Abigail M. is a Chicago-based graphic designer, writer, and printmaker. She holds a BFA in graphic design from Columbia College Chicago. She had a haiku published in Columbia Poetry Review no. 26. In 2018, AIGA Chicago awarded her the What’s Next Grant to fund her project Does Cement Make a Sound?; a mixed media print series which aims to highlight the reality of living with mental illness and disability. Regardless of medium, Abigail M.’s work exists to answer the constant and varied questions that typically arise somewhere between a memory and the conscious awareness of a feeling.
Services Offered:
- Graphic Design
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
abigailm.com
I create illustrations/ visual stories that uplift and empower the feminine.
Services Offered:
- Exhibition Opportunities
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Printmaking Commissions
M Kellman Art
M Kellman is an emerging Chicago-based artist and printmaker working across various media and methods. After receiving a BA in History from Scripps College in 2014 and working for a few years with a creative nonprofit in Southern California, M moved to Chicago to study printmaking and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Trained as a historian, M uses their art practice to explore the personal and subjective experience of history and cultural identity.
Services Offered:
- Illustration
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
www.mbkellman.com
Zerobird Studio
Zerobird is a screen printing and design studio located in the historic Feather Loft building in Chicago’s West Town Industrial Corridor. Run by the husband and wife team of Jennifer Burak and Dan Spielman. We make extremely efficient use of the 18’ x 18’ space where we do all our designing, file prep, screen exposure, printing, sewing and packaging. All prints ( paper, tshirt and fabric ) are hand pulled using water based inks and soy based solvents. Our equipment is mostly handmade using salvaged materials – the tables were even built from torn down walls in our old studio. We also enjoy embracing traditional printing methods whenever possible, including Rubylithe transfers.
Dan is originally from Brookfield, IL. He started out college as a Fine Arts and Business major and wound up in the corporate world for many years before finding his way back to art. An expert with Adobe Illustrator and an xacto blade, he started back with Graphic Design and production work. In 2012, he met Jennifer and quickly fell for the ( traditional, meticulous ) process of screen printing. Dan relocated to Chicago and began working at a commercial t-shirt printing shop. On the side he was designing and screen printing t-shirts and posters for his own band and soon had requests to create art for some of his favorite bands in the city. Everything from logos to album artwork. Dan is the Zerobird Studio resident t-shirt expert and guitar picker. When not creating art, he can be found playing bluegrass at the studio and all over the city.
Services Offered:
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
www.zerobirdstudio.com/
Sparkel
Emily Schulert is a comic, print and fiber artist based in Chicago. She runs an online store of her comics, apparel and prints “Sparkel” while tabling at various festivals around the US. Last year she founded and co-runs the collective “Chicago Skillshare Network” along with four of her friends, bringing affordable monthly workshops in arts and crafts to DIY and domestic spaces. She substitute teaches and babysits, always looking for odd jobs in between.
Services Offered:
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
emilyschulert.wordpress.com/
By investigating a collective, more inclusive story around American history, I constructs truth-telling works to reveal how injustices against people of color inform our understanding of society, identity and culture.
A vast chasm of memory for the one lost, “…writing his dream inside a rectangle.” is an exploration of the poetic gesture behind the removal and replacement of site. A large scale rectangular floor piece of hand painted gravel takes on the trauma’s abyss. The labor put forth is an action by myself to communicate the void of absence – mixed and adhered with presence in a deep immeasurable space.
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Website:
www.ashleyfreeby.com
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Nancy Chen has been making prints since 2007. She has recently been concentrating on woodcut and letterpress projects, but also has experience with etching, lithography, and screenprinting, as well as papermaking and bookmaking. Her printmaking loves include: color reduction prints, artist books, handmade cards, and wood type in particular.
Nancy is a graduate student in English Literature & Writing at the University of Chicago. She is a freelance arts and culture writer whose reviews and feature stories have been published in Newcity, the University of Chicago Arts Magazine, the Philadelphia Inquirer, PlanPhilly, the Artblog, and more.
Services Offered:
- Exhibition Opportunities
- Illustration
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
colorproof.tumblr.com/
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Starting in the late 80’s as an American folk art dealer, Aron Packer built his early career with an apartment gallery for many years, and he became known for a broad yet unusual vision. As business forces changed over the past 25+ years, Packer migrated to locations in River North and the West Loop. In 2015 he closed Packer Schopf Gallery on west Lake Street to pursue a lifestyle change. Packer now works for Toomey & Co Auctioneers as a Senior Fine Art Specialist. Currently Aron Packer Projects is only online and will resume some portable shows soon!
Website:
Packergallery.com
Hi. I’m a graphic designer based in Logan Square, Chicago.
My specialty is packaging design but I have worked on a variety of projects involving branding, photography, print design, event branding, web graphics, social media, and more. I love the intricacies and possibilities in the printing process but am excited to take on any project involving creative problem solving.
In my free time, I eat cheese, block print, kick-butt playing board games, dream about the next plant to add to my already too-large collection, and watch goofy movies from the 80’s and 90’s.
Services Offered:
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
www.maggierichardsdesign.com
