Share with Mia: An Artist Skill-Sharing Event

Adrienne Doyle and Gabby Coll, curators of the upcoming “Burn Something” exhibition at Minneapolis-based Modus Locus (on view May 23–June 6, 2020), will lead a short introduction to zine making at Mia on Thursday, February 27. Zines (pronounced “zeens,” short for “magazines”) are low-cost and low-tech booklets created to share information, art, or writing widely and publicly without the need for publishers or other institutional support. In this skill-sharing workshop, Doyle and Coll will present a short introduction to the history and context(s) of zine making and distribution and instructions for a few ways to create your own zines. In addition, you’ll be provided with materials and time to create your own zines.

Burn Something Zine (BSZ) was started by Adrienne Doyle in 2014 as an alternative media space for women of color and gender-nonconforming folks of color to claim our narratives, build social connections, and heal by being heard. Due to Doyle’s limited capacity to maintain the project, Burn Something activities ceased in June 2017 without any intentional acknowledgment or celebration of what the project did and what it meant to its community. Now, with support from a new fellowship program called the Emerging Curators Institute (ECI), Doyle and collaborator Gabby Coll are excited to bring life back into this work with the exhibition at Modus Locus, which will feature visual art related to the themes of Burn Something Zine.

    

Adrienne Doyle is a media and social-practice artist who engages DIY tools and strategies to highlight the collective, connective, and vulnerable qualities of Black experiences. Her creative work is where she heals and invites her community to do the same. Writing and zine making are often her vehicles for this work. She brings her professional experience in project management, critical thinking, design direction, and creative collaboration to BSZ and is honored to be activating this project again in a deeply collaborative way.
Gabby Coll is an arts advocate and communications professional. She has worked at a number of arts spaces in the Twin Cities in communications and programming roles, where she has developed a holistic understanding of producing programs from conception to marketing and public execution. Her undergraduate degree in art history and her professional experiences thus far inform her developing curatorial exploration. She is excited to support the work of Burn Something in this new iteration.