Publication Studio Guelph

01/10/2025

Calling all zinesters, printmakers, and micro-publishers to apply to be a vendor!

PS Guelph’s annual Rock Paper Scissors is back! Save the date - Sunday, February 23, 2025, from 11 am to 4 pm, at the Art Gallery of Guelph.

Rock Paper Scissors is devoted to small-scale publishing and the social life of the book. We encourage artists, illustrators, collectives, micro publishers, zine and printmakers to apply. There is no table fee to participate, but priority will be given to 2SLGBTQ+ and BIPOC applicants.

Please apply by January 27, 2025. Applicants will be notified of the status of their application by email on Feb 3, 2024.

vendor application: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/ab927853b0ee4eb88dd02d7cd9f91da3

Rock Paper Scissors is part of a weekend of programming hosted by Publication Studio Guelph & Musagetes, including a series of bookmaking and writing workshops on Saturday, February 22, 2025. Workshop announcements and sign-ups will be released soon! Stay tuned.

12/16/2024

✨This week is the last call for books before the new year!✨

Our studio will be closed from December 20th to January 3rd. If you want to visit the studio, peruse and purchase books, we’re around 10 am to 3 pm this week. Send us a DM or ring the doorbell at the back door (parking lot door). If you ordered something online, it will be shipped this week as we’ve been halting shipping in solidarity with Canada Post workers. Thanks for a wonderful year and for supporting small press! MUAH! 💋

12/06/2024

Thanks to everyone who came out to our holiday open house! ❄️✨💕

11/27/2024

Spotted! Copies of Under the Sky Beneath the Moon by Mozghan Mahjoob at Another Story Bookshop in Toronto last weekend. A gorgeous, haunting set of folk-inflected, interlinked stories set in and around Kabul, Afghanistan.

Mozhgan Mahjoob is an Afghan poet and writer who graduated from the Humanities and English Literature faculty of Herat University. Her stories (inspired by true life incidents), essays, and poems are published in The GOAT Pol, Anis National Newspaper, Hamdeli, and Shahr e Sokoot Magazines.

Her first book of stories, Under the Sky Beneath the Moon, is available in softcover and as an eBook from The GOAT PoL Books and Publication Studio.

https://publicationstudio.biz/books/under-the-sky-beneath-the-moon/

11/23/2024

we’re at Expozine this weekend! Come say hi! 👋🩷📚✨

11/18/2024

Huge congratulations to Laura Grier! 🎉
The Indigenous Artist’s Survival Guide to Art School has been nominated for the Expozine 2023 Awards! The winners will be announced at the Expozine Gala, which will take place on November 22 at the Co-op Bar Milton-Parc.

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The Indigenous Artist’s Survival Guide to Art School is an “auto-zine” created by Sahtu Délı̨nę artist and printmaker Laura Grier. The guide presents resources, poetry, lists, encouragement, and reflections from Grier’s personal experience as an academic and artist within a colonial institutional setting. This accessible zine is aimed at an Indigenous readership looking for tangible information about navigating art school, while not homogenizing Indigenous lived experience and perspectives.

Laura Grier is a Sahtu Délı̨nę First Nations artist and printmaker, born in Somba ké (Yellowknife), and based out of Alberta. Through the use of traditional print mediums, they instrumentalize the power of the handmade to reflect Indigeneity, language, relational ontologies, and lived experiences of urban displacement and inherent Dene spirituality. Laura’s work is inspired by the dynamism of Indigenous art practices and uses printmaking as a tool for resistance, refusal, and reflexivity.

https://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/indigenous-artists-survival-guide/

11/15/2024

See ya at ✨EXPOZINE 2024✨

Église Saint-Arsène
Saturday, November 23 : 12h to 19h Sunday, November 24 : 12h30 to 19h

Visit expozine.ca for more info!

09/12/2024

Surprise! A Prairie Pop-Up! ✨💕

Our friend Shalaka Jadhav will be selling PS publications at the 2024 Praire Art Book Fair in Winnipeg this weekend! Look out for PS books and Shalaka at the Gravitron Table!

Also, don't miss the Gravitron Reader-In-Residence session with Shalaka Jadhav, Saturday, September 14, 1pm-3pm CST. The Gravitron Reader-In-Residence program has been launched in response to the death of spaces in so-called Canada that promote and disseminate artists working with publications and writing. This meandering initiative will focus on promoting writing and reading in the visual arts outside major urban centres. The reader-in-residence is invited to engage with the Gravitron collection by reading and responding to the material they find. Shalaka Jadhav is the 2024 Prairie Art Book Fair Reader-In-Residence and will join Nic Wilson for a conversation and presentation developed over the course of the residency.

More info here: https://plugin.org/exhibitions/2024-prairie-art-book-fair/

09/03/2024

We're looking forward to “In Verse,” on Sunday, September 8, in Eden Mills, hosted by Dr. Madhur Anand, to hear readings from Faith Arkorful, Aedan Corey, Michael Lista, and Shani Mootoo!

Learn more at https://buff.ly/3X601oA

Aedan Corey recently published "Kinauvunga?" with PS Guelph! Check out their book at https://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/kinauvunga/

Grab your picnic blanket, be still, and let the words of these masterful poets wash over you. Prepare to be moved, altered, and challenged to view the world from a new perspective. Join us for our popular session “In Verse”, sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets, on Sunday September 8 in Eden Mills, hosted by Dr. Madhur Anand, to hear readings from Faith Arkorful, Aedan Corey, Michael Lista, and Shani Mootoo! Learn more at https://buff.ly/3X601oA

08/03/2024

PS Guelph is at SappyFest zine fair today! Come visit us at the Legion (15 Lorne Street, Sackville, NB) from 11:00am - 4:00pm. 💘🌸✨