Other Projects
Winter Storm Project: Austin Artists on Winter Storm Uri
In February 2021, Texas experienced one of the worst climate catastrophes of the 21st century. In an effort to archive this experience that so many legislators in Texas want to erase, the Winter Storm Project is an art anthology that incorporates poetry, photography, essays and other artistic accounts of Winter Storm storm from Texans’ firsthand perspective.
100 physical copies of Winter Storm Project were originally released in February 2022. 100% of proceeds went to BASTA, Go Austin/Vamos Austin, and PODER Austin. Digital copies are now available for free download.
Cover and Interior Design by Jazz Bell. Project management and co-editing by KB Brookins.
Do You Want a Revolution? ATX Artists On The Carceral State
This zine was a part of a campaign led by Interfaces called No Shortcuts To Freedom. This campaign included resources, conversations with artists about activism, advocacy, and justice, fundraising opportunities, and zines for the hyperlocal Austin community all while centering marginalized people. This campaign allowed one to interrogate the ways in which we cut corners in achieving our freedom. The hope was that readers find inspiration in this zine for your own pursuits of freedom. The zine included all local poets, essayists, visual artists, and photographers making art about the carceral state. It was originally released in 2020.
100 physical copies of Do You Want a Revolution were originally released in late 2020. 100% of proceeds went to 400+1, Austin Black Pride, and Black Trans Leadership of Austin. Digital copies are now available for free download.
Zine Design by Ilyana Bocanegra. Project management and co-editing by KB Brookins.
Watch Dogs: a zine about community surveillance & policing
In early 2022, Interfaces hosted a workshop in partnership with Rebecca Sanchez of GrassRoots Leadership around the issues of data-fication, community surveillance, and police technologies. In response to the workshop, local artists created work about their experience in hopes of helping the City understand and identify the harmful consequences of tech and find community-informed solutions to do better through art and civic education.
Interfaces officially closed its doors in June of 2022, and as such, this was our last zine. In three years, Interfaces gave hundreds of marginalized artists a stage (and Zoom room) to showcase their talents, collaborating with Monkeywrench Books, Bookwoman, Transgender Education Network of Texas, Far Out Lounge, DaDa Lab, City of Austin Equity & Sustainability Offices, and many more; working with over 30 amazing staff and volunteers; putting 50+ events, donating $2,000+ to multiple organizations, and publishing two critically-relevant zines. As the violence of institutions - political and otherwise - continues to increase, and as our rights to privacy are stripped further and further away, the issues explored in this particular zine are incredibly timely. I’m grateful to the artists who contributed to this project and optimistic for the ideas and action it has the potential to spur. Digital copies are now available for free download.
Interior Design by Jazz Bell. Project management and co-editing by KB Brookins.