Deconstructed Artichoke Press
Peeling back the leaves on bookbinding, printmaking and taletelling
Deconstructed Artichoke Press (aka Nikki Thompson) makes the artist’s books, zines, broadsides, and more. She’s a bookbinder, printmaker, and poet with work that featuring social justice, relationships, disability, & humor.
Featured Products
A contemplative sestina, a formal poem (as oppose to my usual prose poems) about tea, sewing, caves, and the end of a relationship.
Women politicians and women with a political statement to make often use fashion to say something, sometimes subtly and sometimes overtly.
SHIPPING AND TAX ARE APPLICABLE!
A look at the economic benefits of the pill in contrast to viagra, as well as the sexism.
SHIPPING AND TAX ARE APPLICABLE!
Six feminist buttons. Equal rights scales, pussy hat, feminist power fist, not the patriarchy, abort the court, feminist.
Wanna know a bit
about the artichokes?
Deconstructed Artichoke Press’s books are generally made of accordions, or zines from a single sheet of paper. The artichokes will teach you how to make those books! Check out their class page to see when and where their teaching. Or check out the Krafty Kits for an at-home experience.
Deconstructed Artichoke Press appear at various book and craft fairs, including Codex, San Francisco Center for the Book’s Roadworks, San Francisco Bay Area Printer’s Fair and Wayzgoose, San Francisco and Sacramento’s Zine Fairs, and more.
Their books appear in collections all over the country from libraries at California College of the Arts, Kelmscott Books, New York Public Library, Powell's Books, Scripps College, University of California Berkeley, University of Washington, among others.
