Spudnik Press

Spudnik Press is a comprehensive cooperative artist studio dedicated to encouraging new talent in fine art printmaking in an alternative art space. Open to all levels of printmakers, Spudnik Press provides common studio space capable of printing traditional as well as photographic litho, relief, and silkscreen prints. Additionally, Spudnik Press fosters a greater public awareness and understanding of prints and art-making in general by offering demonstrations, workshop, critiques, and gallery shows.

Who We Are:

Angee Lennard

Angee Lennard is the founder and director of Spudnik Press. In addition to running the shop, she teaches a few of the classes, and offers private lessons, and prints on consignment. She has experience as a production bookbinder, and she continues to make custom journals and collaborate on book projects. She is a teaching assistant for a variety of art classes Marwen. She publishes a comic book, called Mossdale Estate, which is inspired by the work she has done in nursing homes. While her relationship with the elderly is always evolving, she currently teaches computer classes, and helps residents use the computer to complete cognitive exercises to improve age-related cognitive decline. She received her BFA with an emphasis is Print Media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005.

Megan Klāwitter

Megan is a printmaker and painter. She has been a Studio Assistant at Spudnik Press since December. She teaches Screenprinting T-Shirts, and occassionally monitors open studio and assists with other classes.

Alex Chitty

Alex Chitty recently received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied printmedia. She currently teaches printmaking at Moraine Valley Community College as well as Spudnik Press. In an ongoing inquiry into our varied and increasingly ridiculous relationship with nature and each other, she works to simultaneously represent, contest, and invert the world around us. She appropriates fragments from a collective awareness and restructures them into drawing, prints, installations, and objects that challenge our interpretive faculties.

Layne Jackson

Layne Jackson, a Texas native, started drawing early with lipstick on a mirror. She received a BFA in Art and Art History from the University of Texas at Austin, and went on to live in Toronto and Paris, pursuing a 15-year career as Art Director for magazines, print media, and film media.
Jackson currently resides in Chicago, drawing inspiration from found photographs, old films, ephemera, and the stories behind them to create large scale paintings for public art and private clients. She participates in group shows with a political bent as well as solo exhibitions in galleries and alternative spaces.

Jackson has led hundreds of students in drawing, painting, collage and mixed media classes and workshops at numerous schools throughout the area, including The Latin school and LaSalle Academy of the Arts, as well as in private workshops in the Ukrainian Village.

She is currently working with printing as a means to an new end. Believing that the key to any visual art form is a good grasp of the basics, the sessions taught by Layne Jackson at Spudnik Press will be lively and informative!

Layne Jackson has a storefront at 1941 W Division Street, open to the public Sundays from 1-6

www.LayneJackson.com
info@laynejackson.com
312 850 9630

Geoffrey Hamerlinck

A guy wrote about about the worst places in America to live, and St. Cloud, MN was one of them. That’s where Geoffrey Hammerlinck is from. He went to St. Cloud State University, and received a BFA in printmaking. His MFA is from SAIC. He co-taught Introduction to Printmaking there once. He was the print tech at Ox-Bow one summer. He has shown with The General Store at the Millwaukee International Art Fair, Shoebox Gallery at Robert’s Shoes in Minneapolis. He’s currently working on motivational speaking presentations; one called “Thinking Outside The Bun” and one called “Make Believe In Yourself”.

Stacey Colangelo

Stacey Colangelo began making when she could find something to draw on at the age of 2. She attended the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, receiving her BFA in 2005 with a Printmaking major and a minor in drawing. Colangelo has been educated in lithography, intaglio, silkscreen, and relief printing. For the past three years, she has been consistently honing her skills as a relief printer and refers to linocut prints as her "specialty".

Colangelo has taught various art classes and seminars at the Boys and Girls Club in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and continues to teach at Sacred Art in Chicago. She also teaches ESL at Pulaski School in Chicago.

She is constantly challenging and exploring the diversity of her preferred medium. She has print on paper, but also has used clothing, religious candles, stickers, stationary, and many other items and objects as a surface for her linocut priniting. Colangelo is available for creating custom works and works on consignment.

Megan Owdom-Weitz

After graduating with a BFA in visual communication design from Kent State University, Megan moved to Chicago to pursue a career in print and on the web-based Graphic Design. She worked at a small design and marketing firm for 7 years learning about the paper and printing industries and the world of corporate design (as well as handling clients various needs). At the same time, she began designing her own line of handbags, clothing and stationary and eventually opened her own craft company — Megan Lee Designs (www.meganleedesigns.com). Her love of drawing, color, pattern and design all led to learning the art of screenprinting in 2005 and she has been obsessed with it ever since. This eventually led to the decision to quit her day job in November of 2008 and pursue her business full-time. Her line now includes screenprinted totebags, hip bags, clothing and other accessories and can be found online and in shops throughout the Midwest.