Recess is located at 46 Washington Avenue and Garage Studios is across the street at 51 Washington Avenue. Both locations are in Clinton Hill near the Brooklyn Navy Yard and are most closely accessible by the G train at Clinton-Washington or the B57 / B62 bus lines. It is also accessible via ferry at the Navy Yard.

July 10

6 - 9PM Opening

11 - 1 PM Accessibility Hours
1 - 7 PM General Admission

11 - 6 PM General Admission

The spaces at Recess and Garage Studios are fully accessible for wheelchair users and their restrooms are gender neutral and ADA compliant. The Assembly Room, where programs will be held, is located up one flight of stairs. Please note that masks are required for all attendees, but programming event facilitators may or may not be masked.

Make your own zine in Some Other Books’ Zine Cave, a cozy space to write, draw and relax, right below Some Other Books’ & Figure Bound’s table. The Zine Cave is free throughout the fair and all ages are welcome to participate.

Drop by the BASN and Jay Seven Inc table all weekend to create a one-page folded zine or mini broadside. Choose from a selection of pre-folded papers and make your mark! A typewriter and various art supplies will be available for use while supplies last.

This Dog Is A Rose maps Ahmadi’s long-distance relationship with her dog, Pika, in Iran through a digital archive and shared vocabulary. Following the book presentation, musician Celine Kang and Ahmadi will hold a brief dialogue on their collaboration, leading into Kang’s live realization of the score, park (Lontano). Through repetition, microtones, and personal memory, physical sound waves draw an architecture of a park in the room. This performance is an ode to nonlinear immigrant communities, and a gift for Pika.

From anti-war posters and underground newspapers to TikTok propaganda and meme warfare, political design has transformed alongside media itself. This talk traces the evolution of political communication over the last sixty years, exploring how protest graphics, campaign branding, internet culture, and algorithm-driven platforms shape public perception and political participation. Examining the shift from movement-building to engagement-driven content, the lecture investigates how aesthetics, virality, and digital spectacle influence modern politics in an era where political imagery travels faster than political understanding itself.

From the violent capture and removal of millions of Africans through the Middle Passage to "fugitive slave" laws to criminal and immigration mass incarceration, the United States has a long history of restricting Black people’s freedom of movement. The Trump Administration’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship is part of this historical tradition. In this session, we’ll examine the idea of freedom of movement as a human right, explore how the U.S. weaponizes restrictions of movement against Black people, and collectively imagine resistance and freedom.

Type, like architecture and painting, contains the history of ideas. With a seemingly-impossible economy, letters can transport us to a 1920s Paris metro stop or a 1960s light show. Embedded in post office signage, word processors, and discarded electronics, letterforms offer a microscopic shorthand of an era's cultural and technological philosophies. In this talk, Kelli Anderson discusses Alphabet in Motion, an interactive book that invites readers to follow the flat brush, chisel, or Bézier handle and sink more deeply into typographic history.

Memory is not fixed—it warps, fragments, loops, disappears, emerges, and overrides itself in ever-shifting contexts. The Material of Memory: Collage as Counter-Archive presented by SPICY is a reflective collaging workshop exploring remembering as a creative and political practice. Utilizing found imagery, text, and personal materials, participants will explore themes of remembrance, transition, memorialization, and emotional residue. Together, we will build personal and collective archives that resist erasure and guide us forward. RSVP here.

Join Khajistan Press for the launch of New York City Street Ephemera, 2023–2026, a publication of printed matter gathered from New York City streets by a nanny and expanded through public submissions. The book preserves the city’s unofficial visual record, showing how New Yorkers announced, mourned, organized, advertised, and made themselves visible during a period of political and cultural rupture.

This participatory study will present zine-in-progress materials on the struggle of Filipino migrants in the United States, addressing the root causes which force Filipinos to migrate, and the system the Philippine government has created to extract money from vulnerable migrant workers. We will share stories from migrant experiences in the United States, highlighting the ways they have self-organized and fought back against exploitation from employers, the US and Philippine governments, and ICE. Participants will be invited to contribute ideas on how to develop this material for a future zine. RSVP here.

Trans Opinions Periodically (T.O.P) is a monthly zine series about current events by and for trans people, distributed for free. This drop-in style collaborative invites trans community members to contribute to the July issue as we lay the publication out live. We will also provide blank zines for people to fill out. Towards the end, we will print and fold all the zines for immediate distribution. Be here + be heard!

