Summer of Zines Programming
CRASH Space has been invited to exhibit at the Wende Zine Fest in Culver City this August, and we want YOUR zines for the booth!
Never made a zine or want to expand your skills? We’ve got 3 months of programming leading up to the event for a variety of styles and niches, as well as a selection of supplies to make your own. Read ahead for:
Already have a zine made and want to submit or have us print it for the booth? SUBMIT HERE! ALL zines are accepted, you do not have to have a member as we’d like as many zines from the maker community as possible.
May 24th – 2-4pm: Zine Social
Stop by the space for free snacks and a selection of materials to start your own zine. Not sure how to make a zine? We will have premade coloring book-style zines and templates that will make it easy to learn! Whether you need a color printer, crayons, or a risograph, we have the supplies you need to make your art dreams come true.
May 31st – 1-3pm: ZineSearch
Attendees will choose a topic and begin to research it for their zine. They will then create a source notebook and begin laying out pages, with opportunity to print the zine during the 7/27 Risograph ZinePrint class or during open hours at the space.
June 15th – 1-4pm: Experimental Riso Zines: Accordion Folds
This workshop explores a wildly versatile zine format—the accordion fold—and guides participants through creating and risograph printing their own zines. No experience needed in either risography or bookmaking.
- [EVENTBRITE COMING 5/15, sign up for updates here, space is limited]
June 22nd – 1-4pm: Experimental Riso Zines: One-Sheets
In this workshop, we experiment with the one-sheet zine and its possibilities. With prompts to ignite ideas, participants will create their own zine and print it using the risograph. No experience needed in either risography or bookmaking.
- [EVENTBRITE COMING 5/22, sign up for updates here, space is limited]
July 13th – 2-4pm: Sun Printing for Zines: Cyanotype/Anthotype Fundamentals and Nontraditional Techniques
This class will be a CRASH course on experimenting with anthotype and cyanotype, where participants will learn how to make and tone sun prints for digital reproduction in zines – either as background art or as the main feature. Traditional techniques include printing from film and digital negatives, flowers, foliage, and other found objects. Nontraditional techniques include layering stencils and negatives, collaging transparencies, and digitally manipulating scans to combine anthotype and cyanotype prints.
- [EVENTBRITE COMING 6/13, sign up for updates here, space is limited]
July 27th – 1-4pm: Risograph ZinePrint
In this session attendees will take their zine layouts and turn them in color separated images ready for the Risograph. Either hand separated or digital (bring your own computer / design), we will go into using the Risograph and produce the final copies of our zines.
- [EVENTBRITE COMING 6/27, sign up for updates here, space is limited]
August 2nd – 11am-4pm: Wende Zine Fest
Come booth with us at the Wende Zine Fest or just submit a zine for us to show off! Email events@crashspace.org to volunteer.
August 17th – 1-3pm: Color Experiments with (not quite) Josef Albers
Learn how to magically turn one color into two and turn an opaque piece of paper into a translucent screen! First at Black Mountain College and then at Yale, Josef Albers taught his students to view colors not as objects but experiences. Together, attendees will recreate 3 of Albers’ color experiments and see these transformations first hand (with CRASHer Nick and not Josef).
- [EVENTBRITE COMING 7/17, sign up for updates here, space is limited]
Already have a zine in mind and just need supplies? If you are a member, stop by during any open hours (you don’t need to participate in the related meeting) to use our color printers, risograph, art supplies, and more! Need a supply and not sure we have it? Email events@crashspace.org with any questions you may have.
Alex Belardo Kostiw explores unknown parts and possibilities in the everyday and in ourselves through poetic elements, visual structures of comics, and conceptually driven forms. They teach visual communication design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
LNSY is a software developer and fine artist who lives in San Pedro, CA. They have been making zines since elementary school.
Mariam Matta is an avid DIYer, artist, and writer that builds databases for nonprofits. Her poetry collection, which featured visual poetry made out of magazine collages, received a first prize award at USC’s 19th Annual Writing Conference. Her projects take a special interest in the alchemy of trash to treasure and destruction to reconstruction.