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 »
Please join Spudnik Press for a night of making signs, posters, banners and graphics to support the Black Lives Matter protests, and speak out against police violence. We will use whatever supplies we have on hand to help sound the alarm that BLACK LIVES MATTER! From cardboard protest signs we can hang in our windows,... Read more »
Guest Artists: Ruby Figueroa & Anders Zanichkowsky The Chicago Police Department receives $1.7 Billion every year, which Black Lives Matter Chicago has pointed out is 40% of the entire city budget, and hugely disproportionate to services that keep people healthy and safe. At this Drink & Draw, we will use art and poetry to envision... Read more »
Guest Artist: Mary Clare Butler It’s physical, sensual, emotional — even spiritual. Everybody does it and everybody needs it. That’s right, we’re talking about FOOD! This Drink & Draw we will turn our favorite quarantine foods into beautifully illustrated recipe cards to send to friends and family (or to just decorate our kitchens). Mary Clare... Read more »
Guest Artist: Atlan Arceo-Witzl Atlan Arceo-Witzl welcomes you to a night of political print history and new political art making! Beginning with an exciting introduction to the famous Mexican workshop and artist collective Taller Gráfico Popular (The People’s Graphic Workshop), Atlan will inspire us with the many ways that artists and activists have used print... Read more »
Guest Artist: Rob Kelsey This event has been postponed to July 29 from its original date on June 3. In this Drink & Draw, we will juxtapose our own invented illustrations on top of modern, found materials to force the unreal into the real, and weave the extraordinary into the mundane. Join artist Rob Kelsey... Read more »
Guest Artist: Ethan Brown No matter what kind of art you make, drawing is an important skill worthy of study, and rewarding in its own right. Ethan Brown will take us back to the basics for a night of casual observational drawing that will help you deepen your engagement with your familiar environment by intentionally... Read more »
Guest Artist: Margot Harrington What do our emotions look like, as they live inside our bodies? How can the techniques of abstract art help us express and explore our internal world? What would a portrait of ourselves, our city, or our community look like if we rendered it entirely in shapes, colors, and gestural mark... Read more »
