Public Collectors is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible. Public Collectors asks individuals that have had the luxury to amass, organize, and inventory these materials to help reverse this lack by making their collections public.
This page consists of sample findings and excerpts. It is also an account of the contents of my home and digital files from my camera. If you have suggestions, have a collection you want to share, or are in Chicago and would like to see something in person, please contact me. This blog is intended as a casual, more personal supplement to the main Public Collectors website.
Public Collectors is maintained by Marc Fischer.
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One of my favorite things I picked up at the recent Chicago ‘Zine Fest was this new publication given to me by talented pal Max Morris. The cover is wonderfully silkscreened with metallic ink. When I asked Max if the title Man in the Trees was inspired by the song by the great band Die Kreuzen, he gave the answer I was hoping for: Yes!
The center spread from A Gut Feeling, a mini-zine by Andrew Yang, with illustrations by Christa Donner. Created with the Small Science Collective: “A collaboration of scientists, artists, students, and anyone else interested in science, this project produces small zines and web comics on a variety of topics.” Check out their great blog. Picked up last weekend at the excellent Chicago ‘Zine Fest.
5 Benefits of a Vegetarian Diet by Anna Gorman, a mini-zine that was created for Andrew Yang’s “Ecology of Food” class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Fall 2010 and is part of the Small Science Collective: “A collaboration of scientists, artists, students, and anyone else interested in science, this project produces small zines and web comics on a variety of topics.” Check out their great blog. I picked this up last weekend at the excellent Chicago ‘Zine Fest.
Purgative Pamphlet #5, by the Montreal-based artist Nat Halford. Picked up last weekend at the excellent Chicago ‘Zine Fest.
