SFZF2021 Guest of Honor & Invited Artists
Tiny Splendor
Guest of Honor
For their work in Bay Area zine, comics, sociopolitical, and self-publishing communities, we're thrilled to announce @tinysplendor as our Guest of Honor for the 20th Annual San Francisco Zine Fest.
Here's what they had to so say about themselves:
“We started in 2012 as a tiny collective, traveling around sharing our and our friends’ artwork out of a small wooden fold-up gallery. We’ve since grown into two separate studios, one in Berkeley and one in Los Angeles, providing print and publishing services to artists locally and from around the world. We continue to pursue self-publishing and a love of ink on paper, producing print editions, zines, books, apparel and more.”
Additionally, our guest of honor invited the following three artists to exhibit and read at SFZF2021.
Thinking Captions Zine Reading
Invited by Guest of Honor Tiny Splendor
Ocean, Samantha, and Tamiko will be reading and sharing their work with us on Sep. 2 at 6pm PST.
Ocean Escalanti
Ocean Escalanti (she/her) is an indigenous artist residing in Oakland, CA with a focus in printmaking & fiber arts. She has a passion for the narrative with inspiration from the human/nature symbiosis locally foraging plants for natural dyeing. Ocean spends her time showing and reading from her self published works of poetry/comix/illustrations at events in the Bay Area.
instagram.com/oldisthegrave
etsy.com/shop/oldisthegrave
Venmo: @OceanEscalanti
Paypal: @OEscalanti
or oceansayshi123@gmail.com
Samantha Espinoza
Samantha Maria Xochitl Espinoza is a Chicanx artist coming from a Mexican and Salvadoran family. She grew up in L.A and in Denver, CO and currently resides on Lisjan Ohlone land (Oakland). She references living in between worlds, identities, and homes as a marker of her queer, Chicanx experience. Her work reveals her historical and personal traumas as openings for wider conversations on racialized, gendered, sexual and capitalist oppressions. Her work is meant as a gift to fellow brown women in the hopes that they will see parts of themselves reflected or whispered within her work. She is a youth educator, organizer, daughter, sister and falls in love frequently.
instagram.com/xoc.hitl/
brownluvtears.bigcartel.com/
Venmo: @samantha-espinoza-1
Paypal: samantha.espinoza01@gmail.com
Tamiko Sidore
Tamiko Sidore (she/her) is a hapa artist from Los Angeles working in the mediums of printmaking, painting, and digital art. Her mother is a Japanese immigrant and her father is 3rd generation Italian American. Most of her work is based on her personal experiences as a multi-ethnic person exploring her many identities. She makes art to study her subconscious, express her feelings, and discover truths. She hopes that her artwork speaks to folks that have been marginalized and othered. She makes her work at Max's Garage Press alongside incredibly talented artists that she's proud to call her print community. She graduated from University of California Berkeley with a BFA in Fine Art and currently resides in Berkeley, CA.
instagram.com/tamiko.sidore/
etsy.com/shop/Seekandhideart
Venmo: @tamiko-sidore
Paypal: tamikosidore@gmail.com