scholarship program so that we can continue to offer free and discounted workshop tickets to anyone who needs it. Our goal is to not turn anyone away for lack of funds and your support makes that possible. Add-ons also mean that we can pay our workshop instructors more! Thank you so much for your support.
Your ticket helps keep Outlet afloat. We can't thank you enough for supporting us!!
Accessibility & Mask Policies
We want our workshops to be as accessible as possible! Outlet is a ground-floor space with a single-stall ADA accessible bathroom. You can find more information about wheelchair access, parking, transit options, and more on our accessibility page. If there’s any way we can make your visit feel more comfortable or safe please let us know.
In an effort to keep our classes accessible and to keep our most vulnerable community members safe we require masks in our space for all group workshops and indoor events. We offer both masked and mask optional appointments during our open hours.
About Outlet
Outlet is a risograph print shop, community maker space, and the studio of Kate Bingaman-Burt and Leland Vaughan. We host workshops, pop-up events, and other projects and offer an array of services from printing, button making, binding, and more! We're the home of a zine library and more art supplies, making tools, and collage materials than we know what to do with. We also rent our space and offer in-person open hours where folks can print, make buttons, and hang out. Outlet is based out of Portland, Oregon and was founded in 2017.
About the Instructor
Erika Rier is a self-taught interdisciplinary artist creating paintings, ceramics, and art zines in a style she calls folk surrealism. Writing was her first love and she still secretly writes stories. Having lived in Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, NYC, Arizona, and Washington state; Erika now resides in Portland, OR. She also has one of each of the following: a husband, a daughter, and a cat she found in a hallway.
