May 2023 Community Meeting

Join us at Spudnik Press in-person or online for our May 2023 Community Meeting! Hear from the Spudnik Press Board of Directors, staff, and a few of our new member committees to learn about the current state of Spudnik. You can check out our meeting agenda here.

Please remember to fill out our survey for feedback on Spudnik’s current membership structure and new mission statement here. Thank you and we’ll see you there!

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March 2023 Community Meeting

Join us at Spudnik Press in-person or online for our March 2023 Community Meeting! 

Hear from the Spudnik Press Board of Directors, staff, and a few of our new member committees to learn about the current state of Spudnik. You can check out our meeting agenda here.

Please remember to fill out our survey for feedback on Spudnik’s current membership structure and new mission statement here. Thank you and we’ll see you there!

Color Theory: A Fundraising Party for Spudnik Press

Spudnik Press is excited to invite everyone to a FUNdraising party on Friday, March 3 from 7pm-10pm!🎉 The event is going to be held at our printshop with the theme: Color Theory.

Register in advance (not required but appreciated)

Guests are invited to compete in our costume contest, dance to soundtracks crafted by live local DJs feral and teDb, shop a curated selection of prints from our archives, document your look in our photobooth, play games, and drink some beers while we celebrate the ability to gather in the shop and have a good time.

Our $20 suggested cover charge and all event proceeds will directly fund the operational costs of our 501(c)(3) nonprofit during a critical time of thoughtful reorganization. Feel free to make a donation online now, or at the door during the event.

See you there!

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Graphic design courtesy of Ethan Brown

[VIRTUAL] “Ask Me Anything” with Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.

Spudnik Press is proud to invite our community to guide a meaningful conversation with one of America’s most renowned letterpress printers. Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. is an American printer, book artist and papermaker best known for social and political commentary, particularly in printed posters.

Amos produces personal and commissioned prints as proprietor of Kennedy Prints. He also often travels the country spreading his philosophies about life and the art of printmaking.

This event is free. Registration is appreciated here.

The conversation will be moderated by Spudnik staff Yang Pulongbarit-Cuevo and Breanna Robinson. Our $5 suggested donation for the event will directly fund the operational costs of our 501(c)(3) nonprofit during a critical time of thoughtful reorganization. Feel free to make a donation online at any time. Thank you and we’ll see you there!

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Artist Panel Conversation: American Places

Nia Easley is a Chicago-based artist, designer, researcher and educator. Those roles often intersect and overlap. She earned her MFA in Visual Communication Design and practices an art informed by methods of design production. This work engages the absurdity, violence, and beauty of contemporary American life, focusing on our shared histories and how they have shaped the current landscape. She has taught workshops at Lekòl Kominotè Matènwa, UIC (Gallery 400), and Yale University. Most recently she is a Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also holds the role of contributing Editor/Curator for the EXIT section of Interactions (IX) Magazine. Her artist’s books can be found at the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, the University of Iowa, Northwestern University, and DePaul University.

Hui-min Tsen is a photo-based, interdisciplinary artist whose projects tell stories about the interplay between the landscape of our imagination and the landscape as experienced in their physical form. Tsen received a BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited and published with the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Artist’s Coalition, Graham Foundation, and Sector 2337, among others. Her book, The Pedway of Today, was published by Green Lantern Press in 2013. She teaches photography at Wright College.

JeeYeun Lee is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago. Through performance, objects, and socially engaged art, her work explores dynamics of connection, power, violence and resistance. Her current body of work uses walking as a medium to witness the ongoing structures of settler colonialism and racial capitalism in urban built environments. She has been awarded residencies from the Santa Fe Art Institute, ACRE, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and received grants from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Propeller Fund, Puffin Foundation, and Awesome Foundation (Chicago chapter). She has also worked with social justice and community-based organizations for over thirty years in immigrant rights, economic justice, LGBTQ issues, and domestic violence.

