Unbannable Library > El-Chaer & Vincent: Banned Books

2024
2024


BANNED BOOKS

Text and lettering by Ali El-Chaer @ alielchaer_with artwork and book design by Patrick Vincent @ twinbeepress

Patrick Vincent and Ali El-Chaer’s collaborative book visualize’s El-Chaer’s original poem ‘Banned Books.’ The poem and its visualization reacts to historic and contemporary violence, colonialism, and oppression related to the restriction of writing and access to books.

Ali El-Chaer (b. 1995, they/he) is a trans diasporic Palestinian illustrator and painter, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. They received their bachelors in fine arts at Austin Peay State University (2018) and has since gone on to show their work in Jordan, South Africa, and New York.

Patrick Vincent is from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received his B.F.A. from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and his M.F.A. from Arizona State University. He has worked for the design/letterpress workspace Studio on Fire, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and Pyracantha Press. Vincent was the artist in residence at the Lawrence Art Center in Lawrence, KS and at the Black Church Print Studio in Dublin, Ireland. His work has been exhibited in international and national exhibitions as a part of juried and group exhibitions, as well as solo and two-person exhibitions. Presently, he is the Assistant Professor of Printmaking at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN