Book Bash 2025

Book Bash is back this December for a weekend celebrating independent publishing!

Stop by the gallery during Book Bash weekend to support the participating vendors. A selection of Storefront books and merchandise will be available for sale.

With books, prints, and other goods by:

Alien Libros & Co
Elizabeth Allen-Cannon
ArchiTangle
Art Against Displacement
C. G. Beck
Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
Lizania Cruz
Elastic Magazine
51 Personae
Forlorn Productions with Rainer Turim
frannie
Grace Issues
green flash projects
Suha Hasan
Head Hi
INSOLE
Inventory Press
KAJE
Literal
Makan Press
Miriam Gallery
The MIT Press
Mundzic
Pairs
Pina Magazine
Philip Poon
Research and Destroy New York City
Radiant Press + Fredi G-P
Sa’ada
Set Margins’
Small Editions
super professional press
Terminal Ediciones
Third Place Zine
Philip Tomaru
Roopa Vasudevan
Vera List Center for Art and Politics
Jasmine Weber
Working Girls Press
Angela Wei
Zone Books

and more.

*As of December 8, 2025.

Alien Libros & Co is a publishing house run between New York City and Mexico City, whose catalog is closely related to migration, graffiti, art and photography.

Working primarily in painting and artist’s books, Elizabeth Allen-Cannon explores how the self is reproduced, divided, and contained. Her work engages the drama between framing device and pictorial space; the real and the abstract. She currently teaches in the Performing and Visual Art Department at Eastern Florida State College (Cocoa, FL) and directs Causeway, an artist-run gallery space in Cocoa Beach, FL that she founded in 2024.

ArchiTangle is an independent publishing house based in Berlin. By combining traditional print books with innovative digital formats, ArchiTangle aims to disseminate and preserve architectural knowledge, ensuring its accessibility for future generations. The core of ArchiTangle’s program focuses on publishing books that highlight architectural projects with substantial social impact, thus upholding cultural and ethical values in architecture. 

Based in Manhattan’s Chinatown and Lower East Side, Art Against Displacement AAD is a coalition of artists and arts professionals that seeks to amplify the demands of those whose lives and livelihoods are placed at risk by predatory development and resettlement, and to work in solidarity with grassroots organizations toward community-led rezoning. The group affirms that gentrification is not an inevitable effect of urban development, and refuses to let the work of cultural producers be instrumentalized towards the displacement of long-term residents and businesses.

CBAC aims to expand the ground of architectural discourse, making books that ask urgent questions about what architecture is and what it does, and working to model different forms of architectural production beyond building. CBAC hopes to amplify new voices while reflecting on those who’ve shaped the field and to publish books that explore architecture’s intersections, rethink the assumptions of practice, and confront the discipline’s blind spots and complicity in enduring forms of injustice.

Lizania Cruz is a Dominican participatory artist and designer interested in how systemic issues, mythmaking, and historiography shape our understanding of otherness and belonging. Publishing as a medium has been integral to her practice as a way of disseminating her field research, audience engagement, and creating installations.

Elastic is a magazine of psychedelic art and literature, publishing art and writing that bend time and genre and perspective, blur waking and dreaming life, and otherwise break form. The first psychedelic era was a time of radical artistic innovation, and yet, in the popular imagination, “psychedelia” refers to little more than Day-Glo mandalas and jam-band music—a narrow and cartoonish version of what psychedelic art is and might be. Elastic brings together a truly expansive, diverse body of contemporary work and at the same time pays tribute to an overlooked archive of psychedelic art and literature, much of which was made by artists and thinkers of color.

51 Personae is a self-sustaining independent art publishing project that views publishing as both an urgent and valid artistic practice. It places special emphasis on life experiences in Asia and the Third World, as well as marginalized voices under suppression, exploring the contemporary forms, possibilities and potential of “realism” in art as expressive actions.

Forlorn Productions is a project launched in the early 90s whose current purpose is investigate the past, recontextualize the present and make like-minded connections for the future. Rainer Turim is a writer and researcher born and raised in New York City’s East Village. His research interests include the history of graffiti writing, New York City’s current bookstores, and the Lower East Side.

frannie is the publishing label of Francisco Javier Ramirez, a Mexico City–born, Brooklyn-based artist whose work spans photography, book arts, and zine-making. Rooted in queer and immigrant experiences, frannie showcases both Ramirez’s own work and collaborations with other queer and Mexican creators. Building on his time at OMG PRESS, where he began producing zines for fellow artists in 2019, Ramirez launched frannie in 2024 to continue his commitment to experimental, community-centered publishing.

