Join us for a unique opportunity to chat independent publishing in New York!

We’re joined by independent publishers Ivy Zheyu Chen / UPON, TXTBooks, and Social Species for an evening of celebration and conversation about the craft and trade of making and selling prints in NYC.

Previews

Come in and browse selections from each of our panelists’ archives.

Presentations

We’ll then gather to hear a short presentation from each of our panelists about their practices and studios.

Panel Discussion

Each studio will respond to questions from our host, and from the audience. Come with your curiosities and queries, and we’ll chat all things printing!

Ivy Zheyu Chen is a New York-based artist and the founder of UPON Studio, which publishes zines and prints with only one brief: Explore Anything for Fun and Experience. Her recent work focuses on random thoughts and the experiments of whimsical word-image interaction. With appearances at various art book fairs, Ivy’s work has been collected by the Metropolitan Museum Library, Yale University Library, Whitney Museum, Jameel Arts Centre Dubai, and many more.

TXTbooks is an artist-run independent publishing initiative in Brooklyn, NY.

Our interest is in self-publishing as a collective while facilitating projects with artists and writers working across many disciplines. Our best case scenario is to publish those who have not yet considered producing a zine, or at least don't consider it their main practice; Our ultimate goal is to create dumb jokes and passion projects with as many people as possible.

Our publications are resolved via Risograph printing for cost-effective self production and as an informal way to aesthetically bind our output.

Founded in 2014, TXTbooks is currently maintained by Robert Blair, Thomas Colligan, Nichole Shinn, Rose Wong, and Kurt Woerpel.

Social Species is a design studio and a small print collective focusing on expressions of play.We believe that play has always been an accessible way of learning culture and identity. Drawing inspiration from this, we want to create new ways of play for the present and further develop for the future.

Social Species is founded by Miles Barretto and Vivian Yang.

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