Riso Rama Reading Room at the Dallas Art Book Fair
Dallas Contemporary
March 21 - April 12, 2026
Dreaming Of
Riso
Rama Reading Room
Welcome
Have a seat, grab a book, and sit for a while. Here you’ll find a selection from the Riso Rama Archive, a display of over 40 titles of hand-made books and zines by artists from across the United States and Mexico.
Whether big or small, each book represents vibrant storytelling, print experimentation and excellence, and community-driven independent publishing.
September 13–October 4, 2025
Spellerberg Projects
Riso Rama:
Women in Print
A celebration of female artists who are defining independent publishing.
Corpus Christi, TX
October 9–10. 2026
Welcome to
Riso-Rama
Riso-Rama is a two-day independent publishing event that brings together printers, artists, and students to celebrate Riso printing and its vibrant creative community.
Paradiso 2026 Exhibition
Oct 2–Nov 13, 2026
Larry Urban Gallery
223 N Chaparral St
Corpus Christi, TX 78401
Paradiso is a nationally juried physical exhibition held at the Larry Urban Gallery in Downtown Corpus Christi, TX on October 2–November 13, 2026.
The exhibition features all risograph work including prints, posters, zines, books, and animations. With over $500 in cash prizes, Paradiso 2026 is juried Andrea García Flores.
Riso RoundUp Market
Yeehaw! The Riso Roundup is an exciting, one-day, pop-up marketplace full of your favorite radiant risograph works. This event features artists' books, zines, printed ephemera, artist multiples, handmade objects and more from a diverse and impressive group of local and regional exhibitors.
On Friday, October 9th, risograph artists and vendors from across Texas will be showcasing their books, zines, prints, handmade objects. Visitors can explore a diverse range of work, meet independent creators, and discover the charm of risograph’s imperfect yet striking aesthetic.
Riso-Rama is excited to join Downtown Corpus Christi's monthly ArtWalk event.
Friday, Oct 9, 2026
5:00–9:00PM
Larry Urban Gallery
223 N Chaparral St
Corpus Christi, TX 78401
2026 Schedule
Parking:
There is plentiful street parking in the area and several available paid lots nearby. Due to the CCTX ArtWalk Event, some streets may be closed for the event. Please see the ArtWalk Parking Map.
Oct 9 | Riso RoundUp Market
5:00 PM
ROUNDUP MARKET OPENS
"Distortion/s" Riso Activity with SWMS
Vibes by DJ Crybaby
9:00 PM
ROUNDUP MARKET CLOSES
2:45 PM
PANEL PRESENTATIONS
9:30 PM
AFTER PARTY
Elevate 402 Rooftop Lounge
3:45 PM
EXHIBITION RECEPTION
4:00 PM
WORKSHOP with A IS A
Fri Oct 9 | RoundUP Market
5:00 PM
ROUNDUP MARKET OPENS
"Distortion/s" Riso Activity by SWMS
Vibes by DJ Crybaby
9:00PM
ROUNDUP MARKET CLOSES
9:30 PM
AFTER PARTY
Elevate 402 Rooftop Lounge
2:45 PM
PANEL PRESENTATIONS
3:45 PM
EXHIBITION RECEPTION
4:00 PM
WORKSHOP with A IS A
Oct 10 | Symposium
10:00 AM
KEYNOTE
Kelli Anderson
11:00 AM
WORKSHOPS, Part 1
Free. Register Now.
12:00 PM
LUNCH BREAK
1:00 PM
PANELIST PRESENTATION
Elaine Lopez
Andrea García Flores
Michaela Yarbrough
2:00 PM
WORKSHOPS, Part 2
Free. Register Now.
Sat Oct 10 | Symposium
10:00 AM
KEYNOTE
Kelli Anderson
11:00 AM
WORKSHOPS, PART 1
Free. Register Now.
