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. 3d ago

    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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Jun 10

    Caroline Kern / Pegacorn Press

    Guest: Caroline Kern Host:  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on March 2, 2026 Caroline Kern, formerly known as Caroline Paquita, is a visual artist living in New York City. Kern has been self-publishing since 1996 and formally started Pegacorn Press after purchasing her first Risograph stencil duplicator in 2009. Since then, she has released over forty artist books, zines, publications, and printed ephemera representing twenty-five other artists, as well as her own work. Titles are collected and held in personal and institutional collections worldwide and she has exhibited at over 50 art books, small press, and zine fairs since 2012. From 2023-2024, Kern helped create and develop the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair and served as a co-director for the first two years before resigning due to ongoing health issues from Long Covid.  Kern’s publishing practice and ethos are heavily informed by mid-1990s to early 2000s DIY punk culture, of which she was an active member through touring with her bands and zine making. Many of the artists she has worked with were met through her travels over the years and fostering those relationships— and the communities in which they flourished—is one of the driving forces behind Pegacorn Press. She views publishing as a vehicle for investigation, experimentation, connection, and an accessible means to reach audiences beyond traditional art spaces. https://www.carolinekern.org

    Caroline Kern / Pegacorn Press

  5. May 27

    #BLKGRLSWURLD Zine

    Guests: Christina and Courtney Long Host:  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on March 11, 2024 and May 8, 2026 This episodes contains two conversations recorded two years apart. #Blkgrlswurld ZINE is an award-winning indie publishing house based in New York City. Led by Christina Long, MFA (Global Creative Director) and her younger sister Courtney Long (Senior Editor), since 2014. The press celebrates and documents Black Womxn & Womxn of Color who participate in heavy music genres like Metalcore, Hardcore, Punk and Black Metal. Interviewing bands, reviewing music and vending at zine fairs allow #Blkgrlswurld ZINE to introduce readers to new music and the diversity within music scenes. Zines and artists’ books published by #Blkgrlswurld Press can be found in libraries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Schomburg Center for Research On Black Culture, The Barnard Zine Library, The NY Public Library and many more. In 2019 Christina Long was awarded a grant from the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation for her work in indie publishing. The grant led to #Blkgrlswurld launching their very first Punk Music Fest and Zine Fair at Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art in September of 2019. The press accepts open submissions from anyone who supports womxn identifying fans & musicians in the heavy music scene. #heavygirlsloveheavymusic blkgrlswurld.com “Paper Cuts Theme” by The Early @theearly_band // http://theearly.net

    #BLKGRLSWURLD Zine

  6. May 13

    Even the Score 3: Jalen Thomas and Chris Metzger

    Guests: Jalen Thomas and Chris Metzger Host:  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on February 27, 2026 This is the third of three episodes focusing on the recent publication: Even the Score, guest edited by Lindsay Buchman and published by Homie House Press. Jalen Thomas is an interdisciplinary artist from Prince George’s County, MD. Her work combines photography, quilting, and design to examine Black girlhood and Black feminine domestic identity.  Operating in the intersections between creative play and domestic labor, Thomas’ work is inspired by her mother often creating in collaboration with and for her. Working primarily with textiles and archival family photos Thomas participates in liberatory Black homemaking practices and oral storytelling traditions that have been passed down through generations of Black mothers, sisters, and friends. Currently serving as an Americorp Artist in Residence at 901 Arts in Baltimore, MD, Thomas continues to pass along these traditions to youth by teaching with a commitment to care, joy, and radical imaginative creation. She holds a BS in Graphic design from Stevenson University and an MFA in Community Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Christopher Metzger is a socially engaged artist/educator living and working in Baltimore, MD. As Professor and Department Chair of Art and Graphic Design at Stevenson University, his creative practice often engages communities in collaborative-based projects that encourage an exploration of self within larger social frameworks. Centered on fostering community and the investigation of representational justice through a historical and contemporary lens, his work often critiques and challenges the status quo while developing critical perspectives and an urgency to bring about social change through acts of creative resistance. Working primarily within photographic media and design, Metzger’s personal work is deeply rooted in, and informed by, his relationship to his wife and kids, a Black woman and two biracial sons. Often dealing with themes related to race, class, and identity, they examine their lived experiences through their individual identities and memories, while navigating places and spaces collectively as a family in search of joy, love, and truth. As an artist/educator, Metzger has come to embrace the symbiotic nature of his creative practice. His art is his teaching, and his teaching is his art. For Metzger, these identities are one in the same. Guided by community, agency, justice, and care and informed by his research into decolonizing art and design education, Metzger’s work is committed to the process of un/learning and interrogating the narratives, structures, and systems that have historically been put in place to divide and exclude. Episode artwork by Homie House Press “Paper Cuts Theme” by The Early @theearly_band // http://theearly.net

