Long-Arm Stapler First Aid Exhibition
Long-Arm Stapler First Aid
Self-Care In Zines and Mini Comics
Curated by Liz Mason and Neil Brideau
4/20/13 – 5/31/13
Opening Reception:
April 20, 2013 6:00 – 9:00pm
The Annex @ Spudnik Press Cooperative
1821 W Hubbard, Suite 303
Chicago, IL 60622
Care is a disquieted state of mixed uncertainty, apprehension, and responsibility; a suffering of the mind; painstaking and watchful attention, maintenance, charge, and supervision. Self-care and first aid places these concerns towards oneself with a DIY mentality. Long-Arm Stapler First Aid brings together an assortment of zines and comics that address health-related issues ranging from mental to physical, personal to societal, and preventative to regenerative. These largely self-published works address, at times, incredibly personal experiences, usually with a large dose of wit.
Unlike a film or a painting, readers of zines and comics are able to engage with these works at their own pace, choosing when they are ready to confront the next page. Perhaps this is what allows authors to broach difficult, and often very personal, topics with great breadth of emotion, honesty, and clarity. Through the combination of words and images, artists are able to rely on multiple modes of communication to bring together the tangible and the cerebral. Often the very act of making a zine is considered a therapeutic caring action.
This exhibition of largely self-published works tackles self-care from many angles: health, grooming, food preparation, self-defense, coping strategies, defense mechanisms, mental or spiritual development and even soul enrichment. At their core these pieces suggest we must be our own advocates for our own health and well being.
Long Arm Stapler First Aid will also include a limited edition exhibition zine, compiled by Liz Mason, encompassing relevant self-care themes in zines and mini-comics such as: heal- ing, grief, fitness, and medical issues, and a limited edition screenprint by Ramsey Beyer, published by Spudnik Press.
In honor of self-publishing as a means to foster well-being, Spudnik Press is proud to host this exhibition featuring dozens of zine makers from across the country, including Edie Fake, Rinko Endo, Kathleen McIntyre, Ramsey Beyer, Liz Prince, Dina Kelberman, Sara McHenry, and more.
Liz Mason is the manager of Quimby’s, as well as the editor and publisher for Caboose.
Neil Brideau is comics artist and comics sommelier at Quimby’s, as well as an organizer of CAKE, Chicago’s Alternative Comics Expo.
*Image Credit to Dina Kelbermann
1821 Hubbard Open House / Closing for Long Arm Stapler First Aid
1821 Hubbard Open House / Closing for Long Arm Stapler First Aid
Open Studios, Live Music, Food & Drink!
Friday, May 17, 2013
6:00 – 10:00pm
1821 W Hubbard, Suite 303
Chicago, IL 60622
Come roam three floors of open studios, unexpected spaces and galleries at the HUGE ART SHOW. Music will play, drinks will be served and you might just find that piece you’ve been looking for. Multiple studio open house!
From chic hairstyles and large scale photography to letterpress printing, intricate oil painting, and raw furniture manufacture. 1821 W Hubbard is home to a wide array of creative work.
Citizen Schools Spring Community WOW!
Cesar Chavez Lower Grade Center 4747 S. Marshfield Ave. 60609
Tuesday, May 14th 5:30-7:00pm
Chavez Community WOW!
This spring, Spudnik Press partnered with Citizen Schools to pair five Spudnik artists with three classrooms to lead art apprenticeships with middle school students throughout the spring. You are invited to the Citizen Schools Spring Community WOW! At this event, the middle school students will show off what they have learned in the past 10 weeks of their apprenticeship.
Guests will get to learn new yoga moves, play student made video games, pick a side in a political campaign, participate in an improv sketch, see student artwork, and much much more! We need your to help make this WOW! memorable for our students, educators, and volunteers.
Please join us: RSVP and Learn More
Member Meeting
Join us on Wednesday, May 15 at 7:30 in The Printshop for our Member Meeting. We will discuss upcoming events and activities, plus ways that you can be more involved at Spudnik Press! Have any suggestions or ideas for us? The Member Meeting is the perfect time to share your thoughts.
Charlie Megna: Lost Tribes of Renni
Charlie Megna: Lost Tribes of Renni
6/15/2013 – 8/02/2013
Opening Reception:
Saturday, June 15, 2013, 6-9pm
The Annex @ Spudnik Press
1821 W Hubbard, Suite 303
Chicago, IL 60622
Heavily influenced by Eastern philosophy, Native American rituals and American skate culture, Charlie Megna’s colorful gouache and gold-leaf paintings combine loaded, symbolic motifs with the banal, the humorous and the commonplace. In these tribe paintings, we recognize glimpses of sacred ceremonies that feel familiar, but that expand with closer inspection into mystery and secrecy. In addition to the paintings, Megna creates costumes and physical relics to further realize the world of his tribes, and is preparing a small-run artist’s book of myths and alphabets to accompany this show. When exhibited along with the paintings, these surrounding materials combine to take the shape of an anthropological exhibition comprised of the real artifacts of an imaginary society.
Exhibition Hours:
Monday and Thursdays 6:30-11pm Fridays and Saturdays 12:30-5pm or by appointment
Contact:
Brandy Barker info@spudnikpress.com (312) 563-0302 www.spudnikpress.com
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