Virtual UNBOUND 2020 Archive
The 2020 in-person fair, scheduled for Saturday April 11, was sadly canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, an online version of the fair was built to showcase all of our registered exhibitors who would have otherwise been on site in the Fleet Library.
Explore the wayback machine archived Exhibitors page to see featured work and links out to all the participating artists and designers, many of whom have works and editions for sale. This collection presents a selection of 2020 exhibitor work submitted with their original applications to participate in the 2020 Unbound event.
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Kate Aitchison
Kate Aitchison
I’m an artist primarily working within the mediums of print and hand made paper. Focused on ecology, landscape, and human's role in contemporary landscapes, I make prints, paper, prayer flags and books that speak to the human fingerprints across all wild landscapes, and the beauty inherent within them all. kateaitchisonart.weebly.com
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Ryan Alves
Ryan Alves
I have been endeavoring to push myself to make more comics, more often, using diverse media. I’ve been self publishing for about 4 years. livinginmethan.weebly.com
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Corinne Ang, Jina Choi, and Julia Chu
Julia, Corinne and Jina are a self-publishing group of RISD graphic design students interested in creating stories and narratives through various printed mediums. We are particularly intrigued in the connection and interaction of people and culture and enjoy sharing these discoveries through print.
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Addie Best Studio
Addie Best
I am currently a student at RISD but I also run a small business selling prints and mending clothes. My work is primarily linocuts and letterpress with strong themes of sustainability and tradition with a healthy dose of whimsy. - Addie Best www.addiebeststudio.com, addiebeststudio instagram
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Sarah Bryant-Cole
Sarah Bryant-Cole
I am a textile designer who is also interested in illustration and storytelling. Magic, nature, family, and queerness influence my work often and each thing I make I try to infuse with an intention. www.sarahbryantcole.com
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Wei Yun Chen: Hello Kitty w/ Mouth | Boston University Graphic Design
Wei Yun Chen
The Boston University Graphic Design program (undergraduate, graduate, and alum) showcases work generated from and informed by personal practice and studio projects (screen printing, book arts, and typography class). Students participating have a strong interest in experimental self-publishing and the role graphic design plays in communicating ideas and messages. tunachecn_ instagram, bu_Graphicdesign instagram
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Ruby and Isobel
Isobel Connelly and Ruby Miller
Isobel Connelly and Ruby Miller, two-part artist/designer collective with an affinity for multiples.
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Czap Books
K Czap
Czap Books is a Providence-based micropress publisher dedicated to celebrating the poetic, personal, and weird in a rich ecosystem of comics and zines. They champion cross-pollination of genre and influences, a mission embodied by the Ley Lines series that explores the relationship between comics and other artforms. charmgardens.com
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Nike's Knacks and Snacks
Nike Desis
Nike Desis makes small editions of zines, screen prints, & refashioned clothing/ accessories. They are prototypes from primary sources as Nike often uses popular/ found imagery/objects. She curates this content outside of algorithms with a spirit of sharing and reuse. Nike is also always studying group work, in practice and through workshops, observations, interviews, research, and readings. www.nikedesis.com
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Draw Down Books
Draw Down Books, Kathleen Sleboda, Christopher Sleboda, Zak Jensen, Nejc Prah, Daniel Eatock, Maziyar Pahlevan, Benoit Bodhuin, Bráulio Amado, Jost Hochuli, and Ian Lynam
Draw Down Books exhibitors. Draw Down is an independent publisher located in the northeastern corner of the United States. Created in 2012, Draw Down publishes small books about graphic design, typography, illustration, photography, art, and architecture.
