Join us for an artist lecture with Raeanne Van Zee of BOVINE press that frames the making of a book as an activity of collection—images, writings, objects, days, memories—and demonstrates the process of archiving, then housing the content in the form of the book. Collections are intimate, sacred; they store memory. How does that relationship to content alter the relationship between artist and book?

Raeann Van Zee is a designer, print/publisher, and Chicago-area design educator. Her work considers value, forms of labor and currency, language, and the activity of self-publishing. Raeann publishes books and other printed matter via the Risograph and her small press BOVINE. She would call the work of creating her publications a sort of poetic knowledge construction, and is interested in the altered relationship between designer and work when they are involved in all stages of production.

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