Workshops
TCA Zinefest 2025: The Power of Prints
21Minus | Love and Liberation, Jun 15, 2024
Photo: Sarah Kam
Join us for music, free snacks, free zines, and more!
The Teen Creative Agency at the MCA is celebrating 13 years (and counting) of DIY publications! This event showcases the original artwork, activism, and social practice of Chicago-area youth and emerging adults, as captured in zine form.
This year, TCA designed and created zines exploring the history of power in print. In addition, we’ve partnered with ZINEmercado to bring in a broader range of local and regional zine-makers and independent presses.
TCA highlights teen ideas and perspectives in the museum space. Its members gather at the MCA from all over the Chicagoland area to collaboratively create public responses to relevant contemporary issues. In doing so, they build relationships alongside other cultural institutions, organizations, and professionals in Chicago’s vibrant art scene.
Participants
Along with the TCA teens, this year the following zine makers and zine groups will be tabling at Zinefest:
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- Quimbys
- UIC Student Zinesters
- DePaul Student Zinesters
- Lunar Stardust Cereal Collective
- Philip Bell
- Duress Press
- Ese Gago
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- Mi Rayo de Sol
- 826 Chi
- Arianna Aquino
- Zine Mercado
- Marcel Osorio/The TrailMixer
- Thea Galleria
- SAIC Print Club
- Uncle Zoe
Funding
Generous support for the Teen Creative Agency is provided by the Dr. Scholl Foundation and Peoples Gas Community Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.
Major support for Learning programs at the MCA is provided by Crown Family Philanthropies and Carol Prins and John Hart/The Jessica Fund.
Additional generous support is provided by the Friends of Edwin A. Bergman Fund, the Hulda B. & Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation, Diane Kahan, The Marshall Frankel Foundation, and The William Randolph Hearst Foundations.
