The Zine Library is physically closed until further notice, but zine library staff are active. Email zines@barnard.edu with questions, for research support, or to learn more about our growing COVID19 zine collection.

Zine Classes and Workshops

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We teach with zines, working with area and visiting middle school, high school, and college students, and Girl Scout troops! Contact zine librarian Jenna Freedman or fill out this form to schedule a workshop.

Summer 2021

Class/Instructor	Format	Affiliation
Summer Digital Scholars: Susan Falciani Maldonado	Class	Muhlenberg College
CoLab Radical Literature and Zines: Kate Drabinski BC '97	Workshop	UMBC Women's Studies
Fugitive Mediums: Jerome Haferd	Class	Barnard Architecture
Building Biography: Caitlin M.S. Campbell (in person, no guide or slides)	Class	Columbia GSAPP
Public Hellenism: Dimitrious Antoniou	Class	Columbia Modern Greek
Overthrow the 10-Page Paperarchy: with Ziba Perez	Public Workshop	Critical Pedagogy Symposium

Spring 2021

Class/Instructor	Format	Affiliation
Leadership in Action (slide deck isn't public)	Class/Workshop	Barnard Athena Center
Natural Rhythms: Sound, Zines, and Documenting a Journey with Listening: Nicole Misha	Workshop	Barnard Zine Library
Critical Pedagogies: Jennifer Rosales	Class/Workshop	Barnard Education
Feminism and the Politics of Anger: Meredith Benjamin	Class/Workshop	Barnard First Year Seminar
The Structure, Technology, Empathy, and Mess of Zine Making: Claudia & Jenna	Workshop	Barnard Zine Library
Design and Digital Humanities: Cassandra Hradil	Class/workshop	Parsons College, New School
Studies in Feminist Activism: Kate Drabinski	Class	University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Seventh Grade Art: Ann Weber	Class	Healdsburg School
Zines and Flyers: Asuka Ohsawa and Jennifer Schmidt	Class	Tufts University, SMFA
History of Architecture and Feminism: Anooradha Siddiqi	Class	Barnard Architecture
Climate and Society: Brian Kahn & Andrew Kruczkiewicz	Class	Columbia GSAS

Fall 2020

Class/Instructor	Format	Affiliation
Printmaking and Zines: Traci Tullius	Class	Stern School, Yeshiva University
I Made You a Zine: Zine Making (for BSAC)	Workshop	Barnard Zine Library
I Made You a Zine: Zine Making	Workshop	Barnard Zine Library & Design Center
Global Health, Politics, and Society: Amy Zhou	Workshop	Barnard Sociology
Zine Design Three Ways	Workshop	Barnard Zine Library & IMATS
Big Problems: Making Sense of 2020 for discussion leaders	Workshop (x2)	Barnard First Year Experience
From Broadsheets to Blogs: Magazines, Art, & Public Culture taught by Lori Cole	Class/Workshop	NYU, XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement
Historical Approaches to Feminist Questions: Neferti Tadiar	Workshop	Barnard Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The End of Monuments: Anavelyse Allen-Mossman	Class	Columbia, Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Global Feminisms: Taveeshi Singh	Class/Workshop	Hamilton College
Art, AIDS, Activism: Alice Reagan	Class	Barnard First Year Seminar
Big Problems: Making Sense of 2020 for discussion leaders	Class (x2)	Barnard First Year Experience
Visualizing Identities: Aimée Bessire	Class	Bates College
Ocean Capewell's Talk Show Fantasy: Inside a 1996 Teen Zinester's Brain	Asynchronous activity	Barnard: New Student Orientation Program

Summer 2020

Class/Instructor	Format	Affiliation
Zines: An Introduction to Fighting the Power with a Piece of Paper	Class/Workshop	BLAIS Racial Justice Summer Camp
Zine Making	Workshop	Newark Zine Fest
Young Women's Leadership Institute	Class/Workshop	Barnard Pre-College Program
Summer Pedagogy Symposium	Class/Workshop	Center for Engaged Pedagogy

Spring 2020

Class/Instructor	Format	Affiliation
Zine unit - Sara Yukimoto-Saltman's 9th & 10th graders (unpublished slideshow)	Zoom Class (3x)	Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy
Zine unit - Sara Yukimoto-Saltman's 9th & 10th graders (unpublished slideshow)	Zoom Workshop (3x)	Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy
Zines for Fun, Fighting the Power, and Self-Documentation with Vanessa Thill BC '13	Zoom Workshop	Barnard Library
Writing as Activism: Melissa Tombro	Class	FIT
Zine Culture: Anya Kurennaya	Class	Parsons, the New School
Climate and Society: Brian Kahn & Andrew Kruczkiewicz	Class/workshop	Columbia Earth Institute
Carrie Klein & Michelle George's 5th grades	Class/workshop	Blue School
Barbara Mann (no guide)	Zoom Class	Jewish Theological Seminary
~~Ginn Norris~~	~~Class/workshop~~	~~Trinity School~~
Feminism and the Politics of Anger: Meredith Benjamin	Zoom Class/workshop	First Year Seminar
Race, Science, and Reproductive Justice: Cecelia Lie-Spahn	Zoom Class/workshop	First Year Seminar
~~Hannah Givertz~~	~~Class/workshop~~	~~Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem~~
Activism and Affect: Manijeh Moradian (unpublished slideshow)	Class with the Archives	Barnard WGSS

