Founder of The Chicago Perch, Candor Arts, and For the Birds Trapped in Airports, Matthew Austin shares creative anecdotes, photographs, and analyses about how he came into this publishing work and where it goes from here.
Edited by Sara J. Winston, this book is available in paperback and handmade hardcover. Published and produced by For the Birds Trapped in Airports.
Times No Pigeons font used in chapter breaks made by Sonnenzimmer.
ISBN: 978-1-950615-12-4
Dimensions: 6 x 9"
Materials: Paperback book, 70 pgs
Candor Arts
(West Town)
Matthew Austin (he/him) is an arts worker in Los Angeles who is still learning. He has been working with books, furniture, and education in his creative efforts for the past several years.
Previous projects aligned with the efforts of this studio first began with The Chicago Perch in 2012 and evolved into Candor Arts in 2015. For the Birds Trapped in Airports is the current iteration of Matthew’s publishing practice.
Aymar Jean "AJ" Escoffery i
The Margaret Walker Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University and 2024-25 Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center. His research focuses on the political economy of legacy and new media, cultural studies and community-based research. He published his first book, Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television (NYU Press, 2018), and is currently writing his second book, Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal our Culture (MIT Press, 2025), which explores how to repair systemic harm and discrimination in media, technology and research. His research & development has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, MacArthur Foundation, and Wallace Foundation, among others.