We will use a digital interactive map and timeline that documents the genocide on Gaza since October 2023. As we trace the annihilation of Gaza we will expose the ways in which Israel deliberately targets and destroys Gaza’s life-saving infrastructure.This mapping project serves both as a documentation and a call to action by providing clarity on what is required for us to rebuild. 

We keep us safe. Join Recess Assembly Fellows for an interactive workshop exploring practical de-escalation strategies, conflict response, and tools for keeping ourselves and our communities safer. Through discussion and hands-on practice, we'll strengthen our ability to respond with care, reduce harm, and support one another in difficult and activated moments. Together, we'll imagine what safety can look like when we invest in each other.

Organized by Endless Editions, Brooklyn Art Book Fair (BKABF) is an alternative book fair that prioritizes the needs of emerging and underrepresented artists by removing financial barriers and fostering community. Our mission is to create a book fair with the deliberate intention of care towards our community.

We believe in creating spaces that are open and accessible to all. We encourage participation from artists of all backgrounds by removing financial barriers, allowing our exhibitors to better meet certain material needs. We organize with special emphasis on the experiences of emerging and underrepresented artists. We are committed to building supportive spaces for artists to create, connect and flourish. We value all members of our community inclusive of age, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, ability, socioeconomic background. To ensure that the disabled, high risk, immunocompromised, elderly and covid conscious members of our community are welcomed, we require masking indoors during all hours of the fair and hold accessible pre-registered hours with smaller crowds and shorter entry lines.

We stand against censorship and are committed to protecting our artists, educators and program facilitators and their freedom of speech. We acknowledge the profound influence of art in reflecting our socio-political context. Art books and zines have historically served as a forum for progressive political discourse. These mediums play a crucial role in amplifying voices and perspectives that challenge existing norms, fostering dialogue and driving positive social change against oppression and colonization.

In addition, we build programming around emancipatory politics, with the fair acting as a site for resistance, discussion and grief. In accordance with these values Endless Editions unquestionably stands with a free Palestine and supports artists who center liberatory struggles in their publishing practices.

Recess is located at 46 Washington Avenue and Garage Studios is across the street at 51 Washington Avenue. Both locations are in Clinton Hill near the Brooklyn Navy Yard and are most closely accessible by the G train at Clinton-Washington or the B57 / B62 bus lines. It is also accessible via ferry at the Navy Yard.

July 10

6 - 9PM Opening

11 - 1 PM Accessibility Hours
1 - 7 PM General Admission

11 - 6 PM General Admission

We will only offer free pre-registration tickets for Saturday, 7/11 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM for our immunocompromised, disabled, elderly, and high-risk community members. We are holding these Accessible Hours so that they can enjoy the fair with limited crowds and reduced entry lines.

To pre-register, simply fill out the form below! If you have additional accessibility questions, please reach out to brooklynartbookfair@gmail.com.

Register

The spaces at Recess and Garage Studios are fully accessible for wheelchair users and their restrooms are gender neutral and ADA compliant. The Assembly Room, where programs will be held, is located up one flight of stairs. Please note that masks are required for all attendees, but programming event facilitators may or may not be masked.

Make your own zine in Some Other Books’ Zine Cave, a cozy space to write, draw and relax, right below Some Other Books’ & Figure Bound’s table. The Zine Cave is free throughout the fair and all ages are welcome to participate.

Drop by the BASN and Jay Seven Inc table all weekend to create a one-page folded zine or mini broadside. Choose from a selection of pre-folded papers and make your mark! A typewriter and various art supplies will be available for use while supplies last.

This Dog Is A Rose maps Ahmadi’s long-distance relationship with her dog, Pika, in Iran through a digital archive and shared vocabulary. Following the book presentation, musician Celine Kang and Ahmadi will hold a brief dialogue on their collaboration, leading into Kang’s live realization of the score, park (Lontano). Through repetition, microtones, and personal memory, physical sound waves draw an architecture of a park in the room. This performance is an ode to nonlinear immigrant communities, and a gift for Pika.

From anti-war posters and underground newspapers to TikTok propaganda and meme warfare, political design has transformed alongside media itself. This talk traces the evolution of political communication over the last sixty years, exploring how protest graphics, campaign branding, internet culture, and algorithm-driven platforms shape public perception and political participation. Examining the shift from movement-building to engagement-driven content, the lecture investigates how aesthetics, virality, and digital spectacle influence modern politics in an era where political imagery travels faster than political understanding itself.

