Please join us for the Willie Mae Rock Camp’s 2nd Annual Arts & Activism showcase, featuring the 2016 fellows’ podcasts.  Refreshments will be provided and DJ Zena will spin some tunes!

The 2016 Fellows are:



Marie Damus, “Depression within African American Communities”
Katia Katsnelson, “It isn’t Jazz, It isn’t Blues, it’s Klezmer”
Evelyn Morales, “ Hanging out with Jynx”

Designed as an after-school program for teen women (transgender and cisgender), and gender non-binary youth, Arts & Activism held its first class in the spring of 2015. Focused on developing media skills, building community, and exploring the intersections of art and activism, participants  attend DJ instruction classes and by creating a podcast, engage in study of the role of music in social justice. Participants  are also invited to participate in a paid fellowship in which they work at Willie Mae summer programs, designing curriculum and acting as mentors to younger campers. For more information about Arts & Activism, please visit Willie Mae Rock Camp.

It's official, we're blocking off the street and throwing a Block Party on Labor Day. All are welcome at this final event for the Mobile Print Power exhibition—come celebrate a season's worth of collaborations and the larger community that support each of the organizations in the exhibition. We'll have food, music, and art—a perfect way to spend a Labor Day afternoon!

Help Us Print a Book Documenting the Mobile Print Power Exhibition!
We've just launched a pre-sale of the exhibition catalog for Soñamos Sentirnos Libres: Under Construction

We are in the last month of Soñamos Sentirnos Libres: Under Construction and look forward to seeing you all on September 5 at our end of the show block party! Not only will the block party feature music and screen printing, but it will also include the launch of our very exciting exhibition catalog!

The Soñamos Sentirnos Libres catalog is a compilation of essays and images produced throughout the exhibition, which features contributions and reflections from the many collaborators involved. This is a bilingual publication in Spanish and English. It will be full color, and likely around 90 pages.

Prior to the block party, we are offering a special pre-sale of the exhibition catalog. If you order before September 5 you will not only get the catalog but will also receive a limited edition screen print from Mobile Print Power, for only $18 (plus shipping). Funds from catalog sales will help support the costs of this exhibition—your purchase will have a direct impact on our programs.

Here is a sneak peek at a couple of the page spreads:

It's that time again, we're organizing our Fall benefit party

And we need your help! If you're interested in helping us pull together our second annual benefit party, please send us an email at info@interferencearchive.org. It'll be fun, and you'll get in for free!

Our Comics, Ourselves opens to the University of Connecticut
June 14–August 22, 2016

The Archives & Special Collections at the University of Connecticut will host the first traveling installment of the exhibition Our Comics, Ourselves co-curated by Jan Descartes and Monica McKelvey Johnson. The exhibition premiered at Interference Archive in January, and we're really excited to see it move on to new locations. Our Comics, Ourselves features comics from the Interference Archive collection as well as private collections on loan. The exhibition includes comic books, graphic novels, DIY comics, and various comics paraphernalia primarily from the United States, 1945 to present. The works range from autobiographical to sheer fantasy, and explore feminism, abortion, racism, cultural identity, social activism, veterans of war, sexual abuse, immigration, public health, civil rights, gender and sexual identity, and more.