12:00 PM
LUNCH BREAK
1:00 PM
PANEL PRESENTATION
Andrea García Flores
Elaine Lopez
Michaela Yarbrough
2:00 PM
WORKSHOPS, PART 2
Free. Register Now.
Sat Oct 3 | Symposium
More details coming soon.
2026 Schedule
All activities will be held at TAMU-CC Downtown Galleries located in Corpus Christi, TX. Address
Parking:
There is plentiful street parking in the area and several available paid lots nearby.
Stay:
Homewood Suites is offering a special rate for those visiting for this event. Book Now.
Deadline to reserve at the special rate is 9/18/26.
Fri Oct 2 | Roundup Market
More details coming soon.
Workshops
& Moreeeee
We’re excited to welcome risograph artists focused on their “roots”; supporting local creative communities.
Workshops &
Moreeeeeeee
We’re excited to welcome risograph artists focused on their “roots”; supporting local creative communities.
Schedule
All activities will be held at Texas State University Flex Space Gallery (2nd Floor of JCM). Texas State University is located in San Marcos, TX (just 30 minutes south of Austin and 60 mins north of San Antonio).
Address and Directions
Parking:
Friday - LBJ Student Center Garage (Pay-to-Park Garage) Directions and Info
Saturday - Free Parking at TXST Galleries Directions
MARCH 28 | SYMPOSIUM
1:00 PM
PARADISO EXHIBITION
1:30 PM
WELCOME TO RISO RAMA
3:45 PM
EXHIBITION RECEPTION
4:00 PM
WORKSHOP with A IS A
2:00 PM
KEYNOTE with RISOLANA
2:45 PM
PANEL PRESENTATIONS
MARCH 28 | SYMPOSIUM
1:00 PM
PARADISO EXHIBITION
1:30 PM
WELCOME TO RISO-RAMA
2:00 PM
KEYNOTE with RISOLANA
2:45 PM
PANEL PRESENTATIONS
3:45 PM
EXHIBITION RECEPTION
4:00 PM
WORKSHOP with A IS A
MARCH 29 | RISO ROUNDUP
1:00 PM
SHOWCASE FAIR OPENS
2:00 PM
PINNED TOGETHER with PAWPRINTZ
5:00 PM
SHOWCASE FAIR ENDS
6:00 PM
AFTER PARTY
MARCH 29 | RISO ROUNDUP
1:00 PM
SHOWCASE FAIR OPENS
2:00 PM
PINNED TOGETHER with PAWPRINTZ
5:00 PM
SHOWCASE FAIR ENDS
6:00 PM
AFTER PARTY
Schedule
All activities will be held at Texas State University Flex Space Gallery (2nd Floor of JCM).
Texas State University is located in San Marcos, TX (just 30 minutes south of Austin and 60 mins north of San Antonio).
