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Independent Publishing Resource Center

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Independent Publishing Resource Center
Formation1998; 28 years ago (1998)
Founders
Founded atPortland, Oregon
Headquarters318 Southeast Main Street
Location
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Membership6,000 (2016)
Websiteiprc.org

The Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) is a resource center based in Portland, Oregon that provides access to tools for the creation of books, prints, posters, zines, and comics. The studios include a computer lab and general workspace, screen printing, letterpress printing, risograph printing, and a zine library. The center was founded in 1998 by Chloe Eudaly, owner of Reading Frenzy and Show & Tell Press, and Rebecca Gilbert, worker-owner at Stumptown Printers.[2][3]

Description

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Interior view in 2014

IPRC is an Oregon nonprofit organization offering education, outreach, and a library of more than 9,000 catalogued zines from around the world.[4] The library has the third largest zine collection in the United States, as of 2016.[5] Willamette Week has described the center as an "accessible, community-centric space" offering classes and tools.[6] Workshops include bookbinding, graphic and web design, letterpress printing, and self-publishing, as of 2010.[7]

The center's Youth Sunday program was created in 1998. As of 2015, the program occurs each Sunday, "when employees on-site assist youths in creating their own print media. The program aims to help novices understand the fine points of the growing field of independent publishing."[8] The center hosted an annual print show and sale, as of 2019.[9]

History

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IPRC was established in 1998.[10] The organization operated on Portland's west side for its first fifteen years,[11] above the Reading Frenzy at 921 Southwest Oak Street,[12][13] near Powell's Books.[14] The center relocated to a larger space at 1001 Southeast Division Street in 2012.[10] IPRC had approximately 6,000 members, as of mid 2016.[11]

IPRC faced a 300 percent rent increase when the April 2017 lease expired,[11][15] causing the center to relocate to its current location in the Gardeners and Ranchers building.[16] The organization crowdsourced more than $20,000 to help fund the new space.[17] The IPRC moved to 318 SE Main Street in 2017.[18]

Leadership

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Portland City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly served as the director of the IPRC before running for office in 2016.[19] Former board president Brian Tibbetts was serving as interim executive director following A.M. O'Malley's departure, as of August 2017. Alley Pezanoski-Browne became the executive director in 2018,[20] with Harper Quinn as the program director.[16]

Nicole Georges worked for IPRC for fourteen years, initially as an outreach coordinator and later as the center's first comic book instructor.[21]

IPRC has organized the Letterpress Print Fair; in 2019, the center hosted an Open House as part of Design Week Portland.[22]

In September 2022, the IPRC announced that it would be adopting a nonhierarchical leadership collective.[23] The organization has been led by four co-leaders since January 2023.[24]

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