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 »
Enter the fourth dimension at our animation themed Drink & Draw this April. Inspired by the surrealist exquisite corpse parlor game in which a collection of words and images are assembled by a group of people, we will create a collaborative animation centered on the theme of time. Guest Artist, Lisa Armstrong, will share how... Read more »
Guest Artist: Ally Hembree Remember when it wasn’t taboo to high five or hug? What social interaction do you miss the most? Our first ever online Drink & Draw will be led by guest artist, Ally Hembree, who will guide us through how to use shapes, patterns, and a limited color palette to illustrate our... Read more »
Join Zakia Rowlett to explore how handlettering can be used to give a tone to text, add personality to communications, bring depth to the meaning of words, and harmonize form with function. Working with a single word you’ll develop your own typeface for it, using elements of graphic design to impact how someone will respond... Read more »
Who says you need fancy tools to make awesome books? Not Lisa Armstrong, our Survivalist Bookbinding guest artist! In this virtual workshop, Lisa will teach you how to McGyver your own recycled notebook with whatever you have lying around. This is a perfect chance to repurpose your print scraps, grocery lists, old calendars, rejection letters,... Read more »
Guest Artist: Sam Hensley Join Sam Hensley for a fantastical night of world-building where you will make your very own new friends using any colorful materials you have on hand! Sam uses a curious, magical-thinking approach for "meeting" otherworldly critters, and brings these to life as drawings, prints, and even robots. Starting with writing and... Read more »
Guest Artist: Yewon Kwon Spend an evening making zines using one of the world’s simplest book forms! Yewon Kwon will guide us through this no-stitch, no-staple, no-tape, simple folded technique for any 8-page zine! Our first prompt will be the new rituals we’ve created during this time: baking bread? growing onions? taking walks? counting birds?... Read more »
Guest Artist: Dave Krzeminski Join Dave Krzeminski for a night of optical illusions. You will not believe your eyes, or how easy it is to create mesmerizing visual deceptions! Working with basic geometry, we will learn to use clever line work, repetition, high contrast, and vibrancy for high-impact psychedelic effects. Dave will demystify the construction... Read more »