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Game Over Books
Game Over Books
Game Over Books is a small publisher run collaboratively by a group of nerdy artists. Our goal is to amplify diverse voices in writing and bring high-quality publications to all people. We are working to accomplish this by focusing on emerging writers and giving guidance and support as they continue to grow their craft. www.gameoverbooks.com
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Erik Gould
Erik Gould
I am a photographer and a bookmaker. I am interested in the ways that groups of images can work together and how those groups join with text, with sound and with pages, both physical and digital, held within the container of a book. The unique encounter of a reader with a book is where I wish the work to meet an audience. – Erik Gould, Senior Photographer, RISD Museum erikgouldprojects.com
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Fathom Library
Marcella Green
Fathom is a free community space + a feminist pop-up art reading room, focused on the art of storytelling through book making and sharing. fathom is also a living, growing archive, a library, of contemporary creative work with an emphasis on local, emerging work. The collection consists of printed, sharable material such as chapbooks, zines, short run published work, handmade artist books, magazines, photography books, publications from local publishers and presses, and so much more. fathomlibrary.tumblr.com marcellagreen.com
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Art > Dad _ Editions
Matthew Scott Gualco
Art > DAD _ Editions comes from my own dyslexic misunderstanding of the world and my misadventures therein. I have a mixed-bag of zines, posters, and wearable swag that make light of the highbrow art world and our own lowbrow pop culture. I genuinely want to make people smile when they interact with my art and invite them to contemplate the sacredness of some of our value systems. matthewscottgualco.bigcartel.com
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Anneli Sanaye Henriksson
Anelli Sanaye Henriksson
I am a disabled artist that works in drawing, zine-making, and screen-printing. I moved to Providence in August 2019 to live and work at the Dirt Palace. I have exhibited at Comics Art Brooklyn, LA Art Book Fair, New York Art Book Fair, Chicago Art Book Fair, and Chicago Zinefest. My comics have been published in the Chicago Reader and I recently collaborated with the French fashion house Celine. www.annelihenriksson.com, @annelihenriksson
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Julia Illana
Julia Illana
I’m a Providence-area illustrator and comic artist! I’m a recent Brown grad and I currently work as a TA in the art department at Brown and as a teaching artist at CityArts. juliaillana.com
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Sara Inácio
Sarah Inácio
Sara Inacio is a printmaker and socially engaged artist based in Providence, RI. Born in Ipatinga, Brazil, Sara immigrated to the United States at the age of 9. She received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in printmaking with a public engagement minor from Maine College of Art in 2017. Sara has shown her work in various exhibitions and events in Maine, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New York. She has participated in both international and national artist residencies including Art Farm in Marquette, Nebraska, and Green Olive Arts in Tetouan, Morocco. www.sarahinacio.com
Through her work Sara uses primarily animal imagery to explore our journey and impact in a world made of light and dark, and the experience of home and transience. She works in a variety of printmaking processes, book arts, sculpture and installation to create spaces and atmospheres that provide an immersive experience for the viewer. In her socially engaged projects, Sara explores themes of empathy, community and spirituality through interactive installations and dialogues. She has worked on various collaborative projects, both independently and through the Ears and Hands Collective, which she co-founded in 2017.
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Cathy G. Johnson
Cathy G. Johnson
Cathy G. Johnson is a printmaker, book-maker, illustrator and arts educator. Her silkscreen work is produced at the feminist art collective studio Dirt Palace in Providence, and deals with the themes of rebellion and opulence. She has been making art books and zines for over a decade, which contain comics, poetry, journals and drawings. She makes local community prints for clients such as Southside Community Land Trust and Gather Glass, and teaches art classes throughout New England. Cathy is also an author and illustrator, her published graphic novels include JEREMIAH (One Percent Press, 2015), GORGEOUS (Koyama Press, 2016) and THE BREAKAWAYS (First Second, 2019). www.cathygjohn.net
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Skate or Dye | Mikaela Kautzky
Mikaela Kautzky
SKATE OR DYE is a 120-page art publication on DIY skateboarding, natural dyeing and textiles in a northern island context. This iteration comprises drawings, textile works, colour photography, short pieces of writing, and how-to’s on natural dyeing as well as skate feature assembling. Through words and visuals SKATE OR DYE investigates islands as laboratories for DIY culture and inclusive design. www.mikaelakautzky.com, mik00k instagram
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Cardkits
Anther Kiley
Anther Kiley is a RISD alum (GD MFA ’13) and adjunct faculty in the GD department. They design and market Cardkits, a line of book-like paper toy kits for kids and adults that assemble into engaging miniature cityscapes. cardkitstoys.com
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Birdenvy
Karen Knighton and Skip Wrightson
Karen Knighton & Skip Wrightson are both animators and make handmade, hand-bound mini-comics. Some comics are limited editions printed at home layered with vellum, some are GOCCO, some are RISO. www.birdenvy.com
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Arjun Kumar: Forest of Enchantments | Boston University Graphic Design
Arjun Kumar
The Boston University Graphic Design program (undergraduate, graduate, and alum) showcases work generated from and informed by personal practice and studio projects (screen printing, book arts, and typography class). Students participating have a strong interest in experimental self-publishing and the role graphic design plays in communicating ideas and messages. bu_Graphicdesign instagram
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Headmaster
Matthew Lawrence and Jason Tranchida
Headmaster, the art magazine for man-lovers, is a project-based print publication featuring original art and writing inspired by assignments written by the magazine’s two editors. Released on an irregular but roughly annual schedule, Headmaster No. 9 will be released in early summer 2020. www.headmastermagazine.com
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What Cheer Writer's Club
LitArts RI
What Cheer Writers Club is a 501c3 nonprofit serving Rhode Island’s writers, illustrators and podcasters with discounted coworking space and community events and practicums. Founded in 2018, the Club serves as a central, umbrella organization supporting and providing space to many of our state’s writing-related nonprofits, as well as providing coworking, networking and career support to individual writers. Rebranded LitArts RI (2025)
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Meichen Liu
Meichen Liu
Meichen Liu, PRINT 22 makes larger-than-human-size installations, picture books and zines to present personal understandings of human emotions as well as relationships, and also to resonate with her audience. She seeks a deeper meaning behind ordinary things, and her seekings are reflected in her arts. She is searching for a way to combine maths with fine arts. She hasn’t found the one she likes yet, but she never gives up on things she values, and she gains better comprehension in both fields through this process. View Meichen's Baker & Whitehill Annual Student Artists' Book Contest entries Pockets, 2020 and Recording of Math Review, 2019.
