Dilettante Press is an independent book publisher, co-founded by Jodi Wille

Jodi Wille

Jodi Wille is a book editor, filmmaker, and cultural event producer known for collaborating with individuals who have amassed personal archives that document American subcultures...

, Nick Rubenstein, and Steven Nalepa in 1995. Dilettante is a publishing house dedicated to “challeng[ing] traditional notions of art and culture,” focusing its efforts on featuring visionary, outsider, vernacular art in books.

Dilettante only published three titles, but "their impact was considerable." Dilettante’s first book, The End Is Near! Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium and Utopia, won the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best First Book. Their subsequent titles included: Extreme Canvas: Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana. By Ernie Wolfe, III and Starstruck: Photographs from a Fan by Gary Lee Boas, selected by Artforum Magazine as "Best of 2000".

Jodi Wille went on to co-found Process Media

Process Media

Process Media is an independent publishing house, the result of a collaboration between Adam Parfrey of Feral House and Jodi Wille of Dilettante Press.Process was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Port Townsend.-Awards:...

 in 2005 with husband Adam Parfrey

Adam Parfrey

Adam Parfrey is an American journalist, editor, and the publisher of Feral House books, whose work in all three capacities frequently centers on unusual, extreme, or "forbidden" areas of knowledge.-Life:...

 of Feral House

Feral House

Feral House is a book publisher owned and operated by Adam Parfrey. The publisher itself describes the books it sells as "pure information", and says the topics of the books are "forbidden"....

. Process Media

Process Media

Process Media is an independent publishing house, the result of a collaboration between Adam Parfrey of Feral House and Jodi Wille of Dilettante Press.Process was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Port Townsend.-Awards:...

 now distributes the Dilettante titles.

External links

• Dilettante Press (via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, actual website is domain parked
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• Process Media
• LA Weekly Article