Shop Talk: Make Your Own Scrap Paper Notebook
A workshop led by ALMANAC curators, Kate VanVliet and Jessica Aguilar. In conjunction with the book release of ALMANAC: valuable information for *these times* (facsimile edition), BYO Print invites you to make your own scrap paper spiral-bound notebook! Inspired by the format of the ALMANAC, bind your collection of pages into a unique spiral notebook. All materials will be provided, but guests are invited to BYO personal ephemera.
**20 copies of ALMANAC (facsimile edition) free to the first guests!
**All books sold during PTAT will be stamped/signed by the curators.
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Kate VanVliet is a multi-disciplinary printmaker, sculptor, and community organizer practicing from her home studio in Elkins Park and from BYO Print in Philadelphia. She utilizes printmaking, multiplicity, and repeated actions to explore ritual, invisible labor, ephemerality and collecting through a feminist lens. Parallel with her studio practice, VanVliet is a founder and co-director of BYO Printmaking Collaborative, a nonprofit community printshop located in Old City, Philadelphia. Through BYO Print, she collaborates with other creatives to curate special projects, workshops, and themed portfolios. She teaches printmaking at Cheltenham Center for the Arts, and is a recurring visiting artist at Arcadia University. She was in the 2024 cohort of PCNY’s New Voices program, received a 2025 WIND Challenge fellowship, and has been an AIR at Vermont Studio Center, Olivet Church Studios, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, and Tyler School of Art. VanVliet received a BFA from Moore College of Art & Design in 2007, and is represented by Paradigm Gallery + Studio.
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Jessica Aguilar is a writer, curator, and arts professional from Hyattsville, Maryland, and holds a Bachelor’s in Art History from Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She was a 2023-2024 participant of the Arts Writing Incubator at The Black Embodiments Studio in Seattle, WA, with a published essay in A Year in Black Art. She is a regular contributor to Art Spiel and has been published in several art publications across the U.S. Guiding both her writing and creative processes are interests in nostalgia, identity, and gender expression through Latine perspectives. She currently serves the local art community at Paradigm Gallery + Studio and writes casual exhibition reviews on her Substack.
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BYO Printmaking Collaborative is a nonprofit community printshop in Old City Philadelphia. Co-founded by women artists in 2010 and reorganized as a nonprofit in 2023, BYO Print centers Studio Artists’ practices and fosters collaboration between artists, printmakers, and the public through its programming. BYO Print has overseen several member-driven exchange portfolios and special projects, including Blanket Fort! (2014), Solastalgia: Redefining Home in Precarious Times (2022), Members Exchange Portfolios (2025, 2013), and Joyous Disruption: Exquisite Corpse (2022).
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FORTUNE presents: PRINT TIME AFTER TIME, a weekend-long gathering around print — its methods, its practices, its manifold lives, afterlives, and half-lives. Focusing on publishers and printshops with liberatory work models; print projects led by queer, trans, BIPOC artists; both local standbys and traveling acts — PRINT TIME AFTER TIME offers workshops and panels, and closes with a book fair featuring collectively operated print projects and presses.
We hope to ask: How can print learn from, and leverage, its archives? Why do analog print forms continue to matter, in all the material and labor of their assembly? How can print continue to meet its publics, with intention? What can self-publishing as a collective practice teach us, time after time?
For more PRINT TIME AFTER TIME events, view our calendar here.
PRINT TIME AFTER TIME will take place at Icebox Mall, and is one of myriad projects produced during Collective Futures (October 2–November 15, 2026).