Fold is traveling art book and zine show featuring over 60 bookmakers working at the intersection of art and text. This traveling exhibition + community library highlights the incredible range of publishing happening across the Midwest, while also making connections to national and international practices and projects. Taking its cues from the collaborative nature of zines and artist-publishing, the Fold library is nomadic and nimble. As the collection moves to different artist-run spaces, the show is reimagined and re-curated to fit a new space and vision. Fold is both an archive and an open-edition, growing and changing with each stop and exchange with new readers.
The first iteration of the exhibition was organized by stop-gap projects in Columbia, MO spring of 2025. It has since been hosted by The Weather Station in Indiana and travels next to 100000000 (One Hundred Million Space) in Kansas City.
Fold on tour:
stop-gap projects (04-06.2025)
The Weather Station (08-09..2025)
100000000 (10-11.2025)
If you are interested in hosting a version of the show, please email stop.gap.projects@gmail.com
The artists and publishers represented in the traveling Fold library:
51 Personnae (Shanghai) // Abigail Newman (MO) // Amy Higgins Stambaugh (MO) // Are Not Books & Publications (IL/TX/TN) // Astringent Press/Zach Frazier (MO) // Becca Hayes (MO) // BLT Comicz (KS) / Brooklyn Berry (KS) // C. Pazia Mannella (MO) // Carmen Ribaudo (MO) // Chandler Lemmon (MO) // Colin Martinez (IL) // Corinne Teed (PA) // Correspondence Press / Lisa Maione(MO) // David Alpert (MO) // Dora Agbas (KS) // Elizabeth Allen-Cannon (FL) // Erik Ruin /Sandra Hill (PA) // Esra Jackson (MO) // Ethan Edvenson (IA) // Ever Cole (MO) // Flatpack Publications / Connor Frew (MS) // Gabi Jacobs (MO) // Gold Rain / Oswaldo Garcia (MX /MO) // Haley Darya Parsa (NY) // Hong Huo (PA) // Igor Arume (BRZ/MO) // Jamie Capps (MN) // Janelle Rebel (PA) // Jesse Malmed (IL) // Jordan Ramsey Ismaiel (NE) // Kayla Romberger (PA) // KG James (MO) // Late Night Copies (MN) // Luca Klauba (IL) // Luisebestian Sanabria (COL) // Lydia Smith (OH) // Macie Stewart (IL) // Maggie Minor (VT) // Maxwell Zawatsky (VT) // MIDTONES Photo Magazine (OH) // Muj Abdulzade (Berlin) // National Monument Press / Zach Clark (CA) // Nick Potter (MO) // OJEADA (MI) // Oona Taper (IL) // Paper City Publishing / Andrew Kozlowski (FL) // Partial Press / Levi Sherman (WI) // Pennycandybuildingco. (IL) // Queer.Archive.Work. (RI) // Rachel Hendel (IA) // Red Shorts Bindery (MO) // Sam Brooke (MO) // Sarah Maloney (CA) // Sumin Hwang (NY) // The Garage /Jaer Medina (MI) // TWOSIXTEEN / alejandro t. acierto (MI) // Two Steps Press / Brian Hitselberger (IN) // Ur Friend Lizard (MO) // Vaugn Sanchez (MO) // WHAT–THAT / Wes Larsen & Lindsey Larsen (WI) // Will Cardini (MO)
Fold is generously supported by a Field Funds grant from A Blade of Grass.
Fold @ The Weather Station | 08-09.2025
Fold @ stop-gap projects | 04-06.2025
