Carré received her BFA in 2006 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives and works in Chicago. Since her residency she has appeared in numerous shows in Chicago and Illustrated for clients that include: Penguin Classics, This American Life, HarperCollins and Chicago Reader.
Website:
lillicarre.com/
Residency Period:
Mar 2010–May 2010
Project Statement:
Lilli Carré’s work is motivated by the act of storytelling that causes a straying from reality. She is interested in how the retelling of a story over time changes it and becomes an invented past rather then a true one- this softening of memory is a central focus of her work. Through the media of animation, installation, print or comics Carré creates a narrative thread. Her narratives frequently feature nature overwhelming or consuming a person and strained human relationships that veer into a magical realism or absurdity.
During her time at Spudnik Carré self published a hard cover handbound book titled Don’t Drink From the Sea. She also created a simple yet delightful accordion fold book titled My Dreams Have Been Quite Strange Lately. Finally, she printed several stand alone screen prints: Household, Rooted, Spores, and an untitled print.
In her prints, Carré layers flat translucent colors to create the ghostly figures that float through her narratives. In the simple accordion-fold book, My Dreams Have Been Quite Strange Lately, a man imagines a naked woman appearing next to him on the train. Her red hips lean against his blue coat making a rich purple color where the two overlap. In the handmade book, Don’t Drink from the Sea, Carré depicts a hot summer evening in the city where people sweat so much it forms a pond and pale green figures swim through deep blue water. In both works, Carré uses the ability to adjust the transparency of the ink to tell a story about the fragility of the human form.
Press/Reviews:
New Chicago Comics, MCA, January, 2011
Review: Lilli Carré/Spudnik Press , Newcity Art
New Chicago Comics, ArtSlant
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Dan Falco received his MFA in Printmaking from Northern Illinois University in 2006, and has since been teaching art at the Illinois Institute of Art in Schaumburg. He has most recently had solo shows at Art and Design Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Lee E Dulgar Gallery in South Holland, Illinois, and Morton College, Cicero.
Website:
danfalco.com
Project Statement:
Dan Falco is interested in physical and psychological changes that occur in humans and animals and questions whether these changes are natural or unnatural. Through his work, Falco records his observations of everyday life and attempt to comprehend how we may be affected by the choices we make. Falco addresses issues of hybridization, mutation, and modification, popular culture.
While at Spudnik, Falco created a suite of intaglio prints that posed senarios for what is natural and what is not, as a result of genetic manipulation, advancement of science and technology and the modification of our environment.
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Jeremy has been teaching at SAIC since 2006 and is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Printmedia department in addition to working in Academic Advising as a Faculty Advisor.
His work in print, drawing, photography, installation, and cut and collaged paper examines and organizes decay, resulting in a body of work questioning contemporary notions of progress and cleanliness by presenting images and texts of loss and disillusion. Jeremy’s areas of research include museum and collection studies, modes of display, print ephemera, tourism, religion, labor relations, erasure, mapping, senses of place, land use and linguistics. He has been an artist-in-residence at Ox-Bow, Harold Arts, Spudnik Press, Kala Art Institute and the Vermont Studio Center. As one of the co-founders of Drawn Lots, a collaborative artist group and publishing entity, he participated in a residency and exhibition at Harvard University’s Fisher Museum at the Harvard Forest. His work has also been exhibited at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, the Chicago Cultural Center, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois – Chicago, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Heaven Gallery, Lloyd Dobler Gallery, and additional venues nationally and internationally. He is currently the President of the Mid America Print Council (MAPC) and serves on the Board of Directors of Spudnik Press, a non-profit community print shop in Chicago. He received his BA in Studio Art from Grinnell College and his MFA in Printmaking from Ohio University.
Website:
jeremylundquist.com
Residency Period:
Jun 2009–Aug 2009
Project Statement:
Jeremy Lundquist’s work in print, drawing, installation, and cut and collaged paper examines and organizes decay, specifically, the mundane and outmoded objects of Middle America
His time at Spudnik he utilized the subtle line work of etching and soft ground. Each state of etching was printed from the same plate and the image and text scrapped out to create a ghost image and a new print. His suite of prints resulted in a body of work questioning contemporary notions of progress and cleanliness by presenting images of loss and disillusion/ dissolution. Upon his completion of his time at Spudnik Lundquist presented the work he made in a solo show.
Press/Reviews:
NOTICE – CLOSED Jeremy Lundquist + A Unique Marquee Spudnik Press, Heaven Gallery
CAA Panel: Proof , Printeresting
Closing for NOTICE – CLOSED & A Unique Marquee, MAPC
NOTICE-CLOSED and A Unique Marquee at Heaven Gallery, Chicago Art Magazine
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Veronica Siehl is an artist and printmaker based in Chicago. Siehl received her MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee (2010) and her BA in Studio Art from Beloit College (2006). Siehl’s work has been shown in various cities including Chicago (IL), New Orleans (LA), Poznan (Poland), Olympia (WA), and Knoxville (TN). Her multidisciplinary studio practice includes printmaking, alternative photo processes, drawing, writing and installation.
