2021 Events

What does justice mean in the age of COVID? This is the central them for this free zine making class for young adults age 14-21. Armory teaching artists will guide you through weekly discussions and art making sessions that will culminate in a collaborative 'zine produced by the students. Young adults from Greater Los Angeles may participate, as well as 14-21 year olds from anywhere in the US or abroad (please keep time zone differences in mind when registering). Zoom links will be sent to students prior to the first class. If you have questions, contact the Armory's Community Programs Coordinator Joe Sanchez at [email protected].

What is a Zine?
A popular art form and alternative communication tool for underground scenes like Punk or SciFi fandom, zines are homemade magazines created by individuals or collectives in small editions (usually 1,000 or less) and printed on a photocopier. Everyone in the class will create at least one page for the zine, which can be a story, a cartoon, a collage, a poem, a drawing—anything you want that relates to the theme and reflects your experiences during lockdown. The zine will then be printed on a photocopier at the Armory and distributed to people and places where its message will do the most good. Everyone in the class will get copies of the zine to keep and share.

This program is made possible with generous support from the Z Clark Branson Foundation and Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation – Los Angeles, funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Above: Illustration adapted from an image by Philippa Steinberg for the Innovative Genomics Institute. Used with permission under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.