MadMade Print Fair November 15, 2025 from 12-4:30PM Access Living, Chicago: 115 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60654 Free to the public Join us for MadMade, a one-day event uplifting the creative work of artists living with psychiatric disabilities and mental health challenges. This community-centered fair brings together artists, organizers, and visitors to celebrate art... Read more »
Note This event has been canceled! Come have a drink with us! Join us for a very special Drink & Draw on January 14. In this session, staff members Meg Duguid and Avery Johnson will lead a session in writing and creating New Year’s resolutions. We may also make you a new year's... Read more »
Come have a drink with us! Join us for Drink & Draw on February 11. In this session, we will make posters for whatever you want to say. Posters are a way to claim space, share a message, and make your voice visible. This Drink & Draw session focuses on drawing posters and saying whatever... Read more »
Come have a drink with us! Join us for a very special Drink & Drawer! Participants are invited to bring a random object or favorite treasure. We'll draw them together, and there will be a little writing workshop too. Eric Bartholomew is an artist and zinester whose project Junk Drawer explores ephemera, things we save,... Read more »
Come have a drink with us! Join us for Drink & Draw! Everyone has their favorite animals, but there are so many that go unloved. Come and share your favorite weird and misunderstood creatures! Come with any animal you find interesting; whether it’s as simple as a pigeon you saw on the street, as silly... Read more »
Lotería takes its name and structure from the iconic Mexican card game, repurposing its symbolic imagery as a framework for deeply personal storytelling. Each piece in the series functions like a card drawn from the deck — a moment, a symbol, a feeling — mapping Santana’s relationship to her own cultural identity across the full arc... Read more »
Join teaching artist Kacie Lees for a lecture on their work and free Professional Practices presentation covering living documents, types of funding opportunities, record keeping and digital organization, resources, and application tips to break into the world of exhibitions, residencies, and grants. Lees is currently an Artist in Residence at Spudnik Press, developing a new... Read more »
Come have a drink with us! Join us for Drink & Draw! Say goodbye to April showers and hello to spring blooms! Join us for a special Drink & Draw featuring a flower monotyping workshop with some seasonal new blooms. Make your own one-of-a-kind floral prints and celebrate the season. Lee Nah is a community-engaged scholar... Read more »
Spudnik Press, in partnership with the School of Visual Arts at Columbia College Chicago, is hosting a full day of large-scale printmaking that’s free and open to the public. At the center of the event is a construction road roller turned printing press used to produce oversized prints outdoors throughout the day. The works being... Read more »
Join us at Spudnik Press for an artist talk with Harlem Masimba West on June 3 at 6 PM. During the talk, West will speak about their residency work exploring memory, archival image-making, and movement throughout Chicago through cyanotype and mixed-media collage. Centering an evolving oracle and playing card deck built from inherited photo archives... Read more »
Come have a drink with us! Join us for Drink & Draw! Spudnik Press is turning 19, and we're throwing a carnival to celebrate! Join us for a special Drink & Draw where we'll be making decorations for our upcoming fundraiser. Come help us get the big top ready — paint signs, craft garlands, make... Read more »
Step right up and test your luck and skill at our carnival games, delight in our birthday cake and fine drinks, then redeem your winning tickets at the prize booth for a chance to win prints, merchandise, and more. Nineteen years of ink, community, and creativity — and we're celebrating under our very inky big... Read more »
