Black History Month

Communion Black Art Fair at Playground Coffee Shop

Love grows like golden hour shadows cast on brown stones in the historic neighborhood of Bed-Stuy Brooklyn. This Black History Month we celebrate the collective presence of black entrepreneurs, zine makers, publishers and creatives with Communion Black Art Fair at Playground Coffee Shop. We are excited to curate Playground’s annual Black History Month fair. Thinking of how imagination is developed we surface a childlike joy that comes when getting lost in the closets, basements, and hidden places in our childhood homes. 3 Dot Zine centers the idea of sharing with all of our endeavors and this year we unearthed many brilliant makers, historians and thinkers to create a lively fair weekend in Bed-Stuy, BK. Join us as we reunite with friends, new and old, and find connections to one another through what we create and how we engage.

VENDORS:

Arvy Botanicals
Theophilio NYC
Azul Apothecary
Free Black Women’s Library
Khari Johnson Ricks
Beaut Mobile Nail Salon
True Laurels
Menyelek
Hypothetical Horror
E. Jane
8 Palms by B. Anele
RAFiA
Jermaine T. Bell
Playground Annex

Voxigma Lo
Goldfeather Shop
Alysia Mazella Candles
Warefamos
Townies Zine
Christen Mooney
Personal Best Ceramic
Xia Gordon Prints
Dani Leggard
Helen With the Gold Teeth
Olivee Floral
Sean Henry Smith
Yeshi Designs
Darian Longmire

Communion Black Art Fair
Music Lineup

Powered by Playground Radio we're excited to welcome resident DJ's to set the mood for the weekend's festivities.

Brown Paper Zine
&
Small Press Fair

Brown Paper Zine & Small Press Fair: InHarlem
June 30 - July 1

James Room at Barnard Hall
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

Brown Paper Zine Fair Launch
June 29

I, Too Arts Collective
at The Langston Hughes House
20 E 127th St,
New York, NY 10035

3 Dot Zine presents the second annual Brown Paper Zine and Small Press Fair, an environment where the creative efforts of Black artists and artists of color working in self publishing and printed mediums are exposed and proliferated. 3 Dot Zine is a collaborative, submission-based zine founded by artist Devin N. Morris in 2014 as a way to extend the reach of important dialogues Morris was having with his peers. For the second annual Brown Paper Zine & Small Press Fair we are excited to partner with the Studio Museum. This Studio Salon program is presented as part of inHarlem, a dynamic range of initiatives, strategies, and activities built on the foundation of the Museum’s artist’s projects, permanent collection, and collaborative programs in the Harlem neighborhood.

Taking place at Barnard Hall, with the support of the Barnard Library, this year’s fair weaves together zine makers and artists within a broader community that has historically acted as a cultural quilt of sorts--composed of Black American life, artistic development, diversity and overall excellence. Like quilts, zines utilize similar properties in their design, composition, and binding. Multilayered publications, filled with visual and written dialogues, advice, and personal and political insights, act as places where care and direct communication are prioritized.

The mission remains to heighten visibility for artists of color and to encourage participation in fair environments and the self publishing industry at large.

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