After a two year hiatus, Northampton Print & Book Fair is excited to announce that it is making its return to downtown Northampton this Fall! Come by from noon-5pm for a one-day celebration of contemporary artist publications, prints, and multiples. The NPBF will feature work of artists, publishers, and collectives from across western Massachusetts and throughout New England, on display and for sale.

Established in 2015, the Northampton Print & Book Fair was created to promote contemporary artist publications, prints, and multiples, celebrating local talent while bringing regional artists and publishers to our community. Artists, independent publishers, and art collectives are invited to display and sell their work—including artists’ books, zines, chapbooks, mini-comics, screenprints, risographs, letterpress prints, etchings, photographs, photobooks, digital prints, and more.

 

When and Where:

Northampton Center for the Arts at 33 Hawley

Northampton, Massachusetts

October 1^st, 12 to 5PM

For more information, contact northamptonprintandbookfair@gmail.com.

NPBF 2022 Artists & Vendors

Angela Zammarelli’s work lives at an intersection of fantasy and reality. She uses play to ask how fantastical elements call upon reality to give them meaning, and how observations in reality can slip into the fantastical through certain framing.

Annie Sollinger is a visual artist making use of drawing, photography, embroidery, and more.

Audrey Helen Weber is an illustrator and book artist based in Greenfield, MA. Audrey’s first picture book, On The Day The Horse Got Out was published by Little, Brown and Company in 2021. Alongside commercial and editorial illustration, Audrey’s work centers around small narrative paintings exploring our perception of the world around us.

BurnsMax explores ways of expression through new technologies and old slow processes. Works have analyzed relationships to place, people, history and occasionally narratives both (true and false) through visual storytelling using installation, performance, and works on paper. Also, sometimes just silly stuff.

Canto Cutie is a juried art and literature zine that publishes the work of Cantonese artists and writers around the world. Founded in 2019 by Katherine Leung, it is edited by Tsz Kam and Meaghan Yuen, and translated by G. Relationship to identity, immigration, and civil unrest vary all across the diaspora and this zine attempts to reflect that diversity.

CatLABS is a Boston-based company that specializes in traditional photographic equipment, from large format cameras and lenses, to film processing and darkroom gear.

Chew—Chew is the multidisciplinary studio of siblings Allison and Chris who try their hand at everything and specialize in nothing.

Clare Lagomarsino is an independent designer who just released and sold out of the first and second print runs of her debut book - Queer Earth Food. It's a collection of writing and art from rural queer people on the earth, queerness, food, and farming. All profits from the book go toward a farm fund by a trans farmer from New Mexico.

coldhatkid makes mini comics, zines, prints, stickers, paintings and original illustrations.

Dead Eye Prints offers custom silk screen, vinyl, and DTG apparel and accessories with no order minimums, and they occasionally produce small runs of original printed items as well.

Esther S White spent the summer making mugs while she listened to Beowulf on repeat.

Factory Hollow Press & Scram Press • Located in North Amherst, MA factory hollow press publishes chapbooks and a few full length books since early 2000s; occasional broadsides, all in limited editions. Scram Press, published in Northampton, MA, specializes in small books, chapbooks, and graphic work.

GUTROT is the alias of illustrator Eric Benton. Influenced by old horror comics and a DIY aesthetic, he publishes zines, prints shirts, sells patches, pins and all sorts or other putrid wares. Some products may be haunted. 

Ian Reed is an multidisciplinary artist who lives in Easthampton, MA.

Laura Mason is a photographer based in Northampton, MA. Her subject matter consists mostly of nature and light, reflection and shadow. Finding greater satisfaction in the analog process, much of her work is shot on 35mm film, and often features a multiple exposure technique to evoke the sense of wonder she feels when shooting.

Looky Here is a volunteer-run nonprofit art space in downtown Greenfield, MA. Aside from providing second hand art supplies, community workshops and gallery space, Looky Here runs a community Risograph printer. 

Malaika Ross’ work integrates shapes and patterns from her microbial drawings and collages into contemporary botanical paintings of native and introduced flora in Western Massachusetts.

Phoebe Harris’ paintings exist somewhere between worlds of abstraction and representation, often containing subject matter of the natural world painted with unnaturally vibrant, saturated tones.

Rhea Mack is an artist living in Northampton, MA.  She makes original colored pencil drawings of sometimes strange people in strange landscapes.

Static Frame is the moniker of Western Massachusetts multidisciplinary artist Megan Minior. Megan’s work is realized through illustration, printmaking, design work, zines, and more.

Vegan Pizza Land is a pop-up pizza shop that makes hot and fresh vegan pies. From the tomato sauce to the cashew cheese to the pizza dough, every ingredient is handmade or locally sourced. 

Zoárd Tyeklár is an artist living and working in Providence, RI who creates screenprinted zines, prints, apparel, and more. Tyeklár has partnered with Hurrikán Press from Budapest, Hungary to bring their unique risograph zines, prints and books to the NPBF.