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art-sprawl.com short-form independent arts writing experiment hosted by Ellen Mueller (emphasis on zines, broadly defined)

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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I was lucky to catch @alannastapleton.bsky.social exhibition, “FEAST DAY,” at #SecondShiftStudio last weekend! #FeastDay #AlannaStapleton #FiberArt
Wall hanging quilt with spoons and eyesSewn pickle jarFish with star burst Quilting details
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Last weekend I caught #IceShanties in #Minneapolis ❄️ hope you can check it out before they come down!
People at the ice shanties People at the ice shanties People at the ice shanties People at the ice shanties
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
@carolynswiszcz.bsky.social at #SilverwoodParkGallery “Wintry Mix” thru Feb 28 — GO!! “ #Minnesota #winters are full of beauty (fresh #snow) and ugliness (dirty cars). They’re a time for needed introspection and yet they induce feelings of oppressive confinement.” #WintryMix #CarolynSwiszcz
A sculpture of a Dairy Queen Detail of a painting with 2 figures doing yogaA multimedia drawing with a boat full of people A zine with the title Wintry Mix and a person in a hat
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
#LaceyPrpićHedtke at #SilverwoodArtGallery Through Feb 28 “In tribute to #Slavic #embroidery, these #tufted and #satin photo banners contain protective symbols for the #ClimateCrisis, one for each station on the wheel of the year and in tribute to the circular kolo (“wheel”) dance.”
Custom wall hanging Details of custom wall hanging custom wall hanging custom wall hanging
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I had planned to relaunch in 2026, but everything in January has slowed me down. I’m sticking with some exhibit and event shoutouts until things slow down a bit.
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Stopped by the Dyani White Hawk exhibition, "Love Language," last weekend. Very cool - check it out! #WalkerArtCenter #DyaniWhiteHawk
A large sculpture of two cones meeting at their points and covered in multicolored triangle tilesa close up shot of a mosaic with triangles and lines in blue, black, gold, white, and redIntricately beaded rectangles on a tall sculptureA composition of triangle patterns in green, black, white, and gold
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mspwhistles.bsky.social @mspwhistles.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Updated zines for the Twin Cities! English and Spanish zines in a single PDF. cryptpad.fr/file/
cryptpad.fr
Encrypted File
CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Last weekend I spent some time at the #MinnesotaCenterForBookArts gallery where the #JeromeFellows exhibition was on view. Many congrats to #YasminYassin, #GabiEstrada, #DrewArrieta
Framed yellow print of people by Drew ArrietaBlue cyanotype with fringe by Yasmin YassinWhite paper pinned to pink wall with rectangles and photography by Yasmin Yassincut brown paper work featuring hands and corn, hanging in front of white wall by Gabi Estrada
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Stopped by UMN #KatherineNashGallery last weekend for "Vaivén: 21st-Century Art of Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora" - excellent! Recommend getting over there. Here's a small selection of the works on view: #CristinaCórdova #GeoVannaGonzalez #DavidAntonioCruz @naydacl.bsky.social #NaydaCollazoLlorens
ceramic work featuring two joined white faces with black floral haira grid of maps with partial circular forms in shades of bluea detail of a larger painting featuring a translucent glove with pearlsa pink steel seating structure featuring blue plexi panels
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Paper Ammunition @paperammunition.com · 15/10/2025
A new free mini zine for you! (Wink.) Issue #4 is here! Print some! PBS.org InterfaithAlliance.org ALA.org (American Library Association) NIMJ.org CitizensForEthics.org Revolution2025.info UnfoldedLabel.com "How to Report ICE" zines by @meganpiont.bsky.social A punk song by Screeching Weasel 🖨️💙🔥
(Wink.) - Mini Zine Issue #4

Featuring:

