Earmark, is a curated collection of editioned print and sound publications including artist books, catalogs, zines, ephemera, and vinyl projects. The collection includes artists using a variety of printing processes ranging from laser cutting to Risograph to photocopy techniques. Artists in the collection include Katie Garth, Candace Williams, James Bascara, Jess Woods, Shane Smith, Brett Wallace, Dawn Light Blackman, Paul Shortt, Fritz Welch, De Kwok, Becca Albee, Chris Duncan, 57 Cell, Nathan Brown, Laura Splan, and others.
Paul Shortt is an artist, curator and educator who creates signs, books, videos and social practice with a bit of humor.
Shortt received his MFA in New Media Art from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute. He has participated in over 80 group and solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally. His works engage the public in physical interactions and conversation that examine everyday experiences and cultural norms often in humorous ways through books, videos, prints, and temporary public art.
He has participated in over 60 national and international art book and zine fairs, such as the Printed Matter Art Book Fairs in New York City, NY and Los Angeles, CA, the Vienna Art Book Fair in Vienna, Austria, and the Editions fair in Toronto, Canada. In 2019 he published How to Art Book Fair, a practical and humorous guide to tabling, selling and participating in an art book fair. His artist books are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, and the Fisher Fine Arts Library at the University of Pennsylvania.
He has created temporary public art projects for Baltimore Office of Promotion for the Arts “Art on the Waterfront” program in Baltimore, MD, neon signs for the Inlight light festival in Richmond, VA, and a sign and print based public art project for the Arlington Art Truck, in Arlington VA. His videos have been shown at the Museum of the Moving Image, The Phillips Collection and Whitespace Gallery. He has participated in residencies at The Luminary, in St. Louis, MO, Wave Pool in Cincinnati, OH and at Montgomery College in Silver Springs, MD.
Shortt has spoken about his work at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri. He has been written about in Hyperallergic, the Washington Post, Bmore Art and Review Magazine. Shortt is currently based in Florida.
De Kwok is a photographer based in San Francisco and Guerneville, CA. Currently, he is Head of Programming, Archivist, and Board Member of the Bob Mizer Foundation. His work has appeared in Warm Bros Magazine, Queer Quarterly, BalaclavaQ, Self Publish/Be Happy, Color Tag magazine, TinyVices, Seattle Erotic Arts Festival. His work has been shown in galleries worldwide: Seattle, NYC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Australia, Ireland, and Germany. His last photobook, Lust to Love, was selected for inclusion in the 2018 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards/ Month of LA photobook show. His current Photobook, Codependency, was chosen by Author Tim Carpenter (“To Photograph is to learn how to die”) for inclusion in the filter festival’s On The shelf exhibition in chicago in 2025. the book is also part of the permanent collection at the harvey milk photo center/david johnson reference library (SF) and the bronx documentary center/Tim Hetherington photobook library (NYC).
Reuben Lorch-Miller is a Brooklyn, NY based artist, educator, and mental health counselor. His studio practice encompasses sculpture, collage, photography, artist books, music, and performance. He approaches his work from a perspective of curiosity and experimentation, understanding that meaning can be found within the process of doing. He has often exhibited at DIY art spaces, participated in artist-run residencies and produced multiple self-published zines and artist books.
Candace Williams is a black queer nerd living a double life. By day, she is a progressive middle school humanities educator and robotics coach. By night and subway ride, she’s a poet. Candace's first chapbook, Spells for Black Wizards (The Atlas Review), is a winner of the TAR Chapbook Series, and sold out of its first print run on the day of its launch. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the PEN Poetry Series, Tin House Online, Hyperallergic, Lambda Literary Review, Copper Nickel, the Nepantla Anthology for Queer Poets of Color (Nightboat Books, 2018) and the Brooklyn Poets Anthology (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2017), among other places. Her essays, poetry reviews, and interviews can be found in Electric Literature, the Fanzine, Shondaland, and VIDA Review.
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