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ampersand international arts is a contemporary arts space that opened in San Francisco in 1999. Its core purpose is to provide exhibiting opportunities to passionate, innovative and talented artists. ampersand is dedicated to championing, promoting, and nurturing these emerging and mid-career artists and creating a critical dialogue around their work.

Booklyn is an artist run non-profit organization that publishes, distributes and produces exhibits of PROVOCATIVE unique and limited edition artist books and works on paper worldwide. Currently rzockin': Xu Bing, Kottie Paloma, Raymond Pettibon, Iggy Scam, James Siena, Jessica Stockholder, Roland Tiangco, Mark Wagner, Scott Williams and mucho mas!

The Library of Radiant Optimism for Let's Re-Make the World began with a mutual fascination for books from the late 1960s and early 1970s that shared the aesthetic and ethics of self-publication and self-education. These how-to books document cultural practices from the founding and maintence of communal living spaces and growing your own organic garden, to early sustainable design initiatives and home-birthing. The people and projects represented in the books selected for inclusion in the Library paved the way for today's environmental movement and sustainable design culture. The counterculture of this time took seriously the task of building the world they wanted to see.