Staff
IPRC Staff
Justin Hocking was hired as the IPRC’s Executive Director in the fall of 2006. He has 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. He is the author of numerous zines and thirteen books, including Life and Limb (Soft Skull Press 2004) and Beach 90th (Swift Season Press 2009). His writing has also appeared in Thrasher, Open City, the Portland Noir Anthology, Concrete Wave, Travel Oregon, The Normal School, Foulweather and others. He is currently at work on a memoir about surfing in New York City.
AnnMarie O’Malley is the IPRC Outreach Coordinator and Program Coordinator. Ms. O’Malley has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing and Social Work, and she is currently working on a collection of narrative essays. Her favorite things in life are good books, clean white pages and her trusty bicycle. She has been making and collaborating on zines since she was 15 years old.
(shown here with the IPRC volunteer Marc Parker)
Michael D’Alessandro is the IPRC’s Community Resource Coordinator. He worked for several years as an architectural designer in San Francisco before earning his MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University in 2008. A small press publisher and editor for the past nine years, he founded Bedouin Books after moving to Portland. He served as the IPRC volunteer Letterpress Print Shop Supervisor since 2008, where he honed all the managerial, volunteer-coordinating, and equipment-upkeep skills necessary for the new CRC position. Michael is also the head Book Arts & Publishing instructor in the IPRC’s Certificate Program in Independent Publishing.
Lori D is the IPRC Membership Coordinator. She makes many things by hand: film animations, zines, paintings, books and vegetable gardens. She’s a founding member of the legendary all-girl skate/surf artist collective Villa Villa Cola, and has done animation work for film director Spike Jonze, Yo Gabba Gabba, and the all-female surf film Dear & Yonder.
Open Hours Staff
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.
Alleson Goldfinger is a designer and a baker and a designer of baked goods. She collects spray paint colors, cassette tapes, and random adventures.
Blue Crow has lived in Portland for over 6 years and is an editor of Stumptown Underground. You also may know her from the Portland Zine Symposium and the Stumptown Comics Festival. Blue volunteers on Mondays and regularly offers fruit to those in the workroom.
Cynthia Rodriguez is a printmaker and avid supporter of self-publication.
Delphine Bedient started volunteering at the IPRC in 2009 and now coordinates the Zine of the Month Club. She has been publishing her zine, Peep, since 2008. When she is not at the IPRC she busses tables at a restaurant, reads books in bars, and takes lots of walks. She likes writing in cursive, wearing sunglasses, and listening to cassette tapes. http://mademoiselledelphine.blogspot.com
Judson Wood is a skateboarding adventurer.
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.
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?
Remy Jewell began volunteering at the IPRC in the gloriously warm days of summer 2010. She is also a current student in the IPRC Certificate Program. While at the IPRC she enjoys letterpressing, reading the writing of her brilliant classmates, and helping members fix the printer. While not at the IPRC, she enjoys cooking large meals, going to the library, and buying vintage dresses.
Sarah Mirk is a writer and cartoonist who works as a full time writer for the Portland Mercury.
Michael Heald is a graduate of the IPRC’s Certificate Program in Creative Writing, and a founder of the small press Perfect Day Publishing. Their first release, a collection of essays entitled Yeah. No. Totally. by Lisa Wells, was warmly received by the local press, as well as Oregon Book-award winner Jon Raymond, who writes “If you’ve been looking for a bright, wise guide to the times, Ms. Wells has a whole world to show you.”
Andrew Barton is a longtime IPRC volunteer and graduate of Bennington College. He loves to cook, teach Intro to Illustrator, and make drawings.
Workshop Instructors
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.
AnnMarie O’Malley is the IPRC Program Coordinator. Ms. O’Malley has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing and Social Work, and she is currently working on a collection of narrative essays. Her favorite things in life are good books, clean white pages and her trusty bicycle. She has been making and collaborating on zines since she was 15 years old.
B.T. Livermore is a freelance illustrator, printmaker, and self-published comics artist. As much as he loves creating content for the inside of his books, he probably enjoys the final process of assembling each book even more. His illustrations appear regularly in the Portland Mercury and his comic series “The Life and Times of Baby Otto Zeplin,” as well as his other books, are always available at Reading Frenzy. If you’d like to learn more about BT, or contact him directly, please feel free to do so through his blog at www.radrobot.org.
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.”
Iris Porter returns back to Portland from Nova Scotia to teach us what she’s learned about self-publishing and print arts. She has 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.
