Tree News

LA Art Book Fair ✰ May 15–18, 2025

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Tree News will be at Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair! Recent issues will be featured in OFF THE RECORD, an exhibition of zines and artist books organized by Departure Lounge (Los Angeles).

LA Art Book Fair: Off the Record
Curated by Jamison Edgar and Matthew McGaughey, the exhibition features artists working across the United States who explore our entangled sociopolitical relationships with more-than-human subjects. These artists use creative publishing as a foil to traditional cultural criticism, advancing their own forms of grassroots journalism.

Presenting Artists:
Tree News (Paper Buck, Erin Mallea), Marianne Hoffmeistter Castro, Matthew Lax, Sean Seu.

Los Angeles Art Book Fair
May 15-18th, 2025
ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA

 

Above: Re-printing and assembling the full Tree News back catalog. Issues 1-5 will be available at the LA Art Book Fair.

 

Uprooted: Plants Out of Place ✰ March 22, 2025

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Issues of Tree News will be featured in Uprooted: Plants Out of Place, opening March 22, 2025 at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The exhibition explores humans’ role in the history and future of invasive plants.

Read more about Plants Out of Place in the New York Times!

Tree News No. 3, Summer 2022

 

Tree News ✰ Public Collections + Local Sellers

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Tree News No. 5 was recently acquired and added to the collections of several institutions. It’s now in: Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Otis College of Art & Design’s Artist Book & Zine Collection, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Zine Collection, and on its way to George Mason University Library.

In addition to purchasing online, copies are available at Fungus Books and Paper, Dirt in Pittsburgh.

 

Tree News at PABF ✰ Sept 28–29, 2024

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Left: Travis Mitzel, Tree of Heaven and Spotted Lanternfly relationship sprawl across time, Pennsylvania, and beyond, 2024. Right: Erin Mallea, found, stomped Spotted Lanternfly, 2023.

Tree News No. 5 is launching at the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair at the Carnegie Museum of Art in late September! Subscribe or pre-order here.

Issue 5 features contributions from scientists, historians and anthropologists to consider the larger context of Spotted Lanternfly's (SLF) arrival to Pennsylvania and spread in North America. We examine the media buzz and invasion rhetoric of the viral “STOMP!” campaigns, the history of the insect’s preferred plant, Tree of Heaven, in Pennsylvania, and novel coexistence on a planet ravaged by human industry and climate change. What does it mean to be “invasive” to already transformed and evolving ecosystems?

The issue was organized, designed, and produced by Erin Mallea and Travis Mitzel. Issue No. 5 features an excerpt from an Interdisciplinary Roundtable about the SLF at the American Ethnological Society’s Spring 2024 Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. The panel included presentations by Nicole Heller, Ecologist and Associate Curator of Anthropocene Studies at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Kelli Hoover, Professor of Entomology at Pennsylvania State University, Travis Mitzel, Artist and Instructor at Seton Hill University, Noah Theriault, Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, and Emily Wanderer, Associate Professor of Anthropology, at the University of Pittsburgh. The panel was organized by Noah Theriault, Nicole Heller and Emily Wanderer.

The issue concludes with an essay by Maria Ryabova, PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, focused on the development and implications of a Spotted Lanternfly-killing robot within the context of robotics research ecosystems.

 

Tree News at the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair

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Tree News (me and Paper Buck) released of Issue 4 at the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair. I had the pleasure of speaking with artist Magali Duzant about her upcoming book A Tree Grows in Queens, herbaria, and working with archives and being in conversation with Mason Heberling, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Curator of Botany, for the issue. We were thrilled to participate in a panel discussion at with museum organized by Paper Cuts featuring Homie House Press and The Black Unicorn Library and Archive Project. Our discussion will be available online shortly.