This week we are adding two unique sets of prints to our online store:
In 2010, a group of Spudnik artists collaborated to produce a suite of prints to celebrate Issue #1 of Artiface Magazine. The suite consists of 10 stylized and colorful prints that each correlate with a written work found within the magazine.
On June 28, Spudnik Press Cooperative will be hosting the 10th Annual Printers Ball: Chatter. The Printers Ball is an earnest, all-out celebration of literary culture with an international scope and focus on local, independent, and alternative presses. the event showcases books, magazines, prints, and the process of creating them. It is free and open to all ages.
This year, we are expecting 1,000 guests who will enjoy pop-up readings, drop-in workshops, print demon- strations, exhibitions, and more. Our parking lot will be a hub of activity with a Beer Garden presented by Version Fest, a comics jam with Trubble Club, music with Odd Obsessions DJ’s.
The Marketplace features prints, artwork, and wares created by members of Spudnik Press. With access to numerous presses and printing resources, The Marketplace presents the vitality and endurance of print processes that are often overlooked or misunderstood.
+ 10 spaces available
+ $15 Non-refundable Application Fee, payable online
+ If accepted, an additional $60 booth fee is due prior to June 23.
+ Booth fee includes one 6-foot table in a tent shared with other vendors.
+ Artist retains 100% of their sales.
+ Apply by June 8
+ Applicant will be Notified by June 13
+ Booth Fee due June 23
+ Marketplace hours are 3:30-9pm on Saturday June 28, 2014
Applicants must be current members of Spudnik Press Cooperative. Artwork and products must feature printed elements and be handmade. Items should have consistent quality and be able to create a cohesive booth. We suggest including items priced between $1-$100. Additionally, we will curate vendors to highlight the diversity and work produced at Spudnik Press.
+ Email angee@spudnikpress.org with “Marketplace @ Printers Ball Application” in the subject
+ Please include your name, name of your business (if applicable), phone number, and website.
+ Please include a one-paragraph statement outlining the type of items you will bring to the fair. This could be a brief artist statement or mission statement for your business.
+ Please include 3-5 work samples: jpeg files, 72 dpi, 720px on longest side
+ Pay the Application Fee Online
Download the Call for Marketplace Vendors as a PDF.
Printers Ball is a celebration of literary and printmaking culture in Chicago. Join us for a summer afternoon and evening of conversation with more nerds than you can shake a stick at.
Plan your Printers Ball itinerary:
Brain Frame Comix Reading
Bookmaking w/ Leah Mackin
App Development Ink-U-Bator
Printmaking Demos
Comic Jam with Trubble Club
Chip Kidd on Design
Plus a BEER GARDEN sponsored by Maria’s Packaged Goods and more!
For full details, check out printersball.org
Three more collections of prints from some of our past artists in residence have been added to our online store: Ingrid Olson completed her residency in the summer of 2011. Interested in the concept of slowing down time, Olson enlarges her works in an attempt to make small moments less manageable. Her process begins by enlarging original grease pencil drawings which carry the slight texture of paper through the mark making. During her residency, Olson completed a series of singular screen printed drawings, enlarged from smaller charcoal drawings. During her summer 2010 residency, Jessica Taylor Caponigro examined the psychological affects of seemingly faux luxury materials and artificial domestic items. She is interested in the dichotomy of synthetic materials and their ability to maintain beauty while inherently retaining a sense of their own failure. During her residency, Taylor Caponigro printed a subtly complex edition of etchings; wallpaper patterns inspired by class differences in George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1874). Nicole Kita was our artist in residence in the fall of 2011. During her residency, Kita investigated the mimetic qualities, transactional symbols, and legitimizing practices of ritual, or symbolic healing. A healer evokes symbols or metaphors in dramatic action and aesthetic performance that provide a material language through which a patient can express, understand, or transform the personal or interpersonal conflicts underlying his or her illness.
This week we have added a significant collection of artwork by Jeremy Lundquist to our online store. Lundquist was the Artist in Residence at Spudnik in the summer of 2009.
Lundquist’s work in print, drawing, installation, and cut and collaged paper examines and organizes decay, specifically, the mundane and outmoded objects of Middle America. During his time at Spudnik he utilized the subtle line work of etching and soft ground. Each state of etching was printed from the same plate and the image and text scrapped out to create a ghost image and a new print. His suite of prints resulted in a body of work questioning contemporary notions of progress and cleanliness by presenting images of loss and disillusion/ dissolution.
Our poster collection has expanded! Head on over to our online store to check out new posters celebrating an assortment of Spudnik and Chicago-area events from years past. Designed and printed by many of Spudnik’s own artists and printmakers, each poster is an example of excellent printing and graphic design. Take one home today and own a part of Spudnik’s history!
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This week we have added artwork by three of our past Artists in Residence to our online store.
During his Fall 2009 Residency, Dan Falco created a suite of intaglio prints that posed scenarios for what is natural and what is not, as a result of genetic manipulation, advancement of science and technology and the modification of our environment.
