Curatorial Category: Antenna Press

Antenna Press book release

Antenna Press is proud to announce the release of Abolition Film Society: Flipbook Cinema by Kriss Li & Amber Kim, Kriss Li was one of the recipients of the 2022 Paper Machine residency. Abolition Film Society: Flipbook Cinema2024, 5” x 6.25” x 2.75” Box with 5 flip books and 1 interview book, all perfect bound.$94Available Antenna Press book release

Antenna Press book release

Antenna Press is proud to release Leviathans: Queer Mischief in an Amphibious Ecology a book by Devon Pardue @dparduefilm winner of the Antenna Press Award. 5” x 2.75”, 100 pages, $11 Available for purchase in our online bookstore www.antenna.works Leviathans is an artist book and flipbook hybrid investigating queer becoming in the ecology of the Gulf South. Antenna Press book release

Antenna Press book release

Antenna Press is proud to release Super Max a book by Page Comeaux @po_meaux winner of the Antenna Press Open Call Award. 5″ x 7″, 56 pages, $22 Available for purchase in our online bookstore www.antenna.works. In essays and archival photographs, Super Max unravels the interwoven legacies of two career-defining projects by New Orleans-based architects Curtis Antenna Press book release

Antenna Press book release

Antenna Press is proud to release The Fifolay a graphic novel by Ana Vincent @anagrammies winner of the Antenna Press Open Call Award. 8” x 10”, 78 pages, $17 Available for purchase in our online bookstore www.antenna.works. The Fifolay is a dystopian tale of environmental magical realism in the fictional gulf-coast city Slingo. Strange Things Happen Antenna Press book release

Finished Art School, Now What?

Finished Art School, Now What? is a how to build your career quick guide for recently graduated bachelor of arts students and early self taught artist. The author covers advice on everything from community building, studio practice structure outside of academia, and choosing whether to pursue advance art degrees. Jasmine Best is a mixed media Finished Art School, Now What?

Ghost Orchid

Ghost Orchid is an artist book inspired by the ghost orchid, Dendrophylax lindenii, the highly coveted and elusive flora native to the South Florida Everglade and the wetlands of Cuba. The book uses prose, imagery, and holographic papers to narrate a fever dream from the perspective of the orchid and its pollinators. Cristina Molina hails Ghost Orchid

In Love and Struggle

The first book of prose from Kalamu ya Salaam, the prolific New Orleans writer and activist. In Love and Struggle is about complicated relationships and oppressive structures and where we situation ourselves as human beeings when confronted with life’s darkness. The book includes an interview with Kalamu’s daughter Kiini Ibura Salaam, who also contributed the In Love and Struggle

JAMBAR

In conjunction with Senegalese linguistic specialists from Boston University, the “JAMBAR” book project details a short story written in Wolof, the main language of what was once Senegambia. Buttressed by research in Dakar, the illustrations that accompany each sentence were influenced by scripts spanning the Sahel region to include Bassa Vah and Hieratic. Part performance JAMBAR

Paper Portals: A braided spellbook

Weaving together words and images, Paper Portals winds through the migration of the artist’s family, the emergence of their political consciousness, and their work in/for beloved community. Part poem, part visual meditation, part fragments of spells, the work reflects the author’s relationship to New Orleans on a personal, historical, and metaphysical level. Paper Portals invites Paper Portals: A braided spellbook

Book Release: As Many Genders

Join us as we celebrate the release of As Many Genders by Mick Kligler, recipient of a 2022 Antenna Press Award. This event is free and open to the public, and there will be refreshments and exciting coloring activities for kids!  This is the first children’s book published by Antenna Press, and we are so excited to Book Release: As Many Genders

A World with Monsters and Miracles

A limited edition book produced to coincide with the 2023 Antenna exhibition of the same name, A World With Monsters and Miracles serves as a thread through the multimedia work of visual artist Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo. Grappling with current troubles and musings on future consequential realms in the wake of human actions in the present, A World with Monsters and Miracles

Night Bloom

Night Bloom is a book that explores drawing & creativity blocks: how to overcome a lack of inspiration. Night Bloom was created by comics artist and animator, Isabelle Sigrid, as a part of her homonymous exhibit at Antenna. Three fable-like stories are told through hand-drawn text and image, touching on the magical and healing properties Night Bloom

As Many Genders

This spiral-bound book is for babies, kids, and for people of all ages who are working to unlearn the gender binary, fetch their genders from the basement corners where they’ve been stashed, and fully unfold the question of who they want to be. With full color illustrations, As Many Genders invites young readers to approach As Many Genders

No One Wants to Work Anymore

No One Wants to Work Anymore is a collection of personal and non-fiction comics about labor in the post–pandemic, climate crisis reality. Weaving together research, first hand experiences, political theory, and cute flower people cartoons, these comics investigate how living through the pandemic altered the way we see our jobs and ask what alternatives for No One Wants to Work Anymore