Brand and Mission Launch Party!

We’re excited to invite you to the Spudnik Press Brand and Mission Launch Party! Join us as we celebrate the unveiling of our fresh rebrand and mission statement update. It’s going to be an unforgettable evening of creativity and community.

Event Details

  • Date: Friday, October 6
  • Time: 6PM-8PM
  • Location: Spudnik Press at 1821 W Hubbart Street, Suite 302

Exciting Activities Await

BYOT: Bring Your Own Tee or Tote!

  • Ever wanted to screenprint your own apparel? Now’s your chance! Bring your favorite tee or tote bag, and have fun as teaching artist Rob Kelsey guides you in printing the brand new Spudnik logo onto your personal items (suggested donation: $5).
  • Don’t have a tee or tote with you? No worries! We’ve got blank ones available onsite for $10-$15, so you can still create your own Spudnik Press gear.

Letterpress Demo

  • Experience the charm of letterpress printing as you try your hand at creating a delightful flat card adorned with a cool design inspired by our new logo (suggested donation: $5).
  • The demonstration will be led by teaching artist Riesling Dong, who also designed the new Spudnik Press logo!

Draw-a-Mascot Wall

  • Flex those doodling muscles and create your very own rendition of a Spudnik Press mascot!
  • Let your imagination flow and share your vision of a Spudnik mascot just for funsies! We will showcase all your proud illustrations on a “If Spud Has A Mascot” Wall at the Annex.

Art Exhibition in the Annex

  • Explore our current exhibition at the Annex, showcasing an incredible collection of artist and Spudnik Board Member Dutes Miller, gathered from a print exchange organized by Noah Breuer.
  • Mingle with fellow artists, print-curious guests, and Spudnik studio members. This is a great opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals who share your interest in printmaking!

Proceeds from this event will benefit our Press, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Read about our recent rebranding and mission update initiative.

Join us as we raise a toast to Spudnik’s new visual identity, renewed mission, and the vibrant community that makes it all possible. Your presence will make this event truly special.

We can’t wait to see you there!

Open House & Paletas Social

Spudnik Press is thrilled to invite everyone to an Open House & Paletas Social happening on Sunday, September 10th! Meet our community members from staff, board members, studio members, volunteers and more to learn how you could get involved with our organization. Enjoy a casual tour of our facilities and see if our equipment, space, and other offerings can help with your art practice.

  • Meet and chat with the Spudnik board and staff
  • Engage with our community members and artists
  • Inquire about our membership and studio programs
  • Have an informal/casual studio tour of our facilities
  • Enjoy a yummy frozen treat (paletas) from Linda Michocana
  • Purchase raffle tickets to win a fine art print or Spudnik swag bag!
Raffle tickets are available at:
$5 for 10 tickets
$10 for 25 tickets
Cash and digital payment through Square using our donation link accepted.
Exciting raffle prizes include:
  • (1) screenprint by artist Selina Trepp
  • (1) screenprint by artist Vesna Jovanovic
  • Spudnik tote bags designed by Lisa Armstrong with artist zines, Spudnik notepads, and pins!
We hope to see you there!

Annual Member Meeting + Community Event

As a member-based organization, community participation is essential. Membership meetings are scheduled with agendas determined by member input. This is also when our members meet the nominations for our Board of Directors, both new and those who are up for re-election. The Board of Directors is a committee of generous supporters who work hard to ensure our long-term health and that we remain vigilantly work towards our mission.

RSVP for the Member Meeting

Member Meeting 3-4PM | Agenda: 

  • Meet nominees for the Board of Directors
  • Board Member voting
  • Organizational Updates & Announcements
  • Mission Review and Branding Preview
  • Volunteer Opportunities
  • Full Agenda TBA; Please tell us what you’d like to discuss/learn/share/know

The Board of Directors Ballot:

Patti Swanson (she/her)
Educator, Historian

RSVP for the Member Meeting

This year’s Annual Member Meeting will have a community component. We encourage our members to share this event with their network to invite the public to attend. While non-members will not be participating at the Board Member Voting, we would like to open the doors of Spudnik Press for the public to meet the people that make up the Spudnik community and casually tour our studio.

Community Event 4-5PM | Open House: 

  • Meet and chat with the staff, community members, and artists at Spudnik Press
  • Visitors can enjoy informal studio tour of our facilities
  • Refreshments are offered
  • Members and non-members may purchase raffle tickets to win fine art prints and other swag from Spudnik!

Community Event Details

Are you intrigued but not a member? Sign up for Spudnik’s Studio Membership!

 

Papermaking with Switch Grass Paper

Join Switch Grass Paper at Spudnik Press for their very own Papermaking fundraiser-workshop on August 27, 2023!

From 1:30-3:30pm, students will learn basic paper-making skills and make paper with prairie grasses and blue jeans. The instructors will also talk about identifying local plants that can be foraged for paper. Each participant will receive paper to take home and light snacks + refreshments will be offered.

Switch Grass Paper is a papermaking project founded by Chicago artists Aya Nakamura and Megan Diddie. This project aims to create opportunities for those interested in exploring pulp and paper arts. You may contact them at switchgrasspaper@gmail.com for inquiries and visit their website for more information.

Visit Switch Grass Paper Website

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.

Attend virtually on Zoom (link to be posted soon) or in-person. RSVP is appreciated for planning purposes, but not required. If you are unable to attend, don’t worry! We will record the meeting and also be taking notes, which will be shared afterwards.

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.

Attend virtually on Zoom or in-person. RSVP is appreciated for planning purposes, but not required. If you are unable to attend, don’t worry! We will record the meeting and also be taking notes, which will be shared afterwards.

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!

Join Zoom meeting:
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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

Please join us in conversation with a panel of artists whose work uses narrative forms such as walks and book-making to explore the histories and stories residing in racially and culturally mixed landscapes. This event is in conjunction with Hui-min Tsen’s 2022 Spudnik Press Residency. Speakers joining Hui-min include artists JeeYeun Lee, Alex Kostiw, Regin Igloria, and Nia Easley.

This event is free. Registration is appreciated here.

About The Panel:

Alex Belardo Kostiw is an artist, graphic designer, and educator investigating the vast possibilities of the self, the complexity of human connection, and the nebulousness of reality. Their work deals in poetic, adapted, and iterative elements, visual structures of comics, and conceptually driven forms, exploring ways to activate the reading experience, construct myths, and inhabit in-between spaces. Alex has an MFA in visual communication design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in English literature from the University of Chicago. Their work is collected in the Joan Flasch Artist’s Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Pratt Institute Artist’s Books Collection, and National Museum of Women in the Arts, among others.

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.

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.