Custom Binders for Mr. Carpet

published at Spudnik Press

Custom-Designed screenprinted binders for Mr. Carpet
Medium: Screenprint on Hand-crafted Binders
Dimensions: Varied


You’ve known that Spudnik Press is your friendly community printshop where you can go to take classes, learn new techniques, and print independently; but did you know that Spudnik Press has been taking on custom publishing projects for over 4 years now?

Spudnik Press can bring to life that custom printmaking project that you’ve always wished you had the time/materials/skills to make. For years, the Publishing Program has been producing tons of posters, t-shirts, cd sleeves, tote bags, and limited edition art prints from a large diversity of clients, in a variety of processes. We work with companies, designers, individual artists, musicians, theaters, etc., in order to make your unique project a reality.

Our most common media for consignment printing is screenprinting, but Spudnik Press’s expansive publishing program frequently encompasses letterpress printmaking and offset productions as well. Our shop is also equipped to produce custom relief printing projects, book-binding, and more! If you have an idea, we have a press.

For more information on our Publishing Program, please contact Ashlee or Angee at publishing@spudnikpress.org

Wednesday, June 5, 2013
7:00 – 9:30pm
at The Annex at Spudnik Press
1821 W. Hubbard, Suite 303
$5, suggested donation

Theme: Life Drawing
Beverage: Gin BYO Mixer
We’ll feature a real live model! And who knows, maybe you can draw the person sitting next to you too. This is one Drink & Draw you don’t want to miss!

Drink and Draw is our bi-monthly night devoted to drawing practices. There’s no teacher and no pretensions. We provide a theme for the evening and a theme drink. Attendees provide a sketchbook and drawing utensils. Please come, and bring your friends while you’re at it.

Print our 2013 Drink & Draw Calendar and stick it on your refrigerator today!

The Down and Dirty radio show with Frank Fontana focuses on Do-It-Yourself design for your home. Expert, regular guy celebrity designer Frank Fontana will share secrets to making your place look like a million bucks in smart, affordable ways! Join Frank live as he answers questions and makes you part of the show, interviews celebrity guests, and shares hot DIY design secrets you won’t hear anywhere else. Tune in to the Craftsman World of DIY network right here on Livestream every Wednesday at 11am Central Time to join in on the conversation. Join in the conversation by dialing 855-DIY-WORLD… or email downanddirtyradio@gmail.com

In case you missed it, here’s the radio spot featuring Angee Lennard and Spudnik Press Cooperative.
Click here to listen to the radio spot.

Click here for the YouTube Video.

Time To Set Sail

by Ramsey Beyer

Published by Spudnik Press as part of the exhibition Long Arm Stapler First Aid: Self-Care In Zines and Mini Comics. Edition of 60. Two colors printed on 100# Recycled White French Paper.
Medium: Screenprinting
Dimensions: 12 X 16

ART ATTACK! Sculpture Show
Thursday, May 9th: 5-7pm
Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago

This spring, Spudnik Press partnered with Citizen Schools to pair five Spudnik artists with three classrooms to lead art apprenticeships with middle school students through out the spring.

ART ATTACK! Is a Citizen Schools after school apprenticeship at Walsh Elementary. Every week, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students meet with teaching artist Liz Born to develop a language of visual identity using formal elements like color, shape, and texture. Transforming everyday materials, each student has created an emblematic sculpture in an investigation of the Artist’s decision-making process.

Citizen Schools partners with middle schools to expand the learning day for children in low-income communities across the country. By drawing thousands more citizens into schools each year, they’re promoting achievement, transforming schools, and re-imagining education in America.

Peasants!
Your vegetables are progressing nicely. We are looking at mid June as our first pick-up but will email one more time towards the end of May to give you the actual start date.

The farm staff is moving quickly this week since it has been “the only consecutively nice days since September” according to Todd and, according to the weather channel, bound to rain again.

All farmers in this region have had to delay their plantings due to cold, wet and just plain wet soil.  We did get spinach seeded before the rain, which has germinated. Kale, chard and broccoli have been/are being transplanted this week until the rain returns.

We do a few things to make sure the crops transplant well. One thing we do is blast them with fans while they grow indoors, to condition them to the world outside. We have put a thin covering of fabric (“row cover”) over the transplants this week to protect against any surprise frosts and to hopefully discourage bunnies. Lots of transplants await indoors and they will be ready when the soil is! Todd is continuing his work on the high tunnels, digging holes for concrete to anchor them. Oh, the saga of the high tunnels!

Check out most recent photos here.
Reserve your share of the harvest before we sell out!

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

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.

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

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.