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Secret riso Club
Gonzalo Guerrero and Tara Ridgedell
Secret Riso Club is a graphic design and risograph studio that focuses its work on the intersection of social justice, art, design and community building. In our practice, we work to build a platform that serves as a collaborative space for developing ideas and new projects. SRC is run in collaboration between Gonzalo Guerrero and Tara Ridgedell.Gonzalo Guerrero (he/him) created SRC in 2017 a few years after immigrating to NYC from Chile. As designer, Gonzalo’s practice is focused on the use of printing as a tool to experiment and explore ideas around identity, activism and culture. Tara Ridgedell (she/her) has a background in education and comes to the practice with accessibility in mind. Her work focuses on both inward and outward connection and breaking down capitalism’s individual centered focus. In addition to running SRC operations, Tara also runs Practice Print, our in house screen-printing studio.
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Play Nice Press
Allison Belcher and Jacob Vasquez
Play Nice is an independently run and operated Risography-press based in Dallas, Texas.
Starting as a motto and inkling of an idea in 2020 as a way to bring artists back together post-lockdown; it has grown into a much larger amalgamation of illustrator-friends making artwork they all admire. Many of their immediate friend groups are based in the southern region of the United states, but Play-Nice prints for Friends and stranger-friends all over the U.S.
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Mystic Multiples
Mystic Multiples (Sarah Welch and James Beard) are a Houston artist collaborative who self-publish printed ephemera and make art installations. They’ve worked on projects together since 2009. Together, they have received funding from the Houston Arts Alliance and participated in residency programs at Wesleyan University and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Their most recent solo exhibition was presented by The Galveston Art Center in 2023. This year they plan to work in partnership with Zine Fest Houston to publish a book about the history of the festival.
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track and field
Track and Field (est. 2013) is a collaborative publishing initiative from Marc Choi and Dimitry Tetin, graphic designers and educators from Washington DC and Austin, respectively.
As first-generation immigrants (South Korea and South Ukraine), Marc and Dimitry are interested in exploring the relationships among personal, public and geographic histories within the popular American imagination. Their small-scale printed and digital work often questions the relationship between place and identity, asking why our projection of self is often so intertwined with “where” we’re from. Thematically, the work ranges from humorous to solemn—engaging time, loss, queerness and erasure on personal, public and sometimes geological scale.
They have exhibited their work at Odds and Ends Book Fair, Chicago Art Book Fair, Short Run Comix & Arts Festival (Seattle), Fully Booked (Dubai), Northampton ABF, Boston ABF, DC ABF, Cincinnati ABF, Detroit ABF. Multiple Formats Symposium and ABF, Capital ABF, and Printed Matter’s LA ABF.
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