Please join us for Spudnik's next Member Meeting! There are two exciting events on the horizon: Printers Ball, Spudnik's Rummage Sale & Birthday BBQ. We're excited to fill you in and begin a roster of volunteers excited to join the festivities. This meeting will be potluck style; please bring a dish or snack to share.... Read more »
Once a year we bring a live model to our community drawing night. Pairing up with local burlesque artists, our model with hold a variety of long and short poses, with costumes including Poison Ivy of Batman. This is not a humdrum figure drawing class! Drink and Draw is a low-key event devoted to drawing practices.... Read more »
Spudnik is turning 7 years old! To celebrate, we are throwing a birthday BBQ for members, for friends, and for just about anyone who wants to tailgate in the parking lot of the 1821 Hubbard Street Lofts. We are breaking out the grill, stocking the coolers with beer and lemonade, and playing all the songs... Read more »
Old Mother Hubbard had no food in her cupboard only ink and paint and page, When the poets and printers came begging in tatters She said, "Artists feed themselves with Chatter!" Visit printersball.org for details and RSVP
Bred Press is an artist books, comics, and zine publishing house located in Chicago. Started by Brad Rohloff in 2014, it provides a platform by which to support contemporary artists working within the medium of printed and published matter. Bred Box #1 is a printed suite of work by comics artists invited and published by... Read more »
The Wrong Story is a solo exhibition of relief and silkscreen prints made while Aschman was Artist in Residence at Spudnik Press from March through May, 2014, and an accompanying stop-motion animation created from the printed works. Aschman employs symbolic motifs such as ropes, braids, ladders and hands, which through intuitive association form a fractured narrative... Read more »
Draw your favorite superhero or invent your own. Make, photocopy, and swap mini comics. Drink and Draw is a low-key event devoted to drawing practices. There is no teacher and no pretensions. Spudnik provides a theme for the evening, props, and festive drink. You provide a sketchbook and basic drawing materials, and come with friends! Drawing... Read more »
Mark your calendars for the upcoming Spudnik Member Meeting, Wednesday August 20, 6:30 - 8pm. We'll discuss what's been going on and what's in the works and elect our 2014 Board of Directors! After we take care of business, we're excited to introduce the newest addition to Spudnik's family of equipment....a Risograph! We'll end the evening publishing Spudnik's first ever... Read more »
Recombinant Stare is an exhibition that pulls together strands from Kevin Riordan’s Stare Press, particularly Stare Magazine, a publication focusing on irreverent and arresting graphic art and writing that ran from1976-1991. The show consists of issues of the magazine as well as books, posters, press sheets, photostats, and photographs. It also brings together recent and selected publications and works by some of... Read more »
Lucha Lives is an exploration of the generational realities and mythologies experienced within immigrant communities, particularly those of Mexican Americans in Chicago. Using the iconographic imagery of Lucha Libre, artist Ricardo Serment pivots around the struggle, mirth, and quotidian by shining a spotlight on the spectacle that the everyday can be. Ricardo Xavier Serment was... Read more »
Surrealist games are a great way to break habits, generate ideas, and make new friends while drawing. We’ll lead exquisite corpse, automatic drawing, frottage, decalomania & more. Drink and Draw is a low-key event devoted to drawing practices. There is no teacher and no pretensions. Spudnik provides a theme for the evening, props, and festive drink.... Read more »
Saturday, Oct. 4
$15 General Admission ( 7pm-11pm)
$50 Preview Event (5pm-7pm)
Featuring hors d’oeuvres, live music, printing demonstrations, craft cocktails, and beer from Metropolitan Brewing.
