Stella Rae Binion

Stella Rae Binion (they/she)is a chicago-born poet, filmmaker, printmaker, and bodywork practitioner. Stella Rae first began letterpress printing at Brown University as they earned a bachelor’s degree in Literary Arts and Modern Culture and Media. They were a book arts studio manager at the John Hay Library from 2018-2020, developing a specific love for working on Vandercook presses. As an independent artist, Stella Rae’s poetic, filmic, and book arts practice centers around fugitivity, witnessing as honor work, and the celebration and protection of Black queer people.

Website:

www.stellaraebinion.com/

Classes by this Artist:

January 27 | Intro to Letterpress Printing (6 Weeks)
February 18| Studio Access Training: Letterpress (2 hours)
January 31| DIY Letterpress Cards (1-Day)

Kristen Campos

Kristen is Vice President, Corporate Affairs for Mars Food North America, one of the largest U.S. manufacturers of rice products, and serves as a member of the business’s management team. Kristen is responsible for public relations, public affairs, strategic business communications, consumer care and crisis management to drive the company’s reputation by delivering on its purpose— Better Food Today. A Better World Tomorrow. through a portfolio of iconic brands, like Ben’s Original and Seeds of Change. In her free time, Kristen enjoys practicing Pilates and making meals – often experimenting with new recipes when entertaining friends and family!

Email: boardofdirectors@spudnikpress.org

Emma Chalut

Emma Chalut is an artist, designer, and printmaker with a background in fine art, print production, creative direction, and design. She works with people to create and produce print products, curate and handle artwork, teach, and develop ideas and messages that communicate across physical and digital platforms.

Emma is a printmaker working in letterpress and intaglio, and her practice is rooted in hands-on making, material knowledge, and collaborative processes. A visual learner who prefers to get her hands dirty, she does her best work in the studio while listening to classic rock music.

Email: boardofdirectors@spudnikpress.org

Website:

emmachalut.com/

Classes by this Artist:

January 23| Studio Access Training: Conrad Press-Relief, Monoprint, Intaglio (2 hours)

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Elke Claus

Member

Elke Claus began her career at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she worked in a professional print studio, The Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking. At the same time, she was an intern at Franklin Furnace, an avant-garde art space in Tribeca and home to the country’s largest collection of artist’s books.

After moving to Chicago, she became a teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been a printmaking instructor at Anchor Graphics, Columbia College, After School Matters, and The Hyde Park Art Center.

Her most constant ambition has been as a printmaker/artist, which has been exemplified by numerous solo shows. She has exhibited in New York City, Berlin, and throughout the Midwest.

Read Member Interview Series: Elke Claus

Website:

www.elkeworks.com

Classes by this Artist:

January 20| Monotype Printing 101 (4 Hours)
January 31| Intro to Monotype Printing (4 Weeks)
February 10| Collagraph Printing 101 (4 hours)

Nick D’Alessandro

Nick D’Alessandro (b. Massachusetts) is a Chicago-based artist focusing on industry and subsequent disposal practices. His work draws from the events of planned obsolescence, collecting the objects of its disregard. In approaching a fiber context, the materiality of the objects studied becomes centered, and honored in light of their exhausted utility. Investigating extraction systems as a catalyst for land destruction, digital colonialism, and material reuse within the textile industries, he asks what the aesthetics of these essential materials offer a throwaway society, and looks for the point at which an object becomes waste.

https://nickdalessandro.net/

Website:

nickdalessandro.net/

Classes by this Artist:

February 1 | Screenprinting: T-shirts & Totebags (1 day)

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Riesling Dong

Riesling Dong is a Chicago based book artist and graphic designer. Her bold experimental approach to her book publishing projects often challenges the convention of traditional books in both physical design and printed content. Riesling’s books take on sculptural form and she views them as a unique medium for delivery of information, storytelling and embodied experience. Her aim is to enhance the viewer’s experience and understanding, meanwhile creating an object that holds meaning from typography to material.

Website:

rieslingd.com

Classes by this Artist:

February 1 | Risography Explorations (4 Weeks)
January 21 | Risography 101 (1 Day)
January 27 | Letterpress Authorization (1 Day)
February 3 | Letterpress Immersive: Broadside on Vandercook (8 Weeks)
March 6 | Bookbinding 101: Simple Self-Publishing (1-Day)
February 25 | 6-Week Printmaking Bootcamp (Sundays and Fridays)
March 9 | Letterpress Immersive: Broadside on Vandercook (8 Weeks)
April 16 | Letterpress Authorization: Vandercook (1 Day)
April 3 | Bookbinding 101: Simple Self-Publishing (1-Day)
April 27 | Risography 101 (1 Day)
September 17 | Risography 101 (1 Day)
September 29 | Letterpress Refresher (Vandercook)
October 8 | Risography Explorations (4 Weeks)
October 11 | Risography 101 (1 Day)
October 25 | Bookbinding 101: Simple Self-Publishing (1-Day)
November 5 | Risography 101 (1 Day)
November 12 | Bookbinding 101: Simple Self-Publishing (1-Day)
November 29 | Risography 101 (1 Day)
December 6 | Risography 101 (4 Hours)
December 13 | Risography 101 (4 Hours)
January 17 | Risography 101 (4 Hours)
February 2 | Bookbinding 101 (4 Hours)
February 7 | Risography Explorations (4 Weeks)
March 21 | Risography Explorations (4 Weeks)
March 15 | Risography 101 (4 Hours)
April 12 | Risography 101 (4 Hours)
September 22 | Risography Explorations (4 Weeks)
September 23 | Risography 101 (4 Hours)
January 26 | Risography Explorations (4 Weeks)

Lya Finston

Lya Finston is an artist, printmaker, and educator based in Chicago, IL. Born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Cranford, NJ, Lya has since made the midwest her home. In 2018 she received a BA in Studio Art and German Language from Oberlin College, and in 2025, an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa.

