Saturday

May 24

10 AM - 6 PM

Class Size Max: 12

Zines offer an opportunity to put into the hands of the producer the power to tell their own story. This one day zine-making session is intended to act as an approachable workshop that touches upon important historical and theoretical aspects of zine-making and zine culture. With an emphasis on the conceptual and critical language of zines, culminating in taking practical steps to create your own zines, this workshop is aimed at both teenagers and adults with a desire to learn the basics for creating their own tangible self-published works.

During this workshop, students will consider visual flow, question how images can complement or detract from one another, experiment with layout and sequencing content in varying size, number, and spatial layouts, while developing a narrative and having a clear outcome for their work and how they wish to tell their story. Using simple tools such as a bone folder, scissors, a blade, needle and thread, and a stapler – at the end of this workshop, the participants know the basics of how to fold, collate, and bind with various rudimentary techniques allowing them to take mockups and maquettes to be replicated for a future of zine-making explorations in their own practice.

Tuition includes a $25 material fee

If your desired tuition option is unavailable, please email info@penumbrafoundation.org and we will do our best to accommodate you. If the entire class is sold out, we can add you to the waitlist.

Andreas Laszlo Konrath is a photographer and artist educator who utilizes the zine format as a vehicle for many projects, citing community building, exchange, and collaboration as a key motivator. Andreas' zines are archived in collections at ICP, Getty Research Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, MoMA Library, and Yale University Library. Andreas has organized zine workshops for Dia Art Foundation, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, NEW INC, Penumbra Foundation, POWRPLNT, Society for Photographic Education, Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar, and brands like Converse CONS. Andreas co-founded SHRIMP ZINE, a free web tool that allows users to create zines on their smartphones, bringing a new creative and collaborative access point to digital natives.