Diana Okonkwo Is Publishing Newark Back to Itself

Newark Print Works started because Diana couldn't find a way to publish her illustrations without losing either the quality or her savings. So she bought a risograph and figured it out herself. Now she prints her own work and opens the studio to anyone in Newark who has something to say. The Newark Skyline series — the one hanging in a lot of people's apartments right now — was her third project in the space. She drew it from photographs she took from the Passaic River bridge, at the hour when the city looks like something you'd want to remember. The edition is 80. There are about 20 left. I asked Diana if she was planning a second edition. She said she wasn't sure yet, because the right answer depends on what the first edition means to the people who have it, and she wants to know that before she decides.