3rd Spaces, Making Places, Mac & Cheese, Zines, & a Risograph Machine Named Barbara

Kate Bingaman-Burt processes the pandemic by operating a very in-person and hands-on community risograph print shop called Outlet. In this Columbia Design League event, she shares how she coped with the stress and perhaps regressed by making zines and why finishing a sketchbook seemed to elude and even taunt her for the first 40 years of her life. 

$15 / Free for CDL members and USC students

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Kate Bingaman-Burt is a multi-disciplinary artist, illustrator, and educator based in Portland, Oregon. Kate’s teaching focuses on helping others find their creative voice and empowering people through making marks, making zines, and making prints. For her own practice, Kate mostly draws, letters, documents, and collects, but she also does a lot of other things that involve energy, conversation, and exchange. She is a full-time educator and makes illustrations for all sorts of clients all around the world, including The New York Times, Hallmark, Girl Scouts of America, and Chipotle, as well as locally loved institutions like OMSI, Buy Olympia, and the Independent Publishing Resource Center. Since 2008, she has worked at Portland State and now holds the rank of professor of graphic design. She is also the associate director of the School of Art + Design and the head of the Graphic Design program.  In 2017, Kate founded the community print space Outlet, which hosts workshops, pop-up events, a zine library, and a fully operational risograph print studio. 

This program is in partnership with USC as part of the School of Visual Arts and Design Visiting Artist Series.