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September 8, 2015

New exhibit helps the blind and those with sight ‘see’ downtown Miami Architecture in The Miami Herald

Imagine you are blind.

How would you get a sense of what a city skyline looks like? Or fathom the architecture of buildings, in all their grandeur, that gives...

September 4, 2015

Seven Top Picks for Miami’s DWNTWN Art Days on Knight Foundation blog

7. “Listen to This Building” Orientation and Mobility Tours
MCAD is also the site of a unique and exciting exhibition from Knight Arts Challenge winner EXILE Books. “Listen...

September 3, 2015

MCAD rethinks accessibility and design through exhibit in the Miami Herald

Standing on the steps of the Miami Center for Architecture and Design, Ryan David New asked Christopher Downey, a blind architect and urban planner who traveled from...

June 15, 2015

Her Perfume Tears on opening ceremony blog

The term multi-hyphenate doesn’t even come close to describing Lizzi Bougatsos. When she isn’t exhibiting her work at various art galleries and museums, she’s heading art rock group...

June 22, 2015

Her Perfume Tears on Ravelin

We sat down with Lizzi Bougatsos to talk about her brand new, limited-edition book, Her Perfume Tears. The book draws on Lizzi’s lifetime in the arts, so it...

May 1, 2015

Miami Zine Fair featured on O, Miami Blog

The Biggest Zine Fair in Miami EVER, probably

This year's Miami Zine Fair took place on a hot and windy day. As gusts passed through YoungArts plaza, zines...

May 4, 2015

EXILE Books is a finalist for the 2016 South Florida Knight Arts Challenge!

We couldn't be happier and more humbled to be a part of the 73 incredible projects selected as finalists for this year’s Knight Arts Challenge. Many thanks to...

April 29, 2015

Feminist Pizza Party, EXILE Books on Tropicult

I first learned of the Feminist Pizza Party while scrolling through my Facebook feed and immediately it caught my interest – not just because the promise of free...

April 18, 2015

A Zine Scene Shining Bright, EXILE Books on the Knight Arts Blog

The iconic Bacardi building complex on Biscayne Boulevard has always been a beacon, with its distinctive architecture and the stained-glass horizontal tower lighting up the neighborhood even during...

April 1, 2015

Amanda Keeley & EXILE Books in Ocean Drive Magazine

Penned to Paper: EXILE Books Champions the Tome as an Art Object- and as a Community Builder

“I always did art on the side, but I never considered it...

March 19, 2015

EXILE Books on Printeresting

Amanda Keeley’s ongoing project, EXILE Books, is an artist’s bookstore that travels around Miami from venue to venue, activating spaces to create awareness about artists publications and provide a...

March 24, 2015

Exile Books in the New Times

People buy Playboy magazine for their awesome, award-winning interviews and thought pieces. This is a fact. That there happens to be some T&A thrown in to break the...