MAGIK PRESS STUDIOS
Magik Press Studios is an artist cooperative and micro-press’ that prints limited-edition, bespoke, and one-of-a-kind books, zines and art prints.
Our design services provide expert guidance for creators, arts educators, and community organizers. The studio also hosts events, workshops and mutual aid for all ages and experience levels.
Magik Press Studios is an artist cooperative and micro-press’ that prints limited-edition, bespoke, and one-of-a-kind books, zines and art prints. Our design services provide expert guidance for creators, arts educators, and community organizers. The studio also hosts events, workshops and mutual aid for all ages and experience levels.
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***Aly Maderson Quinlog identifies as a Non-Binary person and uses gender neutral pronouns.
Aly Maderson Quinlog is the Founder of Magik Press Studios, and co-founder of Magik Cooperative. Xe are a dynamic multi-disciplinary/multi-media, artist, poet, and art educator. Aly grew up near Charleston, SC and attended Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC for a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography. Xer photographic work has been exhibited worldwide. More recently xe earned a Post Baccalaureate certificate in Painting from the Lyme Academy of Arts in Old Lyme, CT and an MA in Art + Design Education from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI.
Currently, Aly teaches workshops throughout New England and beyond on:
Alternative Process Photography
Poetry
Paper and Book Arts
Cyanotype Printing
Zine Theory and Production
Art and Community Organizing
MA Art & Design Education,
Rhode Island School of Design
Post Baccalaureate Certificate -Mixed Media,
Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
Art History Undergraduate Coursework,
Old Dominion University
BFA Photography, Winthrop University
2023 Resident & Teaching Artist,
Westover School, Middlebury, CT
2022 Teaching Artist,
Connecticut College, New London, CT
2021 Teaching Artist, FRESH Art Garden Project
2020-2021 Host and Producer of art is for everybody Podcast
2020 Organizer of Art Kits Project
2020 Guest Lecturer, TLAD at Rhode Island School of Design
*** Tyasha / Ty is genderfluid and uses any and all pronouns interchangeably (they/she/he).
Tyasha / Ty is the co-founder of Magik Cooperative and caretaker of the Break the System Radical Archive. They are a Connecticut-based social artist, radical archivist and researcher whose work examines social movements, memory, and liberation. Themes of anti-oppression, mental health, and trauma recovery serve as focal points in Ty's art, reflecting a deep commitment to systemic healing. With a solid educational foundation in sociology and organizational leadership, Ty drives meaningful social change at the intersections of art, technology, and social justice. Tyasha’s experience and expertise spans antiracist marketing and communications, grassroots organizing, peer support + mutual aid, library science, design and paper arts. Ty leverages art as a powerful tool for transformative justice and collective liberation.
Currently, Ty hosts virtual and in-person groups and workshops on:
Peer Support and Collective Healing
Antiracist Marketing and Communications
Stick it!: Sticker Activism
Art as Organizing
Radical Archiving and Documentation
Teaching for Social Change: Pedagogy and Practice
Iris Afantchao is an archivist and writer from Windsor, CT based in western Massachusetts. In libraries, they love to add zines to the collection and run events about the many kinds of zines that may make their way into your local archive or library shelf. They love solo nights at the movie theater, spicy sweets, and reading historical gossip. Iris hopes to learn something new about printmaking this year. As an apprentice, Iris helps with events and learns about the many potential uses of zines for community organizing.
Founded in 2016, Magik Press began as Aly’s dream of a micro-press and arts studio where art, community, and organizing blend as one. As time has passed, this vision has continued to flourish. Tyasha/Ty came onboard early 2024, bringing radical social art for liberation. Thus, our dream to finally build a community by and for artists was realized with the creation of Magik Press Cooperative.
While we remain dedicated to our roots as a micro-press and arts studio, we have grown to include expanded design services, arts practices, and community workshops featuring the years of creative expertise of both our founders. Committed to sustainability and collective care, we strive to create a nurturing environment that supports both artists and the wider community.
Today, Magik Press stands as a testament to the power of cooperation centering art and liberation. Join us as we continue to celebrate the magik and strength of collective creativity.
