Ediciones «Letra Muerta»

07/31/2025

We will be away from the Studio until Monday, September 1st. We are finishing some big projects before fall and also taking time off. See you soon!

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Estaremos fuera del estudio hasta el lunes 1ro de septiembre. Estamos terminando algunos proyectos importantes antes del otoño y también tomándonos un tiempito libre. Nos vemos pronto!

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07/07/2025

Meet Keyla Benítez, our new Archivist! Keyla is a Mexican historian and a graduate of . She is also a former Undergraduate Research Fellow through . Her work explores the role of galleries, libraries, archives, and museums in preserving community memory. Her senior thesis focused on the lynchings of Mexican women in Texas and the power of historical access for communities of color as an act of resistance against cultural erasure.

“There is power and recognition within archives, and that has to be redefined for it to be inclusive for everyone.” —Benítez, 2022

Welcome Keyla!

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As caretakers of our growing book and zine collection, we are very appreciative of ‘s custom design for our Reference Library, as we’re able to better support artists, community members, and students. Now there’s more room to welcome visitors, organize our archival materials, and expand our book collection. Just in time for student visits this month, and scholars joining us in the fall. Thanks as always our friends from Modern Shelving

Photos by / special appearance of Miss Maggie, ‘s mom ♥️ ing

06/30/2025

06/30/2025

Thank you to our community for joining us at the preview of our most recent book, “Ants, Passiflora, and Me” by Lynne Shapiro, translated by . This was the first in a series of upcoming gatherings, so stay tuned. Special thanks to Chef Stephanie Bonnin and Miguel Valenzuela at for hosting and crafting a menu inspired by the book. Only a few copies left at presale price in our bio.

Patio Tropical (est. 2025) is a one-of-a-kind coffee shop, eatery, and culinary studio celebrating Caribbean Flavors.

Letra Mu**ta Inc. is an award-winning design studio, workshop and Latin American archive center co-directed by and .

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Gracias a nuestra comunidad por acompañarnos en la presentación de nuestra más reciente publicación, »Hormigas, pasiflora, y yo« de Lynne Shapiro, traducido por Paola Senseve. Esta fue el primero de varios eventos por venir, atentos a nuestras redes. Un agradecimiento especial a la Chef Stephanie Bonnin y Miguel Valenzuela de Patio Tropical por recibirnos y crear un menu inspirado en el libro, arepas incluidas. Quedan pocas copias a precio de preventa en el enlace en una nuestra bio.

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06/26/2025

This Saturday from 4PM to 7PM. We will have a Studio/Book Sale! Come hang, maybe buy some stuff: books, paper, studio materials, zines, design and literature stuff. We will have AC and cool drinks for free.

We just remodeled and we need to make some items move along to a nice home. Maybe yours. Books starting at $4✨

06/07/2025

06/07/2025

Mañana sábado, en el marco de la FEIV, Ediciones «Letra Mu**ta» invita a una firma de libros con nuestra directora, la artista visual y gestora cultural venezolana Diana López. Sus fotolibros "El ojo de..." y "101 dianas" también estarán a la venta ese día.

La cita es mañana a las 5PM en el Banco Del Libro en Caracas.

06/03/2025

NEW BOOK presale— 🐜 •

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Ants, Passiflora, and Me by Lynne Shapiro, translated by , is a bilingual dos-a-dos publication designed to resemble a notebook. Most of the titles and illustrations were done by recreating and adapting drawings and letters found in her family archive. Shapiro highlights a convergence of hosts and migrations, illuminating the vital symbiotic relationships that community requires.

The cover was hotstamped with foil on Colorplan cardstock, with lilac endpapers in Hahnemühle. Internal pages printed on ivory Springhill lightweight paper, including an insert. External (yes, external) copper staples on Asahi book cloth make up the spine. The edition consists of 200 copies: dry stamped, numbered, and signed.

Binding + hot stamping:
Envelopes + assistance:
Printing: Xerox at LM studio
Proofreading: (Eng) (Spa)
Fonts: Milligram and Sedwick by
Photos:

Link in bio for the presale. Only a few copies at a lower price. As always, thanks for the support. And special thanks to for letting us their hoststamping machine.

05/21/2025

El camino de los objetos — de Ronald Pizzoferrato, en dialogo con Letra Mu**ta Inc. 