From the violent capture and removal of millions of Africans through the Middle Passage to "fugitive slave" laws to criminal and immigration mass incarceration, the United States has a long history of restricting Black people’s freedom of movement. The Trump Administration’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship is part of this historical tradition. In this session, we’ll examine the idea of freedom of movement as a human right, explore how the U.S. weaponizes restrictions of movement against Black people, and collectively imagine resistance and freedom.

Type, like architecture and painting, contains the history of ideas. With a seemingly-impossible economy, letters can transport us to a 1920s Paris metro stop or a 1960s light show. Embedded in post office signage, word processors, and discarded electronics, letterforms offer a microscopic shorthand of an era's cultural and technological philosophies. In this talk, Kelli Anderson discusses Alphabet in Motion, an interactive book that invites readers to follow the flat brush, chisel, or Bézier handle and sink more deeply into typographic history.

Memory is not fixed—it warps, fragments, loops, disappears, emerges, and overrides itself in ever-shifting contexts. The Material of Memory: Collage as Counter-Archive presented by SPICY is a reflective collaging workshop exploring remembering as a creative and political practice. Utilizing found imagery, text, and personal materials, participants will explore themes of remembrance, transition, memorialization, and emotional residue. Together, we will build personal and collective archives that resist erasure and guide us forward. RSVP here.

Join Khajistan Press for the launch of New York City Street Ephemera, 2023–2026, a publication of printed matter gathered from New York City streets by a nanny and expanded through public submissions. The book preserves the city’s unofficial visual record, showing how New Yorkers announced, mourned, organized, advertised, and made themselves visible during a period of political and cultural rupture.

This participatory study will present zine-in-progress materials on the struggle of Filipino migrants in the United States, addressing the root causes which force Filipinos to migrate, and the system the Philippine government has created to extract money from vulnerable migrant workers. We will share stories from migrant experiences in the United States, highlighting the ways they have self-organized and fought back against exploitation from employers, the US and Philippine governments, and ICE. Participants will be invited to contribute ideas on how to develop this material for a future zine. RSVP here.

Trans Opinions Periodically (T.O.P) is a monthly zine series about current events by and for trans people, distributed for free. This drop-in style collaborative invites trans community members to contribute to the July issue as we lay the publication out live. We will also provide blank zines for people to fill out. Towards the end, we will print and fold all the zines for immediate distribution. Be here + be heard!

We will use a digital interactive map and timeline that documents the genocide on Gaza since October 2023. As we trace the annihilation of Gaza we will expose the ways in which Israel deliberately targets and destroys Gaza’s life-saving infrastructure.This mapping project serves both as a documentation and a call to action by providing clarity on what is required for us to rebuild. 

We keep us safe. Join Recess Assembly Fellows for an interactive workshop exploring practical de-escalation strategies, conflict response, and tools for keeping ourselves and our communities safer. Through discussion and hands-on practice, we'll strengthen our ability to respond with care, reduce harm, and support one another in difficult and activated moments. Together, we'll imagine what safety can look like when we invest in each other.

Organized by Endless Editions, Brooklyn Art Book Fair (BKABF) is an alternative book fair that prioritizes the needs of emerging and underrepresented artists by removing financial barriers and fostering community. Our mission is to create a book fair with the deliberate intention of care towards our community.

We believe in creating spaces that are open and accessible to all. We encourage participation from artists of all backgrounds by removing financial barriers, allowing our exhibitors to better meet certain material needs. We organize with special emphasis on the experiences of emerging and underrepresented artists. We are committed to building supportive spaces for artists to create, connect and flourish. We value all members of our community inclusive of age, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, ability, socioeconomic background. To ensure that the disabled, high risk, immunocompromised, elderly and covid conscious members of our community are welcomed, we require masking indoors during all hours of the fair and hold accessible pre-registered hours with smaller crowds and shorter entry lines.

We stand against censorship and are committed to protecting our artists, educators and program facilitators and their freedom of speech. We acknowledge the profound influence of art in reflecting our socio-political context. Art books and zines have historically served as a forum for progressive political discourse. These mediums play a crucial role in amplifying voices and perspectives that challenge existing norms, fostering dialogue and driving positive social change against oppression and colonization.

In addition, we build programming around emancipatory politics, with the fair acting as a site for resistance, discussion and grief. In accordance with these values Endless Editions unquestionably stands with a free Palestine and supports artists who center liberatory struggles in their publishing practices.