UPCOMING COMMUNITY

Zine Open House

Please join BAXTER ST on Saturday, February 28th, 2026 from 1-4 PM for our second ever Open House event at 154 Ludlow St New York, NY. The Open House will feature a drop-in zine-making workshop with SHRIMP ZINE, led by photographer, teaching artist, and co-founder of SHRIMP ZINE, Andreas Laszlo Konrath.

In the gallery, browse a curated selection from the NYPL Picture Collection, zines from the 8 Ball Zine Archive, and publications from Secret Riso Club and Interference Archives.

Inspired by an eclectic collection of books, zines, and images, this event invites participants to treat their camera rolls as archives – engaging them critically and creatively through zine-making on the SHRIMP ZINE platform.

Stay tuned for more information!

Participants

SHRIMP ZINE
SHRIMP ZINE is a free mobile web app that encourages young audiences to create, exchange, and print their own zines. The ease of use, low barrier to entry, touchscreen capability, and simplicity of content deployment positions this intuitive web app as unique in this space. By bridging the gap between traditional zine-making and mobile technology in a fun, engaging, and simple way, SHRIMP ZINE is a free, accessible, and user-friendly platform designed to foster creativity, spontaneous production, and public discourse.

NYPL Picture Collection
Since its creation in 1915, the New York Public Library Picture Collection has met the needs of New York’s large community of artists, illustrators, designers, teachers, students, and general researchers. Covering over 12,000 subjects, the Picture Collection is an extensive circulating collection and reference archive, the largest of its kind in any public library system.

Secret Riso Club
Secret Riso Club is an artist-run space & creative studio that serves as a resource for independent publishing, art book production, art project development, programming, exhibitions, distribution & more. The use of print & design as a tool for social change, creativity, and community empowerment drive our work and programming. Rooted in the values of collaboration, equity, and artistic expression, SRC strives to cultivate an environment where individuals from diverse backgrounds can come together to learn, create, and connect. SRC is run in collaboration between Gonzalo Guerrero and Tara Ridgedell.

Our space in Brooklyn features a bookstore full of zines & books by independent publishers from around the world, a gallery and reading room, event space, and a fully equipped print studio.

8 Ball Community
We are a collective that produces art, archives and publishes media, and creates opportunities to share cultural programming. We exist to promote educational exchange and cultural growth, and to contribute to media autonomy. We are a base for people of all identities and backgrounds to come together, collaborate, create, and learn.

Interference Archive
The Interference Archive is an all-volunteer organization that invites members of the community to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements through our open stacks archival collection and public programs including exhibitions, workshops, talks, and screenings. The archive contains many kinds of objects that are created as part of social movements by the participants themselves: posters, flyers, publications, zines, books, T-shirts and buttons, moving images, audio recordings, subject files, and other materials. Through our programming, we use this cultural ephemera to animate histories of people mobilizing for social transformation. We consider the use of our collection to be a way of preserving and honoring histories and material culture that is often marginalized in mainstream institutions.