Matt Davis

Matt Davis is a printmaker and occasional cartoonist, illustrator, and designer. He runs a Risograph print shop called Perfectly Acceptable that offers affordable commission printing as well as a curated series of artist prints and books. He graduated from Oberlin College with a BA in Russian Language a few years ago.

Website:

mhmdavis.com

Classes by this Artist:

Risography 101
Risography 101 (Feb 2015)
Risography (April 2015)
Risography 101 (May2015)
Risography 101 (June 2015)
Risography 101 (July 2015)
Risography 101 (Aug 2015)
Risography 101 (Sep 2015)
Risography 101 (Oct 2015)
Risography 101 (Nov 2015)
Risography 101 (Jan 2016)
Risography 101 (March 2016)
Risography 101 (May 2016)
Risography 101 (June 2016)
Risography 101 (August 2016)
Risography 101 (Sep 2016)
Risography 101 (Oct 2016)
Risography 101 (January 2017)
Risography 101 (February 2017)
Risography 101 (April 2017)
Risography 201: From Pre-Press to Publication
Risography 101 (August 2017)
Risography 101 (June 2017)
Risography 101 (July 2017)
Risography 101 (Sept 2017)
Risography 101 (Oct 2017)
Risography 101 (Nov 2017)
Risography 201: From Prepress to Publication (Sept 2017)
Risography 101
Risography 101
Risography 101
Risography 101
Risography 101 (June)
Risography 101 (July)
Risography 101 (August)
Risography 101 (October)
Risography 101 (November 28)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (October)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (December)
Risography 101 (February 5)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (January)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (February)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (March)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (April)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (June)
Risography 101 (July)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (August)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (Early October)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (Late October)
Risography 101 (Early September 2019)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files (December 2019)
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files
Risography 102: Bring Your Own Files
Risography 101 (March 4)
Risography 101 (10/10/21)
Risography 101 (11/7/21)
Intro to Risography (1/26/22)
Intro to Riso (3/22/22)

Ashley Shaul

Ashley Shaul is a Chicago artist, printmaker, and taxidermy hobbyist hailing from Detroit.  She received her BA in 2012 focused on traditional illustration and art history at Columbia College Chicago and her MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2014. Her work revolves around figures that depict objectification and zoomorphism. Pieces can be found in the permanent collection of The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and various private collections throughout the US.

Website:

ashleyshaul.com

Classes by this Artist:

Utilitarian Printmaking: Leather Keychains
Utilitarian Printmaking: Leather Keychains
DIY Greeting Cards: Linoleum Block Printing (April 2016)

Heather K. Anderson

Littlehahas, HKAnders, ThisNewForest

As, Lookingglass Theatre’s first graphic designer, Heather worked on promotions from concept to finish and became a design resource for the company. Currently she runs her own studio This New Forest, works on illustrations through Little Hahas (commissioned illustrations, cards and wrapping papers) and produces art, HKAnders.com. Her personal work focuses the fleeting reality of life and explores natural elements . She is on the working board at the Chicago Design Museum, where she actively volunteers as an Event Director. She also prints, makes and creates at Spudnik Press.

Services Offered:

  • Exhibition Opportunities
  • Graphic Design
  • Illustration
  • Printmaking Commissions

Website:

littlehahas.com/ thisnewforest.com/

Classes by this Artist:

Pocket Movies: Make Your Own Flipbooks
Screenprinting for Tree Huggers

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Thorsten Sahlin

I am a painter and printmaker currently residing in Chicago, IL. I attended Cornish College for the Arts in Seattle, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. My influences include; but are far from limited to, vintage photos, color theory, street signs, calligraphy, and patterns (both synthetic and organic).

I have exhibited at the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage, and Construction, and the Jane Addams Hull House Museum. As well as in a variety of other group shows. In addition I am currently illustrating a Children’s book.

Website:

www.Thorstensahlin.com

Kate McQuillen

Kate McQuillen is a Chicago-based artist working in print and installation, and is represented by O’Born Contemporary. She has shown in Toronto, Chicago, Montreal, and Boston, and has works in public and private collections in Europe and North America. Writings about her work have been included in such news outlets as The Chicago Reader, Time Out Chicago and Rabble.ca, and in publications by Columbia College Chicago and Rutgers University.

In recent years, she attended residencies in the U.S. and abroad: Ox-Bow(Michigan), Open Studio (Toronto), Frans Masereel Center (Belgium), the Center for Book & Paper Arts (Chicago), the Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, IL), Elsewhere Artist Collaborative (Greensboro, N.C.), and Lillstreet Art Center. She has been the recipient of numerous City of Chicago Cultural Grants and Illinois Arts Council Professional Development Grants. She has received visiting artist teaching positions at Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, and at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, IL, and was elected Director of the Chicago Printer’s Guild for two consecutive years. In 2009, she received her M.F.A. in Visual Arts from York University.

McQuillen uses collage, portraiture, and landscape to discuss issues of surveillance and Big Data. In her portraits and installations, whistleblowers and information leaks seek to undermine government watchdogs.

