Join us for DIY Pub Lab focused on contemporary printing with mimeographs!

guest artist: Rich Dana / Obsolete! Press

DIY Pub Lab is a free and open meetup with a guest artist at the Iowa City Press Co-op’s DIY Publishing Studio at 229 N Gilbert St. The guest artist(s) share their work in the first half of the program, and the second half is dedicated to informal Q&A, show and tell, and/or conversation with other participants. (So bring your own DIY publishing projects to share if you want!)

Rich Dana is a lover of arcane technologies, visionary art, and analog anarchy. Rich also runs Obsolete Press, creating limited edition books and zines with artists and writers from around the world and teaching workshops on historical printing techniques and zine-making. His latest book is Cheap Copies!: The OBSOLETE! Press Guide to DIY Hectography, Mimeography & Spirit Duplication. His upcoming book, The Copiers: Radicals, Renegades and Rejects who created social media before the Internet, will be released as a series of mimeo-zines in 2024.

DIY Pub Lab is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Iowa Arts Council, part of the Iowa Economic Development Authority.