Grace Issues is an independent publisher that values books and printed ephemera that pulsate life and never-ending experimentation. Where conventional ‘decency’ finds its counter in the pursuit of creation, where grace is not just sought but is the interplay of all we’ve encountered.

gfp (green flash projects) curates and produces art experiences that explore intersections of environment, community, and culture. Founded by Gili Rappaport, their work engages diverse communities in meaningful dialogue and creative expression through publications, installations, and events.

Suha Hasan is an architect and founder of ASH, an architecture practice based in Stockholm, Sweden, which provides design and consultation services for heritage and cultural management. Suha founded Mawane, a platform for urban research based in Bahrain and is a founding member of the Modern Sudan Collective. Both platforms enable researching and sharing the outcomes through public art exhibitions, talks, and workshops.

Head Hi is an organization dedicated to art, architecture, design and sound specializing in publications and cultural programming with an espresso bar located in Fort Greene, Brooklyn by the Navy Yard. We feature a curated selection of publications from around the globe. Working with local and international artists, designers, publishers, and organizations in various fields, Head Hi is a space for exploration and interaction that hosts talks, book launches, exhibitions, music, performances and other events.

Insole is a publication of critical writing and imagery based in New York. The first issue centers on the art, histories, and discursive hangovers of the 1970s and early-1980s through a series of essays by Amber Jamilla Musser on Blondell Cummings; Regan Bowering on Anthony Braxton; and Eilidh Duffy on clothing during The Troubles. Charles Gaines is in conversation with critic Zoë Hopkins to mark the republication of the exhibition catalog of The Theater of Refusal (1993).

Inventory Press publishes books on topics in art, architecture, design, and music, with an emphasis on subcultures, minor histories, and the sociopolitical aspects of material culture.

KAJE is a nonprofit art space and publisher based in Gowanus. The organization was founded in the space between two artists’ studios in 2018 with a mission to support creative impulses that are difficult to define and in need of participatory testing grounds. In a climate where a majority of exhibition making has become market-driven, KAJE is a platform to explore creative potential beyond the anxieties of the marketplace.

Literal is the publishing imprint for Studio Nicolas/Christian Nicolas. Its primary interest is in issues related to urban space, infrastructure, and personal projects. 

Makan is an independent publishing house dedicated to amplifying voices and visual narratives from the Global South and beyond. Makan is operated by Yemeni American artist Ibi Ibrahim.

Miriam is an artist-run gallery and bookshop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn that opened in December 2019. Through deeply collaborative relationships with artists and curators, Miriam shares uniquely interdisciplinary practices through publishing, exhibitions, artists’ books, and public programs.

Established in 1962, the MIT Press is one of the largest and most distinguished university presses in the world and a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design. MIT Press books and journals are known for their intellectual daring, scholarly standards, interdisciplinary focus, and distinctive design.

Mundzic is a graphic designer whose work explores the overlooked parts of the urban landscape. Through zines, he assembles raw visual compilations that document graffiti, discarded objects, markings and other fragments of city life offering a visual anthropological study of the ways humans leave traces and messages in public spaces. 

Pairs is a journal of conversations edited by students at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Each issue pairs subjects with objects: interviewees with contents from a Harvard or external archive. The journal does not have a theme but instead organizes a diversity of threads and concerns relevant to our moment through a pluriversal definition of design. The conversations are in turn not comprehensive accounts but open-ended exchanges, eliciting often candid and provisional ideas in progress.

Pina is a new exhibition space in the form of a magazine in-print. Each issue houses two 60-page exhibitions commissioned uniquely for Pina—both of which are accompanied by a work of short fiction and a conversation between the artist and a notable thinker. Pina proposes to reimagine the exhibition as a world-building experience, accessible from multiple entry points within a flat, portable and collectible space.

Philip Poon is an architect, artist, and writer whose work engages the complex dynamics of a changing Manhattan Chinatown and the relationship of Asian-American identity within it. 

Informed by his background as a Chinese-American from New York City, his work as a registered architect, and his engagement with art and activist movements in Chinatown, his projects materialize issues at the intersection of space, race, and class. He is the founder of Firm A, an architecture office in New York City, and is currently leading a series of Chinatown walking tours.

Research and Destroy New York City is a small collective that dislikes the police and makes zines with their hands.f

Radiant Press is an environmentalist press dedicated to examining, questioning, and subverting white supremacist ideas of beauty, relationship, and value through zines and prints. Their work sources methods of witnessing ourselves and each other where we all shine.

Sarah Saad, the founder of Sa’ada, is the Staff Designer at NYC Planning in the Community Planning and Civic Engagement division. She focuses on creating visual assets to facilitate collaboration and communication between NYC Planning and the communities it serves. 

