Passenger Pigeon Press is an independent press started by artist Tammy Nguyen which pursues nuance through the creation of artist books. The platform houses three projects: Martha’s Quarterly, Collaborations, and Public Domain. The publications address human culture, the environment, and geopolitics among many other themes.

Martha’s Quarterly is a quarterly subscription for four handmade artist books a year. It aims to present critical topics through thoughtful interdisciplinary collaborations from people working across disparate subjects, perspectives, and expertises through experimentally formed books that arrive in the mail each season of the year.

Collaborations are projects with artists and thinkers working across many disciplines who pursue topics that are less known. The Color Curtain Project, a series of “artist book and culinary experiences” where people can experience food whilst “reading” an artist book which explores Afro-Asian solidarity through the lens of the Bandung Conference.   Atomic Sublime was an artist book collaboration with Bombshelltoe, a nuclear policy and arts collective, that explored nuclear histories in the Grand Canyon and Nevada Test Site. 

Public Domain is an ongoing project that explores public archives from around the world. The publications are reproductions of publicly accessible government documents that are relevant to today's urgent issues.

We have created workshops and presentations at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of the Art Institute in Chicago, the Asia Art Archive in America, the Chicago Art Book Fair, The Bard Graduate Center, and Brown University. Our titles are in the permanent collections of the MoMa Library, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Library, the Joan Flash Artists' Book, Yale University Haas Family Art Library, the Asia Art Archive Hong Kong and America, and MIT Libraries.

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For any specific questions about your orders please contact our Project Manager, Holly Greene: holly@passengerpigeonpress.com