Address and Directions
Parking:
Friday - LBJ Student Center Garage (Pay-to-Park Garage) Directions and Info
Saturday - Free Parking at TXST Galleries Directions
MARCH 28 | SYMPOSIUM
1:00 PM
PARADISO EXHIBITION
1:30 PM
WELCOME TO RISO RAMA
3:45 PM
EXHIBITION RECEPTION
4:00 PM
WORKSHOP with A IS A
2:00 PM
KEYNOTE with RISOLANA
2:45 PM
PANEL PRESENTATIONS
MARCH 28 | SYMPOSIUM
1:00 PM
PARADISO EXHIBITION
1:30 PM
WELCOME TO RISO-RAMA
2:00 PM
KEYNOTE with RISOLANA
2:45 PM
PANEL PRESENTATIONS
4:00 PM
WORKSHOP with A IS A
3:45 PM
EXHIBITION RECEPTION
MARCH 29 | RISO ROUNDUP
1:00 PM
SHOWCASE FAIR OPENS
2:00 PM
PINNED TOGETHER with PAWPRINTZ
5:00 PM
SHOWCASE FAIR ENDS
6:00 PM
AFTER PARTY
MARCH 29 | RISO ROUNDUP
1:00 PM
SHOWCASE FAIR OPENS
2:00 PM
PINNED TOGETHER with PAWPRINTZ
5:00 PM
SHOWCASE FAIR ENDS
6:00 PM
AFTER PARTY
Schedule
All events will be held at Texas State University's Flex Space Gallery
Texas State University is located in San Marcos, Texas
All events will be held at Texas State University's Flex Space Gallery in
San Marcos, Texas
1:00 PM
PARADISO EXHIBITION
1:30 PM
WELCOME TO RISO RAMA
2:00 PM
KEYNOTE
2:45 PM
PANEL PRESENTATIONS
3:45 PM
EXHIBITION RECEPTION
4:00 PM
WORKSHOP WITH A IS A
Speakers
Risolana
Risolana is a community risograph studio located in the South Valley, New Mexico. We see printmaking as a versatile tool for community dialogue where personal and collective expression meet. By providing hands-on access to and training for this unique printing method, Risolana works to encourage ideas, create engaging work, and cultivate an artmaking space as accessible as the risograph itself. Inspired by the New Mexican concept of la resolana, our resolana is a two-page spread open to the sun.
Risolana prioritizes empowering their community by teaching the process and uses of the risograph over simply providing printing services.
Soft Spots Riso
Soft Spots Riso is a Dallas-based Risograph press dedicated to fostering creativity, collaboration, and accessibility in independent printmaking and publishing. Founded in 2022 by artists Kristin Wright and Gino Dal Cin, Soft Spots provides community access to Risograph printing, workshops, and resources to support local artists in experimenting with zine and bookmaking.
Soft Spots Riso also has a Riso School, where anyone can sign up to learn more about the printing process. They offer classes catering to all skillsets, from beginners dipping their toes in printmaking to established professionals.
Surely! Press
Surely! Press is the Houston-based independent publishing project of writer/designer Grant Patterson and Claire Elestwani. Grant (he/him) is a Southern queer, writer, people-watcher, and urbanist. Claire (she/they) is a designer, artist, and educator who uses data, printed matter, and textiles to explore themes of liberation, power, and joy.
Together, Grant and Claire write and produce RISO-printed zines that take the shape of workbooks, cookbooks, poem-generators, card games, and mini-broadsides, among other formats. Surely! Press publications invite readers to seek connection with their surroundings and find delight in the everyday.
Tyler Rico
Tyler Rico is a designer based in Austin, Texas. His practice entails a process-based approach to landscape, exploring themes of time, memory, and the transience of encounter. Primarily taking the form of intimately scaled artists' books and publications, his projects consider the functions and limits of verbal and visual documentation, examining their relationship to abstraction and the potential in between these elements.
His work has been exhibited at Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair, Multiple Formats Art Book Fair and Symposium, Press Play at Pioneer Works, the Detroit Art Book Fair, and Tropic Bound Artists' Book Fair.
Speakers
Andrea García Flores
Andrea García Flores is a Mexico City–based designer, editor, publisher, and educator whose practice moves between editorial design, independent publishing, and risograph printing. She is the founder and editor of Miau Ediciones, an independent feminist publishing project working with women, non-binary artists, writers, and other dissident voices across publications, artists’ books, photography, and graphic work. She is also a member of Impresos México, a risograph studio and print workshop focused on independent publishing, experimental printing, and collaborative production. Her work often begins with research and archival materials, exploring how editing, design, and printing can transform personal and collective histories into new forms of circulation. She has developed and taught workshops on risography, archival practices, and editorial experimentation in Mexico and internationally.
Michaela Yarbrough
Michaela Made is an AAPI, woman-owned art and stationery pop-up shop based in Dallas, TX. Owned by Michaela Yarbrough, she is a risograph artist with a background in graphic design. She creates bright & whimsical paper goods and stickers inspired by food, asian culture, and cats to re-connect with her Chinese-American heritage. She self-publishes hand-printed risograph prints and stationery from her home studio.
