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Prairie Art Book Fair 2020

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to present our first digital Prairie Art Book Fair. The fair will take place in two parts; as a series of online readings, workshops and events taking place during the weekend of September 11-13 and as web pages compiling a selection of artists, writers, and publishers from the prairies and beyond. Explore the work of the 2020 Prairie Art Book Fair online exhibitors below.

ARP Books | Blank Cheque Press | Candor Arts | Cedar Eve | Jonathan DyckKatrina Marie Mendoza | Metonymy Press | New Gallery | Or Gallery | Peripheral Review | Red Rising Magazine | Sylvia Matas | The Third RailWhess Harman | Zinnia Naqvi

For a full schedule of events and presenters associated with the 2020 Prairie Art Book Fair please click here.

ARP Books publishes cultural, literary & non-fiction books with an emphasis on progressive political analysis of contemporary issues. Read More…

Blank Cheque Press is a small press based in Vancouver that is dedicated to the publication of art writing in its many forms. This includes but is not limited to plotless fiction, eccentric art criticism, messy philosophical treatises, urgent poetics, esoteric writing by artists, and book projects that otherwise run parallel to artists’ practices. Read More…

Candor Arts is a resource for the design and production of artist books. We publish books about learning and healing. As an evolving experiment, we attempt to develop ethical support for authors, collaborators, and partners within a hyper-capitalist society.. Read More…

Cedar Eve is an Anishinaabae (Ojibway) artist from Saugeen First Nation and Wiikwemikoong First Nation, but was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario.  She is a full time artist-a muralist and beader/jewellery maker. Read More…

Jonathan Dyck is an illustrator, designer and cartoonist living and working in Winnipeg, MB — Treaty 1 territory and the homeland of the Métis Nation. His writing and artwork have appeared in The WalrusThe Globe and Mail and Prairie Fire. Read More…

Katrina Marie Mendoza works with drawings as projections of space and the possibility of their becoming objects. Read More…

Metonymy Press is a queer and feminist publisher based in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal). We publish literary fiction and nonfiction by emerging writers, and we try to reduce barriers to publishing for authors whose perspectives are underrepresented. We really want to keep gay book lovers satisfied. Read More…

New Gallery (TNG) publishes everything from artist books and special editions to exhibition catalogues and zines, all within our socio-political mandate. Read More…

Or Gallery is an artist-run centre in Vancouver BC committed to exhibiting work by local, national, and international artists whose art practice is of a critical, conceptual and/or interdisciplinary nature. Established in 1983 by a group of Vancouver artists, the Or Gallery and has been a continuous presence in the city’s cultural landscape. Read More…

Peripheral Review is a platform for documenting and expanding the emerging and under-represented Canadian art scene, as well as enabling access for emerging writers by encouraging expanded and accessible critical dialogue. Read More…

Red Rising Magazine is a non-profit Indigenous-centred magazine providing an unfiltered space for Indigenous youth, writers, artists, academics and community to share their stories and showcase their brilliance. Created in 2015 by Indigenous youth in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, word of Red Rising Magazine has quickly spread across the continent and the magazine even boasts readership as far away as New Zealand! More recently, Red Rising started an educational branch called Red Rising Education which creates authentic Indigenous Education resources for teachers and students. Read More…

Sylvia Matas is an artist working in video, bookworks, text, and drawing. Her work combines images and writing that depict moments of transition, anticipation, and altered experiences of time and space. Suspended moments intersect, blurring the boundaries between places and times, between the mind and the external world. Read More…

The Third Rail  is a free nonprofit periodical devoted to a discussion of modern and contemporary art, politics, philosophy, culture and featuring critical essays, interviews, literary arts, and artist projects. Read More…

Whess Harman is Carrier Wit’at, and is currently living and working on the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh. Their multidisciplinary practice includes beading, illustration, poetry and curation. As a mixed-race, trans/non-binary artist they work to find their way through anxiety and queer melancholy with humour and carefully mediated cynicism. Read More…

Zinnia Naqvi is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal and Tkaronto/Toronto. Her work examines issues of colonialism, cultural translation, language, and gender through the use of photography, video, writing, and archival material. Read More…

Acknowledgements

We are on Treaty 1 Territory. Plug In ICA is located on the territories of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation.

We offer our sincere thanks to Red River Co-op for their generous support of our 2020 book fair. Thank You!

Our sincere thanks go out to Collective Broadcast for coordinating all of our online events for the 2020 PABF.

We are grateful to artists Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber for the Prairie Art Book Fair logo designed for our first fair in 2018.

Plug In ICA extends our heartfelt gratitude to our generous donors, valued members, and dedicated volunteers. We acknowledge the sustaining support of our Director’s Circle. You all make a difference.

We would like to The Winnipeg Foundation for their ongoing support of Plug In ICA.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We could not operate without their continued financial investment and lobbying efforts.

Plug In ICA relies on community support to remain free and accessible to all, and enable us to continue to present excellent programs. Please consider becoming a member of Plug In ICA and a donor at plugin.org/support or by contacting Erin Josephson-Laidlaw at erin@plugin.org.

For more information about the Prairie Art Book Fair, contact Erin Josephson-Laidlaw at erin@plugin.org or Luther Konadu at luther@plugin.org.

For more information about our programming, contact Nasrin Himada at nasrin@plugin.org.

For general information, please contact: info@plugin.org or call 1.204.942.1043.