Copper Leaves Press

Copper Leaves Press is an independent publishing imprint focused on producing artist monographs, graphic novels, and children’s picture books. Founded in 2018 by Dahlia El Broul, the press supports artists who have been left out of mainstream formats, emphasising conviviality and the process of making books that lie outside market structures and institutional reasoning. Currently, we are in the process of many new projects, including a children's book by David Mark with Illustrations by Jessie Walker and an artist's monograph of Mark Kurdziel's paintings since 1986. (Links coming soon!)

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PUBLICATIONS

A Park Day

By Ayane Cacioppo Belantara, Skylar Butler, Lily Cabral, Lena Dudley, and Thierry-Joel Eneme
Produced in collaboration with the Harlem School of the Arts and Jennifer Prevatt

“One sunny day at a playground in New York City.

You can play.

It can rain!

The slides are fun and so are
the puddles!”

This picturebook was made possible by the inspiring team at HSA and the coordination and support of AK Lovelace.

Teaching artists Dahlia El Broul and Jennifer Prevatt created a curriculum that invited young artists to imagine, draw, write, revise, and make decisions together.

The book grew from shared experiences, ideas, experiments, disagreements, and discoveries. Each page was made
collaboratively and carries the marks of every author.

This book is one example of how situated knowledge along with collective artistic production can
produce what no single perspective could have made. And it can change what a picturebook is allowed to be.

—Dahlia El Broul

Where Do the Stars Go?

By David Mark
Paintings by Jessie Walker

“Where do the stars go
when they’re not making
pinpoints in the night?

They go out
flickering out
behind the daybreak
out of sight.

Where do the leaves go
when the wind’s grumbling
and the trees turn bare?

They go tumbling
and then crumbling
underfoot
everywhere... ”

—David Mark

The following publications of Dahlia’s Master's thesis and her PhD dissertation plan are also included on this page. These can be shared with friends and colleagues—They operate under a Creative Commons licence. So they are free to use, but please credit/acknowledge Dahlia’s work if these resources become meaningful in your future endeavours. Please email the author to notify them of the use of any of these texts. Thank you!

Taking Root Without Taking Over

Two Case Studies on the Micropolitics Between Art, Gentrification, and Agency

By Dahlia El Broul

For Imaginaries to Come:
Critical Knowledge Production in Children’s Picture Books