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Inside Views: Activist Traditions in Latino Printmaking

Join our community as we investigate contemporary prints that tackle social and political issues.

Special guest, Instituto Gráfico de Chicago (IGC), will provide an overview of Latino printmaking, sharing historical influences as well as contemporary artists and groups working in Chicago and internationally. IGC is a network of printers that preserves the art of printmaking by fostering solidarity amongst print artists.

Prior to the conversation, guests may meet local artist and IGC member, Ricardo Xavier Serment. Ricardo will share his artwork and artistic process, and original woodblocks used by the IGC to produce prints. In our print studio, Spudnik members will be producing our signature line of shirts created from carved woodblocks.

This open house aligns with Chasing Posada! A Macabre Populist in the City, an exhibition featuring 19 artists responding to the work and ideas of Mexican artist and activist, José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913).

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(above image: “Gran calavera eléctrica” (Grand electric skull) by José Guadalupe Posada, 1900-1913.)