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Website:
www.veronicasiehl.com
Residency Period:
Jun 2013–Aug 2013
Classes by this Artist:
Bookbinding
Cyanotypes
Printmaking Survey: Monoprinting, Etching, Letterpress (Fall 2014)
Cyanotypes (SU2015)
Bookbinding (Fall 2015)
Bookbinding (May 2016)
DIY Greeting Cards: Letterpress Printing (Nov 2016)
DIY Greeting Cards: Letterpress Printing (Dec 2016)
DIY Greeting Cards: Letterpress Printing
DIY Greeting Cards: Letterpress Printing
DIY Greeting Cards: Letterpress Printing
The Botany of Blue: Cyanotypes after Anna Atkins
DIY Greeting Cards: Letterpress Printing (Dec 2017)
Letterpress Print Your Own Cards (Jan 2018)
Botany of Blue: Cyanotypes after Anna Atkins
DIY Letterpress Greeting Cards (January)
Letterpress: Movable Type + Polymer Plates (January)
Cyanotypes: The Botany of Blue (June)
Cyanotypes: The Botany Of Blue (August)
Artist Books: Sequence, Image, & Time
Letterpress Printing 101: Introduction to Letterpress
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Corbin Morris was elected to the Spudnik Press Board of Directors in 2013.
Teaching Artist
Vanessa has practiced printmaking in several studios with different setups, and is grateful for the knowledge she has picked up at each one. While screen printing has become her specialty process, she is driven by experimentation with new techniques and collaborations with artists of diverse backgrounds. Spudnik has become an important creative haven, where she has had the opportunity to become involved in many ways and help others enter into the studio. Vanessa was elected to the Spudnik Press Board of Directors in 2013 and served on the board through summer 2015.
Classes by this Artist:
Screenprint Your Own Valentines
Screenprint Your Own Gift Wrap
Screenprint Your Own Valentine
Screenprint Your Own Valentines
DIY Valentines: Screenprint Your Own Cards
Jo Dery has been on the Spudnik Press Board of Directors since 2011, and was elected Secretary in 2013.
Website:
www.jodery.com
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Secretary, Board of Directors
Jessica Cochran is a curator living and working in Chicago. She is recently completed a curatorial fellowship at the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation and her recent & upcoming exhibitions include Roman Susan (Chicago), McCormick Gallery (Chicago), Center for the Book (New York) and the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago). After seven years spent in academic galleries, including the Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, she is now a lecturer in the Department of Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the curatorial manager of a private family collection of contemporary art based in Chicago, Indiana and Palm Springs. Jessica has been on the Spudnik Press Board of Directors since 2011, and was elected Vice President in 2013.
Website:
jessicacochranprojects.org/
Tom Wilder is a realtor. He was the treasurer of the Spudnik Press Board of Directors from 2009-2017.
Fun fact: Tom has a daughter and son, his son is in a band (Monarchy over Monday) and Tom makes their t-shirts.
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President, Board of Directors
Megan Klawitter has been teaching at Spudnik since 2008 when she still lived in the apartment she shared with Spudnik founder Angee Lennard. You’ll primarily find her teaching t-shirt printing workshops with the occasional lithography class thrown in. She received her BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Western Kentucky University.
Megan joined the Spudnik Press staff in 2013 as the Development Assistant. In this role she assists the Executive Director with fundraising and grant writing.
Megan has been a member of the Spudnik Press Board of Directors since 2011, and she was elected Board President in 2013.
Classes by this Artist:
Screenprint Your Own T-Shirt, Sunday 6/22
Screenprint Your Own T-Shirt, Sunday 7/27
Screenprint Your Own T-Shirt
Screenprint Your Own T-Shirt (Jan 2015)
Wearable Print: Screen Print Your Own… (Jan 2016)
Wearable Print: Screen Print Your Own… (March 2016)
Luke is a writer and visual artist with a background in poetry, bookmaking and small press publishing. Curatorial and artistic interests include the noisy zones of overlap between literary, visual and musical art cultures and practices. Luke co-edits the Chicago poetry press arrow as aarow which publishes emerging writers and works in translation. He has been involved in making books and editing various small press magazines and presses for a bunch of years. At Spudnik, he previously curated the gallery and the library in the Annex and oversaw the Artist-in- Residence Program. Luke has also served on Spudnik’s board of directors from Fall 2013 through Summer 2015.
