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Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) and Bodega team up again to present the Boston Art Book Fair held in BCA’s historic Cyclorama. As one of the largest Art Book Fairs on the East Coast, this curated event features over 140 exhibitors, artists and publishers.
With art installations, DJs, workshops, panels, and a chance to mingle with truly innovative artists and creatives of our generation, this year’s fair invites audiences of all ages to engage in an art-filled weekend to expand their ideas about print.
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PREVIEW PARTY
Friday, November 8
The Cyclorama at Boston Center for the Arts
Featuring DJ 7L, Braun Dapper and a Performance by Playthings: The Drag-a-Zine
VIP Admission: 6–7 pm
• Fundraising Edition Artwork from Artists Jean Chung & Oliver Mak
• 4 complimentary drink tickets and snacks courtesy of Gourmet Caterers and Lord Hobo
DJ set by Braun Dapper - Legendary DJ/producer as one half of Bladerunners and also known as Beyonder in the 90s HipHop scene.
General Admission: 7–9 pm
• Performance by Playthings: The Drag-a-Zine
• Fundraising Edition Artwork from Artists Jean Chung & Oliver Mak
• An exclusive set by DJ 7L—Legendary DJ/producer behind the sounds of 7L & Esoteric, Bladerunners & the Czarface project with Inspectah deck, MF Doom & Ghostface Killah.
2019 EXHIBITORS
AINT–BAD • ANTHOLOGY EDITIONS • APERTURE • BENJAMIN OGILVY PROJECTS • BOSTON ART REVIEW • BOMB MAGAZINE • CONVERSE • ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM • LEICA GALLERY BOSTON • MIT PRESS • MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER • SMFA at TUFTS • VACANCY PROJECTS • WEEDMAPSA PUBLISHED EVENT • A_OK EDITIONS • ABDUL FATTAH ISMAIL • ADAM JASON COHEN • ALEX LUKAS • ALYSSA MINAHAN, EMILY VALLEE • AMADEUS • ANGELA HUANG • ANTHONY GREANEY/PICTURES EFFACE WALLS • ARTBOOK | DAP • ARTIFACT ZINE • AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE US PRESS • BLOW UP PRESS • BOOSE.STUDIO • BOSTON COMPASS • BU GRAPHIC DESIGN • CAROLINE HU • CAROLYN SHATTUCK ARTISTS BOOKS • CATALOG PRESS • CLOWN KISSES PRESS • COLOUR BLOC CREATIV | CBC PRESS • DANIEL FAIRCLOUGH • DAVID CUNDY / HYMNSELF PUBLISHING • DIRECTANGLE PRESS • DRAW DOWN BOOKS • DUST COLLECTIVE • EDIZIONI NOTTURNE • ELSKA MAGAZINE • FARM PROJECTS • FEEEELS MAGAZINE • FOURTH • 鳩見堂 KYUKENDO • GRLSQUASH • GREYING GHOST • HAJOSY ARTS/VAGONION • HANDOWIN HE • HANNAH BURR AND SUE MURAD • HAYLEY & HALEIGH • HEADMASTER • HEIRESS EVNA • HELEN OH • HOME GROWN BOSTON • HOMOCATS • HORSKY PROJECTS • IMAGE TEXT ITHACA • JAINA CIPRIANO • JENNIFER CALANDRA • JEREMY ACKMAN • JOELLE RIFFLE • JOY LUCK CLUB • KARL STEVENS • KATHERINE SMALL GALLERY • KING LOUIE’S LAB • LAUREN O’NEIL • LAURIE ALPERT • LIZ BOLDUC SUX • MALAKHAI PEARSON • MARTHA CHASON-SOKOL • MASS LOVE DISTRO • MATT CRABE • MATT EMMONS • MOON EATERS COLLECTIVE • NAPOLEON JONES-HENDERSON-AFRICOBRA • NICE • NORTH BENNET STREET SCHOOL • ORANBEG PRESS • OTHER FORMS • PAMELA LANDAU CONNOLLY • PAN + SCAN ILLUSTRATION • PAPER BAG MASK • PAPER WORK • PAT FALCO • PER(R)UCHO • PUT A EGG ON IT • QUEERING BOSTON • RAYNA LO ART • RANDOM MAN EDITIONS • SEAN SUCHARA • SHIRA NEISS ILLUSTRATION • SIGLIO • SOPHIE PAGE & ERON HARE • SOUTHERN EXPOSURE • STEPHANIE DE ROUGE STORYTELLING • STUDIO HUMAN BEINGS • SYBIL PRESS • THANKYOU_SEAN • THE RIVA COLLECTIVE • TIZIANA ROZZO • TORTILLAGURL • UPON • UPPER HAND ART • WAKEFIELD PRESS • WEINBERG DESIGNS • WHERE’S NASTY? • WING CLUB • WIZARD CORE BABES • YOFFY PRESS
THE CAULDRON SALON ALIEN FEMME • CAITLIN DUENNEBIER • CATHERINE DUSSAULT • CHERYL RAFUSE • COMMON BODY PRESS • HOLY CROW • HOURGLASS • JULIA EMILIANI • LAVENDER MENACE PRESS • LITTLE MOUNTAIN PRESS • LULL MAGAZINE • THE PAPER NAPKIN • PLAYTHINGS: THE DRAG-A-ZINE • PLUM PRESS • RACHELLE BOSE • RAW MEAT COLLECTIVE • REFLECTIVE ZINES • SILVI NAÇI • SIMENG WANG • SNAKE HAIR PRESS • THE BUSHWICK REVIEW • THE HERMES CRAB • UXO • ZAK JENSEN
ABOUT
Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) and Bodega team up again to present the third annual Boston Art Book Fair from November 8-10 in BCA’s historic Cyclorama. As one of the largest Art Book Fairs on the East Coast, this curated event will feature over 130 exhibitors, artists and publishers.
