Spudnik Press Announces Meg Duguid as Interim Executive Director

Spudnik Press is excited to announce the appointment of Meg Duguid as the organization’s Interim Executive Director.

Duguid’s appointment comes after a search led by the Board of Directors in collaboration with Spudnik Press staff members and other members of the Spudnik Press community.

“We couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome Meg to our leadership team.” Says Board of Directors Chair, Patti Swanson. “Her visionary ideas, wealth of experience, and prior successful tenures at similar organizations provide the exact combination of skills we were looking for. We are excited to support her as she ushers Spudnik into a new era of growth and change.”

As interim executive director, Duguid will lead the press after a long period of rebuilding and structural shifts. Upholding the organization’s commitment to accessibility, equity, and positive change, Duguid plans to grow the community’s membership as well as its outreach and partnerships across Chicago. She brings her leadership and development talents to facilitate the necessary growth of the organization to return to a place of stability. This position will provide the direction and structure to expand its reach and effectiveness to implement the press’s new mission and priorities.

“I am ecstatic to be joining the team at Spudnik Press to help plan the future.” Duguid states  “Print is such an amazing and accessible medium for conveying emotions, information, and imagery. Supporting artists and makers in their practices and businesses is central to Spudnik’s ethos, and I am looking forward to providing platforms for artists to use their voices, imagine new worlds, and envision bold futures.”

Duguid comes to Spudnik by way of Columbia College Chicago, where she worked for over a decade managing exhibitions and event spaces in a variety of roles. Duguid’s former colleagues described her as a phenomenal leader dedicated to making sure her community had ample opportunities to share their voice and be represented. Her creative fundraising talents and sharp budgetary skills helped build and fund numerous iconic projects along the Wabash Arts Corridor, developing one of the largest street art and public art collections of women artists and artists of color.

Prior to her tenure at Columbia, Duguid worked in grants coordination, fundraising, curation, and public art for a variety of nonprofit organizations and city-sanctioned entities in both Chicago and New York City. Her undergraduate degree was obtained at School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999, and followed by a 2006 MFA in sculpture from Bard College. Her passion for arts administration and wealth of experience made her a standout candidate throughout the search process.

Our community is thrilled to welcome Duguid and support her as she works toward strengthening organizational health, forging new partnerships across the city, and guiding Spudnik Press through an ongoing and invigorating era of change and new beginnings.