Lauren Anderson

Lauren Anderson lives and works in Chicago, IL. She was born in Virginia, on the same day as Bette Midler, and Richard Pryor, and then she earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited at ADDS DONNA, Adult Contemporary, CCS Bard, Golden Age, Megamall, and Roots and Culture, and you can find her publications in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art Library, at Printed Matter, Ooga Booga, and elsewhere. During the Summer months she does extensive damage control as the Print Technician at Ox-Bow School of Art.

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Josh Dihle

Josh Dihle (b. 1984) is a painter, printmaker, and sculptor working in Chicago. Dihle teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he earned his MFA in Painting and Drawing in 2012. He has exhibited at Autumn Space in Chicago, Champion in Austin, Texas, and most recently at Dutton in New York. Active in Chicago’s art dialogues, Dihle has curated several group exhibitions of emerging Chicago artists and, while earning his master’s degree, developed a novel system for exhibiting student work to wider audiences.

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Don Widmer

Don Widmer is a book and paper artist who uses hand papermaking, relief printing, and bookbinding (separately or in combination) to create unique works of art. After graduating from Columbia College Chicago’s Interdisciplinary Arts program, Don launched his paper arts business, Lion of Bali, which exhibits at numerous arts and craft fairs throughout the Midwest. Much of his work is inspired by travel and his background in ethnomusicology. Don primarily uses a technique called pulp painting to create his handmade paper artworks, particularly his images of urban architecture. He has had several residencies at Morgan Conservatory of Papermaking in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Don has recently set up his papermaking studio in Skokie, Illinois.

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• Exhibition Opportunities
• Printmaking Commissions

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Elise Forer

Elise Forer is a printmaker and Minnesota native living and working in the Chicago area. Forer received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM) in Moorhead, MN in 2013. In her time at MSUM she served as Studio Intern and Teacher’s Aide under John Volk in the printmaking studio, and the resident intern at the Hannaher Studio in the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, ND. Forer’s work has been shown in several exhibitions, including student shows juried by Curator Lisa Elder Melander and Michael Byzewski of Aesthetic Apparatus. Forer also operates Take Aim Press and Bindery which offers stationary, prints, and handmade boxes and books.

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Judith Mayer

Judith Mayer Creative

Judith is an illustrator and lettering artist with a love for letterpress printing. She received her BFA from Ball State University with majors in Graphic Design and in Photography.

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• Graphic Design
• Illustration

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Annette Brown

Heart of Still features faith-based and inspirational screen prints, paper goods, and home accents. Items are handcrafted from my home in Illinois. Heart of Still is a collision of my love for God, words, and crafting. It’s my belief that a still heart is grateful, grounded, and genuine. Inspired by nature and scripture, I use an understated color palette in order to place emphasis on each faith-based and inspirational message. Using eco-friendly supplies, like water-based inks and recycled materials, Heart of Still treads lightly on the earth.

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Pablo Bottari-Tower

Image: Detail of “Wacker View South” © Pablo Bottari-Tower 2013

“To sip life slowly in order to be fully present” is how I view my calling. This requires looking holistically at my surroundings. Trained as an architect, I enjoy reflecting that back on to paper using texture, color, orientation, line, surface, solids, and voids. My intent is to capture a cityscape moment emphasizing movement, excitement and grandeur.

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Hannah Ireland

Hannah Ireland combines an array of drawing, painting and print processes to create enigmatic work inspired by her memories of experiences hiking and exploring natural places, most recently remote parts of Australia, Spain, and Portugal.

Hannah became a Spudnik member in 2013 and has represented Spudnik at Citizen Schools as a volunteer teacher and was the Artist in Residence during the Fall of 2013. Hannah has a BFA in Printmaking/Drawing from Washington University in St. Louis.

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Nadine Nakanishi

I was born in California, though the sun drenched weather was short lived. My family moved to Schaffhausen, a small town North of Zürich, bordering the Rhine river, where I spent my childhood listening to the sounds of the Midwest (Joan of Arc, Promised Ring, Braid, Captain Jazz, Elliott, Rodan, Black Flag, At the Drive-in, the Sea and Cake, to name a few). After high school, I studied Asian studies at the University of Zürich but soon realized that I wanted to major in the arts. A graphic design apprentice followed culminating with a degree in typography from the Berufsschule Zürich. In 2003, an internship at Punk Planet Magazine brought me to Chicago. I would end up not leaving the city of big shoulders. Since 2006, I run a studio called Sonnenzimmer, with Nick Butcher.

www.sonnenzimmer.com

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Nick Butcher

I was born in Dyersburg, Tennessee. I spent my formative years skateboarding, drawing, recording music, and going to punk shows. At Middle Tennessee State University, I studied graphic design, where luckily the printmaking department was across the hall from the computer lab. This saved me. Screenprinting quickly became an outlet for my itch to create which led me to making gig posters for local bands. This fueled into an internship with poster artist, Jay Ryan in Chicago and later another one at Hatch Show Print in Nashville. I moved to Chicago in 2003. Ryan kindly sublet valuable space to me to experiment and to print after hours. This made way to my first attempts at painting. After some time, I established my own studio space, spending an intense time painting and making electronic music. In 2006, I combined forces with Nadine Nakanishi, to form Sonnenzimmer. I am currently a MFA candidate in the Print Media department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Renee Robbins

While primarily working as a painter, her prints include intaglio, silkscreen, and woodcuts explorations. In Renee Robbins’ work, she pieces together imagined worlds that are fluid, morphing, and emerging. While she draws from natural phenomena and micro to macro relationships, her work also pulls from the diversity and range within molecular, biological, botanical, marine, and celestial systems. It is her intent that the work converges on a gigantic range both in and out of our human experience.

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Nicole Kita

Nicole Kita is a visual artist who works in drawing, painting, printmaking, and installation.

Kita presently lives and works in Northern California, as a gallery curator and educator for artists
with developmental disabilities: The Studio Online.

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