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three fold—summer 2026
Cranbrook Art Museum’s current exhibition “Monumental Color: Cecily Brown, Sam Gilliam, and Joan Mitchell” brings together significant artworks by three quintessential abstract artists. Through the museum’s performance series, featured artists engage in dialogue with performers whose work resonates with Sam Gilliam’s love for jazz, Joan Mitchell’s lifelong connection to poetry, and the frenetic physicality of Cecily Brown’s paintings.
Joan Mitchell, Preface for Chris, 1973. Oil on canvas. Collection Cranbrook Art Museum. Gift of Rose M. Shuey, from the Collection of Dr. John and Rose M. Shuey. © Estate of Joan Mitchell. Photo: PD Rearick
Saturday, August 8, 1 p.m.
Monumental Connection: Three Fold
Poetry reading by Eléna Rivera and Chris Tysh
Larson Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills

Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) was a leading Abstract Expressionist painter active in the New York School of painters and poets. She was celebrated for her adept use of color, evoking the natural world. A published poet at the age of 10, Mitchell grew up studying literature closely throughout her life, despite her commitment to abstraction in her canvases. Mitchell refused legibility, often working on multiple panels which she arranged and rearranged.

This reading is presented in partnership with Cranbrook Art Museum. The event brings together New York–based poet Eléna Rivera, whose work with Three Fold has engaged the paintings of Joan Mitchell, and Detroit-based poet Chris Tysh, for a program of readings in dialogue with art and place.

three fold mailing—fall 2025
To celebrate five years of Three Fold Press, in winter 2025 we invited nearly 200 of our published artists and poets to contribute to “Three Fold Mailing,” an international mail art project inspired by the influential activities of Ray Johnson’s Correspondence School and Ken and Ann Mikolowski’s Alternative Press (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1969–1999). Three Fold asked its global participants to create an uninstructed artwork on the front of a letterpress postcard, in the modality of their choosing (drawing, painting, collage, poem, proclamation, witticism, etc) and mail it to our U.S. headquarters.
This exhibition of original works for sale was installed at Trinosophes in Detroit (November 22–30, 2025) and Salt & Cedar in Paris (December 5–14, 2025).

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special section—fall 2025
Media City Film Festival (MCFF) and Trinosophes Projects present two free Detroit screenings curated by MCFF Artistic Director, Oona Mosna, showcasing films by Kevin Jerome Everson that span nearly twenty years of the artist’s prolific output (2007–2024). Ranging from early enigmatic fragments of 50-year-old found footage through to studied compositions of celestial bodies, this survey captures elements from both MCFF’s long history of exhibiting Everson’s work and the artist’s polyvalent approach to moving images, rooted in the experience and representational construction of the Midwest Black working class. [Read more ...]


Three Quarters, Kevin Jerome Everson, 4 min, 16mm > digital, 2015. Film still © Kevin Jerome Everson courtesy the artist; trilobite-arts DAC and Picture Palace Pictures

issue no. seventeen—winter 2025
Men of the Cloth, Men of Capital by Michael Jackman: An ongoing series on civil rights in Detroit in the 1940s
Answer Me by Nora Baroudjian | translated by Tamar Marie Boyadjian
Imaginary Dinner Party, Part Sixteen by Lynn Crawford
Poetry by Jeanne Heuving, Jennifer Firestone, Timothy Yu, Carly Sachs, Dong Li, julie ezelle patton
special section—media city film festival & three fold
In partnership with the 27th virtual edition of Media City Film Festival [MCFF], a trailblazing international festival for film and digital art, Three Fold profiles eight artists whose moving image work is celebrated in the MCFF Spotlight Series: Richard Serra, Ja’Tovia Gary, Narcisa Hirsch, Jocelyne Saab, Mona Hatoum, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Nour Ouayda, and Christopher Harris [Read more ...]



