Mystery Spot Books

20/10/2020

So happy to be included in the virtual Twin Cities Zine Fest - go check out all the amazing zine-makers and independent publishers here: https://tczinefest.org/2020-exhibitors/

We’re very excited to announce the dates for an all-virtual Twin Cities Zine Fest 2020!! Mark your calendars for Monday October 19 through Sunday October 25th: we’ll be hosting events all week long to celebrate the DIY community in Minnesota and beyond. Registration will open tomorrow, September 12th and close September 19.

Thank you to hclou art for creating this fun artwork to help us celebrate 16 years of TCZF!! Check out her website at https://www.hclouart.com/

03/02/2020

We're happy to announce that MSB co-founder Emily Roehl will be an artist-in-residence at CLEAR in Newfoundland:
"Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR) is a feminist, anti-colonial lab specializing in monitoring plastic pollution."

CLEAR is pleased to announce the recipients of our first ever artist-in-residence (AIR) program!

18/09/2019

Saturday! Come see us at the Twin Cities Zine Fest, 11-5 at the Minneapolis Central Library

Tabler registration for 2019 is now open! Registration will be open until Sunday June 9th. Please visit http://tczinefest.org for details and to submit your application!

21/08/2019

Many thanks to everyone who organized and attended the Colby Summer Institute in the Environmental Humanities 2019, where Emily workshopped her "Field Guide to Oil in Santa Barbara" project and had lots of great conversations about artist book publishing as a hybrid scholarly-artistic practice. Here is a photograph of some remarkable ferns on Allen Island:

21/07/2019

Thank you to the Emerging Curators Institute and the Weisman for an incredible day - Curating as Artistic Practice - the first of the ECI's public programs

21/05/2019

Named for the tourist trap wonder attractions often encountered on road trips, Mystery Spot Books produces small-run artist books, zines, and other publications that trace the contours of place-based experience in the human-altered landscape.

In collaboration with a group of artists, scholars and community organizers, MSB is creating a series of published materials, visual and textual, exploring the current energy landscapes of the St. Louis area. Having completed the initial research phase through a residency at The Luminary, MSB is dev...

16/06/2018

We're at The White Page today until 5 selling artist books. Come see us!

09/12/2017

Hey look! We were named one of five highlights from last month's Chicago Art Book Fair! Thanks Sixty Inches From Center!

The first Chicago Art Book Fair, running from November 16-19, provided a platform for new initiatives and varied paths within the world of arts publishing. The fair took place in multiple rooms of …

28/09/2017

Swing by the Minnesota Center for Book Arts this Saturday from 11 to 5 for the Twin Cities Zine Fest 2017. We'll have a table and a human and some books and posters, including our new photobook Flood Plain Color Field fresh off the press!

15/09/2017

Read the feature over on Pastelegram about our history and current ruminations on marginal landscapes!

16/06/2017

It's been almost a week since and we finally feel rested! We had an AMAZING time hanging with all the other great projects in Little Africa and meeting so many beautiful folks. Thank you! And do us a favor. Ask yourself daily: Why do I want to live with less oil?

07/06/2017

Things are coming along nicely for this weekend's ! Find Chad Rutter and Emily Roehl at The Slow Down, a giant road construction message sign near the Snelling & University stop on the Green Line and learn about ways and whys to live with less oil.