Fall 2019

Class/Instructor	Format	Affiliation
Alternative Media and Literature: Kelley Kreitz	Class	Pace University, English
Photography I: Rola Khayyat	Class/workshop	Columbia
Witches: Wendy Schor-Haim	Class/workshop	First Year Seminar
Integrative Studio I: Fake: Sophia Mok	Class	Parsons School of Design
Zine Elective with 7th & 8th Graders: Hannah Givertz	Class/workshop	Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem
Women and Leadership (two sections): Sylvie Honig	Workshop	Athena Center
Design Futures: Fred Tang	Class	Barnard (Architecture)
Design Futures: Virginia Black	Class	Barnard (Architecture)
Modes of Inquiry: Sayantani DasGupta	Class	Columbia

Summer 2019

Class/Instructor	Format	Affiliation
Critical Reading: Erika Lukert	Class/Workshop	Columbia University Summer Immersion
Graphic Novels: Van Ahn Tran (taught by Jade Levine)	Class/Workshop	Teachers College, Social Studies

Spring 2019

Class/Instructor	Format	Affiliation
Social Justice theme: Misra Walker	Class/Workshop	Girls Inc. in the Young Women's Leadership School
Social Justice Project Time: Kyle Lukoff	Class/Workshop	Corlears School
Social Justice and Inclusion: Lauren Percy	Class	Sulzberger & Reid Halls
Witches: Wendy Schor-Haim	Class/Workshop	First Year Seminar
Race, Science, and Reproductive Justice: Cecelia Lie-Spahn	Class/Workshop	First Year Seminar
Feminism and the Politics of Anger: Meredith Benjamin	Class	First Year Seminar
Inventing Childhood: Donna Paparella	Class/Workshop	First Year Seminar
Writing as Activism: Melissa Tombro	Class	FIT
Feminist Cultural Studies: Kate Eichhorn	Class	Eugene Lang College
Graphic Novel: Barbara Mann	Class/Workshop	Jewish Theological Seminary
Library Ambassadors: Laura Winnick	Class/Workshop	Blue School
Honors English: Toni Presti	Class/Workshop	Marvelwood School
Affect and Activism: Manijeh Moradian	Class	WGSS
Book Arts: Mylo Mendez	Class	Parsons
People, Power, Protest: Marnie Brady	Class	First Year Seminar
Photo Seminar: Katherine Hubbard	Class	Columbia School of the Arts

Fall 2018

Class/Instructor	Format	Affiliation
Sociology of Gender: Marnie Brady	Workshop	Barnard Sociology
Back at Barnard	Workshop	Barnard Residence Life
Modes of Inquiry: Sayantani DasGupta	Class	Columbia CSER

Summer 2018

Class/Instructor	Format	Affiliation
Zine Overview & History: Laura Winnick's class	Workshop	Booklyn
Zine-Making as Feminist Practice	Workshop	YWLI, Barnard PCP
Human Rights Zines	Workshop	Ohio State University
Zine Matters: Erica Cardwell's class	Workshop	Barnard PCP

Spring 2018

Class/Instructor	Format	Affiliation
Seizing the Means of Publication	Workshop	Syracuse University
Feminist Futures: Alex Pittman's class	First Year Seminar	Barnard College
People, Power, and Protest: Marnie Brady's class	First Year Seminar	Barnard College
Artist as Writer	Fine Arts	Parsons

Fall 2017

Class/Instructor	Format	Affiliation
Art/Zines	Cooke School	High School
Zine Making	Girl Scout Troop 3484	Middle School
NYC Zine Culture	New School	College
Zine Making	Sociology of Gender	Barnard College

Summer 2017

Class/Instructor	Format	Affiliation
Manifesto Zines	Barnard YWLI	High school
Human Rights Zines	Columbia University	College
Summoning the Archive	NYU Conference	Scholars
Feminist Art and Space in New York	Barnard PCP	High School

Spring 2017

Class/Instructor	Format	Affiliation
Photobook	SVA	College
Photography	Columbia University	College
Women and Art	St. Joseph's	College