Paper Cuts

Paper Cuts
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Paper Cuts is an exploration of the contemporary world of zines and DIY publishing. Through a series of Podcasts and live events, Paper Cuts features writers, performers, and artists who have shared their work in print, on paper, and in small editions. Zines are truly dynamic publications that have built and supported engaged communities around ideals, experiences, genres, music, politics, poetry…anything that can be printed, shared, and/or mailed. Listen to voices that would normally live in your hands and demand your eyeballs.

  1. 5d ago

    Helen Frederick

    Guest: Helen Frederick Host:  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on June 24, 2026 at Reading Road Studio in Silver Spring, MD. Helen Frederick is recognized as a distinguished artist, curator, educator, coordinator of international projects, and as founder of Pyramid Atlantic, a center for contemporary printmaking, hand papermaking and the art of the book. As an advocate for and an active participant in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area arts scene, she has served on the directorial boards of alternative art spaces, various local and national boards including the CollegeArt Association, and national peer-review panels. Her work has been exhibited at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., The Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University, Dieu Donne Gallery, New York, Henie-Onstad Museum, Norway, and the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan, and is in collections of the Rhode Island School of Design, Whitney Museum and Brooklyn Museum in New York, the National Gallery of Art, Library ofCongress, and Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., among many others. Frederick, who is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Art at George Mason University, has fulfilled speaking engagements around the world, always emphasizing collaboration across disciplines.  Throughout her life, Frederick’s passion for diverse cultures and histories has led her to travel to observe the material cultures of many societies, their skills, and ideas and to make connections among disparate cultural traditions. Her private Reading Road Studio in Silver Spring, Maryland, provides collaborative opportunities for artists interested in works in and on paper, constructions, artist books, and critical conversations about social justice, cultural and visual literacy. She has received the Southern Graphic Council International Printmaker Emeritus Award, the College Art Association Distinguished Teacher Award, and was invited into the Feminist Art Base archive, the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Frederick is an alumnus of the Rhode Island School of Design. She serves as the organizational curator for the Kala Chaupal Trust, New Delhi, India.

    Helen Frederick

  2. Sep 16

    Darin Klein and Friends

    Guest: Darin Klein Host:  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on July 8 and July 20, 2026 Darin Klein is an arts programmer and curator, and the creator of over 100 solo and collaborative zines and artists’ publications. His various projects have been presented at venues including Amy Adler’s Echo Park Studio, &Pens, Bitches Rule, The Broad, Commonwealth & Council, For Your Art, Hammer Museum, Human Resources, LACE, LACMA, Luis de Jesus Los Angeles, New Image Art, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, REDCAT, and Upstairs at Paul’s in Los Angeles; Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, and White Columns in New York; 2nd floor projects, 42nd International SF Film Festival, ESP, Needles & Pens, scene/escena, Showroom, SF MOMA, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; and Dog & Pony in Spokane, WA. Klein is a Printed Matter Awards for Artists recipient, a Printed Matter artist grant recipient, and has lectured and facilitated workshops on zines and zine making at Denison University; The Hammer and Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair (Geffen Contemporary at MOCA) in Los Angeles; and California Institute for the Arts in Valencia, CA. His publishing project, Darin Klein & Friends, presents innovative and unexpected collaboratively produced zines and independent media, prioritizing queer and underrepresented artists.

    Darin Klein and Friends

  3. Sep 2

    Taylor Yates

    Guest: Taylor Yates Host:  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on June 12, 2026 Taylor Yates is an associate therapist, astrologer, and artist exploring symbols and mythology as tools to rewire narratives. she is the creator of the tarot deck PORTALS and editor-in-chief of feminist memoir magazine Selfish. Taylor has a Master's in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and is certified with the National Guild of Hypnotists. thatssopisces.com

    Taylor Yates

  4. Aug 19

    Raw Meat Collective

    Guest: Kyle Quinn Host:  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on May 20, 2026 Raw Meat is an independent publishing house, art gallery, and bookstore based in Chinatown, New York. The project was founded in 2015 by artist Kyle Quinn, who continues to run the collective today. Raw Meat works with a wide range of established and emerging contemporary artists across mediums including photography, painting, sculpture, collage, and installation. While the press primarily publishes artist books, Raw Meat also produces photography editions, exhibition catalogues for independent artists and galleries, and a wide range of fine art ephemera ranging from print to sculpture. Their mission is to create space for and amplify the voices of LGBTQ+ and femme contemporary artists through the documentation and dissemination of their work. Raw Meat focuses on crafting visually compelling editions that explore—through a romantic and critical lens—themes of sorrow, identity politics, queer history, vulnerability, and subversion. Through exhibitions and publications, they aim to foster dialogue with audiences and encourage viewers to reconsider preconceived ideas surrounding happiness, community, identity, and sexuality. Raw Meat is dedicated to supporting projects that might otherwise go unpublished—work that many institutions shy away from due to its rawness, intimacy, or vulnerability. These are productions that deserve an audience willing to engage with their power and beauty. Raw Meat strives to create books and exhibitions that inspire the current queer generation—artists, students, educators, and audiences alike—to create new work boldly and without fear. Over the years, Raw Meat has collaborated with universities, museums, art book fairs, galleries, and curators around the world.

