FOLD
A TRAVELING ZINE
LIBRARY
8/23/25-9/13/25
Above: Installation of Fold at The Weather Station, Lafayette, IN.
The Weather Station is pleased to present Fold, an exhibition of artist's books, zines, and publications. For this special exhibition, The Weather Station is converted into both a library, an archive and a reading room, bringing together 100+ artworks, each of which reimagines what a book can be.
View of gallery table in Fold
Fold is art book and zine show featuring over 60 bookmakers working at the intersection of art and text. This traveling exhibition/community library highlights the incredible range of publishing happening across the Midwest, while also making connections to national and international practices and projects.
Taking its cues from the collaborative nature of zines and artist-publishing, the Fold library comes to The Weather Station from stop-gap projects, an artist-run project space based in Columbia, MO (where the first iteration of the project initially debuted). Following this exhibition in Indiana, the library will travel to 100000000, a recently-opened exhibition space in Kansas City. As the collection moves to different artist-run spaces, Fold is reimagined and re-curated to fit each new space and vision.
Above Left + Right: Installation of Fold at stop-gap projects in Columbia, MO
The artists and publishers represented in Fold are:
51 Personnae (Shanghai) // Abigail Newman (MO) // Amy Higgins Stambaugh (MO) // Are Not Books & Publications (IL/TX/TN) // Astringent Press/Zach Frazier (MO) // Becca Hayes (MO) // BLT Comicz (KS) / Brooklyn Berry (KS) // C. Pazia Mannella (MO) // Carmen Ribaudo (MO) // Chandler Lemmon (MO) // Colin Martinez (IL) // Corinne Teed (PA) // Correspondence Press / Lisa Maione (MO) // David Alpert (MO) // Dora Agbas (KS) // Elizabeth Allen-Cannon (FL) // Erik Ruin /Sandra Hill (PA) // Esra Jackson (MO) // Ethan Edvenson (IA) // Ever Cole (MO) // Flatpack Publications / Connor Frew (MS) // Gabi Jacobs (MO) // Gold Rain / Oswaldo Garcia (MX /MO) // Haley Darya Parsa (NY) // Hong Huo (PA) // Igor Arume (BRZ/MO) // Jamie Capps (MN) // Janelle Rebel (PA) // Jesse Malmed (IL) // Jordan Ramsey Ismaiel (NE) // Kayla Romberger (PA) // KG James (MO) // Late Night Copies (MN) // Luca Klauba (IL) // Luisebestian Sanabria (COL) // Lydia Smith (OH) // Macie Stewart (IL) // Maggie Minor (VT) // Maxwell Zawatsky (VT) // MIDTONES Photo Magazine (OH) // Muj Abdulzade (Berlin) // National Monument Press / Zach Clark (CA) // Nick Potter (MO) // OJEADA (MI) // Oona Taper (IL) // Paper City Publishing / Andrew Kozlowski (FL) // Partial Press / Levi Sherman (WI) // Pennycandybuildingco. (IL) // Queer.Archive.Work. (RI) // Rachel Hendel (IA) // Red Shorts Bindery (MO) // Sam Brooke (MO) // Sarah Maloney (CA) // Sumin Hwang (NY) // The Garage /Jaer Medina (MI) // TWOSIXTEEN / alejandro t. acierto (MI) // Two Steps Press / Brian Hitselberger (IN) // Ur Friend Lizard (MO) // Vaugn Sanchez (MO) // WHAT–THAT / Wes Larsen & Lindsey Larsen (WI) // Will Cardini (MO)
Fold is generously supported by a Field Funds grant from A Blade of Grass.
Above: Fold installed on set of shelves at The Weather Station, Lafayette, IN