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The Providence (Sunday) Wipeout / Comics Consortium
Walker Mettling
The Providence (Sunday) Wipeout has been an experimental comics anthology since 2016, always a different size with a variety of printing techniques! It overlaps with the Providence Comics Consortium, the kid-centric micro-publishing comics project that celebrates its 10th anniversary this year (2020)! walkermettling.tumblr.com, wipeoutwipeoutwipeout instagram
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RISD Graphic Design | Utkan Dora Öncül
Uktan Dora Öncül
RISD Graphic Design offers BFA and MFA programs that push on the boundaries of the discipline, where students learn to communicate ideas visually, frame points of view and messages, build community, and embrace a fluid, networked culture. risd.gd
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Olivia Orr
Olivia Orr
I am a graphic design senior at RISD (2020) and I love book arts! Most of my work involves Biblical themes and illustrated typography and graphics. I took a “Print on Paper” class last semester (2019) and made two risograph printed books that are on sale for Unbound. behance, oliviawaugh.com
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Curtis Parvin
Curtis Parvin and Drew Kelly
Curtis Parvin and Drew Kelly ran Splash Page Comics (2016 -2020), their New England-based independent comic book company. As business partners, they published their award-winning creator-owned series, “The Legend of Beard Fist,” with Curtis supplying the scripts and Drew the visuals.
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Flatlander Press
Matthew Peterson
Flatlander Press is a small zine and artist book publisher located in Providence, RI. With a primary focus on showcasing the work of New England photographers and illustrators. We strive to provide viewers with artist books and zines that feel accessible and unguarded. matthewtakespictures.com
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Magik Press Studios
Aly Maderson Quinlog
Magik Press Studios prints limited-edition, bespoke, and one-of-a-kind books. We are a ‘micro-press’ which focuses on zines, artist catalogs, poetry, and handmade artist editions. The studio hosts unique community art events and artist Aly Maderson Quinlog teaches private art lessons, paper arts workshops, and cyanotype printing. Art connects the brain and the heart. www.magik.press
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Raw Meat Collective
Kyle Quinn
Raw Meat Collective is a independent publishing house based in Brooklyn, NY. The collective was created, designed and curated by artist Kyle Quinn and established in 2015. We work with a wide range of contemporary fine artists in all types of mediums, primarily in publication, print and fine art objects from all over the world. All books and publications within the collective are produced once and only available through Raw Meat Collective, through the involved artist independently or through our limited stock listings. Our concepts of titles range from current political struggles, sorrow and sadness, sexual awakenings and much more. We strive to give a voice to Queer & Femme contemporary artists within publication and print. rawmeatcollective.com, kylequinnnn instagram
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Casey Roonan
Casey Roonan
Casey Roonan is a Providence-based art educator and cartoonist who males risograph print illustration zines and comics. caseyroonan.com
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Akadori Studios | Aya Rothwell
Aya Rothwell
My name is Aya (they/them or xe/xir). I'm involved in science communication, natural resource management, and independent comics. I have a Master of Science in Environmental Science and Management (Conservation Biology) from the University of Rhode Island. I have worked for various government and non profit organizations in the U.S. and internationally. I've lived in Atlanta, Boston, Rhode Island and in Japan. My work has included representing the U.S. in Japan; banding birds; capturing and identifying bees and insects; writing reports; drawing cartoons for labs and science journals; and managing social media for science resource centers. I self publish books and minicomics. I have been published in anthologies such as Boundless: A Science Comics Anthology, Dark Lady, and Legacies: An Asian American Anthology. www.ayarothwell.com
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RISD Graphic Design | Erica Silver
Erica Silver
RISD Graphic Design offers BFA and MFA programs that push on the boundaries of the discipline, where students learn to communicate ideas visually, frame points of view and messages, build community, and embrace a fluid, networked culture. risd.gd
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Betsey Swardlick
Betsey Swardlick
