Drink and Draw

ANIMALS!

Wednesday May 4
7:00-9:30pm
Booze provided (or BYOB)
Suggested Donation: $5
@ Spudnik Press
1821 W Hubbard, Suite 308
Chicago, IL 60622

May 4th, 7-9:30pm is the next Spudnik Press Monthly Drink & Draw! The first Wed. of every month Spudnik Press Community Print Shop opens it’s doors for artists to gather & draw over some thematic booze! There’s no teacher and no pretensions. We provide a theme for the evening and some booze (you can also BYOB). Attendees provide a sketchbook and whatever drawing utensils you prefer. And bring friends!
May’s theme is ANIMALS! Animales! Animaux! Animais! Animali! If you happen to have some taxidermy sitting around or some reference materials, please bring them!!!

Four of our all-star printers are curating an exhibition that will be part of the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival. The application deadline is June 1. For all the details, download theMAAF Calling Home Entry.

Calling Home

Curators: Liz Born, Michelle Mashon, Matthew Messmer, Jill Nahrstedt for Spudnik Press

Exhibition Description

What defines “home”? How do we make “home”? Is “home” exclusively a physical place? Must it be permanent or can it be transient? Can it be taken away or rebuilt?

We see a common thread through many of today’s current issues that implore us to ask these questions; issues of immigration, foreclosures and natural disasters have led us to redefine & examine our ideas of “home”. In tandem with Spudnik Press, Calling Home will be show of print-based works (books and sculptural print-based works also encouraged) that explore how different artists define & question the identity of home through their experiences.

Janet Davies, of ABC’s 190 North, recently spent an evening at Drink & Draw. Thank you 190 North for helping share what we do!

If you want to skip the advertisements, go straight to ABC’s website

This Spring, Spudnik embarked on an epic mission to expand the boundaries of community printmaking!

We just launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring to life 3 letterpresses & an offset press. Once we complete this project, we can share our movable type and photo polymer plate equipment with Chicago artists. We will also provide unprecedented opportunities for Chicago artists to use offset printing to create self-published zines, newsletters, comics, chapbooks, and other printed ephemera.

Our kickstarter campaign will culminate in a permanent series of community letterpress classes and affordable use of our presses through our Open Studio program.

To help our cause, pledge our project, tell your friends, and think up print-based projects!

Even if you are dirt poor, I highly encourage you to at least watch the video. The amazing time-based art was created by Kyle Obriot!

Spudnik Press Cooperative from Andrew Roddewig on Vimeo.

Spudnik Press has been invited to participate in an exciting event called “What’s Your Art“. This is a collaboration between Sixty Inches from Center and WBEZ as part of their Off Air Series to showcase unique art centers within Chicago.

To help promote Chicago’s vibrant array of art centers, Sixty Inches put together promotional videos for each space involved in the project.

The culminating event will be June 4th from 1-5 pm at the Chicago Cultural Center. Throughout the afternoon, each center will demonstrate the creative activities that enrich their community.

Between now and June 4th visit any of the ten Art Centers and pick up a “What’s Your Art?” validation card, then see how many centers you can visit between now and June 4th. There will be prizes for those who visit 2,4,6,8, or all 10 at the June 4th event.

Awesome, right?

Check out the first print ever made on our Line-O-Scribe Letterpress! This is one of three presses that are new to Spudnik. Once it’s up and running, it’ll be perfect for larger linoleum and block prints! Soon this press will be available for use at Open Studio! Keep your eyes peeled for updates.

Stop judging our typography choice and go put together the proposal you’ve been dreaming about!
That’s right! You’ve got an extra week!

Download the simple (and fun?) application here!

Spudnik Press Open House

Sunday, May 1, 2011
12-6pm
Free

Spudnik Press Cooperative
1821 W Hubbard, Suite 302
Chicago, IL 60622

Recently relocated to a larger and improved studio, Spudnik Press is excited to share their new space with as many folks as possible. Spudnik’s new facilities include 4 additional presses, private studios, the ability to invite more artists and students to utilize their communal tools and equipment. Through out the day, members of Spudnik Press will demonstrate printmaking techniques, ranging from the popular screenprinting to obscure mezzotinting. The open house will highlight the resources available at the communuty studio and the wonder of being ones own printer. Free and fun Printing activities will be available for kids and adults alike.