With art installations, DJs, workshops, panels, and a chance to mingle with truly innovative artists and creatives of our generation, this year’s fair invites audiences of all ages to engage in an art-filled weekend to expand their ideas about print. Boston Art Book Fair is curated and founded by Randi Hopkins and Oliver Mak.
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View of 2018’s Pneuhaus installationINSTALLATIONS BY
Gestures of Incompleteness by Shaka Dendy
BCA Visual Artist Resident 2019 Public Art Project on the BCA Public Plaza. 
GRASSY KNOLL by Noon Projects
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PROGRAMMING
FRIDAY
NOV 8
6-9pm
Ticketed VIP Preview Party.
Complimentary Bar, limited edition ticket and DJ sets by DJ7L
Performance by Playthings: The Drag-a-Zine.
Tickets Available Here
Complimentary Bar, limited edition ticket and DJ sets by DJ7L
Performance by Playthings: The Drag-a-Zine.
Tickets Available Here
SATURDAY
NOV 9
Noon-7pm
Free / All Ages
1pm
Print Work As Collective Work
A conversation with Print Ain’t Dead (Arielle Gray & Cierra Michele Peters), Press Press (Kimi Hanuaer, Valentina Cabezas, & Bomin Jeon) & Black Studies Reading Room (Jovonna Jones) moderated by Abigail Satinsky
This conversation will focus on platform-making that highlights and centers around the creative contributions and cultural production of immigrants and people of color in print. Each of these groups & projects work collectively to study, research, engage in archives, and produce new work that critically assesses racial and cultural politics in print culture and creates new models of production and distribution. Thinking about publishing as the act of gathering a public, panelists will reflect on their process in working intentionally and collaboratively with this as a goal. This conversation is in conjunction with Bookworks, an exhibition on artist-made books on view at Tufts University Art Galleries with an installation by Press Press.
A conversation with Print Ain’t Dead (Arielle Gray & Cierra Michele Peters), Press Press (Kimi Hanuaer, Valentina Cabezas, & Bomin Jeon) & Black Studies Reading Room (Jovonna Jones) moderated by Abigail Satinsky
This conversation will focus on platform-making that highlights and centers around the creative contributions and cultural production of immigrants and people of color in print. Each of these groups & projects work collectively to study, research, engage in archives, and produce new work that critically assesses racial and cultural politics in print culture and creates new models of production and distribution. Thinking about publishing as the act of gathering a public, panelists will reflect on their process in working intentionally and collaboratively with this as a goal. This conversation is in conjunction with Bookworks, an exhibition on artist-made books on view at Tufts University Art Galleries with an installation by Press Press.
1:30pm
gaggle walk
Sandrine Schaefer
Meet in front of BCA| 1:30–3:30 pm
BCA fall 2019 Visual Artist Resident Sandrine Schaefer leads a Performative Walk, beginning at BCA and continuing to the Boston Common, to encounter and engage the local residential and migratory geese populations. You will be walking with a small group to perform site-specific experimental actions, partaking in Schaefer's research process and helping shape their project.
Sandrine Schaefer
Meet in front of BCA| 1:30–3:30 pm
BCA fall 2019 Visual Artist Resident Sandrine Schaefer leads a Performative Walk, beginning at BCA and continuing to the Boston Common, to encounter and engage the local residential and migratory geese populations. You will be walking with a small group to perform site-specific experimental actions, partaking in Schaefer's research process and helping shape their project.
