ABOUT
CALLE SOLEDAD PRESA
CALLE SOLEDAD PRESA (San Antonio, Texas) is an artist-run experimental rasquache press, founded by Diana Lizette Rodriguez. The press is created from the landscape, location-time meditations inside the Central Public Library which is located on Soledad Street. Calle Soledad es Rasquache. Trabajando con lo que tenemos. Lo visible y invisible. We work with what we have in hand and publish everything by hand. We work with the ephemeral. Ungraspable conditions of images & words. The press works on multiple projects, physical objects such as poetry books, art books/prints, Códex/Códices, Recording Tapes, journals & notebooks. Everything we make is one of one. The press focuses on developing relationships with other artists/poets, writers or first time bookmakers to guide them through a process of creative book developing, one-on-one editing, archival consultation, and insightful directing towards their own self-publishing. We engage with concepts of rethinking, reshaping and reimagining what the book can be. We believe the bookmaking process is spiritual one, being guided by spirit, ancestors, and those with vital force that guide us.
THE THINGS THAT CAN NOT BEEN SEEN BUT ONLY TRANSMITTED IN A SINGLE TIME & SPACE.
Calle Soledad Presa also teaches poetry, visual art & bookbinding workshops across Texas and BEYOND.
Calle Soledad Presa honors all bookmakers specifically the Otomi People who have inspired, given their wisdom and aided the presses vision. We also honor the artists/theorists like Tomás Ybarra-Frausto who have contributed their years of work for a press like this to exist.