Teaching Artists
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.
Website:
www.DoubleTripPress.comClasses by this Artist:
Letterpress I: Wood & Metal Type, Begins 7/8Letterpress Finesse: Independent Projects
Letterpress I: Wood & Metal Type (Begins 9/2/14)
Letterpress II: Polymer
Letterpress Finesse
Letterpress II: Polymer (WI2015)
Letterpress I: Wood & Metal Type
Letterpress I: Wood & Metal Type
Letterpress Your Own Coasters
Letterpress II: Polymer
Letterpress Your Own Coasters (Winter 2016)
Letterpress I: Wood & Metal Type (Jan 2016)
Print Your Own Business Cards: From Vector to Vandercook
Letterpress Finesse (April 2016)
DIY Greeting Cards: Letterpress Printing (April 2016)
Letterpress 201: Daredevil Type
Letterpress I: Wood and Metal Type (Oct 2016)
DIY Letterpress Coasters
DIY Letterpress Coasters
Letterpress I: Wood and Metal Type (Jan 2017)
Letterpress Finesse
DIY Letterpress Coasters
DIY Letterpress Coasters (Dec 2017)
DIY Letterpress Coasters
Letterpress I: Wood & Metal Type
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.
Website:
www.shannonbodrogiart.com/Classes by this Artist:
Textile Art: Print, Embroidery, & Dyes (Online Class)Products by this Artist:
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.
Services Offered:
- Graphic Design
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
www.maryclarebutler.comClasses by this Artist:
Letterpress Pressure PrintsLetterpress Pressure Prints
Letterpress Pressure Prints
Letterpress Pressure Prints
Letterpress Valentines
Letterpress Printing 101: Introduction to Letterpress
Broadsides! Broadsides!
Letterpress Printing 102
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
Website:
www.jessicachristy.comClasses by this Artist:
Screenprinting Explorations (May 2017)Screenprinting Explorations (Sept 2017 – Saturday AM)
Screenprinting Explorations
Monotypes & Collographs
Screenprinting Explorations (Friday Morning, September)
Printmaking Foundations (October)
Etching & Intaglio Printmaking (January)
Printmaking Foundations (February)
Screenprinting Refresher (February)
Monotypes & Collographs (March)
Printmaking Foundations (April)
Screenprinting Refresher (June)
Screenprinting Explorations (May)
Printmaking Foundations (September 2019)
Etching & Intaglio Printmaking
Screenprinting Explorations (October 2019)
Etching & Intaglio Printmaking
Products by this Artist:
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.
Website:
mhmdavis.comClasses by this Artist:
Risography 101Risography 101 (Feb 2015)
Risography (April 2015)
Risography 101 (May2015)
Risography 101 (June 2015)
Risography 101 (July 2015)
Risography 101 (Aug 2015)
Risography 101 (Sep 2015)
Risography 101 (Oct 2015)
Risography 101 (Nov 2015)
Risography 101 (Jan 2016)
Risography 101 (March 2016)
Risography 101 (May 2016)
Risography 101 (June 2016)
Risography 101 (August 2016)
Risography 101 (Sep 2016)
Risography 101 (Oct 2016)
Risography 101 (January 2017)
Risography 101 (February 2017)
Risography 101 (April 2017)
Risography 201: From Pre-Press to Publication
Risography 101 (August 2017)
Risography 101 (June 2017)
Risography 101 (July 2017)
Risography 101 (Sept 2017)
Risography 101 (Oct 2017)
Risography 101 (Nov 2017)
Risography 201: From Prepress to Publication (Sept 2017)
Risography 101
Risography 101
Risography 101
Risography 101
Risography 101 (June)
Risography 101 (July)
Risography 101 (August)
Risography 101 (October)
Risography 101 (November 28)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (October)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (December)
Risography 101 (February 5)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (January)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (February)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (March)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (April)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (June)
Risography 101 (July)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (August)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (Early October)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (Late October)
Risography 101 (Early September 2019)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (December 2019)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files
Risography 101 (March 4)
Risography 101 (10/10/21)
Risography 101 (11/7/21)
Intro to Risography (1/26/22)
Intro to Riso (3/22/22)
Angela Davis Fegan
Angela Davis Fegan is a native of Chicago’s South Side. She received her BFA in Fine Arts from New York’s Parsons School of Design and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago. Angela has mounted shows at Galerie F, Chicago Artists’ Coalition, the DePaul Art Museum, The Center for Book Arts (NY), the University of Chicago’s Arts Incubator and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, the Hyde Park Art Center, SAIC’s Sullivan Galleries, Columbia’s Glass Curtain Gallery, SPACES (OH) and Revolve (AVL). She has held residencies at the Chicago Artists’ Coalition, F4F, Connecticut College, the Hambidge Center (GA), Revolve (NC), and Project Row House (TX). Her work has been selected for book covers including The Truth About Dolls by Jamila Woods, Secondhand by Maya Marshall, and All Blue So Late by Laura Swearingen-Steadwell. Her lavender menace poster project has been written up by The Offing (LA Review of Books), Hyperallergic, Chicago Magazine, the RedEye, Go Magazine, Pop Sugar, the Chicago Reader, and Newcity.
Angela joined Spudnik Press as a teaching artists in our inaugural 2022 Teaching Artist Cohort.
Website:
angeladavisfegan.comChris Flynn
Chris Flynn is an artist, printmaker and drummer from Chicago who earned his MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College Chicago in 2017. Since earning his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999, Flynn has been the Master Printer for Anchor Graphics, collaborating with an extensive range of artists and teaching printmaking to students of all ages and experience.