2pm
An Encyclopedia
of Political Record Labels
Book talk and interactive listening event by Josh MacPhee
Brooklyn-based artist and organizer Josh MacPhee presents his newly released book, AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLITICAL RECORD LABELS. MacPhee will discuss the intersections of music, art, and politics as well as the major themes that surfaced while researching and writing the book. He will be spinning records from select labels in the book while discussing the role of the vinyl record as agitprop in international social movements, followed by an audience Q&A and signing.
MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist. He is a founding member of both the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements based in Brooklyn, NY. MacPhee is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now and Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. He has organized the Celebrate People's History poster series since 1998 and has been designing book covers for many publishers for the past decade.
Book talk and interactive listening event by Josh MacPhee
Brooklyn-based artist and organizer Josh MacPhee presents his newly released book, AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLITICAL RECORD LABELS. MacPhee will discuss the intersections of music, art, and politics as well as the major themes that surfaced while researching and writing the book. He will be spinning records from select labels in the book while discussing the role of the vinyl record as agitprop in international social movements, followed by an audience Q&A and signing.
MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist. He is a founding member of both the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements based in Brooklyn, NY. MacPhee is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now and Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. He has organized the Celebrate People's History poster series since 1998 and has been designing book covers for many publishers for the past decade.
3pm
On
Independent Arts Publishing
Panel Discussion moderated by Jameson Johnson
Join Boston Art Review Editor in Chief, Jameson Johnson for a panel discussion with arts and culture editors, designers, and writers from four different cities. Learn more about publishing process from pitching to editing to designing. The panel will explore the changing landscape for arts and culture magazines/journals and how their models might shape the future of independent publishing. With Alex Khatchadourian/Amadeus (LA), Kristen Felicetti/The Bushwick Review (NY), Jason Tranchida/Headmaster (RI) and Lisa Pearson/Siglio (Hudson Valley).
Join Boston Art Review Editor in Chief, Jameson Johnson for a panel discussion with arts and culture editors, designers, and writers from four different cities. Learn more about publishing process from pitching to editing to designing. The panel will explore the changing landscape for arts and culture magazines/journals and how their models might shape the future of independent publishing. With Alex Khatchadourian/Amadeus (LA), Kristen Felicetti/The Bushwick Review (NY), Jason Tranchida/Headmaster (RI) and Lisa Pearson/Siglio (Hudson Valley).
4pm
Art Activism Creates
Movement
Panel Discussion organized by Street Theory Gallery and Marka27 with Che Anderson (Pow Wow Worcester), Karin Goodfellow (Director of Boston Art Comission), Michael Monestime (Central Square Mural Project) and
Rob "Problak" Gibbs (Muralist)
Join the conversation with national and internationally renowned street artists, Massachusetts-based street art festival organizers, and city stakeholders on the impact street art is creating for urban landscape, communities, and the people who live in them. Panelists will explore the effects of street art and creative economy on urban development and place-making, and the transformative complexities of public art in communities. This panel will also focus on up and coming artists by sharing advice and real life wisdom on how to get involved with public art and best practices to begin the journey of large scale community projects.
Join the conversation with national and internationally renowned street artists, Massachusetts-based street art festival organizers, and city stakeholders on the impact street art is creating for urban landscape, communities, and the people who live in them. Panelists will explore the effects of street art and creative economy on urban development and place-making, and the transformative complexities of public art in communities. This panel will also focus on up and coming artists by sharing advice and real life wisdom on how to get involved with public art and best practices to begin the journey of large scale community projects.
5pm
Changing The Game: Boston’s Rising Artists
Panel
Discussion moderated by Katytarika Bartel
Join us for a panel discussion addressing topics of arts equity and sustainability, community activism, and how artists of color in Boston are navigating and occupying space throughout the city. The panel will feature members of Boston's ever-growing creative community Tusneem “Neemz” Abuhasan, Crystal Bi, Shaka Dendy, Malakhai Pearson and O.J. Slaughter, and will be moderated by artist and educator Katytarika Bartel of ANGRY ASIAN GIRLS.
Join us for a panel discussion addressing topics of arts equity and sustainability, community activism, and how artists of color in Boston are navigating and occupying space throughout the city. The panel will feature members of Boston's ever-growing creative community Tusneem “Neemz” Abuhasan, Crystal Bi, Shaka Dendy, Malakhai Pearson and O.J. Slaughter, and will be moderated by artist and educator Katytarika Bartel of ANGRY ASIAN GIRLS.
