About

Quarantine Public Library is a repository of books made by artists. The works published here are for anyone to freely download, print and assemble—to keep or give away.

This collaborative project was dreamed up by Katie Garth and Tracy Honn in May 2020. We love artists’ books, zines, and libraries; art and poetry; words and pictures. We wanted to make something to share as many of us are staying at home, disconnected from art, books, and one another. The project is not about COVID-19, but is explicitly of its time.

With brisk attention, a lot of talking and correspondence, and the enthusiastic good will of generous artists who say yes, we offer this as a gift to share and circulate in a discombobulated time.

 
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EveryoneOn

In the spirit of our project, donations generated by QPL will be directed to EveryoneOn, a non-profit that connects low-income families to affordable internet service and computers. We admire their clear goals and genuine service benefits—the organization “believe[s] in the democratizing power of the internet and technology, especially for low-income and marginalized communities,” and so do we.


Katie Garth is an artist in Philadelphia. She holds an MFA in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Katie has a background in graphic design and book arts, and enjoys teaching, writing, and presenting on topics related to contemporary print practice.

katiegarth.com | @katiegarth

 

Tracy Honn is a printing history educator, curator, and printer living in Madison Wisconsin. She is senior artist emerita from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she directed the Silver Buckle Press, a working museum of letterpress printing. She serves on Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum’s executive board of directors.

Contact

All books in the Quarantine Public Library are acquired by select invitation and created specifically for the collection. We expect to add more books intermittently. To share your work for our consideration when issuing future invitations, please send a website or relevant work samples to [email protected].