    Raw Meat Collective

  5. Aug 5

    BearBear

    Guests: Diana H. Chu and Benjamin Grzenia Host:  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on May 4, 2026 Artists Diana H. Chu and Benjamin Grzenia launched BearBear as a self-publishing risograph studio in Milwaukee, WI. BearBear celebrates the intersection between what we put on our tables, where we call home, and who we gather with. Since 2019, BearBear has taught fellow artists about riso, hosted monthly risograph workshops to the public, co-organized events like zine fests or pop-up markets that allow other local artists to sell paper goods and art books, and offered accessible walk-up printing through a program called “Riso Open Studio”. Risography is a 1980s-era digital stencil duplication technology from Japan. It’s a fraction of the cost of screen printing or letterpress, making it a more economical choice for producing art publications. bearbear.co Episode theme music by The Early.

    BearBear

  6. Jul 22

    Sarula Bao

    Guest: Sarula Bao Host:  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on March 6, 2026 Sarula Bao is an illustrator, zine maker, and community organizer. She directs a small press and programming initiative, Endless Editions, as well as the Brooklyn Art Book Fair (BKABF). Her primary goals and practice are community building by removing barriers of entry for artists, fostering connections and providing space, platforms, resources and labor. She is also a faculty member and the Lead Technician at the SVA RisoLAB. sarula-bao.com

    Sarula Bao

  7. Jul 8

    Calipso Press

    Guests: Eva Parra and Camilo Otero Host:  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded at the Center for Book Arts in New York City on February 20, 2026 Calipso Press is an independent publishing project founded by Eva Parra and Camilo Otero. What began as a small experiment between friends in Madrid found its shape in Cali, Colombia, where Calipso became a space for making books and building community. Today, based in New York, Calipso continues to operate between places, languages, and traditions of print culture. Their work moves between artists’ books, photography, riso printing, exhibitions, and collaborative publishing projects. At the center of it all is a belief that books are more than containers for content: they are social objects that create encounters, preserve relationships, and carry ideas across borders. Whether working with emerging artists, poets, photographers, or long-term research projects, Calipso approaches publishing as a form of conversation shaped as much by friendship and curiosity as by design and production. Eva Parra is an artist, publisher, and educator. Trained in philosophy, her early work focused on color, perception, and the ways we experience images. Over time, these interests expanded through photography, printmaking, and publishing into questions of how we learn, make, and spend time with others. Fermentation is a recurring thread in her practice, both as a material process and as a way of thinking about transformation, care, and the sharing of knowledge. Through books, workshops, and participatory projects, she cultivates spaces for making, conversation, and experimentation together. Camilo Otero is a publisher, curator, and writer working at the intersection of contemporary art, independent publishing, and cultural history. Originally trained as a journalist, he has spent much of his career thinking about how stories are organized, circulated, and preserved, whether through exhibitions, archives, or books. Drawn to artist-run initiatives and the social life of printed matter, he approaches publishing as a way of connecting people, ideas, and places through shared acts of research, exchange, and curiosity. Calipsopress.com

    Calipso Press

  8. Jun 24

    Paul John

    Guest: Paul John Host:  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on December 11, 2023 and March 12, 2026 This episodes contains two conversations years apart. Paul John (he/him) is an artist, community organizer, photographer, and educator. His work is to connect people and create community via resource sharing, bookmaking, hosting events, and institution building. Paul cofounded Endless Editions and the Brooklyn Art Book Fair. Both organizations focus on creating free or low-risk opportunities in independent publishing and bookmaking. Paul John is currently the Head of Community at NEW INC. Prior to working at NEW INC, he developed the risograph printing program at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, was the coordinator of printing and publishing at the Jan van Eyck Academie, and taught risograph printing at the School of Visual Arts. Paul launched his latest publishing practice, Ijsmaaker, in 2024. Ijsmaaker is a collaborative ice cream making project operated under the guise of an artist residency titled the Breakfast Residency. Artists are invited to eat pancakes, have conversation, and create an ice cream flavor based on their work or their upcoming exhibition. His future ambitions are to continue to foster noncompetitive spaces for communities to flourish via ice cream making and hosting the Breakfast Residency.

    Paul John
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Paper Cuts is an exploration of the contemporary world of zines and DIY publishing. Through a series of Podcasts and live events, Paper Cuts features writers, performers, and artists who have shared their work in print, on paper, and in small editions. Zines are truly dynamic publications that have built and supported engaged communities around ideals, experiences, genres, music, politics, poetry…anything that can be printed, shared, and/or mailed. Listen to voices that would normally live in your hands and demand your eyeballs.

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  • Creator
    Paper Cuts
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    75
  • Rating
    Explicit
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