PSU Graphic Design Kemeny Lecture Series and Portland Zine Symposium are joining forces to present an evening with some spectacular small presses! This discussion will be moderated by Vo Vo (multidisciplinary artist, editor of internationally renowned zine for BIPOC, Fix My Head) and will include Ari Yarwood of Silver Sprocket Press , Brown Recluse Zine Distro, Brett Warnock from Kitchen Table Magazine, and Emmi Greer and Rich Perin from Buckman Publishing.
This is one you won’t want to miss!! This event will take place at Portland State's student-run 5th Ave Cinema!
Why yes, there will be free popcorn :)
Moderator:
Vo Vo (they/them) explores support strategies and models of community care within a post-traumatic social landscape, focusing on the resilience of BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+ and disabled communities. They are editor of an internationally renowned publication, speaker, educator, curator, artist and musician who has exhibited and toured in Australia, Germany, Indonesia, The Netherlands, Singapore, Croatia, Mexico, Finland, Denmark, New Zealand, Vietnam, Sweden, Malaysia, and the States. In their transdisciplinary art, they work in textiles, embroidery, audio, video, weaving, and furniture building. Their installations seek to interrogate power dynamics, structural oppression, challenge histories and realities of imperialism, white supremacy and colonization.
Panelists:
Brown Recluse Zine Distro is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit zine distro of self-published, independent print-media, including zines, prints, and political education for and by Queer and Trans Black Indigenous and People of Color. We were established in 2013 as a direct response to the lack of support in the zine community for non-white creators.
Buckman Publishing: Named after the inner-southeast Portland neighborhood, Buckman Publishing is an independent, all-things-local press. Aside from books and broadsheets, Buckman prints the biannual multi-genre anthology, Buckman Journal. Sending scouts deep into Portland’s literature and arts scene, we bring together the city’s sharpest artists and writers and present them to the greater world. With indie book fairs and our new book & zine vending machines, the printed medium is very much alive in Buckman. Know your local!
Brett Warnock has had twin careers throughout his adult life; one, as the founder and publisher of the comics and graphic novel company Top Shelf Productions, the other in food service as a bartender, server, host, beer buyer, and more. Kitchen Table Magazine smashes that lived experience together around his passion for food. Brett is still waiting tables.
Ari Yarwood is the managing editor of Silver Sprocket, an independent publisher based in San Francisco best known for political, experimental, and queer artist-owned comics. She was previously a senior editor at Portland comics publisher Oni Press, where she founded and managed Limerence Press, their gender and sexuality imprint. Yarwood also freelance edits for numerous independent creators, trade publishers, and board game and RPG projects.