Polly Yates was a Resident at Spudnik during the spring of 2012. Yates used ideas of fragmentation and collage to create images that were distorted or hidden, lending to a more abstract effect. Fragmenting an image enabled her to distort it while maintaining it`s integrity. It also allowed her to weave images into one another, giving the appearance of one image melting into the other, so that the boundaries of each is blurred, in flux.
Working in the form of block prints, drawings and monoprints, and using imagery found online, Daniel Greenberg depicted the detail and expansiveness of green forests on or with materials made from wood. Greenberg completed his Residency during the summer of 2012.
Spudnik Press Cooperative is thrilled to announce the 10th annual Printers Ball: Chatter. For the second year, the annual celebration of literary culture and printmaking will be held at the Hubbard Street Lofts, 1821 W. Hubbard Street, Chicago. Slated forSaturday, June 28 and offering a robust schedule of performances, live printmaking demos, exhibitions, and food and drink tastings, this year’s festivities will run from 4 – 9 p.m., and include outdoor entertainment with DJ-ing by Odd Obsession and a beer garden hosted by Maria’s Packaged Goods.The history of Printers Ball is quintessentially Chicagoan. Founded in 2004 by Fred Sasaki, Poetry magazine’s Art Director, the first Printers Ball was held at the now-shuttered HotHouse. In the ensuing decade, the event has taken up residence in various venues throughout Chicago, including the Double Door, the Zhou B Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and Columbia College Chicago. Along the way, it has grown from a local celebration to an event with presenters from all over the United States and drawing thousands of attendees from across the city and beyond. Beginning in 2013, Spudnik Press Cooperative took the organizational reins, curating an event uniquely informed by printmakers and poets and returning the event to West Town, one of Chicago’s most artistically vibrant neighborhoods.
The 2014 programming is inspired by “Chatter,” a term that printmakers know as the ink debris surrounding an image. It’s also a sentiment rich in meaning to the layperson, signaling the verbal barrage and fragments that oscillate through social media and blogs, online magazines and texts. Printers Ball 2014: Chatter is the intersection of the timeless and the new. “This year’s event highlights the scope and quality of literary and arts programming that keep our city vibrant year round. By featuring a dozen local reading series in tandem with world-renown writers, printmakers, and designers, the 10th AnnualPrinters Ball pays homage to the energy and chatter of concurrent creative practices,” says Angee Lennard, Executive Director and Founder of Spudnik Press Cooperative. “This multiplicity of voices and viewpoints is what keeps the world of printmaking, poetry, and literature vigorously moving forward.”
+ A conversation with the legendary book cover designer, Chip Kidd
+ Pop-up performances from some of Chicago’s most innovative reading series including Artificial Ear, Danny’s, Dollhouse, Next Objectivists, Salonathon, The Swell, Urban Sandbox, Write Club, and Young Chicago Authors.
+ Hands-on printmaking and artmaking demonstrations with local printmakers and artists, including Leah Mackin
+ Beer Garden curated by Maria’s Package Goods
As is tradition, magazines, literary organizations, and design studios—over 400—from across the country will provide a sampling magazines and ephemera for attendees to peruse. This year will feature a book exchange and opportunity for local writers to share and highlight their books during the festivities.
Curators of Printers Ball 2014: Chatter include Sarah Dodson, MAKE Magazine; Kevin Kilroy, Black Lodge Press; Chad Kouri, The Post Family; Angee Lennard, Luke Daly, Veronica Siehl, and Caroline Walp, Spudnik Press Cooperative; and Corrina Lesser,Chicago Humanities Festival. Design by Veronica Corzo-Duchardt of Winterbureau.
You may have seen artwork by two of our Resident Artists, Sanya Glisic and Nudd & Onsmith, in the store before; however, now their collections have grown!
Nudd and Onsmith are a collaborative printmaking team that completed their residency in the Spring of 2009. They found great success combining their individual illustration styles into a various sets of screenprints. During their residency, three separate suites of prints melded these two artists’ signature styles into a cartoonish netherworld of darkly comic doom.
During her Fall 2010 Residency, Sanya created a series of screenprints to illustrate Struwwelpeter, a German set of children’s tales. Her illustrations are available both as a bound book or as individual prints.
All of these and more are available in our online store, which we will continue to update in the coming weeks.
Each session, we offer our core printmaking classes to share the wonder of screenprinting, letterpress, etc. But we also offer special topics classes lead by artists and designers in our community. Would you like to share your area of expertise?!
Proposals for Fall 2014 Community Workshops and Special Topics Classes are due Sunday, April 29 at midnight.
For all the details please download our Call for 2014 Class Proposals.
To apply, download and return our 2014 Class Proposal Form and our 2014 Class Supply Request. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.
This week the online store expanded its collection of work by Dawn Gettler. Gettler was our Artist in Residence in the Spring of 2011 and used her residency to examine the sustainability of mundane daily actions. Saying “thank you”, replying “you’re welcome” are actions we take because we have been conditioned to. Gettler questions our ability to live with this compliance in social relationships and the sugar-coated and contrived dialogs that are expressed. She wonders at her own ability to be compliant, at the control compliance exerts over her understanding of ideals.
Our collection of Gettler’s art consists of etched text-based work and a series of delicate woodcuts. Check back next week as we expand the collections of two more of our resident artists!
