Danse Macabre: Death and the Printmakers, Opening Reception WOODCUT X WOODCUT

No matter what one's station in life, the Danse Macabre unites all. Come celebrate life, death and the printmaker's historically-inspired, yet contemporary expression of printed matter at the CPC this coming Saturday. Outrageous and scary costumes encouraged. We promise really sugary, potentially lethal skull candy. DANSE MACABRE! Reception and Open House  Saturday, Oct. 6th, 2012 Open House : 12 PM - 5 PM Reception: 5 PM - 7 PM Show is on NOW and continues until Nov. 3rd

Woodblock X Woodblock : Relief Printmaking Demo During the Open House 12-5pm Neighbors, friends, ghosts, ghouls and the community are all invited to come see resident artists talk about the role of woodcut/relief in depicting imagery related to the Danse Macabre and Day of the Dead. Demos and interactive relief printing to occur concurrently.  Stop by and create your first woodcut print!

Death...what a relief!

Meet our new interns, Patrick and Eunji. 

HELLO!!! I’m Patrick Herndon

 I am from the Chicagoland area, from the suburb of La Grange. This is my first year back and living in the city, and I'm really looking forward to exploring what great things the city can offer a young artist. I missed Chicago while I was the good ol' deep South so I’m back and ready to get to work. My focuses are printmaking, painting and installation at SAIC. My specialties in printmaking are lithography and relief.

Hi, I am Eunji Kim. 

It is a great pleasure to meet you all. I am a ‘legal’ alien from Korea, and I came to the US in 2007. Chicago is my second home in the US. I just graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2012, majoring in Art and Biology, and moved to Chicago this past month. I love to work with wood, ceramics and a few types of plastics, both in a sculptural and in a two-dimensional way. As a just toddler printmaker, I am in love with the relief printmaking process. Because of this, there should be so many exciting things to learn from the artists at CPC, and I am happily looking forward to meeting you!

C.P.C. + Zygote!

Two amazing print shops in two great cities, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative and Zygote Press in Cleveland, have joined forces for an intern swap! The Collaborative have sent our very own Megan Sterling in exchange for the very talented Anne Kibbe of Zygote. For the next two weeks both interns will embark on special projects, assist in workshops, and excel in overall awesomeness! Stay tuned for more...  

OpenWall!

Design by Maggie Lane Marlin

OpenWall Presents Chicago Printmakers Collaborative!

Join us tonight for our opening at 47th Ward Alderman Ameya Pawar’s office from 6-8p at 4243 N. Lincoln Ave.

Participating Chicago Printmakers Collaborative Artists include: Sanya Glisic, Misha Goro, Todd Irwin, Deborah Maris Lader, Kim Laurel, Barton Longacre, Maggie Marlin, Michelle McCoy, Dennis O’Malley, Maria Sanchez, Megan Sterling, and Kyra Termini

$20 Print Sale! May 19th - June 16th

It's that time of year again! We have a boat-load of awesome $20 prints this year from artists such as Dan Grzeca, Phineas X. Jones, Amos Kennedy, Deborah Maris Lader, and Dan MacAdam, just to name a few...

plus an exclusive print by Jay Ryan! 

Come browse some prints this Saturday!

Opening reception: May 19th from 12 to 6pm! 

So, the awesome Todd Irwin took some to mash up a busy day at the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative. Enjoy!

C.P.C. Saturday from todd a. irwin on Vimeo.

Improvements at the CPC!

This weekend made some much needed improvements here at the CPC; namely, new surfaces for our work tables. Deb, Maria, Megan, Maggie and Todd all pitched in sanding down the old surface and applying the new one...

Sanding and vacuuming action!

Applying some adhesive..

Carefully lining up the new surface... voila!


Come by and Admire the work of the CPC interns and Deb!
And take a look at the CyclePedia Show while you're at it!!

CPC Annex!

Just a friendly reminder, if you haven't yet, to come visit the CPC Annex Pop-up Gallery located at 208 S. Wabash in the Loop, just next to the the Adams/Wabash EL stop! We have new work up by many different artists including: Hiroshi Ariyama, Sanya Glisic, Misha Goro, Todd Irwin, Deborah Maris Lader, Kim Laurel, Duffy O’Connor, Dennis O’Malley, Maggie Marlin, Mary O’Shaughnessy, Maria Sanchez, Megan Sterling, Kyra Termini, and Scott Westgard... just to name a few!

We are easy to find!

People checking out the prints at our opening on 2/9/12

Maggie giving screen printing demo..

Deb has the best interns!