Spudnik Press is pleased to be the first stop on the national tour of 1st International Milwaukee Riso Invitational originating at Milwaukee’s Suburban Gallery. This collaborative exhibition and publishing project brings together an extraordinary group of contemporary artists, illustrators, and cultural producers to explore the power and substance of the democratic print.  

This inaugural invitational is produced in partnership with the The Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop (CATS) and the artist‐run platform Bad at Sports, printed at the new CATS facility in Sarofim Hall on the campus of Rice University.

Each invited artist has created an original two‐color risograph print at 11Χ17 inches, editioned collaboratively for public distribution.

In keeping with the spirit of risograph culture—affordable, experimental, and accessible—30 of each print edition will be available free to gallery visitors, while the remaining 10 will be randomly distributed to participating artists. This gesture foregrounds a shared belief in art as both a gift and a tool for building cultural networks.

The invitational draws energy from the legacy of artist‐initiated print projects—ephemeral, distributable, and fiercely independent, said Brian Andrews, of Bad at Sports. It’s a celebration of artists using print as a means of connection, self ‐ expression, and resistance of the cultural machine.

Work by: Amanda Ross-Ho, Art Spiegelman, Beth Hetland, Betsy Odom, Cecilia Beaven, Christopher Sperandio, Chris Ware, Diana Guerrero-Macia, Heather Mekkelson, Ivan Brunetti, Jen Delos Reyes, Jennifer Willet, Jessica Campbell, Jessica Stockholder, Jason Dunda, Kuras and MacKenzie, Kyle O’Connell, Max Morris, Meg Duguid, Melissa Potter, Nura Ali, Oli Watt, OnSmith, Paul Krainak, Paul Nudd, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Peter Power, Ryan Peter Miller, Sandra Dillon, Shannon Stratton, Sergio Soave, Sonnenzimmer (Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi), Tamara Lee-Anne Cardinal, Tom Sanford

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This exhibition is curated by Duncan MacKenzie, Ryan Peter Miller, and Christopher Sperandio and was first exhibited at The Suburban in Milwaukee.  This show is a part a summer of midwest riso exhibitions organized by Spudnik Press.  A sister exhibition, 1st Annual Chicago and Vicinity Riso Exhibition will be taking place at Epiphany Center for the Arts: 201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607 from May 3- July 4, 2026 ( opening Sunday, May 3, 2–5pm)

Bad At Sports is the midwest’s leading site for arts journalism and contemporary art punditry. Boldly, it can be said that they are truly the providers of care for the wounded art soul and contemporary art worlder. In short, they are the strangest of artists and joke makers, surreal meaning hunters and philosophical provocateurs. Theirs is a quest of true horror… For what is art? Will we know it when we see it? And does it want to be known?ttps://badatsports.com/

The Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop, or CATS, is a treasure trove of original comic art, comic books, and books on comics housed in the Department of Art at Rice University. CATS is a site for making comics and researching the topic of comics for students and professionals alike. Our collection of original comic art and vintage comics is growing!

In this workshop, we will utilize The Abolitionist Atlas to explore counter-mapping as a tool for movement building. We will discuss how communities have historically developed counter-mapping practices in response to oppression and participants will be guided through methods for creating their own maps rooted in local organizing landscapes and histories while responding to broader revolutionary struggles.

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About The Abolitionist Atlas
The purpose of The Abolitionist Atlas is to explore where and how self-determination is spatialized in our everyday lives. This project centers abolitionist, New Afrikan socio-spatial practices emanating out of the Black South. Over the past year, Bria has traveled throughout Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, collaborating with community practitioners to map the organizations, institutions, infrastructures, and campaigns shaping abolitionist struggles across the region. The Atlas documents these movement landscapes through city-based profiles, maps, illustrations, and listings, while inviting readers to connect with, learn from, and contribute to the work represented within them 

About the Facilitator
Bria Miller is an urban designer, printmaker and organizer from Virginia Beach, Virginia. Her practice explores how communities map, represent, and transform the built environment in ways that build self-determination and cooperative futures. Through her New Afrikan counter-mapping practice, she publishes the Abolitionist Atlas and other print media as tools for movement building.