Pop-Up Events

We offer one-day workshops and activations for children, teens, and adults. Previous one-off events include Pokémon Drawing Club, Outdoor Printmaking, Alphabet Alchemy, Sculptural Books, Single-page Zines and Pockets, Papermakers, Cyanotypes, The World’s Longest Accordion Book, Typewriter Poetry, Cardboard Fort-building, Found Object Sculpture, and more. All of our workshops are tailored to be site-specific and meet the needs of our partnering organizations. For more information or to book a pop-up, write to citationneededpress@gmail.com.

Workshop Series

We with partner community centers, schools, non-profits, and arts organizations to provide free and affordable book arts workshops to people of all ages. Through a weekly workspace, children explore a range of 2-D media, scanners, typewriters, and drawing materials to support them in creating books and prints.

The full Citation Needed Workshop Series is 8 modules, with 4 workshops in each module. We offer a number of options for partnering organizations who don’t have capacity for the full curriculum. This series has modifications for early learners, K-8 students, and high schoolers. For more information or to inquire about a worship series, write to citationneededpress@gmail.com.

  • We offer varying engagements to meet the specific needs of our partner organizations.

    • Single module (4 weeks)

    • Double module (8 weeks)

    • Half year (16 weeks)

    • Full year (32 weeks)

  • After years of piloting this workshop series, we have boiled our program down into distinct modules:

    • Zines

    • Mixed Media Collage

    • Comics

    • Creative Writing

    • Printmaking

    • Visual Poetry

    • Book Design

    • Publishing

  • Though we are approach making from a process-based lens, we value children and families having a take-home product. Here are the possibilities in terms of tangible outcomes:

    • Poster

    • Postcards

    • Single-page zine

    • Digital publication

    • Collaborative artist book

    • Individual artist books

Special Programs

We work with schools and libraries to create arts-integrated curriculums for elementary, middle, and high school students in ELA, ELL, history, social justice, and STEAM. Previous and current special programs include: Book in a Week (Art Omi), ELL Book Arts (Queens Public Library), Imagined Futures: Inspired Archives (Women’s History Month at the Queens Public Library), Science of Sight (Queens Public Library), and Earth Day Comics (P.S. 168).

For more information on booking a special program with us, write to citationneededpress@gmail.com.

Bringing over a decade of experience as an art teacher, facilitator, and trainer, Citation Needed founder Ari Wolff offers professional development and training in:

  • Arts-based Literacy Approaches

  • Process-based Art Approaches for Early Childhood

  • Teaching Book Arts to Elementary Schoolers

  • Reading and Writing as Social Practices

  • Emergent Writing for Early Childhood

In each of these 1.5hr workshops, teachers, parents, and educators engage in hands-on artmaking, learn key theoretical frameworks, and walk away with a tangible set of tools and exercises they can put into practice immediately. For more detailed descriptions of our professional development offerings, email citationneededpress@gmai.com.

Professional development

Artist Talks

We offer Artist Talks on our practice and pedagogy at fairs, conferences, galleries, and universities. Drawing our first three years of publishing with children and artistic research on collaborative artmaking as a form of social practice, we give online and in-person presentations. We have given talks at Bangkok University, Center for Book Arts Conference, and Ulises Books.