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.

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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

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Wes Kendall

Wes Kendall is a letterpress printer, textile artist, and poet. Across disciplines, his work is bright, playful, and filled with language. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Wes earned his BA from the Evergreen State College before relocating to Chicago in 2020. When not making art, Wes cooks for his friends and rides his bike around the city.

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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

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Miguel Limon

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Miguel Limon is Chicago-based arts educator and cultural worker. They grew up on the Southeast Side of Chicago, where their grandfather worked as a migrant laborer in the steel mills. Their work explores the intersection of art, education, and social justice, drawing on themes of memory, environmental justice, and cultural heritage.

Miguel is particularly interested in activating archives, memory, and migrant narratives through photography, printmaking, and social practice art. Their projects often examine the histories of migrant labor in Chicago and the use of print media as a tool for community engagement and activism. Their recent works include address Mexican-American labor histories and environmental justice on the far southeast side.

Miguel has experience in arts and museum education, having taught and led programs at the University of Chicago, SAIC @ Homan Square, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and more. They hold an BS in Education from DePaul University and MA in Museum and Exhibition Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Limon has shown work at Mana Contemporary, the Design Museum of Chicago, John David Mooney Foundation, and others. They hav received recognition from 3Arts, the Aperture Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, Luminarts Foundation, and others.

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Anna Wagner

Anna Wagner is an American/Brazilian artist and educator based in Chicago, IL.  A dedicated craftsperson, Anna is invested in working with antiquated techniques to explore how marginalized histories resurface throughout time, ever-present and existing in the contemporary world as informed by the past.

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Anders Zanichkowsky

Anders Zanichkowsky came to Chicago in 2019 after getting their MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where they concentrated in printmaking and religious art & studies. They are an interdisciplinary artist who also works in papermaking, textiles, neon, video, poetry, and performance, and they are the owner of Burial Blankets, weaving custom shrouds for green burial that are meant for enjoyment and reflection during life. In 2016 Anders was an artist in residence with The Arctic Circle sailing expedition in Svalbard, and their work has been shown across the U.S. and abroad including The Wisconsin Film Festival and the Ukranian Institute of Modern Art. Anders has taught all ages and backgrounds with a focus on printmaking, drawing, and DIY-style professional development for working artists, including while on staff at Spudnik from 2019 – 2021.

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