Press Street is a New Orleans-based 501c3 literary and visual arts collective formed in 2005 to promote art and literature in the community through events, publications and arts education. Its projects include the gallery space Antenna, the annual 24 hour arts education extravaganza Draw-A-Thon, Room 220 - a blog dedicated to the literary life of New Orleans, and the publication of books which focus on the relationship between the visual and literary arts.

Press Street Book Sale @ Avant Garden

11:00am - 6:00pm, Saturday, December 17, 2011
Location: The Joan Mitchell Center, 2275 Bayou Road, New Orleans, LA 7011

Purchase limited edition Press Street publications for the holidays!

Join us at AVANT GARDEN – a new semi-annual curated arts market hosted by Constance, a local arts organization. Avant Garden features artists, designers, makers and taste-makers from the New Orleans community, as well as PECHA KUCHA – a place for young artists and thinkers to meet, exchange ideas, and show their work in public. Avant Garden’s goal is to provide an alternative to the usual local Arts Markets by a process of individually inviting vendors that represent emerging talent in the city, enriching our cultural economy as a whole.

Please stop by our booth! We’re offering Press Street publications, DVDs and ephemera by local artists and art organizations. Available books include:

A Meaning for Wife – Mark Yakich
Afro Brother Spacemen Comic Books - John Slade will be signing books at our booth.
Checking Out/Checking In – Christopher Schaberg & Mark Yakich
Big Class No. 1, The Animals – Various Artists
Coffee Colored Dreams – Pamela Davis-Noland
Curtain Optional – Brad Richard & Jim Richard
Death Wishing – Laura Ellen Scott
Green Zone New Orleans – Mark Yakich
Hard to Say – Ethel Rohan
How to Rebuild a City – Anne Gisleson, Tristan Thompson & Catherine Burke
Intersection – New Orleans – Various Artists
Our Island of Epidemics – Matthew Salesses
Pacha Mama: Earth Realm – Lynda Frese
[Pank] No. 5- Various Artist
Revacuation – Brad Benischek
Spoiled – Tom Varisco
Travels With Mae – Eileen M. Julien
Us – Michael Kimball
Xajik Micro Comic Book – Caesar Meadows
And more!

For more information visit the Avant Garden website or Facebook page.

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The People Is Singular
Poems by Andy Young and Photographs by Salwa Rashad

The People Is Singular, by local poet Andy Young and Egyptian photographer Salwa Rashad, is a personal response to the Egyptian Revolution. Rashad’s vision includes everyday people—Muslims and Christians, young and old, the foregrounded and the peripheral. Her perspective is from inside the events as they unfolded. Andy Young, a New Orleans poet married to [...]

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Curtain Optional
by Brad and Jim Richard

In both poetry and prose, Brad Richard explores the influence of his father’s work on his own, as well as the experience of growing up as the son of an artist while becoming an artist himself. Jim Richard is a professor of painting at the University of New Orleans and has exhibited at the Solomon [...]

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How to Rebuild a City
Edited by Anne Gisleson & Tristan Thompson w/ design and artistic direction by Catherine Burke

Beautifully designed, sometimes fun, always informative, How to Rebuild a City: Field Guide from a work in Progress, is a reflection of the many ways that New Orleanians have realized our way towards recovery, actively and creatively engaging with our communities.

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Bitter Ink
by Brian Zeigler & Raymond “Moose” Jackson

BBoth originally from Detroit, cousins Brian Zeigler and Raymond “Moose” Jackson began collaborating while Brian was harboring Moose in Vermont during Katrina evacuation. While their doodling proclivities may have made them rustbelt exiles from the rest of their autoworker family, together they produce seductive aphorisms of wit and weirdness that provoke, confound and celebrate a [...]

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Green Zone New Orleans
by Mark Yakich

A nine-part poem meant to be performed aloud, GZNO approaches questions of disaster and its aftermath from tragicomic perspectives. The poem is accompanied by the poet’s surreal line drawings. Mark Yakich is the author of Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (National Poetry Series, Penguin 2004), and The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in [...]

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Revacuation
by Brad Benischek

A post-Katrina graphic novel of sorts by New Orleans artist Brad Benischek. Part fantasy, part social commentary, Revacuation is a visual response to the tragic and absurd events of year one as they unfolded. Benischek’s raw, immediate style, lush imagination and quirky humor make Revacuation a wholly original addition to the post-K cultural discourse. Beginning [...]