Come on down, friends, to The Price is Nice, Spudnik Press Cooperative’s 12th Annual Benefit Saturday, October 29, 2019 at LowRes, 1821 West Hubbard.
Hubbard Street Lofts welcomes you to our home! Join us for a stroll through three floors of creative spaces, galleries, artists and designers! Tucked away amid the industrial buildings of yesteryear (and breweries of today) lies a building filled with talent. Once a year we open our doors and invite the public to come view... Read more »
Spudnik Press Cooperative Fellows Ally Hembree, Hope Wang, Sean Mac, and Zakia Rowlett are pleased to present Tessellate, a night of collective artmaking and installation-building with the Chicago community. Hybridizing the fellows’ individual artistic practices, Tessellate invites guests to experience a variety of print-based techniques considering collage as a tool for creating narratives. Through screenprinting,... Read more »
Spudnik Resident Artist Celeste De Luna is a border/social engagement artist from the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. She is a front row witness as an artist/activist to the national conversations about the border wall, immigration, and border militarization. As part of her residency and cultural exchange with Chicago printmakers, De Luna is leading a... Read more »
Opening Reception: 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Brief Artist Talk: 6:15 p.m. Domestic Tides / Indigenous Mind explores a move from the prairies of North Dakota to the urban environment of Chicago. The exhibition considers Jessica Christy's transplanted indigenous identity, one connected to place, in the midst of a culture shock. While exploring a new city, both... Read more »
In 1987 Blue Man Group was founded in New York. In 1963 Bobby Vinton released the hit song Blue on Blue. From 1901-1904 Picasso went through his Blue Period, making monochromatic paintings of that color. In 1871 the earliest recorded version of the bridal poem "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" appeared. In... Read more »
Join Spudnik Press Cooperative and TIES for an open mic event presented in conjunction with Domestic Tides / Indigenous Mind, a solo exhibition by Jessica Christy. The event will start with readings by three featured performers, Patrick Del Percio, Ruby Figueroa, and Yerika. Following these readings, attendees will be invited to take the mic. Anyone... Read more »
As a celebration of our supportive community and a thank you to our generous donors who contributed $250+ to our 2019 Printmaking Within Reach Campaign, we are throwing an art party! Come by the studio for drinks, appetizers, and hands-on printmaking projects. Guests will be invited to check out a variety of project stations and experience the allure... Read more »
Guest Artist: Sean Mac Take a break from your typical ways of drawing. We’ll help you get out of your head by sharing a variety of creative approaches to making marks on paper. We’ll draw big things small, small things big. We’ll draw with delicate dip pens, clunky crayons, finger paint, sticks, and more. The... Read more »
Meet Benjamin Merritt, Resident Artist from Minneapolis, MN, for a conversation addressing disability in the arts, his own artistic practice, and considerations and strategies to make studio arts like printmaking more accessible for people of all abilities. Printmakers, teachers, and those working in academic settings are all encouraged to learn about and discuss what accessibility means... Read more »
All-You-Can-Eat Chili | Hashbrowns | Open Bar | Games | Music Take an unforgettable, uniquely magical journey through the deliciously delightful, whimsically wonderful world of Spudnik Press Cooperative at our 10thAnnual Chili Cook-Off. The world of pure imagination is the limit for our 16 chefs competing for the admiration of our guests and the coveted prizes... Read more »
This event has been postponed for COVID-19 closures. We look forward to announcing a new date in the future. Resident Artist Andrew Bearnot is a self-described "materialist" who thinks with and through the substance of things. Bearnot's artistic practice centralizes theories of calibration and explores the intersection of science, ritual, and queer phenomenology. Bearnot will share... Read more »