Drink and Draw

Draw Food & Sip Wine!

Wednesday Apr. 6
7:00-9:30pm
Suggested Donation: $5
Booze provided (or BYOB)
@ Spudnik Press
1821 W Hubbard, Suite 302
Chicago, IL 60622

April 6th, 7-9:30pm is the next Spudnik Press Monthly Drink & Draw! The first Wed. of every month Spudnik Press Community Print Shop opens it’s doors for artists to gather & draw over some thematic booze! There’s no teacher and no pretensions. We provide a theme for the evening and some booze (you can also BYOB). Attendees provide a sketchbook and whatever drawing utensils you prefer. Please come, and bring your friends while you’re at it.

April’s theme is FOOD (and there’ll be some wine to sip)! We’ll have a few things to draw, but please feel free to bring something to contribute to the cornucopia ! Some good ideas are: artisan breads & pastries, produce (esp. rare & funky looking), seafood (it smells, but man, is it fun to draw).

Spudnik Press and North Branch present:
Struwwelpeter
Friday, March 25, 2011
6pm-8pm
North Branch Projects
3550 W. Lawrence
Chicago, IL 60625
http://www.northbranchprojects.com
http://www.spudnikpress.com/struwwelpeter

Come celebrate Sanya Glisic’s new artist book Struwwelpeter at North Branch Projects. Embracing the tactile nature of the project, guests are invited to sit down and illustrate their own imaginative creatures. Drawings will be included in North Branch’s ongoing community binding project.

Struwwelpeter, first published in Germany in 1844, contains cautionary tales for children with overly exaggerated consequences for misbehavior. Artist and illustrator Sanya Glisic, while a Resident Artist at Spudnik Press Cooperative, has re-imagined the book with exquisite, playful illustrations that capture the dark, often morbid sensibilities of the tales.

Sanya Glisic will continue binding her book during North Branch’s community binding sessions Tuesday March 29 and Thursday March 31 from 3-7pm.

Sanya Glisic is best known for her silkscreens, illustrations, and poster design, including the Zodiac-Sideshow Collection based on the 12 Astrological signs. She is originally from Banja Luka, Bosnia. In 2007, she received her BFA in Illustration from the University of Arizona in Tucson. She currently lives in Chicago, printing, volunteering and occasionally teaching at Spudnik Press Cooperative, while working on art and illustration projects. www.sanyaglisic.com

This project was made possible through Spudnik Press’ Residency Program.

The Hashbrown Fundraiser was an amazing event, and the first event in our new space!
People enjoyed tastes of chili made by 12 different print makers while walking around and gazing at art on the walls, or leafing through books. The room was packed and filled with conversation, and everyone came together to make our fundraiser a success.

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The coveted Golden Squeeges were given to SAIC Student Print Shop for Best Meat Chili, and Hummingbird Press for the Best Vegetarian Chili.

Our new darkroom has lots of extra space for people to mingle and move around in.

Thanks to Hornswaggler who provided a bar with creative and delicious cocktails!

Here is our Fall 2010 Intern, Aaron, delicately balancing and enjoying a drink and a cup of chili!

A group of people admiring the lovely work of our Fall 2010 artist-in-residence, Sanya Glisic.

Thanks to everyone who attended the Hashbrown for making it a great night, and to all the volunteers who helped make it happen. We hope to see new faces in the new space!

As we gear up to move this spring, we are looking for a variety of tools. We are hoping to have much donated as we suspect some of these items might be sitting in closets going unused. E-mail or call us if you have something you would like to donate!

Small Items:

Cordless telephone
Flat head screwdriver
6 pairs of scissors
6 exacto knives
3 stacking or folding stools
6 soft speedball brayers, 3-6”
push broom
tear bar
spray bottles
paint brushes (small and large)
joint compound
white wall paint
paint rollers
letterpress inks

Large Items:

kitchen cabinets
photocopier
plate cutter
large drying rack
automated screenprinting press
vacuum exposure table
vandercook letterpress
2-4 flat files
hot plate
microgauges and steel bed for for Conrad E-24 etching press
36″x48″ self-healing cutting mat
risograph machine