The Art Pastor's Guide to Sabbath | Steve Thomason
Kurt Hahn School: Expeditionary Learning Adventure Week Zine Program
1. Kurt Hahn School
Ms. Griswold
Librarian Jenna Freedman
November 13, 2014
2. why zines?
Choose a zine, report back on one or more of
these questions:
● Why did the author choose this medium?
● What are the art elements, and how do they
contribute?
● What speaks to you or turns you off in this
zine?
4. library stuff
● Zines website
zines.barnard.edu
● Using CLIO to find zines
● Be our friend on
Facebook, Flickr,
LiveJournal, or MySpace.
Follow the library on
Twitter.
● Contact Jenna Freedman
zines@barnard.edu,
212.854.4615, IM:
BarnardLibJenna
Editor's Notes
Welcome to library.
15 students
ART
Additional means of communication
Collagechaos
Cut & pastefree
Juxtoposition, contrast
DEFINITION
Self-published and the publisher doesn’t answer to anyone
Small, self-distributed print run
Motivated by desire to express oneself rather than to make money
Outside the mainstream
Low budget
No need for any special equipment or knowledge
Portable
An expression of Do It Yourself (DIY) culture
Foster a community among their creators and readers
No ISSN, no barcode, no paid ads
HISTORY
17th century pamphlets in England: Women and the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, 1640-1660
18th century revolutionary US—Common Sense
20th century science fiction and soviet dissidents, beat poets and punk rockers, riot grrrl, art books
TYPES
Personal, political, fanzine, literary zine, mamazine, art zine, comix, DIY zine, compilation zine, split zine
Barnard's zines are written by New York City and other urban women with an emphasis on zines by women of color. A woman's gender is self-defined. We also collect zines on feminism and femme identity by people of all genders. The zines are personal and political publications on activism, anarchism, body image, third wave feminism, gender, parenting, queer community, riot grrrl, sexual assault, and other topics.
WHO
Young people: majority teens & early twenties
Mothers of young children
librarians!
Writers and artists, bookmakers
WHY
Proof I exist
Communicate/share
Create/contribute
E.g. Kelly Shortandqueer—feels an obligation to his community (FTM transgender people) to document his experience
FROM The Long Tail, Self-publishers are
Differently motivated, not differently skilled
Amateur does not equal amateurish
Low selling does not equal low quality
WHY
Control
Only choice
CLIO
Show how to search for zines
Zines AND teen*
Look by title, browse by call #