Publishing on your own terms: Independent publishing & small presses


with Brett Bloom
Sunday, May 3
12:30pm PT, 2:30pm CT, 3:30pm ET, 9:30pm CET


Brett Bloom, co-founder of Temporary Services and Half Letter Press, dives into pathways to independent and grassroots publishing, including starting a small press—providing insight from the practical to personal. How do you launch a small press and then sustain it? How can artists think about distribution and reaching audiences for independently published work? What liberatory potential does independent publishing contain at the intersection of public art and community practice?

Drawing by Kione Kochi


Brett Bloom is an artist, publisher, and co-founder of Temporary Services and Half-Letter Press with collaborator Marc Fischer. Based in Ft.Wayne (IN) and Chicago, Temporary Services began in 1998 as an experimental exhibition space in a working-class neighborhood in Chicago before transitioning its focus to publishing as a way of opening art and ideas to new possibilities. Half Letter Press is an endeavor to build long-term support and expanded audiences for people that work creatively in experimental ways. They are particularly interested in supporting people and projects that have had difficulty finding financial and promotional assistance through mainstream commercial channels.
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