Another unique and exuberant box set from Booklyn’s favorite radical stencil pirate, with 16 wonderful transmissions of liberation made with stencil cut and/or printed, and sometimes laminated, prints, zines and, other ephemera. (Photos of Kate and Julio during their Booklyn pilgrimage wrap up the slide show.)
 
CONTENTS:
 
1. Burnout Book, 2023, is an anthology of 30 artists’ and writers’ works examining labor, activism, caretaking, living, grieving, missing, trying to make & trying to rest. The Burnout Book was risograph printed on an RZ 310 with maroon ink on a variant edition of papers, at Chute Studio in Oakland through CLEAR AS SCHMUTZ PRESS. It was publicly debuted via the MOONDOG & FRIENDS ART POP UP Newsstand takeover on NOV 5th, 2023 at the JC DECAUX KIOSK on 6th & MARKET ST. in San Francisco via CounterPulse Arts Kiosk public programming.
 
2. New Heart, 2025, Risograph zine.
This survey of emotional papercuts are all from 2024, ranging from iambic rants, quotations, and accordion forms– New Hearts is a reminder the personal is political and the political is personal.
 
3. Strike While the Ink is hot Fall 2020, 2020, Risograph zine.
“Strike While the Ink is Hot is an online lecture + image workshop class that dove into the radical history of political printmaking and graphics focusing on BIPOC, women, queer artists & activists. The class is a choose your own adventure model: with students listening to recordings and meeting in person. Part lecture and workshare. As an educator, I focus on accessibility and dismantling structural inequity in the arts through donation-based art history+theory classes that I create original curriculums for.
 
We looked at artwork discussing fascism, xenophobia, police brutality, racism, misogyny, capitalism— all with the goal of creating more knowledge and accountability as critical thinkers, artists and activists. The print mediums we explored range from Lithography, Offset, Relief, Screen, Etching and Risograph. Each iteration of this class has made a collaborative student zine printed with our dear & queer comrades at But Whole Press in San Francisco.”
 
4. Another Thank you III, 2024, Laminated papercut, collage book.
These remnant books contain plastic thank you bags, relief print scraps of glassine paper, papercut pieces, and are embedded in the practice I keep of giving my work many lives.
 
5. There is no justice in occupation– No Justification in genocide. Not in our name. No one is free in apartheid., 2024, Silkscreen on variant paper.
 
6. Feeling Language, 2025, Risograph poster.
Co-Curated Julio Rodriguez, Feeling Language brings together guest artists and artists from NIAD Art Center, Creative Growth, Creativity Explored, and Hospitality House. Poster designed by Negash Asegde with artwork by NIAD artist, Peter Harris and printed by Ocean Escalanti.
Kala Gallery, 2990 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley, CA. Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday 12-5 and Saturday 12-4. On view until August 9th.
 
7. Ten Rules, 2025, Risograph postcard.
 
8. Picture Window, 2024, Risograph print.
 
9. No silence in the arts! Divest! Disclose! Free Palestine!, 2025, Laminated spray painted papercut book.
 
10. Respect & power to student movements. Full arms embargo now. Fuck ice. Palestinian liberation forever., 2025, Laminated spray painted papercut.
 
11. Interdepence Required, 2025, Laminated spray painted papercut accordion bookform.
 
12. Surrendering is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival. -Leslie Feinberg, 2025, Laminated spray painted papercut.
 
13. Gender affirming healthcare saves lives., 2025, Watercolor on papercut.
 
14. It’s not revolution without Trans people, 2025, Spray paint on papercut.
 
15. Alphabet practice, 2025, Spray paint on papercut.
 
16. Future ancestors need you alive, 2025, Spray paint on papercut.
Text Transcript:
“O! Human Diary! Future ancestors need you alive, angry, loving, in community. My dyslexic love letter to reading. Unorthodox book forms. Land back. Palestine has never given up. Palestine will never give up. Dearest story tellers. Bodily autonomy forever for all. Trans accessibility, safety, & liberation. No neutral spaces of learning, freedom of expression + unlearning. Protest prayer. Processing.
We carry people with us.”

Kate Laster in Hyperallergic