Pittsburgh Art Book Fair

Community Organizer

The artists and authors in Buttery Spread use food as a starting point, in one way or another. They explore form and materiality, pleasure, craft, labor, identity, desire, wonder, queerness, and our relationships to the earth and each other. Many of these pieces present evolving disciplines and share how what we consume is a part of what we create. 

In the reading room, you’ll find publications that are creative in their approach to presenting food. These artists’ books, zines, magazines, and alternatively published printed materials expand the functional notion of a cookbook or recipe book. A book about walking, shoemaking, and bread making; a collection of writing and art on agriculture, the earth, and queerness; a zine published in the depths of COVID on the illicit exchange of toilet paper for dried beans, posh chocolate for home-made hand sanitizer, and other non-market-based transactions centered on the human experience. 

At present, there is no space in Pittsburgh where these publications would find a home, all together. What does it mean for these pieces to occupy a single place? How can we engage with and occupy gallery spaces alternatively? How can we learn to stay a while? 

The visual art in Buttery Spread presents familiar food objects with a playful twist, a sense of whimsy. A fish sandwich takes a fantastical shape, an ear of corn becomes a boat, potatoes are presented in all of their holiness. We want you to remain curious.

Featured artists include Vania Evangelique, JR Holtz, Darian Johnson, Sarah LaPonte, Lauren McCoy, Steph Neary, Sophia Pappas, Rosabel Rosalind, Jennifer Shin, Gabrielle (Gabe) Wolfe, and Imin Yeh.

This exhibition also includes a library of books, zines, and magazines.

Buttery Spread

Hollow and Knobs

A two-day festival celebrating sport, outdoor culture and adventure documentary films.

Held in Pittsburgh, PA at the Harris Theater on October 13th-14th, 2023.

Allegheny Sport + Outdoor Film Festival

4-part summer race series through the trails of Pittsburgh’s largest municipal park. Held at 6:30pm on Wednesday evenings, we’re offering a low-key weekday respite from your typical weekend races. Each course will be around 5 miles in length. These races offer a comfotable environment for race-curious trail runners to tests the waters or for seasoned trail racers to let it rip. Come run for fun or push your limits in 1, 2, 3, or all 4 races.

Frick Park Summer Trail Race Series

A self-funded project by The ClubHouse Collective, ClubHouse magazine was an exploration of community & culture through the lens of amateur sport in and around Boston.

Specs: zine (6.75"w x 10"h) sized magazine, professionally printed in 4c offset, 32 pages.

Placement: sold at 4 independent book stores in the greater Boston area.

Clubhouse Zine

Multiple Formats [website](https://multipleformats.cargo.site/)

Multiple Slides, Multiples Slices

Membership Owner Participation Committee

Online marketplace for artistic and vintage sportswear. The Etsy for sports fans.

Chas

2023