Regin Igloria is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Chicago. His drawings, artists’ books, sculptures, and performances portray the human condition as it relates to the natural environment and inhabited spaces. With several years of arts administration and teaching experience, he founded North Branch Projects, an organization that builds connections through the book arts. He works with various communities to create crossover between disparate populations and cultures, aiming to broaden the roles of both artists and non-artists. Igloria has taught at places such as Marwen, RISD, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Snow City Arts, and Carthage College. He received a 3Arts Individual Artist Award as well as local, national, and international grants, support through artist residencies, and has exhibited internationally. He received his MFA from Rhode Island School of Design.

Image: “The 100th Meridian (Hollis, Oklahoma)” courtesy of Hui-min Tsen.

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Events and programs at Spudnik Press are made possible with the support of:

The National Endowment for the Arts
The MacArthur Funds for Culture, Equity, and the Arts & Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
Illinois Arts Council Agency
Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
DCASE

         

January 2023 Member Meeting (In-Person)

Join our Board of Directors IN PERSON for our January 2023 Member Meeting! 

The purpose of this meeting is to provide a follow-up to our last member meeting and a progress report. You may RSVP for the meeting here.

• • Board Members and Committee updates will be discussed.
  • Open group discussion will again be part of the meeting.
  • The event will again be broadcast via Zoom for anyone who can’t come in person.
  • We are requesting for 2-3 volunteers to help monitor Zoom, take notes, and setup the room. Please email boardofdirectors@spudnikpress.org to sign-up as a volunteer and thank you!

RSVP FOR THE MEETING

Not yet a studio member? Become a Spudnik Press member today!

This event is for everyone! If you require support or access service to fully participate or have any questions about accessibility, please contact Breanna Robinson at breanna@spudnikpress.org To ensure the best experience, please try to contact us at your soonest convenience.

2022 Holiday Open House

Join Spudnik Press community members for a Holiday Open House on Sunday, December 18th from 4pm-8pm! The studio will be open to the public for tours and selling a wide variety of artworks and more!

Tour – Spudnik volunteers will be available for a tour of the facility for anyone who is curious about printmaking and our shop.

Shop – We will be selling fine art prints, books, zines, discounted screens, drinks, and Spudnik merchandise.

Engage – Meet community members and local artists to have fun conversations with, print-related or not!

Enjoy a treat – There will also be a fun cookie potluck organized by Spudnik volunteers! And if you love them so much, printouts of these cookie recipes will be available for you to take home too!

We look forward to having you there!

Graphic design courtesy of Mike Kronberger

Spudnik’s End-of-Summer Celebration

Mark your calendars! Spudnik’s End-of-Summer Celebration is on Saturday, September 24th from 12-6pm.

This event is FREE and open to all ages. Want to RSVP? Click here! While not required, we welcome it! 

Beginning with WTCC Art Walk programming on Friday evening and continuing with our lively celebration on Saturday, join us for a weekend full of festivities and print nerdiness galore! From a Member Market to outdoor games to demonstrations from our new Teaching Artist Cohort, we’ve got a lot planned. Now, all we need is YOU to come and join in the fun!

We’re excited to be hosting this community celebration during the 2022 West Town Art Walk, so you’ll have opportunities to connect with Spudnik friends old and new! Learn more about our Friday programming.

Here’s a sneak peek of what to expect:

Member Showcase | Fri 5-8pm and Sat 12-6pm

Curious to see what Spudnik’s Members have been making? Now is the time! Beginning on Friday evening for the WTCC Art Walk, our Annex walls will be covered in Member work. The Member Showcase will open to our community and visitors for the Art Walk on Friday from 5-8pm, and remain open throughout the our community celebration on Saturday. 

Want to share your work in the showcase? All active Spudnik Members are welcome! Sign up here. 

Member Market | Sat 12-6pm

Stop by the studio and shop local from a selection of the many artists who work out of the Spudnik Press studios. Come for the prints, stay for the party! Vendors TBA shortly.

Are you an active Spudnik Member and want to register as a vendor? We’ve still got some slots open! Register here.

Demonstrations with our Teaching Artist Cohort
Fri 5-6pm and Sat 1-6pm

Public Pulp: Pulling Sheets in the Parking Lot with Angela Davis Fegan | Sat, 12pm

Community make and take: come and learn about how natural fibers are transformed from fashion, to pulp, to the ideal printing surface. Pull sheets or use a deckle box to witness hydrogen bonds through paper production and leave with a sheet of handmade recycled denim paper to take home. Durational demonstration. Participants are asked to leave their wet sheets behind for the next person to take and leave with an already dry sheet made by the previous participants, bonding us as a community. All labor is collective and paper making is a community practice. This demo will be held outdoors in the Hubbard Street Lofts parking lot.