Betsey Swardlick is a Providence cartoonist making short & medium wild fiction comics. Big feelings, wiggly lines, explosive combination of text and image! www.bsward.com shop: Radiator Comics
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RISD Graphic Design | Ramon Tejada
Ramon Tejada
RISD Graphic Design offers BFA and MFA programs that push on the boundaries of the discipline, where students learn to communicate ideas visually, frame points of view and messages, build community, and embrace a fluid, networked culture. risd.gd
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The Bing Machine
The Bing Machine
The Bing Machine is an educational art collective. Our work focuses on the production of academic art projects, exhibition props, academic documentation, and presentation. For Academics we provide 2D art and 3D art services including (GIS) geographic maps, 3D terrain maps, technical drawings, descriptive drawings, 3D modelling, and graphic-video production. For Institutions we offer services such as educational prop production, info graphic production, and 2D animation production.
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Huetown | Alec Thibodeau
Alec Thibodeau
I’m a Providence-based artist who publishes limited-edition prints of my drawings and designs using the Huetown name. I also make minicomics, postcards, posters and buttons. huetown.com
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Ugly Duckling Presse
Ugly Duckling Presse
Ugly Duckling Presse is a nonprofit publisher for poetry, translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and books by artists. Through the efforts of a volunteer editorial collective, UDP was transformed from a 1990s zine into a mission-driven small press that has published more than 300 titles to date, and produced countless prints and ephemera.
UDP favors emerging, international, and “forgotten” writers, and its books, chapbooks, artist’s books, broadsides, and periodicals often contain handmade elements, calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking. uglyducklingpresse.org
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Yiwen Wang
Yiwen Wang
I’m a RISD student majoring in Film/Animation/Video, but I also work with bookmaking and printmaking. My works often talk about love, romance, and reminiscence of a fictional past. Yiwen Wang behance, Paradise, entry in the Baker & Whitehill Annual Student Artists' Book Contest 2019.
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Iris Xie
Iris Xie
I am an illustrator with emphasis on a thorough design process. I was raised in an Asian-American family and have a background in the disabled community. I have done work for Artists for Humanity, the Guild for Human Services, and Dana Farber Cancer Institute to name a few. irisxie.com
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Farm Projects
Bert Yarborough, Jan Moskowitz, and Peter Scarbo Frawley
Farm Projects is a gallery/project space for exhibitions, projects and printed matter. Farm focuses on projects in and outside the physical space with contemporary artists. www.farmprojectspace.org, farmprojects instagram
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Sharon Zhong: Attention, Distraction | Boston University Graphic Design
Sharon Zhong
The Boston University Graphic Design program (undergraduate, graduate, and alum) showcases work generated from and informed by personal practice and studio projects (screen printing, book arts, and typography class). Students participating have a strong interest in experimental self-publishing and the role graphic design plays in communicating ideas and messages. bu_Graphicdesign instagram
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Yian Zhou: Shhh… | Boston University Graphic Design
Yian Zhou
The Boston University Graphic Design program (undergraduate, graduate, and alum) showcases work generated from and informed by personal practice and studio projects (screen printing, book arts, and typography class). Students participating have a strong interest in experimental self-publishing and the role graphic design plays in communicating ideas and messages. bu_Graphicdesign instagram
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Yian Zhou: ZY - A | Boston University Graphic Design
Yian Zhou
The Boston University Graphic Design program (undergraduate, graduate, and alum) showcases work generated from and informed by personal practice and studio projects (screen printing, book arts, and typography class). Students participating have a strong interest in experimental self-publishing and the role graphic design plays in communicating ideas and messages. bu_Graphicdesign instagram
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Yiqun Zhou
Yiqun Zhou
I've been working on a 32 pages comic about humor for over a year now (2020). It’s a story about a super power comedian interviewing another super power comedian. It has very interesting paneling (said by my professor and my classmates) and it’s a nice story.
