Members and Friends of Spudnik! We would like to invite you to join us on Saturday, May 14th from 5:00pm-7:00pm for a Crossing of the Fellows potluck celebration! We are excited to share what we've been working on these past few months at Spudnik, and we are ready to welcome our successors, the new studio fellows: Matt Wead, Randi... Read more »
Team Spudnik personally invites you to join us for our Spring Member Meeting on Wednesday, May 18th from 6:00pm - 8:00pm. Spudnik Member Meetings allow our diverse community of printmakers to connect through the sharing of artwork, artist opportunities, and collaborative initiatives. Share your ideas for how we can make Spudnik (and your membership) best support you and... Read more »
Calligraphy is a centuries-old tradition that continues to thrive today. Contemporary calligraphy includes flourishing invitations, soft and simple cursive, and urban calligraphy that bridges tradition and street art. Join guest Designer and Calligrapher, Grace Calderone, as she shares her elegant approach to the written word. Experiment with the tools of the trade and try your hand at... Read more »
The Volunteer Mixer is two events in one: a thank you party for all our amazing past volunteers, and a fun prelude for future volunteers! Our new volunteer program provides ample opportunities to support through assisting with studio innovations, organization, exhibitions and community outreach. Our volunteers support our ever-growing studio and programs, become part of our thriving community of printmakers, artists and... Read more »
The passage of time is a universal yet highly subjective experience that can be measured in countless ways. From time travel theory, to poaching an egg, to sleeping, all have vast temporal implications. In art, time is often addressed through the medium of film, but how does one confront it in a static medium such as... Read more »
A Positively Palatable Printing Party Hands-on Printmaking Tours / Community Cyanotype Portraits / Member Print Sale / Delicious Eats / Sweet Treats & Root Beer Floats / Metropolitan Beer / Dark Matter Coffee / & More $5 Suggested Donation / Open to the Public Join Spudnik Press printmakers on Saturday, July 9, 12pm – 5pm at the Hubbard... Read more »
A discussion of resources, individual drive and what it means to be a part of the emerging artist scene in Chicago. In the academic setting, the classroom acts as a vehicle for constant critical discourse. On campus galleries provide students opportunities to exhibit artwork, often in a “white cube” gallery space. Parameters are provided, as... Read more »
It’s Summer-summer-summer time, and we invite you to join us for a night of doodling, cutting & pasting, layering and creating experimental “drawings” from magazine clippings, photographs, fabric scraps, discarded print ephemera, image transfers and much much more! Multi-media artist, Emily Moorhead, will lead guests through various approaches to assembling found material with handmade doodles on paper.... Read more »
Learn the age-old art of etching as the Smart Museum and Spudnik Press team up in this two-day printmaking workshop. On the first day of the workshop, August 11, we’ll tour the Prints and Privacy exhibition at the Smart with curator Anne Leonard and then retire to the “studio” to etch our on our own copper plates!... Read more »
Artists respond to the Whole Earth Catalog with various media and teach-ins. Spudnik Press Cooperative presents “Rules, Tools, and Fools,” featuring Chicago-based artists ACT Collective, Alberto Aguilar, Jesse Malmed, Jaclyn Jacunski, Jason Pallas, Ryan Thompson, Hui-min Tsen, and national artists Sarah Hotchkiss (San Francisco), Jen Smoose (Seattle), and Leah Wolff (New York). This exhibition will feature... Read more »
What makes the “Annual” meeting so special? This is your chance to cast your ballot for our Board of Directors. That’s right, we need YOU to help drive the direction of YOUR printshop! This August, with your blessing, we are bringing on 5 new volunteer Directors. Take a peak below to learn what each person... Read more »
The 2016 Residency kicks-off this September, and we are excited to introduce this year's cohort of artists, Alex Kostiw, Viraj Mithani and Jake Saunders. Each of these three local artists will have unfettered access to the abundant tools, equipment and resources at Spudnik Press through December 2016. Each artist will create a new body of print-based work. The... Read more »
