An independent press and social art project on environmental storytelling
Oreades Press
Six Endings and Some Beginnings
Lost Cities
Botanical Storytelling workshop at Center For Book Arts, July 2025
Seed Mapping workshop at UAAD Festival, October 2024
Personal Essay and Memoir workshop with the Brooklyn Women's Writing Group, October 2024
Mapping Plant Colors workshop with artist Simona Winkler-Fishyan, November 2022
Founded in 2014, Oreades Press is a collaborative project by Rachel TonThat and Irene Lee named after the nymphs of the mountains who protect travelers.
About
We support and publish environmental storytelling to foster relationships between individuals, local communities, and the natural world.
Our artist books have been collected by Franklin Furnace at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, the SMFA Collection at Tufts University in Boston, and the Volumes Archive in Zurich. Through our digital archive, Impermanent Earth, we have published artists and writers from five continents and strive to represent diverse voices around the world.
We host free, publicly accessible creative workshops throughout the year, most recently with Center For Book Arts and at Brooklyn Public Library.
Mission