I Am Still Alive

Booklyn

Founded in 1999, Booklyn is an artist-run, nonprofit organization headquartered in Brooklyn, New York (Greenpoint). According to their mission statement, their purpose “is to promote artist books as an art form and educational resource; to provide educational institutions and the public with programming involving contemporary artist books; and to assist artists in exhibiting, distributing, and publishing innovative bookwork.”

In addition to producing books, Booklyn offers open studios with an instructor in their space on Tuesday evenings (call for details).

Center for Book Arts

The Center for Book Arts is dedicated to preserving the traditional artistic practices of book-making, as well as exploring and encouraging contemporary interpretations of the book as an art object. Founded in 1974, it was the first not-for-profit organization of its kind in the nation, and has since become a model for others around the world.

Ugly Duckling Presse

Ugly Duckling Presse is a nonprofit art & publishing collective producing small to mid-size editions of new poetry, translations, lost works, and artist’s books. The Presse favors emerging, international, and “forgotten” writers with well-defined formal or conceptual projects that are difficult to place at other presses.

UDP’s full-length books, chapbooks, artist’s books, broadsides, magazine and newspaper all contain handmade elements, calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking.

Purgatory Pie Press

Dikko Faust started Purgatory Pie Press at the University of Wisconsin, Madison when he spilled (or pied) an overfilled case of 8 pt century oldstyle his first day at Walter Hamady’s letterpress class.

Esther K Smith entered Purgatory when they made their wedding invitation in 1980.

The Press has had exhibitions at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harper Collins Gallery, Harvard University and Smith College.

The press has collaborated with 100 artists and handsets real type, not this newfangled virtual eyewash. Faust and Smith teach bookarts, graphic design and letterpress at Center for Book Arts, Cooper Union & City University of New York.

The Arm NYC

The Arm NYC is an artist run space at 281 North 7th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The space consists of a gallery/performance space, a public access letterpress studio and a smaller separate print studio for artists in residence.

The Arm has hosted events for The Max Levine Ensemble, Ingrid, Sharon Cheslow, Totally Michael, Prizzy Prizzy Please, Greg Henderson, Conrad Carlson, Sadu, JPL 907, Ghost Mice, Evan Greer, Brook Pridemore, Griffin & The True Believers, Dark Dark Dark, Tiny Masters Of Today, Ben Frost, Penny Rimbaud (Crass), Necking, Matthias Wermke, Love Is All, Dead Combo, Free Blood, Wowch, Japanther, Puppet Kabob, Texta Queen, XXXChange, Velasco, High Places, Benji Cossa and Joshua Ploeg.

The Arm’s public access letterpress studio hosts printing workshops and rents press time to artists and designers interested in printing in letterpress. This space has five Vandercook proof presses and two Chandler and Price Pilot presses. The artist in residence studio at The Arm has two Vandercook Universal III presses, a Chandler & Price Old Series 8×12 platen press, and an antique Challenge paper guillotine. This space also houses The Arm’s collection of twentieth century metal and wood type.

The Arm NYC exists to support a DIY community and provide a venue for creation, inspiration and positive socialization.

I Am Still Alive

I Am Still Alive is a design practice located in Brooklyn, NY.