Trabajar con archivos es asumir una responsabilidad. Parte del trabajo de nuestro equipo estuvo en escoger soportes pertinentes para la preservación de contenidos y también en el cuidado de sus descripciones. Como resultado se recolectaron fondos para continuar el trabajo de documentación en fronteras, aportar en refugios, y crear recursos para que personas regularicen su estatus migratorio.

“Me he estado preguntando por qué usamos ciertas cosas y con qué propósito. Qué queremos expresar al hacer uso de ellas, y cómo afectan nuestra identidad. En ese sentido, comencé un proyecto de investigación etnográfico y participativo con enfoque visual. Mi intención es identificar los vacíos de información en la relación objeto-persona. Me enfoco en los objetos llevados por los migrantes desde su salida hasta su llegada. A través de esta narrativa visual trato de expresar este fenómeno desde una perspectiva no solo personal sino más digna para los migrantes” 

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Los objetos que comprenden el archivo se originan en diferentes fronteras de las Americas (2018-2023), incluyendo Venezuela, Colombia, Panamá, México, y EEUU. Algunos de los documentos se encuentran visiblemente dañados (se presume por agentes de migración), otros dejados atrás, o perdidos en tránsito. Según la ACNUR más de 7.7 millones de Venezolanos se han ido del país.

Este trabajo fue presentado como caso de estudio en en el simposio del archivo “TodosSomos” en abril de 2025, en clases en , y es ahora parte de las propuestas presentadas por Pizzoferrato como candidato doctoral de estudios para las artes en la Universidad de Bern, Suiza. El archivo está en resguardo en la Universidad de Toronto donde cláusulas legales aseguran la privacidad de las personas cuya información, letra, o imagen pudiese aparecer en algún documento.

El proyecto incluye un libro en colaboración entre el artista y , y fue parte de una exhibición curada por .rdelgado en . La caja fue construida por

04/15/2025

As a studio, we are pleased to announce there are several collaborations in the works with Puerto Rican artist 🇵🇷 We have been helping him document, catalog, curate and write about his work and processes. If either you as an individual or your institution is interested in collaborating with him/us, or acquiring some of his work, send us an email at [email protected]

“Ever since I was little. My father was telling me about Puerto Rican history and the various ways Puerto Ricans get ripped off (…) The fact that the Puerto Rican flag was illegal for years. That they tested bombs there. They used Puerto Ricans as cheap labor. The list goes on and on. Somebody once said that we write history to see where we’ve been, and we write fiction to explain how we feel about history. I don’t know who said that, but I think about that a lot.”

John Vasquez Mejías, is a writer, artist, printmaker and puppeteer, storyteller, and art teacher. He is best known for his self-published (now trade) book “The Puerto Rican War”, detailing a little-known group of Puerto Rican revolutionaries in 1950. After 4 years, he just finished working on a wood carved book about Lo**ta Lebrón. Mejías drew since elementary school, making murals and comics. As an adult, he creates puppet shows to discuss subjects he would rather not lecture about.

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04/06/2025

Nuestros libros están de vuelta en Madrid. Nos tomó un poco de tiempo mandar más copias pero ya están disponibles títulos nuevos como CRANIA de y otros clásicos de ediciones anteriores como y Gabriela Kizer. Gracias siempre por el apoyo.

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Our books are back again at in Madrid/ It took us a while to restock, but we added some of the new titles like Crania by and some of our classics like and Gabriela Kizer. Maybe some totebags (?) Thanks, everyone for the support.

“Ivorypress was founded in 1996 by Elena Ochoa Foster as a publishing house specializing in artists’ books. The project currently encompasses a wide range of areas and activities within the frame of contemporary art, which include its own art gallery and bookshop, art consultancy and art exhibitions curatorship, editorial services, audio-visual productions, and education”

03/10/2025

New workshop alert‼️ONSITE🎊
Code Paper Pattern with

We’ll use code to create adjustable patterns to make folding-paper textures, fields of shapes you can print or save as raster or vector graphic files, and a colored papercraft solid. These could be useful for designing patterned textiles, book covers, web images, and applications in branding, or personal projects.

Three basic ideas central to coding will be explored: variables, step-and-repeat loops, and conditional (if-then) statements.

No coding experience is necessary! Link in bio!

Color printing and paper will be provided. If you want to take the workshop and don’t have a Mac laptop, we have extra ones we can lend to some participants. If you need financial assistance, shoot us an email: [email protected]