Studio Fellow (2022)
I am a research-based artist who uses science fiction to talk about humanity’s relationship with nature and the impact this relationship has on food systems. My practice is an extension of my core belief for environmental justice and an examination of the destruction caused by agriculture. These passions are a reflection of my upbringing in rural New Jersey and my parents’ joy for the outdoors. My printmaking and material explorations delve into the extraordinary capabilities of plants and enthuse the vast unknowns of the plant world. I allow my interdisciplinary practice to be dictated by material and earth sciences.
Website:
clarafischer.webflow.io/
Studio Fellow (2022)
golden collier is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago who is deeply inspired by the creative vitality of the margins and places where disciplines, techniques, and ideas overlap.
Website:
diasporansavant.cargo.site/
Fall 2021 Intern
Ariandy Luna is one of the new college interns for the fall 2021 term. She is currently attending her first year at Harold Washington College, and plans to transfer to art school after she earns her associate in arts. Being Latina, a lot of her art consists of different cultural themes that stem from growing up in the Southside of Chicago.
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Brooke White is a Michigander with a penchant for prose and long conversations. Winner of the Hopwood Committee’s Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship for nonfiction, her work has appeared in Midwestern Gothic, Swamp Ape Review, Entropy, Iron Horse Literary Review, and as Lunch Ticket’s “Amuse-Bouche” feature. She received her MFA from the University of Minnesota. She’s currently at work on a book of literary nonfiction about desire, transformations, and fairy tales. Her latest ponderings and delights can be found online @brkthewriter
Website:
www.instagram.com/brkthewriter
Classes by this Artist:
From Pen to Paper: Putting Your Writing Into the World
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grace novacek is an illustrator reveling in small fantasies. she welcomes playful comfort + youthful imagination + tender worldbuilding across mediums, including ceramics, crochet, animation, makeup, and poetry.
Services Offered:
- Illustration
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
gnovs.com
Bagmanstudios
Abbas Husain is a very serious artist.
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Website:
www.bagmanstudios.com
Aya Nakamura is a Chicago-based visual artist. Her work consists of pencil drawings on two- and three- dimensional paper surfaces that she casts out of natural fibers and recycled materials. She is currently interested in the notion of drawing as healing gesture, its slow accrual allowing for a negotiation though and reckoning of difficult issues and mind-states. Nakamura holds a BA in fine arts and political science from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in painting and drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has shown at a diverse range of venues in the US and abroad.
Website:
aya-nakamura.com
Program Lead
Grace Makuch is an interdisciplinary artist from Chicago, Illinois. When she’s not working at Spudnik, Grace likes to make freaky shaped mirrors and write about finding community at the end of the world. She has recently participated in residencies and fellowships at the Chicago Artists Coalition and Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2021. She is currently Program Lead at Spudnik Press Cooperative.
Fun fact: Grace is a 2017 graduate of Spudnik’s Fellowship program!
