Lex Leto

Pictured: Lex wearing a shirt they designed and screenprinted with their girlfriend’s name on it.

DIY Publishing Resident, April-May 2026

Lex Leto is a musician and DIY printmaker. What began as a desire to make merch for their band and a refusal to accept anything other than screenprinting it locally by hand has resulted in, years later, a sporadic devotion to printmaking that is most often ignited by wanting to make surprise prints for their friends. Their love of printmaking is their love of design, of small press publications, of DIY, of teaching and skillsharing, of making with friends, of learning by way of failure, of inky hands, of bootlegged local band merch. Lex mostly screenprints, but also makes linocut, letterpress, and dreams of becoming a risograph sovereign one day.

Current project: Manifestos of the Midwest