In Queer and Trans communities, diy zine publication is an artform which acts as both a form of resistance and method of nurturing community. In this class students will learn to design, produce, and distribute their own zines within the context of this culture and history. The class will examine how the zine as a multiple non-precious (perhaps semi-precious) object can give communities access to art, in ways that traditional art spaces cannot. Students will build hand-skills in non-adhesive binding structures drawing from Non-Adhesive Binding1, Art of the Fold2, and Book Forms3. Students will attain a working understanding of paper grain, folding, piercing, tearing, and cutting to produce structures from simple pamphlets to multi-signature thread-sewn softcovers. Bookbinding without glues or pastes will verse students in the mechanics of binding structures and give them the skills to accessibly make zines without expensive or heavy tools. We will spend some class period's outside of the classroom distributing our publications to the student body by passing them out, staging them throughout campus, and tabling. Through the act of distribution and sharing, Students will learn to see the essence of this practice not only in making, but also in giving. We will look at Queer publishers including: Other Publishing, Diagonal Press, Hotam Press, Unity Press, Linda Zeb Hang, GenderFail, etc. for reference.
2 units · Letter (ABCD/NP)
In Queer and Trans communities, diy zine publication is an artform which acts as both a form of resistance and method of nurturing community. In this class students will learn to design, produce, and distribute their own zines within the context of this culture and history. The class will examine how the zine as a multiple non-precious (perhaps semi-precious) object can give communities access to art, in ways that traditional art spaces cannot. Students will build hand-skills in non-adhesive binding structures drawing from Non-Adhesive Binding1, Art of the Fold2, and Book Forms3. Students will attain a working understanding of paper grain, folding, piercing, tearing, and cutting to produce structures from simple pamphlets to multi-signature thread-sewn softcovers. Bookbinding without glues or pastes will verse students in the mechanics of binding structures and give them the skills to accessibly make zines without expensive or heavy tools. We will spend some class period's outside of the classroom distributing our publications to the student body by passing them out, staging them throughout campus, and tabling. Through the act of distribution and sharing, Students will learn to see the essence of this practice not only in making, but also in giving. We will look at Queer publishers including: Other Publishing, Diagonal Press, Hotam Press, Unity Press, Linda Zeb Hang, GenderFail, etc. for reference.