We are again reaffirming our priorities. We stand with our communities, our neighbors, and one another. We support basic human rights for everyone, remain an ICE-Free Zone, and are committed to free expression.
We are expanding our Free Space program. Alongside free Monday open studio time, we now offer free one-color Riso prints for resistance pamphlets, posters, and flyers.
We can produce up to 100 copies per project. Send files to info@spudnikpress.org. Turnaround will be as fast as our tiny staff allows.
Once a week, our studio is open to printers creating movement posters, pamphlets, and other materials for community sharing. We provide one screen-printing station and one Vandercook press at no cost. This time is reserved for producing materials intended for free distribution. Mondays, 10 am–2 pm. To book, email director@spudnikpress.org.
Know Your Rights flyers, protest signs, ICE-Free signs, and other organizing materials are available to anyone who wants them. We can also help distribute materials you provide—let us know if you’d like us to print a small run for sharing.
Free materials are available at Spudnik Press during open studio hours: Monday–Thursday, 10 am–10 pm, and Friday–Sunday, 10 am–6 pm.
We know that this offer may not fit all projects, so if you have something else in mind or have another need, reach out to us and we will do what we can, when we can.
This project began in October. We have been awed by the response from our community and inspired by the work of our colleagues. Below is a very incomplete list of other printers offering free materials.
In solidarity,
Meg Duguid
Meg Duguid, Executive Director
With Avery Johnson, Studio Manager
And Amira Hegazy, Michelle Savoy, Kristen Campos, & Angela Runge (Board of Directors)
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We’re inspired by our community and in solidarity with printers everywhere making prints available.
Empress Editions (Cleveland, OH)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DTlT9xgDsrQ/
Highpoint Prints (Minnesota)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DT_W8XREu02/
Madison Print & Resist Zinefest (Madison, WI)
https://madisonprintandresist.wordpress.com/
Matiz Press (Chicago)
https://matizpress.com/pages/free-protest-printing
Melon Press (St. Louis, MO)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DT01kGxCZBy/?img_index=1
Outlet (Portland, OR)
https://www.outletpdx.com/protest-posters
Paper Press Punch (Seattle, WA)
https://www.paperpresspunch.com/print-for-the-people
San Francisco Poster Syndicate (San Francisco, CA)
https://sfpostersyndicate.com/
Signal Return (Detroit, MI)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DTi-zRyAUHj/
Also if you don;t know where to start Just Seeds Artist Collective has made a ton of graphics available for you to print
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A Brief Note on Sustainability
We launched this program in October not knowing how we were going to make it work. Since then, we’ve figured out how to stretch our staff and budget to keep it going.
We’re stepping out again, even without fully knowing how this will impact our bottom line. Quite simply, we can’t exist as a print shop without being committed to free expression and our collective humanity.
If you have any ideas, please share them. And if you have extra paper you’d like to donate to support this project, please drop it by.