Below you will find information about the people that help our space to operate.

Staff

Justin Hocking was hired as the IPRC's Executive Director in the fall of 2006. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Colorado State University, where he also taught as an instructor of writing and literature. Before coming to the IPRC, he worked in the New York City publishing industry, and continues to acquire and edit countercultural books for Citadel Underground press. He is a frequent contributor to Thrasher magazine and the author of thirteen books about skateboarding.

Nicole Georges started volunteering with the IPRC in 2000 and has since taken on the role of Outreach and Volunteer Coordinator. Through the IPRC, Nicole teaches the hows and whys of zine-making to children, adults, and senior citizens around the Portland area. Nicole publishes the zine-turned-book Invincible Summer, and was voted "Miss Specs Appeal 2006" by Hey Four Eyes!

Carye Bye has been a member since 2001, volunteer bookkeeper since 2003, and most recently (Summer 2007) became the center's Publications & Events Coordinator. When she's not at the IPRC, she leads Small Museums by Bike tours, curates the Bathtub Art Museum and is a professional wood-cut illustrator with Red Bat Press.

Advisory Board

Julie Shapiro is Managing Director of the Third Coast International Audio Festival from Chicago Public Radio. Before moving to Chicago, Shapiro worked at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, and while living in North Carolina produced Storylines Southeast, a public radio series about literature from that region. She makes audio art for public presentation, runs a local listening series called LISSENUP and can occasionally be heard on the public radio airwaves.

Chloe Eudaly is the proprietress of Reading Frenzy and Show & Tell Press, and one of our co-founders. A former board member, she has sporadically served on our advisory committee since 2001 when print took a back seat to parenting. She currently serves on the Multnomah County Cultural Coalition, where she strives to bring recognition from the arts establishment to grassroots and DIY organizations.

Eleanor Whitney is a media and art educator, zine publisher, print maker and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She co-edits the online, feminist art journal riffrag.org, plays in the band Perils and believes in the power of independent media to empower and inspire young people to change their world for the better.

Board

Barbara Tetenbaum is Associate Professor and Department Head of Book Arts at Oregon College of Art & Craft in Portland, Oregon. She has been producing limited edition artist books since 1979 under the imprint Triangular Press. Her work is held in collections in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, The Netherlands, and Tibet. She has a B.S. in Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.F.A. in Printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jered Bogli is a graphic designer, zine advocate, bike rider, skateboarder and gardener. He has a fondness for fine food and great coffee. His belief system is based on hypocrisy and irony.

Marilyn Zornado has taught bookbinding and calligraphy at the Oregon College of Art and Craft. She is author of "Adventures in Penland" and co-proprietor of Fremont Garden Press.

Mary Kay West is a vice president at Norris, Beggs, and Simpson commercial real estate agency. She also loves to write.

Aria Joughin is a senior at Franklin High School and a student representative on the IPRC board. She is the author of the zine "Urban Hillbilly."

Dan Hack has been around the IPRC since the very earliest days, teaching mimeograph and other awesomely archaic printing methods. He is a mining engineer and the creator of the serialized novel "The Faithful."

Instructors and Volunteers

Alex Wrekk* has been volunteering at the IPRC since 2003. She has been involved with independent publishing for over a decade and has published her zine, Brainscan, since 1997 as well as many other projects along the way. Alex runs Small World Buttons and enjoys creative re-use and a good beer.

Ayleen Crotty is a communications and marketing graphic designer for supported bike events. She is the director of the bike film festival Filmed by Bike, a host on the KBOO Bike Show and the editor of ORbike.com. Ayleen got her start in communications with a one-page fact sheet (before she knew it was a zine) in 1991.

Carye Bye* has been a member since 2001, volunteer bookkeeper since 2003, and most recently (summer 2007) became the center's Programming Coordinator. When she's not at the IPRC, she leads Small Museums by Bike tours, curates the Bathtub Art Museum and is a professional wood-cut illustrator with Red Bat Press.

Dan Hack has been printing with mimeograph for nearly twenty years, when someone gave this scrawny high school kid some inky old equipment. He has been at the IPRC since 2001.

Debbie West, an IPRC member since 2005, is a multimedia artist and creativity coach. She works in printmaking, collage, writing and photography and loves letterpress printing at the IPRC.

Dusty Winters*, a member of the IPRC since 2007, volunteers for Open Hours. She is a Portland State student coming to the end of her undergrad and looking forward to an MA in Book Publishing. She also volunteers for the SMART program.

Emily Wing is a graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a BFA in comic art. She has produced and sold several mini-comics and has worked in the editorial department of TOKYOPOP.

Etta Janoushek is a local yokel with a passion for finding new and creative uses for everyday items. Although her focus is generally on sewing and other fabric/textile crafts, she became interested in papermaking in order to make the invitations for her wedding and has been experimenting with it ever since.

Gretchin Lair is a creative advocate who founded Scarlet Star Studios
(www.scarletstarstudios.com) in 2004 to encourage people to make stuff. She joined the Board of Trillium Artisans in 2007 to help increase the revenue and support of independent artisans in Portland.

Gillian Beck picked up her first Print Gocco at a thrift shop in Japan six years ago and has been fuelling the paper-correspondence movement ever since. Check out some examples of her work at halfempty.etsy.com.

Iris Porter returns to Portland from Nova Scotia to teach us what she's learned about self-publishing and print arts. She self-published DIYinPDX and DIYinHFX, two books documenting the do-it-yourselfers of Portland and Halifax. Fun fact: she also letterpress printed for the first time at the IPRC back in 2001.

