December 6, 2024: Steven Trull attends Framing the Urban at the Harvey Milk Photo Center. Informed by Henri Lefebvre’s concept of urban space as a socially produced phenomenon, the exhibition showcases student photographers first-time use of film and darkroom techniques to capture the diverse facets of urban life in San Francisco.
November 20, 2024: Wasted Books will table at the fifth annual SFMOMA Small Press Book Bazaar on Thursday, December 5, 2024.
October 25, 2024: Wasted Books attends David King Publications 1977-2019 at San Francisco Center for the Book. Curated by Luca Antonucci and Matt Borruso, the event marks the first-ever survey of artist and graphic designer David King’s small press publications, zines, ephemera, and early design projects.
October 12, 2024: Wasted Books attends book release party for Matt Borruso's new publications — Hands and Feet and Their Supports and Print Shop at Et Al on 2831 Mission Street.
September 22, 2024: Steven Trull meets with Clayton Hubbard, ceramic artist, at his 143 Scott Street studio. Hubbard sees the best of his work as three-dimensional and sometimes four-dimensional poems.
September 20, 2024: Wasted Books attends a party for Ho Tam Press hosted by Joon Park and the Chinese Cultural Center at 41 Ross Alley. Ho Tam's "Yellow Pages" was on view in book form and as wallpaper.
September 5, 2024: Wasted Books Playing for Ourselves, Playing for a Revolution: A History of Queer & Feminist Punk in San Francisco at the Skylight Gallery, Sixth Floor, San Francisco Main Library. During the reception Steven Trull meets Jack Johnston.
September 1, 2024: Wasted Books attends the San Francisco Zine Fest at City View at the Metreon, and brings home works by Small Supply, Void Moon Press, Fish Juice Media, The Pacific Northwest Conceptual Art Center, Late Night Copies Press, and Christina Hu.
August 31, 2024 - Wasted Books attends “We Are the One: San Francisco Punk 1970-1980” at the Haight Street Art Center.
July 27, 2024 - Wasted Books attends Chris Kerr’s Round Weather gallery’s opening reception, “One Last Round.” Kerr’s “The Russian Constructivist Flapper Dress” appears in Copy No. 2, a magazine of recycled materials.
July 18-21, 2024 - Exactly six months after appearing at FOG Design+Art 10, Wasted Books tables at the San Francisco Art Book Fair. Our friends Johnny Ray Huston, Eddy Falconer, Margaret Tedesco, Dean Smith, Mike Kitchell, Jarett Kobek, Melanie Eng, Jersey McDermott, Francis Vanschoote, Sara Hankin, Leslie Outhier, Andy Elliot, Jason Reichl and Laura Ogle, and Jessica Cabrera visit.
July 15, 2024 - Wasted Books’ magazine of recycled materials, Copy No. 2, goes to print. Contributors include: Itziar Barrio, Marianne Dages, Nika Dubrovsky, Noah Jerge, William E. Jones, Chris Kerr, Demi London, Yoko Ono, Stephen Perkins, Levi Sherman, and Margaret Tedesco.
July 13, 2024 - Wasted Books attends the Vintage Paper Fair at the San Francisco County Fair Building.
June 20, 2024 - Wasted Books’ reprint of Leslie Feinberg’s Journal of a Transsexual goes to print.
June 12, 2024 - Wasted Books will table at this year’s Off Register: Art Book and Print Fair happening in Santa Barbara, California, on November 16.
June 11, 2024 - Maxine Beiny, Managing Director of Antenne Books, London, invites Wasted Books to distribute with them.
June 6, 2024 - Vanessa N meets with photographer Brook Dillon in Lawrence to complete photography for the Kansas part of her upcoming book, Piss America.
June 5, 2024 - Steven Trull meets with Chad Johnson, Studio Director at the San Francisco Center of the Book, to learn how to cut paper for a book project. He becomes certified to use the Center’s guillotines and electric paper cutter.
June 1, 2024 - Eîlot Tuerie submits “Genesis,” a paper ball made of the pages of the Book of Genesis, to the Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) for consideration for the MCBA Prize, which honors excellence in new work from across the spectrum of book art.
May 17, 2024 - Steven Trull joins The International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA). His student membership status is questioned by IAPMA Treasurer Eva Maria Juras after she reviews his student certificate of proof—official transcripts from Roosevelt Elementary School.
May 12, 2024 - Wasted Books will table at this year’s San Francisco Art Book Fair, July 18-21. This marks the third consecutive year Wasted Books has entered the fair.
May 10, 2024 - Meta messages Wasted Books that it has decided to deactivate Wasted Books’ Instagram account for violating Meta’s rules. The rules that Meta alleges have been breached are: sharing copyrighted content, artificial likes and followers, and unwanted content and messages. Wasted Books has appealed Meta’s decision.