LA Art Book Friends with Mary Tremonte and Darin Klein

Guests: Mary Tremonte of Justseeds // Darin Klein & Friends

Host:  Christopher Kardambikis

Produced by Jake Nussbaum and Clocktower Radio

Recorded on February 12th, 2016 at the Los Angeles Art Book Fair // Originally presented by Clocktower.org

Darin Klein & Friends: With an ever-expanding network of friends and collaborators, Darin Klein curates and organizes dynamic and engaging exhibitions and arts programs, simultaneously creating, collecting and promoting artists' publications and independent media. Klein is a 2010 recipient of Printed Matter's Awards for Artists for exemplary work with books and printed media and has lectured and taught workshops on the art of ‘zine-making at universities and arts organizations.  darinkleinandfriends.blogspot.com

Mary Tremonte is an artist, educator, and DJ based in Pittsburgh. A founding member of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, she works with "printmaking in the expanded field," including printstallation, interactive silkscreen printing in public space, and wearable artist multiples such as queer scout badges. As DJ Mary Mack she strives to make safe(r) spaces on dance floors for embodying a body politic with pleasure. With Justseeds and independently Mary has exhibited, presented lectures and workshops, and performed in Toronto, Pittsburgh, throughout the United States, and internationally. Formerly the youth programs coordinator at The Andy Warhol Museum, she values art education as a means of youth empowerment and social change. Through her work she aims to create temporary utopias and sustainable commons through pedagogy, collaboration, visual pleasure and serious fun.  justseeds.org/artist/marytremonte

Justseeds

With members working from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Justseeds operates both as a unified collaboration of similarly minded printmakers and as a loose collection of creative individuals with unique viewpoints and working methods. We believe in the transformative power of personal expression in concert with collective action. To this end, we produce collective portfolios, contribute graphics to grassroots struggles for justice, work collaboratively both in- and outside the co-op, build large sculptural installations in galleries, and wheat-paste on the streets—all while offering each other daily support as allies and friends.

justseeds.org

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