6pm
Highsnobiety
“The New Luxury”
Book talk with editor Jian DeLeon
As legions of independent artists, designers, and photographers cross over into working for or as fashion labels, Highsnobiety’s editor Jian Deleon will explore the symbiosis of DIY /street projects and Luxury Fashion. “New Luxury,“ is a term that summarizes how streetwear and sneakers have not only infiltrated the upper tiers of fashion, but became it. The New Luxury isn’t just about what you wear, but also what you know. This book provides the foundational knowledge of how youth-driven culture and fashion trends start from the ground up.
Book talk with editor Jian DeLeon
As legions of independent artists, designers, and photographers cross over into working for or as fashion labels, Highsnobiety’s editor Jian Deleon will explore the symbiosis of DIY /street projects and Luxury Fashion. “New Luxury,“ is a term that summarizes how streetwear and sneakers have not only infiltrated the upper tiers of fashion, but became it. The New Luxury isn’t just about what you wear, but also what you know. This book provides the foundational knowledge of how youth-driven culture and fashion trends start from the ground up.
DJ Sets
10pm-late
SUNDAY
NOV 10
Noon-5pm
Free / All Ages
12:30pm
Collective Reading of Avid Readers Publication
Organized by Jack Henrie Fisher/Other
Forms
“Avid reader” is a collocation — a phrase of two or more words that accompany each other more often than would occur by chance. Avid Readers is an event to convene a group of different readers according to something other than chance, something like desire (the latin root of “avid”).
Avid Readers is an experiment in reprinting and at the same time is a script for a collective reading. It is an elliptical out-loud construction of a theme in print. Avid Readers reproduces not only words but also the form of words in print. We read together not as a ritual but instead as the lucid collective enunciation of the material texts assembled.
Avid Readers is an event/publication that has been presented by Other Forms with different material and in different venues for the last year, including at art book fairs in Mexico City, Athens, Berlin, and Chicago. Other Forms is creating a new publication for the Boston Art Book Fair.
“Avid reader” is a collocation — a phrase of two or more words that accompany each other more often than would occur by chance. Avid Readers is an event to convene a group of different readers according to something other than chance, something like desire (the latin root of “avid”).
Avid Readers is an experiment in reprinting and at the same time is a script for a collective reading. It is an elliptical out-loud construction of a theme in print. Avid Readers reproduces not only words but also the form of words in print. We read together not as a ritual but instead as the lucid collective enunciation of the material texts assembled.
Avid Readers is an event/publication that has been presented by Other Forms with different material and in different venues for the last year, including at art book fairs in Mexico City, Athens, Berlin, and Chicago. Other Forms is creating a new publication for the Boston Art Book Fair.
1pm
Contributors
Inc. Workshop
Workshop Led by Mimi Cabell and Phoebe Stubbs
Contributors Inc. mine the content pages of magazines of art and culture to reveal the hidden structures of the canon, making interventions, publications and workshops. During the workshop at Boston Art Book Fair we’ll investigate, via a hands on session with magazines, critical questions about editorial design. What are the links between editorial content and different funding structures? How do we know who paid for the articles we read? Who are magazines of art and design for?
Workshop Led by Mimi Cabell and Phoebe Stubbs
Contributors Inc. mine the content pages of magazines of art and culture to reveal the hidden structures of the canon, making interventions, publications and workshops. During the workshop at Boston Art Book Fair we’ll investigate, via a hands on session with magazines, critical questions about editorial design. What are the links between editorial content and different funding structures? How do we know who paid for the articles we read? Who are magazines of art and design for?
2pm
Women
of the White Buffalo | Deborah Anderson
Panel moderated by
Anabel Vazquez-Rodriguez
This discussion explores a new feature documentary film of the Native American Lakota Nation, produced and directed by photographer, artist, and art director Deborah Anderson, who traveled to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, home to the Oglala Lakota Nation with a focus on the Lakota women, the backbone of the community and keepers of their ancient wisdom. Anderson’s film documents the ongoing rising up against the forces that continue to suppress them. Photographic stills from the documentary project will be on exhibition at Leica Gallery Boston November 07, 2019 - January 12, 2020.
This discussion explores a new feature documentary film of the Native American Lakota Nation, produced and directed by photographer, artist, and art director Deborah Anderson, who traveled to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, home to the Oglala Lakota Nation with a focus on the Lakota women, the backbone of the community and keepers of their ancient wisdom. Anderson’s film documents the ongoing rising up against the forces that continue to suppress them. Photographic stills from the documentary project will be on exhibition at Leica Gallery Boston November 07, 2019 - January 12, 2020.
