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
As a Graphic Designer and painter, Katherine creates easel-size paintings of stylized landscapes that include references to microscopic biological forms and macroscopic extraterrestrial masses. She uses organic shapes, thick layers and bright colors that suggest planets and cellular structures to evoke the processes of many natural systems moving from their creation to decay. These pieces are juxtaposed to Letterpress prints that are personal statements that represent changing thoughts and emotions. Oil paints on canvas and oil based ink on paper show a variety of texture that symbolizes inconsistency, abnormal ideas and anxiety. This series is a timeline showing her discomfort within her environment over the period of one year.
Services Offered:
- Exhibition Opportunities
- Graphic Design
Website:
www.katherinensmith.com/
Chris Devins is a local Mural Artist/Urban Planner who creates outdoor Public Art installations designed to attract tourists and increase community pride. He is part of a team that won a 2016 Best Practices award from the Illinois Chapter of the American Planning Association.
CDC began in Bronzeville, Chicago as an outgrowth of Chris’ work on the Residents at Risk study conducted by the Urban Institute and Harvard University. Residents at Risk was a profile of the Ida B. Wells/Madden Park housing complex conducted just as residents’ homes were being demolished. As he pondered the loss of yet another important Bronzeville development, Chris began to think about Identity and the role it plays in a neighborhood’s economic and social viability.
The Bronzeville Legends Identity Initiative was a part of Chris’ Master Thesis, the East 39th Street Commercial Corridor Plan. The plan is a comprehensive development plan that envisions the future of the corridor, based on current real estate market data.
Website:
www.chrisdevinscreative.com/
Anna Rae Gilbert was born in Northwest Indiana, attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1997 – 2000, and finished her undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Art at Herron School of Art and Design in 2007. She continued with her academic career at Maine College of Art and acquired an MFA in 2009. Since then, she has retained a spirited studio practice and a distinctive signature thread throughout her entire body of work. Each piece is assembled with thoughtfulness and delicate care.
Her work is informed by an interest in architecture as a living organism, the evolution of personal and objective narrative in dwellings, and a playfulness in composition. In each piece, there are equal parts sincerity, provocation and dry humor. She has tried to categorize the thread within each work and the category she drew up was Intuitional Abstract. Her line and palette are driven with sentimentality. Tapping into emotion, nostalgia, and capturing a heightened occasions. Her paintings and prints become a souvenir and her way of offering those two dimensional and extraordinary moments.
For a custom commission, check these out or email her!
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Website:
annaraegilbert.com/
Corinne is currently a sophomore at Loyola University Chicago, pursuing a Film and Digital Media Production major and an Entrepreneurship minor. She grew up in Maryland, near Washington D.C., where she first fell in love with filmmaking when she began making short music videos and PSAs. She is also extremely passionate about playing guitar, dancing, environmental advocacy, and social justice.
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Website:
corinspiration.com/
Jolanta Soares, grew up in Communist Poland, coming of age during the Solidarity Movement, before emigrating to the United States. This background intermingles with her experiences as a mother, her love of sailing and working as an IT professional, to inspire her many different series of works. “Stories” describes her life’s journey, “Into the Cloud” conveys a rebellion against the digitization and vulnerability of our identities, “Poppies Fields” embodies the beauty and pathos inherent in poppies, and “Don’t Think” being the Joie de vivre. Reminiscent of De Kooning, Joan Mitchell and other Abstract Expressionist artists, Jolanta uses an Oil & Wax and Encaustic techniques to create paintings.
Image: Detail of Jolanta Soares, Blind Justice, Printing Ink on Paper, 2019
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Website:
jolantasoares.com/
Calvert & Co
Shawn Calvert is a Graphic artist and web/ux designer.
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Website:
shawncalvert.com
Intern
Lydia James is a studio art major at Grinnell College in central Iowa and will graduate in the spring of 2019. She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia but has found quite a home in the Midwest. Her work is not explicitly based in a single medium but she enjoys printmaking, watercolor, embroidery, knitting, and sewing. She is always drawing and has consistently kept a sketchbook since the age of 5.
You can keep up with her day-to-day making on instagram at @lydiajames.art and contact her at lydiajames.art@gmail.com
Services Offered:
- Exhibition Opportunities
- Illustration
Website:
lydia-james.squarespace.com/
Aspiring scientific illustrator and printer: almost always sunburned.
Services Offered:
- Exhibition Opportunities
- Illustration
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
www.instagram.com/100yrsold/
Intern
Ali is a 24-year-old graphic designer pursuing her MFA at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She graduated from Northwestern University in 2016 with a degree in History and Integrated Marketing. Her work focuses on the interplay between text and image on the printed page. She writes, illustrates, and designs content, then prints and binds it into unique book forms.
Contact her at atomek1@saic.edu
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Website:
alitomek.com/