Statement
Chris Flynn’s current art practice builds on an open body of work entitled The Antigravity Puppet Project, which integrates sculptural papermaking and print media with percussion music and sound art. The Puppet is a self-portrait as a human-scale marionette, while The Antigravity Project is its dissection by image and sound. The figure, its fragmented image and its internal soundscape are played beside each other in translation games between graphic and musical forms, telling the allegory of the puppet through percussive sound composition, photogravures, visual scores and data glitches.
Website:
cflynnprints.com/Classes by this Artist:
Photopolymer IntaglioPhotopolymer Intaglio (May)
Willa Goettling
Willa Goettling is an educator and artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She’s interested in art as a tool for information sharing and community building, and her art practice is largely based around the production and distribution of democratic multiples such as artists’ books, zines, and other printed matter. Willa received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Book & Paper Art from Columbia College Chicago (2019) and BA in Medical Anthropology & Global Health from the University of Washington (2016). While at Columbia, she was a Print Production Fellow and contributing writer for the Journal of Artists’ Books; taught both undergraduate and graduate printmaking workshops; and received an Albert P Weisman Award for her MFA thesis. In 2020 she was an Artist in Residence at Eureka! House in partnership with the Center for Artistic Activism (Kingston, NY). She currently serves as the Program Manager at Smack Mellon and teaches publishing and printmaking workshops through Ugly Duckling Presse (Brooklyn, NY), Spudnik Press Cooperative (Chicago, IL), and the Independent Publishing Resource Center (Portland, OR).
Services Offered:
- Exhibition Opportunities
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
www.instagram.com/willakatrin/Classes by this Artist:
Textile Art: Print, Embroidery, & Dyes (Online Class)Simple Book Structures [VIRTUAL] (8/22/21)
Products by this Artist:
Rob Kelsey
Studio Fellow (Alumni)
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/Classes by this Artist:
Community Workshop: The Exquisite Risographic Flip Book!T-Shirts & Totebags Screenprinting Workshop
T-shirts and Totebags Screenprint Workshop
T-shirts & Totebags Screenprinting Workshop
T-shirts & Totebags Screenprinting Workshop (July)
T-shirts & Totebags Screenprinting Workshop
T-shirts & Totebags Screenprinting Workshop (September)
T-Shirts & Totebags Screenprinting Workshop (November)
T-Shirts & Totebags Screenprinting Workshop (December)
T-Shirts & Totebags Screenprinting Workshop (January)
T-Shirts & Totebags Screenprinting Workshop (February)
T-shirts & Totebags Screenprinting Workshop (March)
Screenprinting Explorations (March)
T-Shirts & Totebags Screenprinting Workshop (April)
T-shirts & Totebags Screenprinting Workshop (June)
T-shirts & Totebags Screenprinting Workshop (August)
Screenprinting Explorations (Mid-September 2019)
T-Shirts & Totebags Screenprinting Workshop (September 2019)
DIY Greeting Cards: Screenprinting
Screenprinting Explorations
Screenprinting Explorations
T-Shirts & Tote Bags Screenprinting Workshop
Advance Screenprinting: Image and Concept
T-shirts & Totebags Screenprinting Workshop (08/16/2021)
March 28 | Screenprinting Refresher (1 Day)
April 4 | Intro to Screenprinting (4 Weeks)
Screenprinting Refresher (1 Day)
Screenprinting Explorations (8 Weeks)
May 2 | Screenprinting Refresher (1 Day)
June 6 | Intro to Screenprinting (4 Weeks)
May 28 | Screenprinting Refresher (1 Day)
May 10 | Beyond the Folio: Experimental Zinemaking (6 Weeks)
June 29 | Screenprinting Refresher (1 Day)
September 27 | Intro to Screenprinting (4 Weeks)
September 28 | Screenprinting Refresher (1 Day)
October 21 | Silkscreen Monoprinting (4 Weeks)
October 22 | Screenprinting Refresher (1 Day)
October 22 | Screenprinting Explorations (8 Weeks)
November 7 | Experimental Zinemaking (6 Weeks)
November 8 | Intro to Screenprinting (4 Weeks)
November 16 | Screenprinting Authorization
December 9 | Screenprinting Authorization (1 Day)
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 : > )
Services Offered:
- Graphic Design
- Printmaking Commissions
- Illustration
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)
Yasi Moussavi
Yasaman Moussavi is a visual artist and art instructor. She holds an MFA with two emphases on Painting and Printmaking from Texas Tech University, where she explored and developed her skills in papermaking, printmaking, and installation art. Her work reflects the spiritual attachment to places and the emotional tension between today’s precarious living and the Persian’s poetic tradition of “living in harmony with nature.” Her works have have been displayed in many national and international solo and group exhibitions. She is a co-founder of Didaar Art Collective, a Chicago -based Iranian art community. She works and live in Chicago.
Services Offered:
- Exhibition Opportunities
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
yasamanmoussavi.com/Residency Period:
Sep 2017–Dec 2017Project Statement:
During this residency, my aim is to translate human experiences of transition and displacement into a visual language by creating a series of prints made out of textured hand-made papers, such as kenaf and other natural materials. I would like to create a body of work based on my personal journey from my home country, Iran, to the U.S., and explore the feelings associated with being in between places. My final exhibition will consist of etchings that depict creatures entangled in a natural space. I want to explore the ties between individual and environment, and unearth emotions, associations, and memories that one attaches to physical spaces to discover the abiding bond between nature and us.Classes by this Artist:
Community Workshop: Handmade Paper: Adventures with Pulp, Embedding, and LaminatingPapermaking (Sept 2017)
Papermaking: Pulp, Sculpt and Print
Papermaking: Pulp Painting (July)
Andrew Mullally
Image: Detail of If I Sought an Echo, I’d Now Be Addressing a Mountain, 2019