Jen Kovach is an art school drop out turned community art organizer. She first learned screen printing at E.C.I.A.D in Vancouver, BC in the early 90′s and continued her studies later in the Advanced Textile Program at Capilano College.She has since spearheaded and participated in many community art projects and festivals such as The Seamripper Craft Collective, Gaylord, Signal & Noise and Under The Volcano. She is currently a screen print instructor at the I.P.R.C. in Portland, OR
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.
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.
Kohel Haver is a lawyer and arts advocate specializing in copyright and publishing law. He is also proud to be among the founders of the IPRC and is a Zine author.
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. Currently Marc is IPRC’s Zine Librarian.
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.
Mark Searcy before relocating to Portland, co-owned and operated Art Prostitute, the award winning, internationally distributed art and design publication, in addition to teaching design at the University of North Texas and Texas A&M-Commerce. Currently Mark is the Art Director at the Portland Mercury.
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.
Mia Nolting was born in Tokyo in 1983 and raised in Californina. She works as a freelance illustrator out of Portland, Oregon. Check out her work at www.mianolting.com
Moe Bowstern has been a member of the IPRC since its founding. The editor of Xtra Tuf zine, she is the 2007 winner of the Lilla Jewel Award for Xtra Tuf #5; the Strike Issue
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.
Michael D’Alessandro teaches Beginning and Advanced Letterpress, as well as Perfect Binding workshops. He is the editor and founder of bedouin books.
IPRC Board of Directors
Mary Kay West (Board Chair) is a vice president at Norris, Beggs, and Simpson commercial real estate agency. An avid writer, her work has appeared in the Voice Catcher anthology and in self-produced zines. She also completed the IPRC’s Certificate Program in Creative Writing in 2010.
Megan Kahrs (Treasurer) is a nonprofit accountant who has served on the IPRC Board since 2008. When not crunching numbers she loves creating equine art, hiking or working in her garden.
Ben Kates (Secretary) is a professional educator and an experimental musician. Along with the IPRC, he volunteers with the Creative Music Guild, and is currently learning the fine art of letterpress printing.
Pollyanne Birge (Vice Chair) previously worked as the Arts Coordinator in the office of the Mayor of Portland. She recently completed a Master’s degree in Public Policy, with a specialty in Nonprofit work, from Portland State University. Along with the IPRC, she serves on several other boards, including the Dill Pickle Club and the Stumptown Comics Fest.
Mike Nichols is a printing industry professional with a degree in Communications and Graphic Arts. He is currently studying to become a teacher.
Heather Watkins is a professional letterpress printer, bookbinder and visual artist with an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She previously taught as a professor of Book Arts and Lewis and Clark College.
Greg Tozian is the President of the Overland Agency, a Portland-based company specializing in digital advertising. A former journalist, he has published several books, and is currently pursuing a new-found passion for self-published comics.
Dawn Andreas is a Project Manager at Blackbox Industries and an avid surfer. Since 2009 she’s masterminded the IPRC’s chili cook-off benefit events. She recently learned to letterpress print, beginning with her own wedding invitations.
Lisa Marshall is Communications Manager at Raphael House, a multi-faceted domestic violence agency dedicated to fighting the causes and effects of intimate partner violence in a variety of ways. She’s also a practicing poet; she graduated from the IPRC’s Certificate Program in Poetry in 2011.
Jason Glover has been volunteering at the IPRC since 2008; in 2011 he joined the IPRC Board. He is a founder and part owner of ShopIgniter, which was named by Willamette Week as one of Portland’s most innovative new technology start-ups. A longtime independent publisher, Jason formerly edited the magazine Third Eye and self-published the novel The Perception Experiment. He is currently enrolled in the IPRC’s Certificate Program in Creative Writing.
Advisory Board
Kohel Haver is veteran zinester, and an attorney specializing in creative and intellectual property rights. As one of the founding members of the IPRC, he helped the Center achieve its 501(C)3 status. You can find more information about Kohel and his work at www.smhllaw.com.
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. By day she works as a Program Officer at Artspire, a Program of the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Marilyn Zornado has taught bookbinding and calligraphy at the Oregon College of Art and Craft and the Art Institute. She is author of “Adventures in Penland” and co-proprietor of Fremont Garden Press. In addition to organizing the annual Platform Animation Festival, she is the driving force behind the IPRC’s annual Text Ball.