special section—december 29, 2023
In the wake of Artforum editor-in-chief David Velasco’s firing in October over an open letter signed by artists and scholars supporting Palestinian liberation, thirty-two writers retracted their pieces from the December 2023 issue, among them Adriano Pedrosa, Amy Taubin, Brontez Purnell, Catherine Lacey, Çağla İlk, Cindy Ji Hye Kim, Claire Bishop, David O’Neill, Erin Christovale, Erika Balsom, Gordon Hall, Gray Wielebinski, Hal Foster, Huey Copeland, Jace Clayton, James Quandt, Jason Moran, Jennifer Krasinski, Jensen Leonard, John Kelsey, John Waters, Meg Onli, Michael Fried, Nicole Eisenman, Rachel Kushner, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Sasha Geffen, Tiana Reid, Tiffany Sia, Tim Griffin, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, and Weyes Blood. Three Fold extended an invitation to several of those who pulled their writing, and to punctuate 2023, we are publishing withdrawn Artforum contributions from Claire Bishop, Erika Balsom, and Weyes Blood. As genocide continues to unfold in Gaza and epistemicide and McCarthyism proliferate globally, Three Fold Press firmly stands in solidarity with all writers and artists who oppose the atrocities and war in Gaza –Jonathan Rajewski, Editor, Visual Art

issue no. six—spring 2022
In Dedication: Rico Africa, Old Miami, Detroit
When Life Was a Gay Bar
A dossier by artist and writer Michael Conboy (Los Angeles) on the 1970s-80s Detroit scene of his youth, featuring paintings and illustrations, memoirs, drag photos, club fliers, and a short story
Three Fold Commissions: Nancy Mitchnick, Patrick Hill
Telephones by Paul Elliman
Excerpts from a pre-history of that moment when the human voice is first cut from its source in the body
Guess Where I Am by Paul Elliman
The Last to Figure It Out by Michael Jackman
Imaginary Dinner Party, Part Five
Forms of Engagement by Lynn Crawford
Poetry by Aaron Shurin, Stacy Szymaszek, Nathaniel Mackey, Norman Fischer, Jennifer Scappettone
Fiction by Evelyn Hampton, Rick London
Photo for Menjo’s advertisement, Michael Conboy, c. 1980s 

issue no. five—winter 2022
Our winter 2022 issue was presented in partnership with Media City Film Festival, a trailblazing festival for film and digital art based in Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan. Since 1994, the festival has engaged such artists as Yoko Ono, Michael Snow, Alvin Lucier, and hundreds others. The 25th Anniversary virtual edition ran February 8 through March 1, 2022, featuring 70+ films from 30+ countries, in full open access globally. In conjunction, Three Fold profiled eight artists whose moving image work was celebrated in a Spotlight Series. [Read more ]
Artist In Residence In Exile, Megan O’Connell, 2021
Doom and Glory in the Cass Corridor
Part two of a dossier on Detroit visual artist Cay Bahnmiller—dream diaries, Gilbert and Lila Silverman, Der Imker (the beekeeper), mail art, communiqués, a secret spy network, Structo-vision, photography, books, and a kaddish for Cay by Cary Loren
Three Fold Commissions: Ruqayyah Alzona Al-Baari, Jim Chatelain, Chris Riddell
Bringing Detroit by Ian John Solomon, Jay Orellana and Crystal Mioner
Ruminations on Beauty by Rochelle Marrett
My First Stroll Through Eternity by Stephen Paul Trimboli
Imaginary Dinner Party, Part Four: Possession by Lynn Crawford
Poetry by Alice Notley, Peter Gizzi, Quincy Troupe, Rachelle Rahmé, Maureen Owen
Fiction by Garrett Caples, Jose Padua, Robert Lopez
Corazón Sangrante, Ximena Cuevas, México, digital, 4 min, 1993



Maureen Taylor, Hannah Jones, 2020
issue no. one—fall 2020
On the cover: Say Translation is Art (excerpt), Sawako Nakayasu
In Dedication: Meditation Device by Hannah Jones & Rebecca Mazzei
What’s Been Done and What’s Been Won by Bob Ostertag with Maureen Taylor
Integral Whirls: A Dossier on Ephraim Asili by Greg de Cuir Jr
Making a Making: Jonathan Rajewski in Conversation with Bill Dilworth
Black Lives Matter? by Fred Williams
What is in a Name by Imani Mixon
Art, Ritual & Theory in Mandenka Historiography by Nubia Kai
Wild Gardening & Improvisation by Thollem
Heal Ourselves by Peter Sparling & Thollem
Hear That Snap: Joel Peterson in Conversation with Hakim Jami
The Orgasmic Space Poetry of Henry R. Lewis by Cary Loren
Malayeen by Leyya Tawil
Poetry by Laura Moriarty, John Sinclair, Khaled Mattawa, Sawako Nakayasu, Tyrone Williams
Fiction by Owólabi, Lynn Crawford