Paper Cuts

Guest: Stephanie McDevitt and Janene Scelza

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on October 18, 2023

Girls, on Film

Girls, on Film was founded in December 2017 by long-time friends Stephanie McDevitt and Janene Scelza (pronounced Skell-za). Girls, on Film is a quarterly zine about 80s films. For each issue, we discuss eight 80s movies related to a particular theme.

We are currently a group of four regular writers including...

Guests: Erin Mallea and Paper Buck of Tree News, Bekezela Mguni of the Black Unicorn Library and Archive Project, and Adriana Monsalve of Homie House Press.

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on September 9, 2023 at the Carnegie Museum of Art

Erin Mallea is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the past and present of particular microcosms as entry points into larger environmental, social, and political conditions. Often p...

Guest: Zach Clark

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on June 13, 2023

(background friends: Paul Shortt and Louis M. Schmidt)

Zach Clark is an Oakland based artist and educator. Since 2016 he has published as National Monument Press, a publishing project focused on supporting uniquely American stories through small edition artist books, zines, printed ephemera, and curatorial projects, completed largely through collaborati...

Guest: Scott Russell Morris

Hosts:  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis

Recorded on June 13, 2023

Scott Russell Morris is a writer and enthusiast. He lives in South Korea where he teaches writing and makes art. He is the creator of Magpie Zines, zines about tarot, magpies, and found meaning. He often digs through the trash. His first essay collection, Points of Tangency, is forthcoming 2024 from Cornerstone Press. You ...

Guests: Rachna Soun, Sam Fedorova (StrangeLens), Kate Fitzpatrick, and Chas Wagner

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on April 1st at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop

Late Comeback Press

Late Comeback Press is a micropress based out of Northern Virginia and is run by three Asian-American women. Late Comeback primarily focuses on mental health and representing Asian-American culture in its most subtle, authentic light a...

Guest: Phil Hutinet

Hosts:  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis

Recorded on March 22 and April 6, 2023

Phil Hutinet, a third generation Capitol Hill resident, is the publisher of East City Art, DC's Visual Arts publication of record, which he began in 2010. In 2012-2013, his work east of the river at ARCH Development led to the founding of the Anacostia Playhouse and the Anacostia Arts Center, the relocation of Cra...

Guest: Lindsay Buchman

Hosts:  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis

Recorded on March 02, 2023

Lindsay Buchman is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and publisher living and working in Philadelphia, PA, and Saratoga Springs, NY. Her work explores image-making and writing through print and lens-based media, artist books, and installation. Buchman holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from Californi...

Guest: Julia Arredondo

Hosts:  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis

Recorded on September 15, 2021.

Julia Arredondo is an artist-entrepreneur who is currently a Resident Fellow at the Lunder Institute for American Art. Originally from Corpus Christi, TX; Julia is heavily influenced by the small, family-based businesses she grew up around. Formally trained in printmaking and specializing in artistic forms of indepen...

Guest: Corina Reynolds

Hosts:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on September 1, 2021.

Corina Reynolds is the Executive Director of Center for Book Arts in New York City. At CBA, she has focused on connecting artists across distance and time through a diverse program of exhibitions, panels, conferences, and classes.

Her passion for the art of the book has led her to curate exhibitions, organize conferences and panels, publish b...

Guests: Matt Austin and Melanie Bohrer

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on August 10, 2021

Matt Austin designs, produces, and publishes projects motivated by systems of care. He is currently a founding member of the Candor Collective, a designer with Em Design Studio, and maintains a consistent newsletter about his work. Formerly he was a co-owner of Candor Arts, part of the founding group of LATITUDE, and taught many c...

Guest: Alex Belardo Kostiw

Hosts:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on June 1, 2021.

Alex Belardo Kostiw is a graphic designer, artist, and educator. Her practice deals in poetic and iterative elements, visual structures of comics, and conceptually driven forms. Like dense knots, her publications invite interactive, intuitive reading—even as they resist full unravelling. By exploring ambiguities of language, her work is a limi...

Guest: Hyojoon Jo

Hosts:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded at Corners, CC in Seoul, South Korea on March 4, 2021.

Corners Studio is a Seoul based office for graphic design of Daewoong Kim and Hyojoon Jo founded in 2012. Our practice focuses primarily on creative direction and visual communication strategies through typography, conceptual and content-related approaches. Our work includes formats such as prints, posters, publica...

Guest: Paul Shortt

Hosts:  Christopher Kardambikis

Recorded on January 31st, 2021

Paul Shortt received his MFA in New Media Art from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute. He has participated in over 80 group and solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally. His works engage the public in physical interactions and conversation that examine everyday exp...

Guest: Nicholas Hurd and Sarah Lopez.

Hosts:  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis

Recorded on October 15th, 2020

Radix Media is a worker-owned printer and publisher based in Brooklyn, NY. They publish new ideas and fresh perspectives, prioritizing the voices of typically marginalized communities to get to the root of the human experience. Radix started out as a commercial print shop in 2010, and expanded into literary ...

Guests: Julie Sheah and Evyan Roberts

Hosts:  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis

Recorded on August 12th, 2020 in collaboration with Transformer as part of the E17: Zines program.

Julie Sheah is a graphic artist whose drawings explore the horrors and curiosities of otherwise ordinary subjects. She has a keen interest in the surreal and absurd and is an avid connoisseur of puns. As a first-generation Taiwanese-American...

Guests: Athena Naylor and Late Comeback Press (Rachna Soun and Caroline Kim)

Hosts:  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis

Recorded on August 5th, 2020 in collaboration with Transformer as part of the E17: Zines program.

Athena Naylor is a cartoonist originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, now living in Washington, DC. Through comics, Athena considers what makes the mundane meaningful and how big stories reside within smal...

Guest: Stephen Grebinski

Hosts:  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis

Recorded on April 14th, 2020

Stephen Grebinski’s work concerns itself with reimagining and activating the memories and desires embedded in archival and found photography that is often clouded by camp and nostalgia. His books and works on paper tangle together queer bodies, architecture, and the persistent baroque impulses of desire. From mid-century p...

Guests: Ayana Zaire Cotton and Jennifer Lillis

Hosts:  Christopher Kardambikis and Adriana Monsalve

Recorded on July 29th, 2020 in collaboration with Transformer as part of the E17: Zines program.

Ayana Zaire Cotton is a transdisciplinary artist, designer, technologist, and educator, visualizing and collectively crafting a post-work future. Her practice is rooted in black feminist, pedagogy, mutual aid, open source philosophy,...