PBS.org
InterfaithAlliance.org
ALA.org (American Library Association)
NIMJ.org
CitizensForEthics.org
Revolution2025.info
PaperAmunition.com
UnfoldedLabel.com
"How to Report ICE" zines
A punk song by Screeching Weasel
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Stopped by @mnmuseum.bsky.social last weekend for #QueeringIndigeneity #exhibition - excellent show! Here's a few works by #DeliaTouché #AwanigiizhikBruce #RyanYoung @c0lew0rld94.bsky.social #2Spirit #NativeQueer #GenderExpansive #MinnesotaMuseumOfAmericanArt #Minnesota #Art
Col Redhorse Taylor's narrative textile using traditional methods of appliqueing fabrics and featuring four matriarchal ancestorsAwanigiizhik Bruce's mural sized photograph depicting Awanigiizhik creating a ceremony in which the participats are all Awanigiizhik as the one being doctored, the ceremonial niiganii, the oshkawebisag, and the various societal helpersDelia Touché artwork featuring green ribbon streaming from the artwork to the floor, featuring the word vunzévRyan Young photograph of a person facing the sky with the words "We define our selves" beaded on their back
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I have been soooo over-booked lately, but last weekend I squeezed in a visit to @betheluniversity.bsky.social and caught the Faculty show before it closed! There was more, but 4 is what you get on Bluesky! @amandahamilton.bsky.social #MichelleWestmarkWingard #KennethSteinbach #JeffreyWetzig
Amanda Hamilton's large painting of a black pointed form radiating gray and black marksMichelle Westmark Wingard's cyanotype work with pink sewn line workKenneth Steinbach's box sculpture with cracked poured plaster, laser cut letters and a photo of a deerJeffrey Wetzig's Woodblock print of rectangles in coral, blue, and black
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Quick post of #MikeMarks exhibition at @betheluniversity.bsky.social #JohnsonGallery - was able to chat with Mike - get over there and check it out! #graphite #drawing
graphite landscape drawinggraphite landscape drawing with raingraphite landscape drawing of a tree falling from a beavergraphite landscape drawing - detail
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Zine Club Chicago @zineclubchicago.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
We loved discussing #zines as tools of resistance + community building with @wbez.org's Sasha Ann-Simons and Oscar Arriola of ZINEmercado! ✂️
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Paper Ammunition @paperammunition.com · 01/10/2025
This one is for #Oregonians, #Portlanders & @ashely95.bsky.social ! We have free stickers, signs & zines for you! Resistance is as easy as pressing Print! PaperAmmunition.com - 200+ free protest printables. Why? Because we love ‘we the people’. #nokings #resist 🖨️💙🔥
Sticker on a pole reads: 

DISOBEY ILLEGAL ORDERS
SCAN TO LEARN MORE or visit
nimj.org
Sign has linear illustrations of army men holding guns down. Below is a silhouette man in blue holding a briefcase his hand out stretched towards a pink tank. It reads:

