Lisa Armstrong

Lisa Armstrong is a multi-disciplinary designer, artist, and educator currently teaching at Loyola University Chicago in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts. She holds an MFA in Graphic Design with a concentration in Motion Graphics from California Institute of the Arts and a BFA in Graphic Design from DePaul University. Lisa has also received certificates in Design and Time and Poster Design from the Basel School of Design in Switzerland and is part of an electronic music collective called Chandeliers.

Services Offered:

  • Exhibition Opportunities
  • Graphic Design
  • Printmaking Commissions

Website:

www.lisaglennarmstrong.com/

Project Statement:

In my work, I explore themes of metaphysics, healing, and vulnerability. As a motion and graphic designer, I often employ the use of typography combined with abstraction and illustrated forms. My thesis work in graduate school involved a series of projects centered around empathy, a subject I plan to continue to investigate through my fellowship at Spudnik Press Cooperative.

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Kianni Bey

Studio Fellow 2021

Kianni Bey’s work investigates the construction of identity in a methodological way, through exploration of personal and familial histories, collaborative world building, and emergent methods of survival from Black women and femme-identified people. Her practice aims to uplift, empower, and exist as a safe space for Black and femme bodied people, driven by a desire to expand the narrative surrounding marginalized lives. Kianni’s practice consists of lens based bodies of work that visualize liberated futures and aesthetics by creating thresholds or portals to other realities.

Image: Kianni Pleasant-Bey, Fever Dream, Mixed Media; Variable dimensions, 2019

Services Offered:

  • Exhibition Opportunities
  • Printmaking Commissions

Website:

www.instagram.com/zami.mami/
  • Illustration of woman turned to the side, gazing left with large circular glasses, goldenrod colored hair, blue eyes, with stars in the background

Sarah Bloom

Sarah Bloom Studio is the multidisciplinary visual art studio of Sarah Bloom, a Chicago based maker and over-thinker. With a focus on thoughtful and fun design, she aims to bring joy to those who interact with her work. Sarah’s experience in a variety of design disciplines have informed her visual storytelling abilities in a unique and eclectic way. Her tactile nature and experience with traditional printmaking led to her love of all things letterpress.

Services Offered:

  • Graphic Design
  • Illustration
  • Printmaking Commissions

Website:

www.sarahbloomstudio.com

Riley Brady

Studio Fellow 2021

Riley Brady is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer with practices in publication design, illustration, printmaking, and traditional craft. Her work centers on themes of loneliness, memory, religion, and control.

Image credit: Riley Brady, Terrace 5 (I couldn’t possibly), etching and hand-embroidery, 2021

Riley’s Instagram: instagram.com/anarchy_emoji/

Website:

www.rileybrady.com

Ethan G. Brown

Ethan Brown is an artist and graphic designer working in Chicago. He specializes in illustration and screen printing, and tries very hard to be a good painter.

Services Offered:

  • Graphic Design
  • Illustration
  • Printmaking Commissions

Website:

www.ethangbrown.com

Cam Collins

Studio Fellow (2021)

Cam Collins is a fine artist born in Chicago, IL in 1999. His work conveys ambiguous narratives that revolve around colorful figures and sprawling objects, prompting the viewer to investigate, but also have fun doing so. Collins went from Chicago High School to the Arts and moved on to get his BFA in Printmaking at RISD while working as a studio technician in Benson Hall. He has done his own solo exhibition in Providence titled Colorstroll, and has won various awards from Scholastic and AIGA.

Website:

cargocollective.com/camcollinsart

Lily Cozzens

Studio Fellow (2021)

Through the lens of realism and observation, Lily Cozzens’ practice primarily utilizes the medium of drawing to explore and balance the ideas of banality, sincerity, and representation and to create an authentic experience for the viewer. Realism as a practice–and going beyond simple reproduction–embraces the instantaneous and fleeting subjectivity of daily goings-on. She explores and embraces memory and its subjectivity to create third-hand retellings of first-hand experiences. As an attempt at connection with others and with the world around her, she tells her own truth through her work.

Website:

www.lilycozzens.com

Kyle Dunlap

Member

Kyle Dunlap is currently a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. With a background in oil painting, his present work is focusing in Photography and Print Media. While working in various modes of imagery in both of these mediums, his subject matter is engaged with exploring personal narrative in relation to literary motifs.

Services Offered:

  • Illustration
  • Printmaking Commissions

Website:

www.instagram.com/kanklekopter/