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.
Magdalena Glotzer recently graduated from the University of Chicago where she received a dual-degree in Art History and East European Studies. Her undergraduate research focused on analyzing Ancient Mesoamerican ceramic figures as a method of understanding cross-cultural exchange. She is passionate about arts education and supporting emerging artists, scholars, and creative communities. This summer, Magdalena interned at the Norton Museum of Art in Florida with the Curatorial and Education departments. There, she led museum tours for summer camps and curated an exhibition on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. She has also worked at the Chicago Artists Coalition, the Visual Resources Center in the Art History Dept. at the University of Chicago, and the Smart Museum of Art. In her spare time, she dabbles in black and white film photography, painting, drawing, and poetry.
Fun facts: Magdalena is training for a triathlon and has run across the state of Iowa 3 times!
Email: info@spudnikpress.org
Ruby Figueroa is an interdisciplinary artist from Chicago, IL. She received a B.A. in Studio Art from Concordia University Chicago, and an M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Book, Paper, and Print Arts from Columbia College Chicago. Prior to joining the Spudnik Press staff, Ruby worked as the Technical Facilities coordinator at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and as the Printshop Support Assistant at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her artistic work explores the idea of home, and the relationships between humans, loss, time, and heartbreak. Her autobiographical essays are mixed with experimental nonfiction seen in her zines, artist books, monoprints, poetry broadsides, and videos.
Fun Facts: Ruby has a cat named Cobra and her favorite food is ceviche.
Email: ruby@spudnikpress.org
João Oliveira is a visual artist with a BA in Visual Arts from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (2011), and a Master’s in Creative Process in Visual Arts from the same university (2017). He is trained in lithography and metal engraving through the Workshops at the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia (MAM-BA). He works on the encounter of metal engraving with other supports, appropriating personal experience in order to create works with a forged autobiographical nature, obtained through small rituals of self-fiction.
George Liebert is a painter, printmaker, and teacher based in Chicago. By beginning with traditional pleine aire studies, and filtering them through digital and print media before incorporating them into his paintings, Liebert examines the longing for, and alienation from nature.
Education also plays a critical role in his practice, with teaching, and studio practice supporting one another. He has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the painting department since 1979. He has also taught in the first year program, and the print media department at SAIC. For two years he taught in a semester abroad program in San Miguel de Allende, GTO Mexico for the School of the Art Institute. The past three years he has been teaching at Korea University in the International Summer Campus.
Liebert was the resident director, and associate program director for Ox Bow Summer School of Painting from 1989 until 2003. After Liebert left Ox Bow a scholarship was endowed in his name to honor his achievement as an artist and teacher.
Jin is a printmaker and writer from Korea and Singapore, currently practicing printmaking, bookbinding, and book conservation in Carleton College, MN. Their works are built upon marks of nibs and needles. Carving into a flat surface and leaving a permanent mark comes with a degree of responsibility they bear in making of their works. Therefore, everything in their works, the marks, the allegory, and the composition are, or rather have to be, intentional.
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.
