• Accessibility in the Studio: An evening with Resident Artist Benjamin Merritt

    Resident Artist, Benjamin Merritt, is an artist and writer who challenges the normative idea that the body is something individual, unchanging, and fully knowable by objective means. His prints and drawings combine imagery and text from his medical records and personal writings, exploring his own experience with chronic illness as well as how patient’s bodies… Read more »

  • Size & Scale: Drink & Draw | February 2020

    Guest Artist: Sean Mac Take a break from your typical ways of drawing. We’ll help you get out of your head by sharing a variety of creative approaches to making marks on paper. We’ll draw big things small, small things big. We’ll draw with delicate dip pens, clunky crayons, finger paint, sticks, and more. The… Read more »

  • Member Interview Series: Andrea Carlson

    Andrea Carlson is a visual artist from Grand Portage, MN currently living and working in Chicago, IL. Through painting and drawing, Carlson cites entangled cultural narratives and institutional authority relating to objects based on the merit of possession and display. Her current research includes Indigenous Futurism and assimilation metaphors in film. Her work has been… Read more »

  • Member Interview Series: Jennifer Ackerman

    Jennifer Ackerman is a Chicago based graphic designer and printmaker. She is also the designer and owner of PostScript Paper, a stationary boutique specializing in letterpress wedding suites and personalized stationery.  Sierra Shih: Tell me a little about your background, and how you started PostScript Paper (PSP). Jennifer Ackerman: I went to school at Loyola… Read more »

  • Charlie and the Hashbrown Factory: 10th Annual Spudnik Press Chili Cook-Off

    All-You-Can-Eat Chili | Hashbrowns | Open Bar | Games | Music Take an unforgettable, uniquely magical journey through the deliciously delightful, whimsically wonderful world of Spudnik Press Cooperative at our 10thAnnual Chili Cook-Off. The world of pure imagination is the limit for our 16 chefs competing for the admiration of our guests and the coveted prizes… Read more »

  • Domestic Tides / Indigenous Mind

    Featured Artist: Jessica Christy Dates: 11/15/2019 – 1/18/2020 Location: Spudnik Press Cooperative, 1821 West Hubbard, Chicago IL 60622 Corresponding Events: Domestic Tides / Indigenous Mind | Opening Reception & Artist Talk Exhibition Statement: Domestic Tides / Indigenous Mind explores a move from the prairies of North Dakota to the urban environment of Chicago. The exhibition… Read more »