3pm
Building a Creative Community
Presented by Converse
Moderated by Austin Bryant
Through collaborations, campaigns, and partnerships with a variety of artists, Converse has fostered its own evolving creative community. Join us for a panel featuring some of these artists discussing the importance of community within the creative world. There’s usually no “how to” guide for navigating obstacles like taking on big assignments, networking, and pitching clients. Instead, we tend to lean on our friendships and connections to guide us. We’ll focus on how each of the panelists have drawn from mentors, peers, and mentees for challenges like these during their career. Featured artists on the panel are photographer/director Taylor Rainbolt (LA), wardrobe stylist/brand consultant Karolyn Pho (LA), and photographer/director Daniel Regan (LA).
Presented by Converse
Moderated by Austin Bryant
Through collaborations, campaigns, and partnerships with a variety of artists, Converse has fostered its own evolving creative community. Join us for a panel featuring some of these artists discussing the importance of community within the creative world. There’s usually no “how to” guide for navigating obstacles like taking on big assignments, networking, and pitching clients. Instead, we tend to lean on our friendships and connections to guide us. We’ll focus on how each of the panelists have drawn from mentors, peers, and mentees for challenges like these during their career. Featured artists on the panel are photographer/director Taylor Rainbolt (LA), wardrobe stylist/brand consultant Karolyn Pho (LA), and photographer/director Daniel Regan (LA).
4PM
The
Changing Landscape of Media Coverage of the Arts
Moderated by Maria Garcia
WBUR’s Maria Garcia moderates a panel on the changing landscape of media coverage of the arts in Boston (and beyond). The panel will consider recent changes in focus, personnel and platforms at WBUR and The Boston Globe, both in who is covered and how they are covered (on the air, online, in live events), and will look at the impact of new forms of media coverage of the arts, as well as new relationships between the media and our arts institutions and our histories. Panelists include Palace Shaw and Ariana Lee, co-hosts of The Whitest Cube podcast, and Amber and Daughter of Contrast, co-hosts of the podcast Hoodgrown Aesthetic.
Moderated by Maria Garcia
WBUR’s Maria Garcia moderates a panel on the changing landscape of media coverage of the arts in Boston (and beyond). The panel will consider recent changes in focus, personnel and platforms at WBUR and The Boston Globe, both in who is covered and how they are covered (on the air, online, in live events), and will look at the impact of new forms of media coverage of the arts, as well as new relationships between the media and our arts institutions and our histories. Panelists include Palace Shaw and Ariana Lee, co-hosts of The Whitest Cube podcast, and Amber and Daughter of Contrast, co-hosts of the podcast Hoodgrown Aesthetic.
DJ Sets
LOCATION
BOSTON ART BOOK FAIR is located at the historic Cyclorama building on the campus of Boston Center for the Arts.
Cyclorama
539 Tremont St Boston ︎
LIMITED EDITIONS
All Limited Editions help fund the Boston Art Book Fair and are available only at this three day community event.
Kostas Seremetis - Screen print edition of 50
16”x20” on 100lb French Paper. Printed by Trifecta Editions. Longtime friend and collaborator Kostas Seremetis is an American painter, sculptor and filmmaker. You may recognize his work from various projects with Stussy, John Mayer, Acronym & The Cult, as well as his numerous solo exhibitions around the globe. We created this print an affordable price so that anyone could add to their collection. Get it while it lasts.
Support Independent Art Publishers Tee - Edition of 50
Bodega Collaboration with Paperwork on tees from our friends at Carhartt WIP. Designed by Bodega & Boston Art Book Fair’s Oliver Mak & inspired by the ethos & aesthetic of Paperwork. Made possible with support by Carhartt WIP. Printed in South Boston By Antidesigns.
Tote by Weedmaps - Edition of 1,000 12 oz Heavy Canvas with Web Handles & Bottom Gusset. 15” x15”x 3"
Our friends at Weedmaps are generously giving out 1000 FREE totes at the Boston Art Book Fair to facilitate your collection of obscure art materials.
Based on this year’s graphic design, produced in Boston. Thses are free with ticket purchase to friday’s preview party. V1 is Neon Plexiglass , edition of 100. V2 is Clear Plexiglass, edition of 500.
SPONSORS
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Special Thanks To:
PRESS
Harvard Radio Broadcasting Feature
HYPERALLERGIC
ART NEW ENGLAND
The Crimson
In addition to over our countless exhibitors, artists, panelists and performers, Boston Art Book Fair 2019 was also made possible by the tireless work of Jean Chung, Emily Foster Day, Paula Dixon, Erin Dimson-Doyle, Andrew Grimanis, Elizabeth Haranas, Cera Smith, & Phyllis Smith. Thank you to everyone who attended and continues to support our efforts. - O+R