Support
Make a Tax-Deductible Contribution
Please consider making a donation to support our general expenses. Your contribution will support our ongoing operations, including these specific programs:
Open Studio Sessions: Open access at a reduced price. Offered four times weekly.
Keyholder Program: Allows 24 hour access to our studio for members who are comfortable using studio with no monitor.
Young Artist Program: Still being developed. We host field trips for CPS students and after-school organizations like Erie House and Marwen. This fall, we ran our first in-house free youth art class with a grant from Cliff Dwellers.
Community Workshops: Suggested $10 donation. Fees are waived for students who are unable to afford this charge to ensure that the Chicago community has access to artistic projects, regardless of income.
Individual donations are a significant part of our financial sustainability and growth. Any amount is appreciated!
Sales from Collector, Subscriber and Patron Memberships fund our Artist Residency Program and our Publishing Program.
Without your support, we are not able to offer these opportunities to Chicago artists.
If you already have a Studio Membership, please consider increasing your support level, and receive complimentary prints for doing so!
Purchase a Spudnik Press Membership
Wants and Needs List
Tools and equipment that would benefit our members and the programming of Spudnik Press Cooperative.
Photo Developing Trays, $18-33
We need another set of developing trays to allow 2 students in our letterpress classes to develop polymer plates at the same time. An 11×14″ and 16×20″ tray would be perfect, but we aren’t picky.
Washout Brush, $30
We need another brush to allow 2 students in our letterpress classes to develop polymer plates at the same time.
Folding Stools, $34.99
We need about 6 more stools that either fold or stack. This will allow everyone to have a seat at our community workshops! Ideal stool height should be about 25″ tall.
Long Reach Stapler, $31.99
Allow artist to saddle staple their own books, zines, comics, etc. in an efficient way with out damaging the paper.
24″ Stack-able Stools, $36.35 each. 12 desired.
Additional seating is needed for events like community workshops, artist lectures, and feild trips.
Cordless Drill, $99 or so.
We have somehow managed to survive for 5 years with a drill from Maxwell Street Market that doesn’t go in reverse… Oh how we crave a normal drill.
Coil Binding Machine, $205
Greatly expand the possibility of in-house publishing, allowing members using our offset press to bind their own books.
Epson Stylus Pro 4900, $2,500
Allows us to make films on site for polymer letterpress plates, and photographic etching and litho processes.
