Heather R. Buechler is an interdisciplinary artist currently based out of Chicago. Since receiving her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007, she founded Polka! Press, a community printshop in Madison, WI, where she also taught a series of workshops and classes. Currently, she is pursuing her M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago where she teaches letterpress and works as a Print Production Fellow for the Journal of Artist’s Books. Using prints, drawings, and sculptural objects, her work examines the history of agriculture and industry, and its relationship to current ecological and social concerns of rural midwestern America.
Website:
www.hrbuechler.com, www.oxbloodpress.com
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Stratography: Letterpress Monoprinting
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Kaitlin Kostus (b. 1984) is an artist and self-publisher from Chicago, IL. She received her BFA in Painting from the University of Illinois-Chicago in 2006, and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Art at Columbia College Chicago in 2012. Her work has been shown previously at ARC Gallery Chicago, Woman Made Gallery, and at the 1st Printmaking Triennial of ULUS in Belgrade, Serbia. Her publications are featured in the libraries of the University of Chicago, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, St. Ambrose University, The Marguerite Duras Public Library in Paris, as well as on the Chicago Publishes blog.
Website:
kaitlinkostus.com/
Classes by this Artist:
Block Printing on Fabric
Carrie Lingscheit’s original intaglio prints exploit the subtleties of etching and mezzotint technique to explore human behavior and the malleable nature of memory formation and recall, creating dubious narratives characterized by omission, distortion, and hyperbole. Her work has been included in numerous national and international exhibitions and in dozens of invitational exchange portfolios. Recent exhibitions include The 2nd International Mezzotint Festival in Ekaterinburg, Russia; and Fusion – International Contemporary Intaglio Print Exhibition in Guanlan, China. Lingscheit holds a BFA from The University of South Dakota (2006) and MFA from Ohio University (2010.) She currently lives in Chicago, IL.
Services Offered:
- Printmaking Commissions
- Exhibition Opportunities
Website:
carrielingscheit.com/home.html
Classes by this Artist:
Mock Mezzotint: Reductive Drypoint on Copper
Etching Explorations
Intaglio Printmaking: Multi-level (WI2015)
Cayla Skillin-Brauchle is an artist and educator who recently moved to Chicago from Mumbai, India where she was a 2012-13 Fulbright Fellow. Skillin-Brauchle’s multidisciplinary studio practice spans printmaking, bookmaking, installation, performance, and social practice. Her work has been shown at venues including Future Tenant in Pittsburgh, PA; JDK Gallery in Burlington, VT; the Rotunda Gallery in Bangkok, Thailand; ROY G BIV Gallery in Columbus, OH, and most recently at the Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai, India. Skillin-Brauchle earned a BA from Beloit College (2006) and her MFA in Printmaking from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio (2012).
Website:
www.caylaskillin-brauchle.com/
Colin Palombi is a teaching artist and initiator of projects; most often focusing his practice in video and printmaking. He teaches art and history at the Montessori School of Lake Forest and animation at Marwen, a nonprofit organization offering free art programs for under-served Chicago youth.
Website:
colinpalombi.com/
Classes by this Artist:
Stop Motion Animation
Screenprinting on Paper (Jan 2015)
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Jenna Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary artist with experience in printmaking, typography, book arts, papermaking, digital printing, and new media. She is originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia where she received her Bachelors of Fine Arts in printmaking and photo media at Old Dominion University. Jenna currently lives and works in Chicago where she is received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago in 2013. She has taught Introduction to Letterpress, an undergraduate level class at Columbia College, and was a two year Print Production Fellow at the Center for Book and Paper Arts where she assisted Brad Freeman with the production of JAB (Journal of Artist Books).