Watercolor Monotypes with Serena Hocharoen | Sat, 1pm

In this interactive demonstration, participants will play with collage, stencil, and watercolor techniques to make painterly monoprint compositions with a variety of textures, colors, and layers. This demo will be held inside the studio, masks are required.

Paper Marbling with Millicent Kennedy | Sat, 3pm

Visitors are welcome to observe and participate in making marbled paper with Millicent. Finished paper can be taken home and used on your own projects at home or in a future class.This demo will be held outdoors in the Hubbard Street Lofts parking lot.

Painterly Screenprinting with Mariah Joyce | Sat, 5pm

Join Mariah for a painterly screenprinting demo focused on pulling monoprints with water soluable crayons and transparent base. Visitors will be encouraged to participate; screens will be available for passersby to make marks in the screens and pull prints. This demo will be held outdoors in the Hubbard Street Lofts parking lot.

Member Skill Shares | Sat all day

Cyanotype Postcards with Catherine Norcott | Sat, 12pm

This demo will be held outdoors in the Hubbard Street Lofts parking lot.

Multi-layer Screenprints with Dave Krzeminski | Sat, 4pm

This demo will be held inside the studio, masks are required.

Community Raffle | Sat 5pm

Participate in our raffle for some exciting Spudnik prizes! Tickets can be purchased throughout the day and will be drawn at 5pm. You do not need to be physically present to win. Stay tuned for updates 😉

Outdoor Activities & Games | Sat 12pm-6pm

Want to end your summer as a cornhole champion? Or perhaps you’d rather chalk-it-up and create the ultimate Spudnik hopscotch? Either way, have fun in these fleeting days of sun in our parking lot before making your way inside to see what’s going on in the studio. Outdoor activities will be running throughout the day, to be complemented (of course) by some much-needed beverages. Bring your shades, we’ll see you there!

Open House & Studio Tours | Fri 5-8pm and Sat 12-6pm

Beginning on Friday evening for the WTCC Art Walk and continuing on Saturday, Member Volunteers and staff will be running studio tours. Want to learn more about Spudnik Press Cooperative, our Membership program, and our community? Now is the time! Drop in and say hello.

Want to volunteer to support this event? We’d LOVE to have you! Check out our volunteer slots here. 

AND MORE!

Stay tuned for more programming updates and a full schedule. For now, mark your calendars: Saturday, September 24th! We hope to see you there!

Not a Spudnik Member? No problem! All are welcome to join in the fun! Intrigued about Membership? Become a Spudnik Press member today!

Everyone’s safety is important to us. Per our Covid-19 Policy, all visitors who are eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine must provide staff with proof of vaccination in order to gain entry to this event. For this event, guests may present proof of vaccination in person upon entry into the studio. Unless specifically requested, proof of vaccination presented at public events will not be kept on file. Medical and religious exemptions must be requested in advance. When indoors at Spudnik, masks are required. 

This event is for everyone! If you require any access service to fully participate or have any questions about accessibility, please contact Sara Emerson at sara@spudnikpress.org. To ensure the best experience, please try to contact us at your soonest convenience.

Spudnik Press x West Town Art Walk

Join us for a festive evening on Friday, September 23 from 5-8pm during the 2022 West Town Art Walk.

This event is FREE, child friendly, and open to all. 

Teaching Fellow Demonstrations | Fri 5:30-7:30pm

Join our new Teaching Fellows for some participatory demonstrations in the shop! Pull some posters with Wes Kendall in the letterpress studio, learn some basic bookbinding skills with Riesling Dong, or join Avery Johnson for a surprise demonstration! Visitors are welcome to drop in for a few minutes or join us for the full two hours. We hope to see you there!

Member Showcase | Fri 5-8pm and Sat 12-6pm

Curious to see what Spudnik’s Members have been making? Now is the time! Beginning on Friday evening for the WTCC Art Walk and continuing throughout Saturday for our End-of-Summer Celebration, our Annex walls will be covered in Member work.

