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 »