Website:
jennarodriguez.com/
Classes by this Artist:
Letterpress Your Own Cards, 5/18/2014
Letterpress II: Polymer
Jaclyn is a Chicago-based artist working primarily in printmaking, using contemporary formats. She earned an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and a B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has taught at SAIC and Harrington College of Design as well as, attended residencies in the U.S. at the Ragdale Foundation Lake Forest, Il), Vermont Studios (Johnson, Vt, and Platform (Pilsen,Chicago). She has worked as an assistant to the master printers at Tandem Press in Madison, WI, with local artist/ professor Joan Livingstone and curator Mary Jane Jacob. Her artwork explores protests and acts of resistance in local communities and how one discovers a more equitable, interesting life. She examines how these things manifest in signs, in the landscape, and media, while paying attention to how an individual’s voice is revealed out in the world in relation to mass culture and powerful systems.
Website:
jaclynjacunski.com/
Residency Period:
Mar 2013–May 2013
Project Statement:
During her time here, Jaclyn worked on a series of editions that incorporated images of fences, webs, and net imagery using relief and screen-printing methods and an edition of larger screen prints of word patterns. She experimented with incorporating color abstractly during her residency, as well as working with layers and large-scale repetition pattern prints.
Artist Statement:
My artwork explores protests and acts of resistance in local communities. I examine how these things manifest in signs, in the landscape, and media, while paying attention to how an individual’s voice is revealed out in the world in relation to mass culture and powerful systems. Many of my recent works are created by encounters with an empty lot that is connected to my apartment building. This space has become a billboard and a type of art studio for me in the neighborhood landscape. Signs are posted, graffiti artists make their mark, and lost items are archived on the chain link fence by passers-by. From this urban terra firma I use leftovers to make images and forms that consider the impact of an individual’s voice within a community and use this evidence of small acts as source material. I combine and make hybrids between past voices of folk heroes, current social movements, and individual acts of resistance confusing messages to relocate their words into a network of language
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Victoria Martinez is a transdisciplinary artist and educator from Chicago who explores installation art, site-specific experiments, screenprinting, and painting. She believes in chance and intuition, creating projects for galleries and ephemeral experiences in the urban environment. Martinez works with vibrant colors; pattern based textiles, and overlooked items, sewing them together to create fresh perspectives. She has exhibited at Northwestern University, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Cultural Center, the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, and the Arts Incubator. Upcoming projects include group exhibitions at the National Museum of Mexican Art, Roots and Culture, and a solo exhibition at Washington State University.
Services Offered:
- Exhibition Opportunities
- Illustration
Website:
victoria-martinez.com/
Residency Period:
Sep 2012–Dec 2012
Project Statement:
Victoria Martinez is interested in structures of mixed media ephemeral collages. Her objectives are to establish urban environmental interventions within abandoned spaces, on her own and in collaboration with the people who live in close proximity to these spaces. These urban interventions ultimately culminate with performances that are directly related to the art work(s).
While in residence, Victoria Martinez has created an edition of vibrant screenprints on paper. During her residency she created work based on the trips between her Pilsen apartment and Spudnik Press in the Ukrainian Village. Inspired by text, found objects and urban detritus, Martinez created ephemeral collages that give a second life and greater meaning to previously discarded materials.
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Yates is a recent transplant to Chicago, coming from London, where she recently received her Fine Art MA at Central Saint Martins. She studied at Wimbeldon School of Art in Surrey, where she obtained her Fine Art Sculpture BA. You can find more information, as well as more of her work, at www.pollyyates.com.
Website:
pollyyates.com/
Residency Period:
Mar 2012–May 2012
Project Statement:
While exploring themes of desire, abundance and fecundity, Yates worked with a series of collages. Due to the processes inherent in her practice of fragmentation and collage, the images will be distorted or hidden, lending to a more abstract effect. Fragmenting an image enables her to distort it while maintaining it`s integrity. It also allows her to weave images into one another, giving the appearance of one image melting into the other, so that the boundaries of each is blurred, in flux. In the complexity of the process, she references the Baroque, with excessive ornamentation and the folding in of the outside.
During her residency at Spudnik Press, Yates completed a series of large, screen print collages for the wall, plus an accompanying series of smaller works. Yates says, “I work in the exact opposite way to most print makers; instead of taking one image and making multiples, I take multiples and create one image.” Due to the nature and complexity of her process, she produced one-off pieces, rather than editions. Exhibition of her work created during the residency is forthcoming.
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