Want to share your work in the showcase? All active Spudnik Members are welcome! Sign up here. 

Open House & Studio Tours | Fri 5-8pm and Sat 12-6pm

Beginning on Friday evening and continuing on Saturday, Member Volunteers and staff will be running studio tours. Want to learn more about Spudnik Press Cooperative, our Membership program, and our community? Now is the time! Drop in and say hello.

Members, want to volunteer to support this event? We’d LOVE to have you! Check out our volunteer slots here. 

Looking for weekend more activities? We’ve got a whole day full of festivities planned on Saturday! We hope you’ll return for our End-of-Summer Celebration and continue in the fun!

Everyone’s safety is important to us. Per our Covid-19 Policy, all visitors who are eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine must provide staff with proof of vaccination in order to gain entry to this event. For this event, guests may present proof of vaccination in person upon entry into the studio. Unless specifically requested, proof of vaccination presented at public events will not be kept on file. Medical and religious exemptions must be requested in advance. When indoors at Spudnik, masks are required. 

This event is for everyone! If you require any access service to fully participate or have any questions about accessibility, please contact Sara Emerson at sara@spudnikpress.org. To ensure the best experience, please try to contact us at your soonest convenience.

Fallout [from Temporary] Shelter

Virtual Artist Talk with Adriane Herman

2022 Spudnik artist-in-residence, Adriane Herman, will offer a virtual talk about her work through the lens of the influence(s) and impact(s) of residencies undertaken in four countries. Herman will trace the lineage of major bodies of her work as instigated in ways large and small by people, places and things encountered through the privileges afforded one by stepping out of daily routines, comfort zones and habitual making processes.

During her two weeks at Spudnik this Summer, Herman made a slew of prints inspired by non-adhered collages, or “arrangements,” as she describes them, that she created during a public engagement-based 2019 residency at the Tides Institute in Eastport, Maine. She will show editioned prints created on our Vandercook SP-25 with expert assistance from UW Madison print professor and former head printer at Tandem Press, Andy Rubin, as well as myriad call-and-response monoprints on antique musical scores, some of which Herman made in collaboration with long-time Spudnik community members, Dutes Miller & Stan Shellabarger.

Herman will conclude the talk by introducing the concept behind her Emotional Value Auction , the sixth iteration of which will focus on art + craft supplies as well as unfinished projects people wish to but could use a nudge to help release to an appreciative receiver, and take place October 22nd (more details to come). Herman invites participation in the form of releasing something taking up space in your studio you are unlikely to use and/or “bidding,” which involves writing a statement of interest, as no money changes hands. Another important form of participation is simply witnessing the process by reading the anonymous statements from releasers and telling others about this upcoming event and how to participate.

Register for this event through Eventbrite

Artist Bio

Inefficiency expert, Adriane Herman orchestrates witnessed releases — like her non-monetized “Emotional Value Auction” — to harness the power of witnessing to facilitate letting go; highlight the generosity inherent in receiving; and occasion meaningful connections between strangers through publicly shared vulnerability. She has utilized widely ranging print media to trace the alchemical trajectory from intention to action as well as explore accumulation and release in our physical and emotional landscapes.

Herman has had solo exhibitions at Adam Baumgold Gallery (NY); Western Exhibitions (Chicago); Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art; Center for Maine Contemporary Art; Kiosk Gallery (Kansas City); and Rose Contemporary and SPEEDWELL Projects in Portland, Maine. Her work is held in collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art; Bates College Museum of Art, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; The Walker Art Center; The Ulrich Museum; and Colby College Museum of Art. She has lectured at over 50 institutions and explores content in context as Professor, Chair of Printmaking and Coordinator of Public Engagement and Art & Entrepreneurship minors at Maine College of Art & Design.

The 2022 Residency Program is possible with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts Arts Work Grant.

This event is for everyone! ASR closed captions will be available. If you require another access service to fully participate or have any questions about accessibility, please contact Breanna Robinson at breanna@spudnikpress.org To ensure the best experience, please try to contact us at your soonest convenience.