    Even the Score 3: Jalen Thomas and Chris Metzger

  7. Apr 22

    Even The Score 2: Lindsay Buchman and Heather Raquel Phillips

    Guests: Lindsay Buchman and Heather Raquel Phillips Host:  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on March 20, 2026 This is the second of three episodes focusing on the recent publication: Even the Score, guest edited by Lindsay Buchman and published by Homie House Press. Lindsay Buchman is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and publisher based in New York (NY) and Philadelphia (PA), whose work explores image-making and writing through print and lens-based media, artist books, and installation. Recent exhibitions include the Penumbra Foundation (NY), Center for Photography at Woodstock (NY), and the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art (CA). Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, and SFMOMA. She is a recipient of the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship and the Flaherty Fellowship, and her work has appeared in Hyperallergic, Lenscratch, and The Hopper Prize Journal. Buchman has been an artist-in-residence at Light Work, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Lower East Side Printshop, and Kala Art Institute. She holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from California State University, Long Beach. lindsaybuchman.com Heather Raquel Phillips (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist & independent curator based in Philadelphia, Pa. Working across photography, moving image, text-based textiles, and installation, Phillips critically investigates systems of power as they relate to personal autonomy, sexuality, deviance, and transgression.  Phillips is the recipient of the Toby Devon Lewis Fellowship 2016, the Leeway Foundation Art & Change Grant 2017 and the Leeway Foundation Transformation Award 2020. She was the 2019 Visiting Scholar at the Leather Archives & Museum (LA&M) in Chicago, where she was voted onto the Board of Directors in 2020. She has since helped craft the LA&M Artist In Residence program and curated the exhibition, Sparks in a Dark Room  by Gabriel Martinez. Phillips participated in the post-grad apprenticeship at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in 2022 and as a CFEVA Finalist in 2025.   Phillips' work, The Path to Candyland, is currently exhibited at Taller Puertorriqueno, Philadelphia, as well as Threaded Currents at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artforum.com, and Sixty (Inches From Center), Philadelphia Gay News and Artblog. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including in Los Angeles, New York City, New Orleans, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the United Kingdom. heatheraquelphilllips.com Episode artwork by Homie House Press “Paper Cuts Theme” by The Early @theearly_band // http://theearly.net

    Even The Score 2: Lindsay Buchman and Heather Raquel Phillips

  8. Apr 1

    Even the Score 01: Adriana Monsalve and Unique Robinson

    Guests: Adriana Monsalve and Unique Robinson Host:  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on February 6, 2026 in Takoma Park, MD This is the first of three episodes focusing on the recent publication: Even the Score, guest edited by Lindsay Buchman and published by Homie House Press. Adriana Monsalve – (they/she) is an artist, educator, cultural worker and collaborative publisher working (mostly) in the photobook medium. Along with Caterina Ragg, Monsalve is co-founder of Homie House Press, a radical cooperative platform that challenges the ever-changing forms of storytelling with image and text. Within her photographic practice, Monsalve is an archivist and visual communicator who produces in-depth stories on identity through the nuances in between race, gender, and immigrant adjacent experiences. Within her cultural work as a collaborative publisher, she holds space for and with underrepresented communities through the multidisciplinary platform of Homie House Press (HHP); a cooperative playground where fotos become books, a safe space for secret stories and an open house for honest content that meets at the intersection of personal, political, and poetic. She is rigorously pushing towards finding ways for photographers and publishers to cultivate the capacity for care and tenderness within structures that actively work against their manifestations. She defines intimacy as the experience of being genuinely seen, heard, and held by another person or group of people. Unique Robinson is a poet/MC, professor, community educator, host, and proud Baltimore native. She received her MFA in English/Creative Writing from Mills College, and a BA in Creative Writing/Black Studies from Hampshire College. Unique has a background in Community Organizing and national Reproductive Justice work, and is a lifelong artivist, with 20+ years of performance experience throughout the US and Havana, Cuba.  Through writing and performance, she consistently works within communities to promote change and collective healing through creativity. Locally, Unique has worked as a Poetry Teaching Artist, and in administrative roles for various organizations, including DewMore Baltimore, AFRO Charities, & The Lyric Baltimore. Unique received the Emerging Teaching Artist award from Arts Every Day in 2017, The Grit Fund Grant in 2019, and a Lab410 Fellowship with Baltimore Center Stage in 2025. She was the cover feature for Baltimore Magazine’s GameChangers in 2022, and a Baker Artist Awards Finalist in 2025.  Unique is the Director of MICA’s MFA Community Arts Program, and the facilitator for The LightHouse, a FREE monthly writing workshop at Motor House for intergenerational communities. Unique has also facilitated arts education literary programming for Baltimore Museum of Art, American Visionary Art Museum, and has been the Curator for The Walters Art Museum’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration for three consecutive years (2024-2026). Unique has released a variety of zines, short films, and musical projects available on online/streaming platforms. Her latest book of poetry, (not) in service, published by homie house press, was released in 2024. Episode artwork by Homie House Press “Paper Cuts Theme” by The Early @theearly_band // http://theearly.net

    Even the Score 01: Adriana Monsalve and Unique Robinson
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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
    70
  • Rating
    Explicit
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