BLUEPRINT      is a collaborative, student-led arts-based project that seeks to radically offer a unique perspective into the personal experiences of queer and trans students at McMaster University’s School of the Arts. Spearheaded by Eli Nolet and Emma Eichenberg, the project is a collaboratively made hand-printed publication in a variable edition of 350. Influenced by the HANDBOOK: Supporting Queer and Trans Students in Art and Design Education, produced by OCADU students and faculty, the blueprint project seeks to center current issues and experiences of queer and trans students. It’s a field guide, a pedagogical intervention, a collection of experiences, a call to action.

The Name Of: 2026     brings together works by resident artists from The Name Of residency held at Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, facilitated by  artist Maddie Alexander.

Published as a culmination of the inaugural year of The Name Of residency, a space for Trans and Two-Spirit artists, on the occasion of the resident artists collaborative exibition hosted by Orchid Contemporary.

flink collective is an independent publishing press and artist collective based in Hamilton, Ontario, founded in 2024 by Eli Nolet and Emma Eichenberg. 

The collective grew from the collaborative BLUEPRINT project – a hand-printed publication centering queer and trans voices in arts education. Extending that impulse, we work at the intersection of publishing and collective art practice, exploring what independent presses can be when they’re built by hand, with care, and in community. 

Through collaborative and DIY approaches, flink publishes experimental arts-focused works that centre queer perspectives and emphasize material and process-based exploration. Working closely with artists and writers, we support the creation of handmade and unconventional projects that challenge and expand the ways art, writing, and publishing meet.