2023 Exhibitors
The inaugural Seattle Art Book Fair hosted local, national, and international artists, designers, and organizations.
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Photo courtesy Florence Liu
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Jake Alexander is a working analog photographer and multimedia artist based out of Seattle, WA. Through printed matter, Jake tells autobiographical stories with themes of Home, Place, and Whimsy.
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We are a community arts center located in Bellingham, WA, on occupied Coast Salish (Lummi) territory and specializing in independent media, art books, and alternative cultures.
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Angel Tears is an interdisciplinary collaborative publishing project about film, media, pop culture, consumerism, and friendship.
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ARCADE’s mission is to host an inclusive and insightful dialogue on the designed environment. We do this through our print and digital publications, and our community programming.
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Art Metropole (est 1974) is a non-profit visual arts centre with a focus on contemporary art in formats predisposed to circulation and dissemination.
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Canadian Artist-run center. Artspeak is an experimental exhibition and programming space for Black and Indigenous practices, encouraging dialogue between contemporary visual art and writing.
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Asterisk Press self-publishes colorful, multimedia & all-ages-friendly zines. I work across multiple mediums and try to do something different in layout, content, & production method.
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Amy Burek is an artist preoccupied with process, optimization and problem solving.. Her publishing project Awkward Ladies Club focuses on memoir, knowledge-sharing, and other non-fiction works.
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Leobardo Bañuelos Jr is an artist living in Seattle, WA. Bañuelos’ work explores multiple mediums. From filmmaking, design & photography. His work comes to life through books & exhibitions.
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bearbear is a risography micropress and creative studio by Diana Chu and Ben Grzenia in Milwaukee, WI.
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Benschop Books is the publishing project of book artist and photographer Vera Benschop. Part self-publishing and part collaborative, books are unique and handmade to fit each project.
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Small indie zine press making a platform for stories about queerness and disability.
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Adelaide Blair is a project-based artist in Seattle. She has been self-publishing books and prints since 1986.
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Burn all Books is a risograph publisher, distro, and studio in San Diego, California. Focused on community and collaboration, we work with San Diego & Tijuana, MX based artists, writers and creators.
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The Cauldron Press is a small risograph print shop located in Oklahoma City. The Cauldron is comprised of two university professors (James Ewald and Brock Wynn).
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A curiously bibliophilic indie publisher in Pike Place Market that has been producing beautiful, engaging books since 2005.
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Cold Cube is a risograph printer and publisher located in Seattle, WA and New York CIty. Cold Cube was formed in 2015 by Aidan Fitzgerald and Michael Heck.
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Common Area Maintenance (CAM) is a gallery and open format generative studio designed to offer collaborative work and exhibition space in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood.
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Elan Robinson and L.M. Zoller are the queer T4T duo behind The Corners of Their Mouth Press. We make zines on ill-fated Midwestern landmarks, nail biting, using flowers for gay flagging, and Jell-o.
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Crisis Editions and Dane Press are the twin publishing programs of artists Robin N. and Kitt Peacock (respectively) with the shared goal of recirculating archival texts and materials.
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Curious Publishing is a 100% artist owned and operated non-profit publishing company based in Southern California aiming to highlight Queer, POC and neurodivergent artists first and foremost.
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Working at the intersection of art, poetry, critical theory, translation, and prose, Desuetude Press explores the possibilities offered by expanding the definition of the artists' book.
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Based on Lekwungen & W̱SÁNEĆ territories and inspired by queer & trans newsletters across time, DYKE NEWS is a community newsletter devoted to making space in print for the creation of lesbian culture
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ECU Press, and the Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, publish artists’ books, monographs, collected writings, and music projects.
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Ediciones Concordia Mx is an independent screen print art book press. We focus on the possibilities of image creation, material exploration, and handmade books. We are located in Querétaro, Mexico.
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Editions is Seattle’s center for book arts. It is a place for book artists, letterpress printers, printmakers, writers, and more to create, collaborate, and learn. We offer workspace and workshops.
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Poetry, translations, and collaborations. Gay-owned & queerly run since 2015.
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Errant Press is an independent effort to create, print, and distribute books that challenge the traditional form and reading dynamics. It's run by Mexican artists Alan Sobrino and Tania Chaidez.
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Fillip is a Vancouver-based publishing organization that expands spaces for critical discussions on contemporary art.
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Gelkheht is a collaboration between Yewon Kwon and Benjamin Kraco. The two explore the connection between visual and auditory art by creating traditionally printed art books and experimental noise.
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Created by Brooklyn artist J. Morrison in 2010, HOMOCATS is a visual art project connecting the modern popularity of the feline with social politics.
