Spotlight on CATAWAMPUS PRESS!

Catawampus

Catawampus Press writes:

Catawampus Press is a crafty little print shop located in Durham, North Carolina, specializing in strange and wonderful handmade paper goods. Established in 2017, Catawampus Press is here to add some much-needed color and personality to the world. From hand-printed cards to screen printed tees, Catawampus Press is like the charming creature under your bed who likes to steal your socks and bake you cookies, we kind of do it all. With over a decade of experience in printmaking, illustration, and art direction are the shapeshifting ‘Wampus Kitty of the Southeast.

 

Spotlight on SUPER SHRINKYDINK!

Super Shinkydink writes:

@supershrinkydink on instagram is where local artist Hyewon Grigoni posts her creations of miniature renderings of things and animals that she loves but can’t afford to have in life size.

shrinkydink.jpgShe also illustrates some of the more interesting emails her neighbors post on their neighborhood listserve as @neighborhoodlistserve. Mostly lost pets, free mattresses, and the occasional odd request.

Hyewon will be bringing her original shrinkydinks mounted on wood blocks and jewelry, postcards, as well zines about worm composting, feeding picky eaters, naughty dogs and more.

Spotlight on EMILY EVE WEINSTEIN!

Emily writes: Emily Eve Weinstein arrived in North Carolina in 1982, after traveling around the United States and Canada for three years painting the unwinding scenery. Currently Weinstein is working on a 25 year handmade book series which is an all consuming project…she will be 80 when it is complete.
In Durham she originated two businesses: Pet & People Portraiture and Murals-by-Many. Weinstein has exhibited widely and has four published art gift books. She takes part in the Orange County Artist Guild Open Studio tour and teaches plein air painting through the Art Center in Carrboro.
 
Life Drawing! accordian book will be introduced Saturday at Zine Fest in Durham…
emily

Spotlight on RIO AUBRY TAYLOR!

Rio writes: Rio Aubry Taylor is a multidisciplinary cartooner and cyberpunk living the life of a movie-star secret hideout, somewhere in the United States. Xe enjoys the taste and sensation of warm mud and the feelings evoked from one-pointed concentration. In the summer Rio is a butterfly/bee, flitting from honey to flowers. In the winter xe’s a knight-statue, staying very still, lying under ground.

Rio possesses an MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies and has been published by The National Cartoonists Society and the Swedish Comics Association, among others. Xir newest comics project is a monthly ongoing work of brutal psychedelia called JETTY, of which Rio will be debuting the third issue at Zine Machine. jettycomics.com

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