Lya has formerly served as a Lecturer at Harold Washington College, a Printmaking TA and Shop Technician at Bucknell University, and an Access Services Assistant at the Ryerson & Burnham Library of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Services Offered:

Exhibition Opportunities
Graphic Design
Illustration
Printmaking Commissions

Website:

lyafinston.cargo.site/

Classes by this Artist:

February 5 | Intro to Relief Printing (4 Weeks)

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Amira Hegazy

Amira is the Board President at Spudnik Press.

Amira is a multi-disciplinary artist working within artistic, publishing and scholarly practices: her artwork addresses the fragility of memory, and the inevitability of loss; while her research includes investigation of letterforms and how the way we write is related to the politics and ethics of love. She is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia College and at the University of Illinois Chicago, as well as a TERRA Foundation Research Fellow at the Design Museum of Chicago. In her free time Amira enjoys live music and good food around the city.

Email: boardofdirectors@spudnikpress.org

Services Offered:

Exhibition Opportunities
Printmaking Commissions

Website:

www.amirahegazy.com/

Classes by this Artist:

Bookbinding Workshop: Simple Self-Publishing (June)
Bookbinding Workshop: Secret Belgian Binding (July)
Bookbinding Explorations
Bookbinding: No-Sew Books
Bookbinding: Hardcover Case Binding
Bookbinding Workshop: Simple Self-Publishing (08/18/2021)
Bookbinding Workshop: No-Sew Books (8/22/21)
DIY Cards: Letterpress
Bookbinding Workshop: Simple Self-Publishing
From Pen to Paper: Putting Your Writing Into the World
Letterpress: Wood & Metal Type
Bookbinding Foundations

Rob Kelsey

Rob Kelsey first experienced printmaking at DePaul University, where he studied animation and developed a distaste for digital art processes. Printmaking was his first window into the joys of older artistic forms that simply cannot be replicated digitally. Intaglio led to screenprinting led to bookbinding led to a desire to dabble in as many media as possible, combining and crossing them where appropriate, and exploring themes and imagery from folklore and superstition.

Follow him on Instagram at: @truly.ghouly

Website:

www.trulyghoulyworkshop.com/

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Alex Belardo Kostiw

Alex Belardo Kostiw is a graphic designer, artist, and educator whose work is rooted in storytelling. She 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. In her own projects, Alex deals in poetic, adapted, and iterative elements, visual structures of comics, and conceptually driven forms. Her work explores primordial and personal forms of knowledge, investigating the complex ways that the self and reality interact.

Image Credit: Collectivo Multipola

Website:

www.alexkostiw.com/

Residency Period:

Sep 2016–Dec 2016

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Logan Kruidenier

Logan Kruidenier is an artist and teacher from Goleta, CA and currently based in Chicago. His work explores narratives, daydreams and the art of masking. He bikes around the city and eats peanut butter from the jar.

I am a multi-media artist. I love making comics (read on my Tumblr and Ello pages), prints, drawings, and most recently I have begun staging public art installations and performances. The format of the Narrative is important to my work, as are the themes of immersion, identity, and consumption. My industry experience includes designing logos, creating custom brands, illustration, concept art and storyboarding.

Send me an email if you would like to get in touch. I am always interested in any ideas you may have concerning collaboration, omelette combinations (personal favorite: broccoli, mushrooms, spinach and cheddar) or other questions. -Logan : > )

Website:

www.logankruidenier.com/

Classes by this Artist:

Risography 101 (May)
Risography 101 (November 6)
Risography 101 (September)
Risography 101 (February 10)
Risography 101 (March)
Risography 101 (April)
Risography 101 (May)
Risography 101 (June)
Risography 101 (August)
Risography 101 (Early October)
Risography 101 (Late October)
Risography 101 (November 2019)
Risography 101 (Late September 2019)
Risography 101 (December 2019)
Risography 101
Risography 101
Risography 101
Risography 101
Risography 101
Risography 101 (8/15/21)
Risography 101 (8/25/21)
Risography 101 (8/29/21)
January 29 | Riso 101 (4 Hours)
January 25 | Experimental Zinemaking (4 Weeks)
January 26 | Intro to Intaglio, Etching (6 Weeks)

Angela Runge

Angela Runge is a User Researcher who has worked on improving IBM Cloud’s customer experience for over a decade. While coming from a product design background with a Fine Arts degree, Angela has had hundreds of conversations with IT Architects, Admins, and Engineers to understand what it’s like to work in enterprise IT and use cloud computing. Angela loves learning about architecture, urban planning, and the development of cities, and is fascinated by the parallels between virtual environments and the built environment. Angela lived in Austin for 9 years but recently moved to Chicago to trade triple digit summers for winters with -20 F wind chill. She served as a Studio Monitor at Spudnik Press prior to joining the board.