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Horse Gurl Press is a queer zine press run by Chris Moody since 2015 using primarily recycled papers, refurbished inks, and lush visuals these zines bring a unique and satisfying feel to the table.
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Insert Press produces innovative art & literature in Los Angeles, California and endeavors to create dynamic conversations across artistic disciplines in the interest of contemporary arts and letters.
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Irrelevant Press is a small press based in Oakland, CA and Brooklyn, NY. We are queer friends who like to make books and zines and help others make them as well.
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Dealing in poetic and iterative elements, visual structures of comics, and conceptually driven forms, these works shift perceptions of reality to let the unknowable slip into our hands.
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IS Projects is a public-access printmaking and book arts studio in Miami, FL that publishes artists’ books by South Florida based artists through the publishing initiative, Existent Books.
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A Risograph press focused on publishing alternative comics from artists in the Pacific Northwest.
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Minor Matters publishes through public collaboration. Their pre-sales process has resulted in first books for ten artists, with half of their monographs featuring Northwest authors.
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Mirrored Society is a independently owned bookshop showcasing and offering beautifully designed, crafted, affordable photo-books by independent publishers and artists from around the world.
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Moniker Press is a risograph print and publishing studio in Vancouver, BC, that works collaboratively with artists to produce small editions of books, zines and print ephemera.
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We're an art + object bookstore in Portland, OR focusing on contemporary art and ephemera, including the avant-garde, exhibition documents, prints, political/radical + counterculture movements + more.
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National Monument Press is an Oakland based publishing project focused on supporting uniquely American stories through small edition printed matter, completed largely through collaboration.
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Neoglyphic Media is an art and visual media publisher dedicated to publishing and promoting work from unique and idiosyncratic artists between the worlds of fine art and pulp media.
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New Documents is a Los Angeles–based art book publisher founded in 2012.
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NIGHTED (EST. 2012) IS A PHOTO BOOK PUBLISHING HOUSE THAT SHOWS YOU THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN WHEN THE WORLD'S NOT WATCHING.
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Paper Press Punch is a small, community-focused risograph print studio run by Jessica Hoffman and Justin Quinlan. Our studio offers riso workshops, open studio hours, and Zine of the Month Club.
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Photoverge Studio is an independent publisher of small-run photography projects. Born out of the Seattle camera meetup scene, many of the zines feature Seattle & PNW Photographers.
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play.ground is a bi-coastal collective leveraging art and design to steer a process-driven dialogue toward the environment, community, and the poetic play of language and life.
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Deborah is the author of several poetry collections including keep and Elements. Her visual works—video poems and handmade book objects—have been exhibited throughout the US.
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Publication Studio Vancouver prints and binds books on demand, creating original work with artists and writers we admire. We are part of an international network of Publication Studios.
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Push/Pull Press fills the gap between self-publishing and indie publishers, helping artists to get their art into the world. We also create our own line of paper goods to help everyone be creative.
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Really Easy Press is a publisher in Seattle, Washington that makes sci-fi, horror, fantasy, adventure, and other “genre” comics and illustration zines, mostly on a Risograph.
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A publishing project of UNIT/PITT, ReIssue is an interdisciplinary art writing magazine focused on critical engagement with contemporary west coast discourse and experimental practices.
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Mary Rusak is a artist based out of Vancouver, BC. Her practice primarily includes alternative processes and hands-on techniques; often exploring relationships between humans and non-humans.
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Shortt Editions creates books, prints and editions that appropriate cultural norms, authority and rules often using signs. All works are made by artist Paul Shortt.
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Bay Area-based publishing studio of artist Vivian Sming, experimenting with books as art, discourse, exhibition, and archive.
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superlychee is a creative practice by Summer Li, a graphic designer who is giving herself permission to play and follow her many curiosities.
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unhinged press is a collaborative publishing practice by Christina Nguyen and Jordan Steyer. They use the Risograph to make zines + prints that share their interests and cope with being alive.
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University of Washington Division of Design — Visual Communication Design program.
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Wave Books is an independent poetry press based in Seattle, Washington, dedicated to publishing contemporary poetry, poetry in translation, and writing by poets.
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Winter texts is shape-shifting micro-press out on the Olympic Peninsula. I believe that publishing is a practice of weaving and carrying.
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ZAPP (Zine Archival & Publishing Project) is a collection of 30,000+ zines housed at Seattle Public Library. Donated by Hugo House, the collection celebrates self-publishing in Seattle and beyond.
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Zine Hug is a risograph printer and publisher creating comics, zines, and artist books out of Seattle, WA.