Website:

www.katemcquillen.com/

Residency Period:

Sep 2014–Dec 2014

Project Statement:

I begin by creating large monoprinted images around a central theme--flashes of light, lenses, and eyes. The markmaking is physical, made by scraping razor blades across the plate, and the lines are visceral, often chattering across the surface. Their physicality acts as evidence of my hand in the work, and their photographic appearance implies a recording of my presence. I then cut up these finished images into smaller squares and combine them with other prints, creating a web of my own information that, once whole, is now scrambled.   Through this, I reference the processes in which our information is generated and sent out into the world, and how our trails of information can indicate where our physical person is located. In my final images, I reassemble these prints to create constructed images that just barely hold together, and never quite resolve. I burn the surfaces with matches, and obscure the markmaking with puddles of milky india ink, as a means of destroying my paper trail and evading being watched. Tiny explosions appear the surface of the images, blowing up my trail.   Themes of tracking appear in the work through images of triangles and geometric forms, and reference the tactic of Dead Reckoning, a means of determining a person’s location based on knowledge of their previous whereabouts. These works express my desire to go off the digital grid, to erase my information trail and regain anonymity and privacy.   Printmaking, a medium generally known for its role in the dissemination of information, becomes in this process a platform for discussing how personal information is now public and/or stored by independent and government agencies. I do this by employing the most singular type of printing–monoprinting–as a representation of individualized information. The dangers of recording personal information are discussed through my desire to burn and blot out my images.

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Reba Rakstad

With a background in the independent punk rock, DIY and zine communities, letterpress was a perfect fit for artist Rebecca Ann Rakstad. She began RAR RAR Press during her first letterpress class in 2004. She has a studio in Humboldt Park filled with type and a 1,000 lb Chandler and Price platen press named Gary. Rebecca received a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000 and MFA from Columbia College in Book and Paper Arts in 2008. Rebecca is a member of the Chicago Printers Guild and a Charter Member of Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum.

Website:

rarrarpress.co

Classes by this Artist:

Holiday Card Printing: Letterpress (11/23/14)

Jay Besemer

Hybrid artist Jay Besemer is the author of several poetry books and chapbooks, including Aster to Daylily and A New Territory Sought, and (as Jen Besemer) Telephone, Object with Man’s Face, Quiet Vertical Movements, Ten Word Problems, and What Is Born. Jay’s recombinant poetry projects are featured in issue 25 of TENDE RLOIN and anthologized in Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. They can also be found in Monsters & Dust, Aufgabe, BlazeVOX, e-ratio, Sentence and other delicious publications. Jay also curates the occasional poetry event, writes feature essays and reviews, and teaches art and poetry workshops in and beyond Chicago. To find out more, visit www.jenbesemer.com.

Website:

jenbesemer.com

Classes by this Artist:

Create Your Own Broadsides
Experimental Poetry for Everyone

Brad Rohloff

Brad Rohloff is a artist, printmaker, and comics maker hailing from Wisconsin but living in Chicago. His work ranges from appropriated sculptural and printed material to self published and performed comics. Brad runs an comics, zines, and artists’ books publishing house in Chicago called Bred Press, which looks to provide a platform by which to support domestic and international contemporary artists working within the medium of printed and published matter. Brad likes big dogs and jokes. He has also helped organize the performative comics reading event Brain Frame, and used to be a Spudnik Press intern a long time ago.

Brad got his BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2014.

Website:

www.brohloff.me/ www.bredpress.com/

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Salvador Andrade Arévalo

Salvador Andrade Arévalo is a Chicago based artist that works in lithography, etching, and monotype. He received his BA from Yale University in Art (printmaking concentration) and Ethnicity, Race, & Migration. He also holds a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in Latin American Studies with a focus in 19th Century Mexican lithography.

Salvador’s work revolves around the seriality of printmaking and its history as a site for cheap reproduction. Historically, printmaking was used to produce economical illustrations and portraits. With this in mind, Salvador’s own versions of portraits come from within the body. They are portraits of the micro–cells, synapses, tissues –afforded by current technologies. Just as organic materials grow, mutate, and wither, so do his series of prints produced from one plate.

Website:

salvadorandrade.weebly.com

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Julie Cowan

I have two interests: portraiture and architecture. I investigate the idea of place and how spaces make us feel either embraced or alienated. Using architectural themes, I select photographic imagery and then digitally alter the photos to create greater contrasts and stronger line. Often I will layer various photographic elements to create new spaces. With portraiture, I usually make large close up images that reveal imperfection through the printmaking technique itself.
These pieces have layers of printmaking applications. First I shoot the photographic image. Then, once digitally altered, I print the image using a paper transfer process with oil-based ink. I then often layer using a monotype process. Details on the print are often hand-colored with pencil or watercolor.

Website:

solidprint.com/art/

Kim Morski

Kim Morski is a printmaking artist who works with woodcut, silkscreen, and letterpress techniques. Her practice spans works on paper, participatory events, edible prints, and book arts. Kim does custom print and illustration work by commission and partners with arts organizations and galleries as an educator and project coordinator.

Kim has had solo exhibitions at the St. Louis Artist’s Guild and the Luminary Center for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited nationally in group shows at Printed Matter in New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Indianapolis, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Bradley University, and the Des Lee Gallery in St. Louis.

Kim received her BFA in Printmaking from Washington University in St. Louis in 2010.

Website:

www.kimmorski.com

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Janice Cho

Board of Directors, President

Janice Cho is an artist and designer living in Chicago, IL. She comes from the sunny west coast but has made the midwest her home since receiving her M.A. in Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she also received her letterpress training.
Janice has been involved with local letterpress studio, Starshaped Press, for several years, and has attended Penland School of Craft’s artist residency program for two winter sessions where she explores and experiments with different letterpress techniques. Her work has been published in the book, “For the Love of Letterpress,” and she has also exhibited at the Hamilton Wood Type Museum.

Services Offered:

  • Graphic Design
  • Printmaking Commissions

Website:

www.missmarimos.com

Classes by this Artist:

Letterpress I: Wood & Metal Type, Begins 5/3
Holiday Card Printing: Letterpress (12/7/14)
Letterpress I: Wood & Metal Type (Jan 2015)
Letterpress I: Wood & Metal Type
Letterpress I: Wood & Metal Type (March 2016)
Letterpress I: Wood & Metal Type
Letterpress I: Wood & Metal Type
Letterpress: Movable Type + Polymer Plates (April)

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