Before joining NYC Planning, she worked at Pure+Applied and Storefront for Art and Architecture, gaining some experience in exhibition design. She made a few zines titled When I Digress… and Hassan Fathy: An Anti-Modernist Egyptian Architect.

Set Margins’ builds on 20-years professional experience. This ranges from working with established professionals and working in institutional settings, to dealing with precarious bases of progressive practitioners and art workers. Within Set Margins’, as in publishing at large, there will be books with more means and/or results, contributing to books with less means and/or results. The full list will inspire and strengthen the sum and therefore all parts.

Small Editions is a design studio and artist book publisher. They offer services in graphic design, print consulting, and limited edition book binding. Through their independent publishing imprint, they collaborate with artists to create unique, limited edition artist books. Their work aims to center the book as a form of art, rather than a vehicle for art. Projects begin from a thoughtful engagement with source content, and are informed by ongoing research and experimentation in print, materiality, and fabrication.

Terminal Ediciones publishes books, zines and editions with Latin American artists and curators across Quito, Mexico City, New York and Miami. The platform explores diasporic art, alternative cultural visions, resistance, archives, food, sound and memory. Its titles have been shown at major fairs like Printed Matter, Miss Read, ArtsLibris and Material, and are held in collections including the MET, NYPL, MACBA and Reina Sofía. Terminal was founded in 2019 by Gabriela Valarezo and Jaime Nuñez del Arco.

Third Place Zine is a publication dedicated to stories about the built environment, urbanism, and community. We define third places as the communal settings distinct from home (the first place) and work (the second place). The concept of the Third Place was originated by the urban sociologist, Ray Oldenburg. While we honor his definition, we acknowledge its limitations. Our publication aims to re-interpret the third place in order to celebrate the joys of the built environment and how people build community today and in the future.

Philip Tomaru makes books and zines, often focusing on remixing images and cultural narratives of the modernist architecture program. He lives and works in New York, and for 10 years lived in Mies van der Rohe’s last residential apartment complex in Baltimore. His published works are held in numerous public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Getty Research Institute, and the New York Public Library. 

Roopa Vasudevan is a South Asian-American new media artist, computer programmer, and researcher based between New York City and Western Massachusetts. Her work explores the gaps between the stories we tell ourselves about technology and the realities of how it exists in our everyday lives. She has exhibited her work internationally, and been supported by Eyebeam, the Processing Foundation, the Emerson Collective Culture Council, and NEW INC at the New Museum, among others.

super professional press is an independent Risograph publishing collective in Brooklyn, NY. It publishes and features a rotating catalog of work by emerging artists in an effort to increase visibility and opportunity for anyone who wants to make zines and share them with others. It is currently managed by Sarah Schneider and Avery Slezak.

The Vera List Center for Art and Politics is an artist-focused research center and public forum for art, culture, and politics. It was established at The New School in 1992—a time of rousing debates about freedom of speech, identity politics, and society’s investment in the arts. A leader in the field, the center is a nonprofit that catalyzes and supports politically engaged art, public scholarship, and research throughout the world. It fosters vibrant and diverse communities of artists, scholars, and policymakers who take creative, intellectual, and political risks to bring about positive change.

Jasmine Weber is a writer, editor, and artist based in Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared and is forthcoming in Burnaway, Cultured Magazine, Document Journal, Hyperallergic, and Seen Journal. She is a recipient of the 2024 Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in Short-Form Writing and 2021 Rabkin Prize for Visual Arts Journalism. In 2024, she participated in the Center for Book Arts’ Small Press Incubator and was a June resident of the Storyknife Writers Retreat.

Founded in 2023 by Molly B. Simmons and Emily Marie Passos Duffy, Working Girls Press, publishes, promotes, and supports the writing and art of sex workers. The press is committed to collaborative and collectivist publishing practices run for sex workers by sex workers.

Angela Wei is a Brooklyn-based artist-designer interested in proof. Her work thinks through how physical and digital objects evoke, corroborate, and reinterpret memory to form an impression of a time, place, community, or life.

Founded in 1985, Zone Books is an independent nonprofit publisher in the humanities and social sciences, with a special focus on interdisciplinary projects. Zone publishes original works by international scholars of philosophy, history, art history, cultural and sound studies, as well as political and social theory that have changed conversations across disciplines. Zone titles are edited by Jonathan Crary, Michel Feher, Hal Foster, and Ramona Naddaff, and designed by Julie Fry, based on an original concept by Bruce Mau. Zone Books is distributed by Princeton University Press.