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In February 2010, I spent almost a month in lovely Wanchai, Hong Kong as part of Art & Culture Outreach's artists in residence. While I was there I taught three zine workshops - sharing what I know about independent publishing & encouraging spontaneous creativity. There were also a couple of informal mini workshops done with friends there. The first two workshops were in Karden's printmaking studio, and she taught a session on linoleum block printing, then we used the prints in the zines we made. The third workshop was held at St. James Settlement - an amazing local non-profit organization working with mentally disabled adults.
All sessions were assisted and translated by my dear friend Beatrix.
The photo is from our first workshop - it's about half the class holding the zines we made. More images from the projects we've done are updated here.
Karden, Beatrix, & I formed a cultural zine collective called Handroll and hope to work on more projects soon!

from the bike project done in 2009.

I made serigraph velotines with handwritten notes inside so I could leave love letters for bikes in Portland.
the project was my personal closing ceremony to the annual cycling event Pedalpalooza in 2009.

the message inside says, "thank you for riding your bike. your presence makes me feel safer on the road. (heart) alissa"
it's so true - there is safety in numbers when cycling.

there were three serigraph velotine designs - the mixtape bike, the jewel bike, and the romantic bikes - all have been distributed in this project or sold.



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