Canceled: Drink & Draw: New Year’s Resolutions with Meg and Avery

Spudnik Press 1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 302, Chicago, IL, United States

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 »

Drink & Drawer with Eric Bartholomew

Spudnik Press 1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 302, Chicago, IL, United States

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 »

Drink & Draw: Underrated Animals with Angela Kalish

Spudnik Press 1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 302, Chicago, IL, United States

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 »

Karla Santana: Lotería

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 »

Professional Practices Artist Lecture by Kacie Lees

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 »

Drink & Draw with Lee Nah

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 »

Steamroller Prints

Spudnik Press 1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 302, Chicago, IL, United States

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 »

Harlem Masimba West Artist Talk

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 »

Drink & Draw: Carnival Edition

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 »

Spudnik Press 19th Birthday Party and Carnival

Spudnik Press 1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 302, Chicago, IL, United States

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 »