Book Fair
From zines to monographs, the Making Meaning Book Fair brings together artists and publishers whose work engages collage and innovative approaches to publishing.
As an extension of the symposium’s conversations, the Book Fair offers a space to explore how books and printed matter document, circulate, and expand the experience of collage.
The book fair is free and open to the public.
allison anne
A variety of publications from allison anne, Twin Cities Collage Collective, and NONMACHINABLE, including a range of collage-based artist publications, zines, monographs, anthologies, and print projects. Titles include North Star Collage, Cut Loose, and Colour into Focus: Queer + Trans Collage, in addition to select collage titles distributed by NONMACHINABLE and solo projects by allison.
Find out more: www.allisonanne.com
Todd Bartel
Todd Bartel’s publications on collage include self-published exhibition catalogs that contribute to the understanding of collage or center on artists working exclusively with collage, as well as publications that examine the artist's collage and assemblage work, and the collage-based children's books written and illustrated by his former summer art program students.
Find out more: www.toddbartel.com
Katie Blake
What Kind Of Collage Is That? by Katie Blake is a thesaurus featuring more than 270 collage techniques and processes with definitions or descriptions from the artists and historians. Within these techniques lies a rich history of the art form reflecting the cultures and technologies of their creatives. The book contains more than 70 accompanying artworks by both historic and contemporary artists which demonstrate a selection of the terms.
Find out more: @whatapageturner
Cut Me Up Magazine
Cut Me Up is a participatory magazine of visual call and response founded and directed by Andrea Burgay. Each issue presents a curated selection of original collage images that become raw material for reader-artists to respond by transforming them into new artworks in response to curatorial calls addressing contemporary issues. The newly created responses form the content of the next issue.
Find out more: www.cutmeupmagazine.com
Jordanna Kalman
Photography-based zines that include, but aren't limited to, themes of feminism, unrequited love, and photography itself.
Find out more: https://www.rabbitandsparrow.com
Kolaj Institute
In addition to current and back issues of Kolaj Magazine, Kolaj Institute will be showing a number of its publishing projects including Folklore of the Upper Nithsdale, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Artists in the Archives, Empty Columns Are a Place to Dream, Standard Practices in Dressmaking, Magic in the Modern World, Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, and The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide, as well as copies of PoetryXCollageand the Folklore Collage Society journal.
Find out more: https://kolajinstitute.org
Paperback Records
Paperback Records is an art “zine” publisher. Created by designer/artist John Gall to publish his own collage work, the roster has since expanded to include other contemporary artists. Printed in limited editions, the publications aim to highlight some of the extraordinary artists working in this flourishing new era of collage.
Find out more: www.paperbackrecords.com
Images: Andrea Burgay: Fictions, Collages 2024-2025/Jack Felice
Kirk Read
Kirk Read combines his love for writing, screen print and analog collage. He will have a selection of screen-printed clothing, journals, prints, and his collage publications.
Find out more: @anotherkirkread
Vassar College Bookstore
Vassar College’s Bookstore will offer collage publications by symposium presenters, including Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage, by Freya Gowerley, Black Collagists: The Book, by Teri Henderson, Typophoto: New Typography and the Reinvention of Photography, by Jess Brier, and a selection of collage catalogs and monographs related to symposium themes.