Jake Anderson is the mastermind and impresario behind the Tape Mountain empire. Tape Mountain is perhaps the only record label that prints CD covers and promotional calendars by mimeo.

Katy Meegan is a volunteer at the IPRC. She studied and worked at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, honing her skills in bookbinding, papermaking and printmaking. She is also a cofounder of TUP zine and KeeganMeegan press and bindery.

Keegan Wenkman* is the founder of www.onefootinfront.com, and a weekly volunteer at the IPRC. He is also a cofounder of TUP zine and KeeganMeegan press and bindery.

Leslie Miller* came to town two years ago via NYC and Nashville for the
Zine Symposium and never left. She juggles boatloads of art world collaborations, has a thing for colorful seizure-inducing patterns, is obsessively domestic and draws comics about crushes and astral projection.

Lillian Karabaic* had her life saved by zines in high school, and still publishes Nebulous Zine and AnomaLily. Prior to moving to Portland to live out her dream of volunteering for the IPRC, she helped found the now-defunct Queen City Zine Library. She likes bicycles so much that she gets paid to talk about how great they are.

Marc de Giere* has been a member since 2006 and began staffing in 2007. He is active in many forms of media, including radio, video, web design and good, old hands-on crafts. He also helps organize the Free School and the recent Grassroots Media Camp.

Marc Parker* wrote his first zine in 1992. Zines about asthma, chess, and Russian authors, Saved by the Bell, mangos, call centers, and, especially, zines about Marc Parker�he's made a load of them. Now he does a comic called Big Fucking Deal. It is adorable.

Marilyn Zornado is author of "Adventures in Penland" and co-proprietor of Fremont Garden Press. She has taught bookbinding and calligraphy at the Oregon College of Art and Craft.

Mette Hornung Rankin, a half Dane, is a graphic designer by day and sleeper by night, with a penchant for pickled herring. Formally trained in all things print and informally entranced by all things design.

Moe Bowstern has been a member of the IPRC since its founding. She is the editor of Xtra Tuf zine and is the 2007 winner of the Lilla Jewel Award for Xtra Tuf #5, the Strike Issue.

Nickey Robare* became trapped in the world of zines, along with punk rock and weird clothes, at the tender age of thirteen. Due to a short attention span, she dabbles in as many activities as possible, including dancing, sewing, baking, and filmmaking. She has been volunteering at the IPRC since 2004 and is overjoyed to be the Membership Coordinator.

Nicole Georges* started volunteering with the IPRC in 2000 and has since taken on the role of Outreach and Volunteer Coordinator. Through the IPRC, Nicole teaches the hows and whys of zine making to children, adults, and senior citizens around the Portland area. Nicole publishes the zine-turned-book Invincible Summer and was voted "Miss Specs Appeal 2006" by Hey Four Eyes!

Patrick Devine* has been volunteering at the IPRC since 2006 and hosts Comics & Coffee group. He still manages to find time to staff Tuesday Open Hours and self-publish mini-comics. What sort of mischief will he find next?

Philip Cheaney has been involved with the IPRC since the spring of 2005 and is a weekly volunteer in the print shop. When not at the IPRC he tries to manage a small avalanche of personal and community projects (www.kitchensinkpdx.com) and rides his bike.

Rebecca Gilbert is a founding member of the IPRC and a weekly volunteer in the print shop. She is also a worker-owner at Stumptown Printers, a small offset and letterpress shop in Portland, Oregon. Rebecca studied graphic design and book arts at PNCA & OCAC and creates the zine Napcore.

Rebecca James* is a graphic design stiff by day, but otherwise lives for pursuing her many obsessions including letterpress, book arts,
silkscreen and painting. She currently enjoys dumpster-diving in
corporate trash to salvage materials which she uses to make bike-messenger bags: Upcycled Corporate Garbage (www.arcana27.com).

Sarah Contrary is a letterpress printer and bon vivant who publishes the zine Glossolalia. She has taught at the IPRC and the Center for Book Arts in New York.

Shannon Buck has dedicated herself to printmaking for over five years. You can usually find her in the printroom at the IPRC and she will make you fall in love with linoleum blocks. You can find her work at loadedhipspress.com and in the upcoming show of paintings at the Basil Hallward Gallery in July 2008.

Shawn Granton* has been volunteering at the IPRC since 2001 and is currently staffing Wednesday Open Hours. He has been self-publishing for a decade, primarily his own comic, Ten Foot Rule. Shawn also edits the Zinester's Guide to Portland and leads bicycle and walking tours under the auspices of the Urban Adventure League.

Shu-Ju Wang has been making prints and artist's books with the Print Gocco since 1999. Her work can be seen at Print Arts Northwest, the Multnomah County Central Library's John Wilson Special Collections and online at www.fingerstothebone.com.

Thomas King has lived all over the country but wound up in Portland to be near family. Along the way he has earned his MFA in creative writing from Eastern Washington University, worked on the editorial staffs of The Believer and Willow Springs magazines, and published scattered stories and interviews. He's currently (still?) at work on his first novel.

Tiago DeJerk is a stencil artist specializing in multilayer, realistic portrayals of the people and places that constitute his community. His images represent Portland's vibrant community of cyclists, performance artists, and all around freaks.

Wayne Bund has been binding books for over 6 years. When he's not teaching elementary school, he's trying to figure out what to do with all his numerous blank books.

*Indicates staff of the Independent Publishing Resource Center-

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