Library Lecture

This October Emily Carr University Library and READ Books at the Charles H. Scott Gallery present Jo Cook for our 2016 Artists’ Books Research Residency (ABRRR).

Jo Cook is an artist publisher living on Mayne Island, BC. In 2005, she founded Perro Verlag Books by Artists, a press that recognizes the importance of unstable thoughts and impractical, possibly visionary intentions. Since then she's published 110 titles ranging from stapled photocopied zines to full colour perfect bound books. Cook purchased her first artist's book at Printed Matter in New York in 1978. Since then she has built a vast collections of zines, comix, artists books, posters, flyers &c. from all over.

This spring, the On Edge Reading Series presents the following writers:

01.26 J.B. MacKinnon
01.28 Garry Gottfriedson
02.04 Derrick Stacey Denholm
02.18 Elaine Woo + Renee Rodin
03.03 Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm