Murat Ahmed

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.

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• Exhibition Opportunities
• Graphic Design
• Printmaking Commissions

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Ryan Basile

Ryan received his BS in Studio Art focusing in Communication Design from Skidmore College (2008) and his MFA in Visual Communication Design from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2011). His foundation in the world of Graphic Design with a comprehensive typographic education turned into a deep-seated passion when he met letterpress. Typographic forms spoke to him more so than any other medium he’d previously encountered; combining that love with paper into hand printed form was like discovering a new religion. Since Ryan’s discovery of letterpress in graduate school his life has been redirected around this method of printmaking, so much so that he quit an old job an hour after the purchase of his first press; in that moment he started his own business, Double Trip Press.

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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

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• Exhibition Opportunities
• Printmaking Commissions

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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.

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• Graphic Design
• Illustration
• Printmaking Commissions

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Shannon Bodrogi

Shannon Bodrogi is an artist, musician and arts educator. Working with alternative photo printmaking, monoprint, relief, embroidery, painting and collage, Shannon builds up pieces with different combinations through an intuitive process. She is interested in the patchwork of memory, documenting and archiving experiences and places, and the lessons we can learn from the plants around us. Shannon teaches MonoMerch: Basic Embroidery for DIY Merch through The Vera Project, which connects needle work to punk aesthetics and values. She values creating a safer and welcoming space that prioritizes self-expression, exploration and understanding.

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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/

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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.

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• Graphic Design
• Illustration
• Printmaking Commissions

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Mary Clare Butler

Mary Clare Butler is an artist and designer from the south side of Chicago. Through process-driven offset and letterpress printing, her work investigates the relationship between modes of production and the environment. She received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago (2016) and her BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois at Chicago (2009). In 2015, she co-founded Fata Morgana Press, an experimental studio in Bridgeport focused on the wiggly line between art and design.

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• Graphic Design
• Printmaking Commissions

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Nina Chen

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Jessica Christy

Development & Fellowship Coordinator

Jessica Christy is a printmaker, designer, and North Dakota native living in the Chicago area.  She received her MFA from the University of North Dakota in 2011 and has since created works that challenge the status quo of human activity and the resulting impacts.  Heavily influenced by her upbringing in the Dakota culture, Christy often weaves the Native experience into her pieces.  Her work has shown both nationally and internationally; most recently, in a solo exhibition, Domestic Tides / Indigenous Mind, here at Spudnik Press in Chicago, Illinois.

Teaching Bio

Jessica Christy is a printmaker and designer.  She received her MFA from the University of North Dakota in 2011 and has since created works that challenge the status quo of human activity and the resulting impacts. Her work combines found images, photographs, text, and hand drawn marks, and utilizes various materials from paper to found wood and glass to textiles.

Areas of Expertise

• Using found and repurposed materials
• materialsPrinting anything onto unique surfaces
• Instilling a solid technical understanding of print processes and techniques

Favorite Process: Polyester Plate Litho

Possible Process

• Intaglio
• Relief
• Monotypes
• Pronto Plates
• Screenprinting
• Cyanotype

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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.

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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.

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Matt Davis

Matt Davis is a printmaker and occasional cartoonist, illustrator, and designer. He runs a Risograph print shop called Perfectly Acceptable that offers affordable commission printing as well as a curated series of artist prints and books. He graduated from Oberlin College with a BA in Russian Language a few years ago.

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Kirstin Dunlap

Kirstin Dunlap Printing

Kirstin Dunlap is a current printing student at School of the Art Institute of Chicago exploring the possibilities of screen printing- specifically, screen printed artist books. Pushing the norm of the traditional book format in order to express the chosen topic best. The topics most explored in her practice follow the wonders of interstellar research. Her work likes to border the line between fine art and educational material. As freelance, Kirstin enjoys DIY scene posters, merchandise, and general content design and printing, as well as custom floral illustrations.

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• Exhibition Opportunities
• Graphic Design
• Printmaking Commissions

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Kyle Dunlap

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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.

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• Illustration
• Printmaking Commissions

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