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For our next installment of our Rad Collabs blog series, we’d like to highlight Liz Kueneke. This Chicago native and current Spain resident has traveled the world, collaborating with everyday Joes and Josephines on participatory embroidery projects. She has stitched maps of neighborhoods in Brooklyn, NY to Los Angeles, CA; Bangalore, India; Rome, Italy and Barcelona, Spain just to name a few.

Her embroidered maps not only lay out the geography of said neighborhoods, but they also map out social history based on the experiences of the inhabitants. This adds a real human element that is lost in municipal maps. Through these collaborative projects, she helps communities come to a new understanding of the places in which they live. Click here to learn more.

Yo Infectoids,

Come out and join the whole Infectious team this Saturday, August 22nd as we celebrate our beloved catalog artist, Junko Mizuno‘s release of her graphic novel, Little Fluffy Gigolo PELU Vol. 1. She will be signing copies at 2 pm in the New People store in Japan Town, SF. The signing be followed up with an Infectious outing where cocktails and some off-key karaoke are on the menu. How can you pass up an opportunity to listen to the musical stylings of our very own team members singing some great hits from legends such as Abba, David Lee Roth, Tupac, and Britney Spears. Experience the Total Eclipse of the Heart.

Hope to see y’all there.

Love and high fives,
Team Infectious

Infectious has a thriving community of artists and we are obsessed with collaboration in all its shapes and forms. We love to see artists coming together to contribute creative input towards creating output, and have chosen to highlight an artist collective each week to demonstrate the camaraderie and creative mastery that is embodied in collaborative works in this blog series we call Rad Collabs. To kick things off, we’ve chosen to highlight a cooperative whose openness and non-exclusivity has yielded some beautiful and inspiring work: Sumi Ink Club.

Sumi Ink Club is a Los Angeles-based (but not always in one place) drawing collective which was founded in 2005 by Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Anderson.  Created with the credo “all ages, all humans, all styles”, the club was a means to fortify social interactions. Originally intended to use ink and paper Sumi Ink Club has also printed on fabric, walls, created stickers, tee shirts, magazines, and books, and has exhibited both nationally and internationally.

Fischbeck and Anderson are visionaries of all things collaborative. Their side project, Lucky Dragons, is the musical equivalent of Sumi Ink Club and it utilizes the concert space, turning it into a multi-media art piece which centers on audience participation.

Regular open meetings for Sumi Ink Club are held in a studio in Los Angeles’s Chinatown.  If you’re in La La Land and you want to join in on the fun, check out their blog for scheduled meetings. If you’re not in the area, visit their online store.

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