For 20 years, the Twin Cities Zine Fest (TCZF) has welcomed creatives, rebels, musicians, and frustrated intellectuals to connect, create, and share ideas through zines and self-publishing. Collectively organized by a group of volunteers, TCZF has collaboratively supported this form of design most often created by those without traditional, formal design training. Instead, TCZF champions sustainable support of self-publishing and the DIY ethic in local communities, with an intersectional focus on politically and socially engaged zines, community partnership, and amplifying the voices of those who have been historically unheard. Gathering a group of zine makers throughout TCZF’s years, this evening explores the vibrant plurality of voices and perspectives on local zines.
After-Lecture Receptions
Directly following each lecture, meet the presenters, grab a drink, and chat with fellow design lovers in the Walker’s Main Lobby.
Save with an Insights Series Package
$90 ($71 Walker and AIGA members; $38 students)
Price includes tickets to four paid events. (Unclaimed reserved tickets are released 15 minutes before the event start time.) Purchase online, visit the Walker box office, or call 612-375-7600.
Accessibility
This event will have ASL interpretation.
For information about accessibility or to request additional accommodations for this program, call 612-375-7564 or email access@walkerart.org.
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Bios
BakiBakiBaki is a Black Native multidisciplinary artist and teaching artist. Getting their start in zines more than 10 years ago through a local library program, the day they learned how to fold a one page was the same day they made a life commitment to making, curating, and teaching the power of zines. Since 2016, BakiBakiBaki has written and workshopped curriculum for pre-k to adult students. They believe art and education are essential tools in collective liberation. They host a monthly free and traveling zine workshop open to all. For more information, follow BBB on instagram @aloverswar.
Late Night Copies Press is a queer- and trans-owned micro-press run by collaborators India Johnson (she/her) and Aiden Bettine (he/him). They publish informal research-based writing, erotica, and zines about topics such as arts organizing, queer archives, and LGBTQ+ history in the Upper Midwest. The press cultivates a local independent publishing scene by hosting the Midwest Queer & Trans Zine Fest annually in October. Using a photocopier in their apartment, they also provide affordable printing to other zinesters. Find Late Night Copies Press at zine fests and brick-and-mortar bookstores all over the country, and online @latenightcopies and latenightcopies.com.
E. Joy Mehr (she/her) started making comics in 2018 after getting laid off from a hearing aid plant. Her first zine, Unemployment Diary, was a result of needing to fill the long days of nothing and keep track of her meager finances. Since then she has served as founder and organizer for Insert Name Zine Fest (2019-present), organized comics retreats, tabled at a billion zine fests, led workshops on comics/zines, and presented a lightning talk at the 2022 Graphic Medicine conference. You can read her scribbly DIY autobio comics at instagram.com/ejoymehr or ejoymehr.com.
Synthia Nicole started writing perzines after a disabling brain injury. Writing zines, trading through the mail, and attending zine fests have been a part of their healing. Follow them at @synthia_xx_nicole on Instagram.
YOLOW Zines is L. Kling (they/them), a Queer, Trans, Person of Color living on occupied Dakota and Anishinaabe land, aka Minneapolis. They specialize in working with diverse artists and writers to create collaborative zines on a wide range of topics—from cats, to death, to food, to biking, to gender and sexuality, and more. Creating physical manifestations of collaborative art made with DIY ethics brings them joy and makes them feel a part of a greater community. Learn more about their work at instagram.com/YOLOWZines or order their work at picklewitch.org/merch-store or by catching them at a local zine fest.
Before Your Visit
Paid underground parking is available on-site. Enter the ramp on Vineland Place at Bryant Avenue. Biking or taking Metro Transit? Learn more.
Visiting the galleries? Enhance your experience by joining a public tour or with self-guided resources accessible for free on Bloomberg Connects.
Personal photography is permitted throughout the Walker and the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, but please turn off the flash when visiting the galleries.
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