Metabolic Studio

FREE KN95 MASKS AVAILABLE

As the Boyle Heights Lineage Fire continues to impact air quality across Los Angeles, Metabolic Studio has free KN95 masks available for community members who may need them.

Masks can be picked up at Metabolic Studio, or email us and we will coordinate getting them to people and communities affected by the fire and ongoing smoke conditions.

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The Boyle Heights Lineage Fire has been burning for days at a 500,000-square-foot cold-storage facility. Smoke from the fire contains fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and other combustion byproducts that can travel well beyond the immediate area. Air quality impacts have been reported in Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles, Downtown Los Angeles, Montebello, Monterey Park, and portions of the San Gabriel Valley. (The Guardian⁠)

For current information and health guidance:

🔥 Los Angeles Fire Department
https://www.lafd.org

🌫 South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD)
https://www.aqmd.gov

🌫 Smoke & Air Quality Safety Information
https://www.aqmd.gov/smokesafety

🌫 Real-Time Air Quality Map
https://www.airnow.gov

🌫 Community Air Monitoring Map
https://map.purpleair.com

🏥 Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
https://publichealth.lacounty.gov

☎️ LA County Information Line
Dial 211 or visit:
https://211la.org

Please consider limiting outdoor activity, keeping windows and doors closed, running air filtration where possible, and wearing a properly fitted KN95 or N95 mask when outdoors. Public health officials continue to advise caution while smoke impacts remain active. (The Guardian⁠)

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Farmlab Zines 01–10
Metabolic Studio / Printed Matter Art Book Fair
Table D9

We’re excited to share a new set of Farmlab zines produced especially for this year’s Printed Matter Art Book Fair.

Emerging from Metabolic Studio’s Farmlab, these publications move through ecological art, watershed repair, soil remediation, floodplains, compost, insects, Indigenous knowledge, clay, flowers, urban infrastructure, and the living systems that persist beneath the city.

One of us will be at the table throughout the fair and would love to talk with you about the work, the watershed, and the ongoing experiments, collaborations, and questions that shaped these publications.

Featuring:

• All The Pretty Little Bugs — Michel Bréard
• What the Soil Keeps — Bella Escobar
• Protocols of Repair — Maru García
• Touching The Past: Clay as a Medium of Connection — Alex Tanasi
• Teachings That Took Root — Milli Macen-Moore
• Unseen Un-Development: How Big Is Here? — Diego Zapata
• Compostmortem — Michel Bréard
• Compostpartum — Michel Bréard
• Artists Must Behave Like Rivers — Lauren Bon
• Speed Dating with Flowers on a Cloudy Day — Michel Bréard

To gather, form, and release.

Come visit us at Table D9.