Kelli Anderson
Kelli Anderson uses handheld revelations to reconnect people with the depth and possibility of their world. Her books force readers to touch grass paper. She created This Book is a Camera (MoMA)—which transforms into a working camera—and This Book is a Planetarium (Chronicle)—which houses paper devices (including a planetarium) and has sold more than 100,000 copies. Alphabet in Motion, an interactive book about typography and technology was published to wide acclaim in the Fall of 2025. Other projects include a viral paper record player and—with The Yes Men—a utopian counterfeited New York Times, which won the Ars Electronica Prix. Doctors without Borders have used the award-winning Tinybop Human Body app she illustrated to communicate illness and treatment nonverbally to their patients in remote areas. Clients include NPR, the New Yorker, the Guggenheim, MoMA, Apple, and the New York Times. She has been nominated for the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Award twice and teaches at NYU, SVA, and Cooper Union.
Elaine Lopez
Elaine Lopez is a Cuban American designer, researcher, and educator whose work explores the intersections of cultural identity, print culture, and socially engaged design. She is an Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Parsons School of Design at The New School, where she teaches typography, thesis, and advanced studio courses, and previously served as Associate Director of the BFA Communication Design program. Across her research, teaching, and professional practice, Lopez approaches design as a relational act—one that can foster dialogue, cultivate care, and challenge dominant narratives.
Workshops
Sign-ups Coming Soon
Sign-ups Coming Soon
Sign-ups Coming Soon
Sign-ups Coming Soon
File Prep
for Riso Animation
Kelli Anderson
October 10, 2026,
11:00AM
Who Gets
to Be Remembered?
Andrea García Flores
October 10, 2026
11:00AM
Bound
Together
Elaine Lopez
October 10, 2026
2:00PM
Making Stationery with Riso
Michaela Yarbrough
October 10, 2026
2:00PM
All Workshops are Free and Open to the Public. Registration Required.
Risolana
Risolana is a community risograph studio located in the South Valley, New Mexico. We see printmaking as a versatile tool for community dialogue where personal and collective expression meet. By providing hands-on access to and training for this unique printing method, Risolana works to encourage ideas, create engaging work, and cultivate an artmaking space as accessible as the risograph itself. Inspired by the New Mexican concept of la resolana, our resolana is a two-page spread open to the sun.
Risolana prioritizes empowering their community by teaching the process and uses of the risograph over simply providing printing services.
Soft Spots Riso
Soft Spots Riso is a Dallas-based Risograph press dedicated to fostering creativity, collaboration, and accessibility in independent printmaking and publishing. Founded in 2022 by artists Kristin Wright and Gino Dal Cin, Soft Spots provides community access to Risograph printing, workshops, and resources to support local artists in experimenting with zine and bookmaking.
Soft Spots Riso also has a Riso School, where anyone can sign up to learn more about the printing process. They offer classes catering to all skillsets, from beginners dipping their toes in printmaking to established professionals.
Surely! Press
Surely! Press is the Houston-based independent publishing project of writer/designer Grant Patterson and Claire Elestwani. Grant (he/him) is a Southern queer, writer, people-watcher, and urbanist. Claire (she/they) is a designer, artist, and educator who uses data, printed matter, and textiles to explore themes of liberation, power, and joy.
Together, Grant and Claire write and produce RISO-printed zines that take the shape of workbooks, cookbooks, poem-generators, card games, and mini-broadsides, among other formats. Surely! Press publications invite readers to seek connection with their surroundings and find delight in the everyday.
Tyler Rico
Tyler Rico is a designer based in Austin, Texas. His practice entails a process-based approach to landscape, exploring themes of time, memory, and the transience of encounter. Primarily taking the form of intimately scaled artists' books and publications, his projects consider the functions and limits of verbal and visual documentation, examining their relationship to abstraction and the potential in between these elements.
