Join us for our second Trade School Sound Swap, curated and produced in partnership with George Chen / Zum, and featuring a rare Los Angeles appearance by Bay-area publisher Ratskin Records! Browse wares by your favorite, local publishers while enjoying food by Picnic and music by the lofi_dena Open Aux Community. Other vendors include A Wave Press, Already Dead Tapes, Cudighi, Humungulus, Krysten Cunningham, Mausoleum, Obsolete Units, Pop Overbite, Post Present Medium, Ratskin, Tenant, ttsr, Tusco Embassy, and Zum. Additionally Trade School co-founder Arden Stern will be offering Tarot readings and Community Solidarity Projects will be tabling / identifying new volunteers. Not to be missed!
Arden Stern is a scholar of U.S. visual culture and design history whose current research analyzes the labor history of graphic design in the United States and material histories of digital media. They currently teach in the department of Humanities and Sciences at ArtCenter College of Design, where they are a proud member of the ArtCenter Faculty Federation (AFT Local 5648). Arden has been the recipient of research fellowships from the Walter P. Reuther Library, Winterthur Library, and American Antiquarian Society, as well as of ArtCenter's Samsung-endowed Faculty Enrichment Grant and the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography Educator Grant. Arden has contributed to various publications, including Design and Culture, Design Issues, and Print, and are currently preparing a book manuscript that analyzes race and labor hierarchies in United States graphic design history.