Chunklet Music Preservation Project, Inc.

Founded in 2022, the Chunklet Music Preservation Project, Inc. (“the Project”) is a 501c3 tax-exempt organization whose mission is to collect and preserve music and music-related ephemera for future scholarship and enjoyment. The Project has a three-member board of directors, made up of founders Henry H. Owings, Jr., and Stephanie Quinn Jackson, along with Clare Butler. 

The Project was founded to support the recent work of Owings and Chunklet Industries–the Plus 1 series of books documenting the music history of a geographic area using music-related ephemera and personal essays. To date, the Project has digitized more than 22,000 unique artifacts of music ephemera, including concert flyers, posters, ticket stubs, photographs, and more. Materials have been found mostly in more than 500 personal collections in Georgia, Alabama, the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, England, Scotland, and Wales. 

Chunklet Industries

Founded in 1993 by Owings, Chunklet Industries is an amalgam of music-related projects, such as magazine and book publishing, record release and promotion, video and movie production, graphic design and art direction, and more. Chunklet has been covered in mass media publications, including The Onion, Pitchfork, Village Voice, Spin, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Creative Loafing, and many, many more.

Beginning in 1993, Owings published twenty issues of Chunklet magazine, which offered two decades of cutting-edge and bitingly satirical critique of popular and underground music. Chunklet has published six books, including the Plus 1 series done in concert with the Project. Owings has also been a contributor to many books on a variety of topics within the music industry. 

Under the Chunklet Industries and related monikers, Owings has released over 100 records for a wide variety of artists, including Pylon, Man… Or Astro-Man?, Harvey Milk, the Jesus Lizard, Limbo District, and others. 

Owings served as producer for several videos and short films for the music and comedy industries, and he has been a contributor to a variety of music-related documentaries.Owings (including the Chunklet Graphic Control moniker) has done art direction for hundreds of projects for artists including Charley Patton, Lee Hazlewood, Pylon, John Cale, Hüsker Dü, the Glands, and countless others. In addition to his own publications, Owings has designed numerous books for other artists, including the Jesus Lizard, Mr. Show with Bob and David, and Steve Keene.