Gwyneth is a depressed animist, descended from European invaders and immigrants, based in Chicago and Baltimore. She makes time for the animation, absurdity, patterns, and paradox of humans and not-humans, often focusing on sensations and systems that are invisible to us due to their immateriality, proximity, or assumed normalcy. She’s presented work in galleries, festivals, forests, and empty lots throughout the Northern Hemisphere, including with Roots & Culture, Roman Susan, Woman Made Gallery, Hyde Park Art Center, and 6018 NORTH in Chicago; the Freies Museum in Berlin; and @ptt in Geneva. As an artist in residence, she’s gestated at the Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago), FRISE (Germany), Harold Arts (Ohio), Arteles Creative Center (Finland), and Utopiana (Switzerland). She teaches teenagers at the Lutz Center for After School Matters, and has taught in many other institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist Residency, and Johns Hopkins University’s Baltimore Youth Film Arts. She holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and received her certificate from the Center for Deep Listening in 2018. She thinks artist bios and CVs are deceptive in nature.
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Website:
gwynethvzanderson.com/home.html
Peace of Art, LLC
Perfectartpeace.com was inspired by a line in an old prayer book, The Key of Heaven, that says, “ holy rest is found in Thee who art our perfect peace.” As a lifelong Chicago resident the art work I create has been featured in non-profit events and churches for decades. We now live in an age where once sacred images have lost much of their power to grasp either heart or mind. Wings and angels are my favorite motif. Working in multiple media with found objects and repurposed materials I create art for the joy of it, and as a reminder that the sacred has a role in our everyday life. I am a resident artist at ClaySpace in Lisle, IL and a member of Spudnik Press in Chicago, IL. PEACE, Cheryl
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Services Offered:
- Exhibition Opportunities
- Illustration
Website:
www.perfectartpeace.com
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I am an artist, sculptor and sometimes printmaker based in Chicago. The work I make interrogates issues of social justice, memory, wonder and doubt. I work with a mix of media: wood, fiber, plastic, paper, paint, rope, tape… cutting, folding, rolling, layering, and binding in the construction of my assemblages. Materials that are adaptable, portable… hard, soft, ephemeral. My most recent body of work concerns issues of exile, home and related traumas.
Website:
www.robertfieldsartist.com
Rebecca Gray Smith, born in 1953, is a Chicago based artist, printmaker, and instructor, who has practiced printmaking for over 30 years. Smith holds a MA in liberal arts from the University of Chicago, with undergraduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in printmaking, anatomy, drawing, and painting. Smith has taught courses in printmaking and fine art for the University of Chicago, the Chicago City Colleges, the Chicago Park District, and the Chicago parochial school system for children at risk. Smith’s artworks have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the USA, and Europe. Her work is in private collections in the USA, England, Netherlands, Belgium, India, China, and Japan.
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Website:
www.rebeccagraysmith.com
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
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.com
Classes by this Artist:
Letterpress Pressure Prints
Letterpress Pressure Prints
Letterpress Pressure Prints
Letterpress Pressure Prints
Letterpress Valentines
Letterpress Printing 101: Introduction to Letterpress
Broadsides! Broadsides!
Letterpress Printing 102
2019-20 Fellow
Teresita Carson Valdéz is a Chicago based artist working in fiber, film, photography, print media and installation. She received her Bachelors in Fine Arts from the School of the Art institute of Chicago. Recent exhibition sites include Adds Donna Gallery and Mana Contemporary. Her awards and honors include winning first prize for her screenplays Poly Esther, Chucky’s Feast, 1st and 10, Shlomo’s Night Out, and Ratacholo. Her short films have been shown at festivals around the world and at curated film exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of San Diego.
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Website:
www.teresitacarsonvaldez.com
Maggie Griffiths is a Chicago-based graphic designer. She is part of the digital product design team at Morningstar, Inc.
Though she hails from Cleveland, Ohio, Maggie has also called Pennsylvania and Texas home. She is known for her devotion to The New York Times crossword puzzle and her love of power tools.
For freelance inquiries, collaborations, and/or fine conversation, email
hello@maggiegriffiths.com
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Website:
www.maggiegriffiths.com/
Current Location Press
Raychel Steinbach received her BFA in Printmaking, Papermaking, and Book Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in 2009. Raychel is the printer-designer behind Current Location Press and focuses on handset type combined with carved blocks inspired by nature and community. She has apprenticed with several shops across the Midwest to hone her skills in letterpress printing and typesetting, most notably with Jennifer Farrell of Starshaped Press. She has previously been the 2016 Printing Apprentice at Spudnik Press, Chicago; 2015 Windgate Resident Project Manager at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, Wisconsin; 2015 recipient of the Green Initiative Award at the U.S. Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand; 2014 Artist in Residence at ComPeung, Northern Thailand; 2009 Collegiate Fellow at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts; and a teaching artist at Silverwood Park, Minnesota.
Services Offered:
- Graphic Design
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
www.CurrentLocationPress.com