His work has been exhibited at Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair, Multiple Formats Art Book Fair and Symposium, Press Play at Pioneer Works, the Detroit Art Book Fair, and Tropic Bound Artists' Book Fair.
Speakers
A IS A
A is A is an independent publishing project founded in 2023 by Juan Karlo Muro and Vicente Velázquez III out of a desire to design, print, archive, skill share and further creative work rooted in the San Joaquin Valley. Vicente and Juan Karlo formed a relationship in 2020 over their mutual interest in design and print—more specifically, fine art prints and independent publishing via digital duplicators, copy machines, screen print, etc. They began A is A by offering their print and design services to friends, various artists, and local establishments—people and places that they’re ultimately fans of. This resulted in a chain of cold emails, numerous coffee shop meetings, and late night print sessions at their small, central-Fresno office space.
PAWPRINTZ
Texas State University's riso club will be hosting a fun risograph workshop called "Pinned Together".
Pawprintz is a student organized club from Texas State University that promotes risograph printing as a form of creating art and educates its members on the methods of colorful printing. Pawprintz is meant to be an inclusive space for all artists to express themselves through the economical and efficient risograph. Meetings are biweekly workshops with different themes and ink colors. Each relaxed session presents a new opportunity to explore riso-layering and mediums, from zines to sticker printing. Membership is open towards current students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
Workshops
About Riso- Rama
Co-organized by Joshua Duttweiler (Texas State University) and Alexandria Canchola (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi), Riso-Rama is an independent publishing event that brings together artists, students, and community members to highlight Risograph work and connect creatives across Texas.
Each year, Riso-Rama programming includes an internationally recognized keynote speaker, panel discussion featuring Texas-based artists, Paradiso – a national juried exhibition of Risograph work (prints, books, and animations), independent publication and riso print market, and Risograph workshop.
The Riso-Rama Archive has exhibited throughout Texas.
What is Risograph?
Riso printing is a unique, eco-friendly printing method that blends elements of screen printing and photocopying. It uses a stencil-based process where soy-based ink is pushed through a perforated master sheet onto paper, one color at a time. Known for its vibrant colors, rich textures, and slight imperfections, Riso printing is popular for art prints, zines, and posters. Unlike digital printing, it works best with bold designs and limited color layers, creating a distinctive, handmade look.
What is Risograph?
Riso printing is a unique, eco-friendly printing method that blends elements of screen printing and photocopying. It uses a stencil-based process where soy-based ink is pushed through a perforated master sheet onto paper, one color at a time. Known for its vibrant colors, rich textures, and slight imperfections, Riso printing is popular for art prints, zines, and posters. Unlike digital printing, it works best with bold designs and limited color layers, creating a distinctive, handmade look.
Previous Editions
About Risorama
Co-organized by Joshua Duttweiler (Texas State University) and Alexandria Canchola (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi), Riso-Rama is an independent publishing event that brings together artists, students, and community members to highlight Risograph work and connect creatives across Texas.
Each year, Riso-Rama programming includes an internationally recognized keynote speaker, panel discussion featuring Texas-based artists, Paradiso – a national juried exhibition of Risograph work (prints, books, and animations), independent publication and riso print market, and Risograph workshop.
All events are free and open to the public.
Parking
Friday - LBJ Student Center Garage (Pay-to-Park Garage)
Directions and Info
Saturday - Free Parking at Texas State Galleries
Riso-Printing
Riso printing is a unique, eco-friendly printing method that blends elements of screen printing and photocopying. It uses a stencil-based process where soy-based ink is pushed through a perforated master sheet onto paper, one color at a time. Known for its vibrant colors, rich textures, and slight imperfections, Riso printing is popular for art prints, zines, and posters. Unlike digital printing, it works best with bold designs and limited color layers, creating a distinctive, handmade look.
Previous Editions
Riso-Rama is always free and open to the public !¡
