1/18 - Small Print: A Mini Book Fair

 

 

Working Loose is pleased to present “SMALL PRINT”, a deep-winter mini-book fair celebrating small, independent and alternatively published works. We will be in good company with an impressive line-up of guests featuring Faythe Levine, Sean Turley, Alexis Iammarino, Zinzi Edmunson and Clare Lagomarsino. Come meet this inspiring cadre of creatives, peruse their printed matter, and hear from our guests in a series of short readings and panel discussion on the importance of small print, (especially now!)

Schedule of Events | Saturday 1/18

noon - 1pm | Open Fair Hours / Sales + Signings

1:00 - 1:15 | Author Talk: Faythe Levine 

1:15 - 1:30 | Author Talk: Clare Lagomarsino

1:30 - 1:45 | Author Talk: Zinzi Edmunson

Short Break

2:00 - 2:15 | Author Talk: Alexis Iammarino

2:15 - 2:30 | Author Talk: Sean Turley

2:30 - 3pm | Panel Discussion 

3pm - 4pm | Open Fair Hours / Sales + Signings

4pm | Head home with some great reading material + buckets of inspiration!

About the Guests:

FAYTHE LEVINE (Mellenville, NY)

Faythe Levine is a curator, photographer, director, author, and tiny chair collector whose work is centered on community, empowerment, and documentation. Her most well-known works are, Sign Painters (2013) and Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY Art, Craft, and Design (2009). Both are featured-length documentaries with accompanying books published by Princeton Architectural Press. For the past six years, Levine has been working on As Ever, Miriam (2024), published by OK Stamp Press. Through deep archival research, Levine's fourth book captures many aspects of Charlotte Partridge and Miriam Frink's lives. She is the Hauser & Wirth Institute Archivist for Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, where she manages, oversees, and increases public visibility of the archives and special collections.

SEAN TURLEY (Portland, ME) 

Sean Turley is an apple historian, photographer, cidermaker and forager and a former columnist for the Portland Press Herald, where he wrote about Maine’s vibrant apple culture. Sean maintains an ever-growing visual catalog of apples on Instagram under his nom de pome, The Righteous Russet. His forthcoming book Practical Pomology: A Field Guide, represents generations of apple knowledge and encourages a centuries-old tradition of searching for, observing, and documenting apples, and aims to be THE authoritative guide to the empirical study of apples. Sean is also a father, satirical comedian and lawyer specializing in land use.

CLARE LAGOMARSINO (Catskill, NY)

Clare Lagomarsino is a graphic designer and writer whose focus is to create thoughtful, informative, socially conscious work on sustainability; food systems, culture, history, and justice; and LGBTQ+ culture and history. Clare founded Combos Press; a queer-run small publisher based between the Hudson Valley, NY and the Pacific Northwest in 2022. Currently, Combos Press is focused on publishing work by LGBTQ+ people, anyone involved in food and agriculture, rural folks, and unpublished writers.

ZINZI EDMUNDSON (Owls Head, ME)

Zinzi Edmunson is a writer, editor, and creative director based in Midcoast Maine. You might have previously known her from her former band, Kisses, or from the magazine she founded, Knit Wit. Zinzi’s newest project Treehouse is a free weekly newsletter and paid monthly print zine, exploring themes of home using art, essays, photography, interviews, projects—everything and anything! 

ALEXIS IAMMARINO (Rockland, ME)

With a focus on youth mentorship, community-based murals, film, dance, and collaborative project design, Alexis Iammarino has led multiple large public art projects in the Midcoast and statewide. She has served as CMCA's ArtLab Lead Artist and Educator; is a founding artist with Leaps of Imagination and Arts in Action; and is co-director at Interloc in Thomaston, Maine. She and her husband Scott Sell run Little Legs Co. a mural, publications and small film production company in Rockland. The Brick Journal is her latest collaborative publication devoted to the visual language, social and geologic histories, and cultural production that stem from and connect to brickmaking and brick work.