Collaborative Bookmaking: A New Vision of Generosity and Support in Self-Publishing with Ramble Editions
Collaborative Bookmaking: A New Vision of Generosity and Support in Self-Publishing with Ramble Editions
Wednesday, March 27th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom
As we continue our exploration and inquiry into collaborative making, we hope you will join us for a conversation on collaborative bookmaking with Ramble Editions co-founders Kristen Welles Bartley and Erik Mace and collaborators Olga Ginzburg, Evan Simko-Bednarski, Anna Gage Norton, and Frances Bukovsky.
Ramble Editions is a publishing collective rooted in experimentation through collaboration. Individual artists’ projects are unified by a quarterly theme, and books are made through a generous exchange of ideas, critique, and support throughout the publishing process. Ramble aims to uplift each artist's vision while seeking new connections within the collective, striving to achieve equity and accessibility within photobook publishing.
Ramble Editions will provide an overview of their creative process, share work from past and current artists, and well as iterations of their book series. Join us for this open conversation as we explore the potential of collaborative bookmaking.
Kristen Welles Bartley is a photographer, collector and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Drawing upon the subjects of mortality, human connection and notion of home, her images navigate the space between the internal and external. As a collector, Kristen maintains a growing archive of thousands of vernacular 20th century photographs. From this archive, book projects emerge as stories that connect her to lives of the past as vessels for nostalgia and processing identity. She received her BS in Communication from the University of Miami. In 2020, Kristen was a full scholarship recipient of the Advanced Track Program at the International Center of Photography. She currently manages the education and visitor services programs at the Alice Austen House Museum.
Erik Mace is a visual artist who uses photography, graphic design, and book arts as his tools of inquiry. As an experimental visual thinker, he is deeply curious about the power of photography and adjacent media and how to take advantage of their limitations. His work is connected by a sense of restlessness where he seeks out messy processes, delighting in how visual and language-based tools can be expressly matched to subject matter, causing a body of work to rise from the chaos. Many of his projects germinate from specific personal memories and grow into deeper discussions of place and identity, while other bodies of work are born from a general sense of wonder. Erik received his BFA in Visual Communications from Washington University in St. Louis and is an alumnus of the Contemporary Photography program at the ICP in New York. He currently holds a leadership position with the Kinship Photography Collective, leading workshops on photography, sequencing, and bookmaking.