WHOSE STREETS?
OUR STREETS!A bunch of cut out stickers that read things like: ILLEGAL ORDERS?
YOU'RE JOB IT TO RESIST THEM!A hand holding a folded mini zine full of resistance resources.
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Hello Readers! I'm taking a pause for the rest of 2025 to focus on a few new opportunities, including my McKnight Fellowship at Minnesota Center for Book Arts. I plan to return to publishing in 2026, and in the interim, might post some brief posts to Bluesky as I get out to exhibitions.
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Check out this #interview #zine featuring @amycoart.bsky.social and #MaryBergs talking about their latest work at #ThePhippsCenterForTheArts - free blog post + download, or paid color print: art-sprawl.com/2025/08/08/a... #Photography #assemblage #collage #ArtSprawl
a cream and blue zine
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Jenni Kosche /ᐠ - ˕ -マ @jennikosche.de · 02/08/2025
✨New Zine: How to be a Zinemaker – a (very) serious guide –✨
How to be a Zinemaker – a (very) serious guide –When in doubt: Make more ZinesYAY ZINESQ: “Why do you make zines?”
A: [gestures vaguely at everything]
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Check out this #interview #zine featuring #NancyAriza talking about her latest work at #HighpointCenterForPrintmaking - free blog post + download, or paid color print: art-sprawl.com/2025/07/30/a... #Printmaking #piteado #JeromeFellow
An Interview with Nancy Ariza
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Check out this #interview #zine featuring #EmmaUlenKlees talking about her latest work at #HighpointCenterForPrintmaking - free blog post + download, or paid color print: art-sprawl.com/2025/07/29/a... #Printmaking #Debossing #JeromeFellow
An Interview with Emma Ulen-Klees
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Check out this #interview #zine featuring @condorcondorcondor.bsky.social talking about his latest work at #HighpointCenterForPrintmaking - free blog post + download, or paid color print: art-sprawl.com/2025/07/24/a... #ConorMcGrann #Printmaking #Drawing #BlackAndWhite
pink and blue zine featuring An Interview with Conor McGrann
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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The 19th printing of my text Why Self-Publish Under Fascism? since May 1st. The print run is over 1,200 copies now. Still just $3.00 from www.halfletterpress.com.
A stack of the booklet Why Self-Publish Under Fascism? by Marc Fischer with burgundy printing and black ink rubber stamping on reddish beige paper.
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Recently featured on Art Sprawl, @shoshanafink.bsky.social !
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I created a starter pack for all the artists and orgs that have been mentioned on Art-Sprawl.com that have a Bluesky profile -- let me know if I'm missing anybody! go.bsky.app/KQbnbyv
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Check out this #interview #zine featuring an interview with #MeghanDuda talking about her latest work at @silverwoodpark - free download or paid color print: art-sprawl.com/2025/07/04/a... #PinholePhotography #Photography #ArtsPublishing #SilverwoodParkGallery #silverwoodpark
"On Tree Time" neon yellow quarter-page zine with black laserprint
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FANZINES @fanzines.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
’Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism’ is a #zine by Jewish anarchists on how people can organise and act in this changing world. Download it (it’s free and it's a starting point): itsgoingdown.org/wp-content/u... Read, print and distribute it IRL! 💪🏾 💪🏻 💪🏽
A photo of six booklets for the zine, each a different colour (pink, orange, green, yellow, blue white). The title reads in all caps: DON’T JUST DO NOTHING TO COUNTER FACISM. The cover decoration is a sentence across the entire front and reads in all caps: YES, YOU. YES, NOW / 20 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO COUNTER FACISM. End ID.
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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Twin Cities folks: we'll be hanging out at Powderhorn Park for Autonomous Zine Fest this Sunday! Come join us after the pride weekend festivities and enjoy all the rad local zines.
Flyer for Autonomous Zine Fest, Sunday June 29th, 3 to 7 pm. Powderhorn Park north of lake by stage.
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FANZINES @fanzines.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
"zines have no algorithm" 💘
A screengrab of Tumblr user Gemini Zines's text post reads "i think everyone should make zines. about everything all the time. make a zine about a playlist, about a good sandwich you made, about a cool bug you saw, about a skill you can teach, about a cause you care about. put them everywhere. pin them to community boards and tape them to poles and leave them in cafes and in between library books. i hate how social media has been taken over more than ever now by big greedy corporations and people and has become a mess of churning shit out for the algorithm. zines have no algorithm it is just the love in your heart the passion in your soul whatever your pencil decides to put on paper!! and it's beautiful!! make zines now!"
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Playing with the form of the #zine (does a #tube count as a zine?) This post features an #interview with #ShoshanaFink talking about her recent installation at #SilverwoodPark  - free download or paid color print: art-sprawl.com/2025/06/21/a... #OlafactoryArt #InstallationArt #SoundArt #Photography
a green tube of paper printed in dark purple
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Have you been to Shoshana Fink's latest installation at #SilverwoodPark? Get over there! #Zine and #ArtSprawl link to interview coming soon... #ShoshanaFink #MNartist #installation
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
A #zine for folx attending the gatherings tomorrow: static1.squarespace.com/static/6810f... #DemocracySecurityProject
static1.squarespace.com
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Sharing helpful #zines as I come across them - zines for the win!
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Check out this #zine featuring an interview with #MargeBuckley talking about their latest work from the "Bringing The Outside In" #exhibition - free download or paid color print: art-sprawl.com/2025/06/09/a... #painting #MNartist #ArtsPublishing #OxMuseum #IndeedBrewing
An Interview with Marge Buckley coinciding with Bring The Outside In (zine cover)
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Check out this #zine featuring an interview with #DerekMeier talking about their latest work from the "Bringing The Outside In" #exhibition - free download or paid color print: art-sprawl.com/2025/06/06/a... #painting #MNartist #ArtsPublishing #OxMuseum #IndeedBrewing
a zine printed on gray paper with blue laser print
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Check out this #zine featuring an interview with @vdezutti.bsky.social talking about his latest work from the "Bringing The Outside In" #exhibition - free download or paid color print: art-sprawl.com/2025/06/03/a... #VincentDezutti #photography #MNartist #ArtsPublishing #OxMuseum #IndeedBrewing
cover of zine printed in forest green on gray paper
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Keep a look out: I'm doing 3 interviews with 3 artists featured in "Bringing the Outside In," the current exhibition at The Ox Museum at Indeed Brewing in NE Minneapolis... coming soon! In the meantime, get over there and check out the art (on view through late June).
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"I hope this collection of reasons to self-publish under fascism motivates others to be bold and continue making things in a public way, no matter how bad it gets. I hope that self-publishing helps others find a strong supportive community." - @marc-fischer.bsky.social
halfletterpress.com
Why Self-Publish Under Fascism?
This publication was prompted by an invitation from Mariame Kaba to join her in a discussion titled: Why Make Zines in 2025: Information Control Under Fascism
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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FANZINES @fanzines.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
MAKE ZINES! poster by zine maker / artist Cort Hartle. Download the free high res version (PDF) to print at home: freight.cargo.site/m/W234787385... Printing and distribution encouraged by the artist, so please RT, print it, fly post it, flyer it & spread the word! #zine #zines #fanzine #fanzines
Black and white A4-shaped poster with the word MAKE in big bold letters at the top and ZINES! in big bold letters at the bottom.

In between, in capital letters is the following text...

NO ONE CAN TAKE SELF PUBLISHING AWAY FROM YOU.

NO ALGORITHMS OR OLIGARCHS CAN CENSOR YOU.

NO GATEKEEPERS CAN TELL YOU WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY IS NOT IMPORTANT OR VALUABLE.

NO GRANT FUNDING CAN BE WITHDRAWN FROM YOUR WORDS.

NO INSTITUTION CAN BAR YOU FROM ENTERING.

NO KNOWLEDGE IS UNAUTHORIZED.

THAT IS WHY YOU MUST MAKE ZINES!
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I'm reviving this project from 2023, Art Sprawl. Check out this #zine on Meher Khan's #exhibition - free download or paid color print art-sprawl.com/2025/05/17/m... #MeherKhan #ThisAndThat #Minneapolis #MNartist #zine #ArtsPublishing
Cover of yellow zine printed in red-orange laser printInterior of yellow zine printed in red-orange laser print
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