Halftone Radio Super Show Season II

Have you heard? The Chicago Printers Guild Halftone Radio Supershow is BACK! Join CPG President Eric “Manny” Von Haynes and your pal Dud Lawson of Depression press Mfg. & Ink, Inc. for the return of Chicago’s premier low-powered, printmaking-centric radio hour LIVE this Wednesday 3/13 (and the second Wednesday of every month) at 6pm on 105.5-LP Lumpen Radio and LumpenRadio.com. We’ll be kicking off our second season with local letterpress legend Jen Farrell of Starshaped Press as she stops by the booth to talk shop and share the tunes she’s been spinning in the studio!! #AllForPrintForAll

Introducing the inaugural CHICAGO PRINTERS GUILD PAPER JAM

Introducing the inaugural CHICAGO PRINTERS GUILD PAPER JAM:
A Month-Long Celebration of Printers & Printmaking

This fall, all are welcome to join a celebration of all things print at the inaugural.
CHICAGO PRINTERS GUILD PAPER JAM at Co-Prosperity (3219 S. Morgan St.)
every weekend from Sept. 29 — Oct. 21. All events are free and open to the public.   

The month-long residency will feature four-weekend exhibitions and workshops celebrating the past, present, and future of print in Chicago from the home of Printers Row and the birthplace of the typeface Cooper Black. The celebration concludes with the return of the annual CPG Publishers Fair print market. 

Let’s jam, Chicago!

What's Halftone Radio Supershow?

The Halftone Radio Supershow is not your average radio program. It's a unique opportunity to get an up-close and personal look at the minds behind some of Chicago's most peculiar and prolific ink slingers. Featured in Episode #5, Gabe Hoare and Liz Born of Hoofprint Editions.

Tune in on an actual radio or at the Lumpen Radio website!!

WORK IN PROGRESS // Folds

WORK IN PROGRESS: I have been working on a project that involves using caution tape to explore flexure, folds, and motion. It's been a fun experience to see how versatile the material is in creating fluid and dynamic folds. The overlaps and transparency of the tape led me to explore creating cyanotypes using small fragments of tape found around my neighborhood. Over the weekend, I collaborated with my friend and fellow printer, Gabe of Hoofprint Workshop, to create a litho-plate series. I brushed ink on film and used yards of tape direct to the plate to achieve this. I am happy with the direction this project is taking.

Artist proofs will be available, so stay tuned for updates.

Zinemercado 23' August 27 - Comfort Station

We are already preparing, and we are also about to close the admission of proposals.

Submissions are closing soon.

EP:3 HALFTONE RADIO SUPERSHOW!

EP: 3 re-airs tonight at 6PM!
Be sure to catch Zissou of All-Star Press on the next episode of The Chicago Printers Guild HALFTONE RADIO SUPERSHOW this Wednesday (6/14) from 6-7pm on Lumpen Radio 105.5 FM and lumpenradio.com! The prolific printmaker and sporting enthusiast will be stopping by to chat with your pal @dudlawson and CPG President @mannysuena and share some tunes he’s been spinning while slingin’ ink at All-Star Press.

EP:2 HALFTONE RADIO SUPERSHOW!

The second episode of THE CHICAGO PRINTERS GUILD HALFTONE RADIO SUPER SHOW aired last Wednesday on 105.5 FM with guest DJ Angela Davis Fegan. sharing some of the tunes that have been spinning down at Too Much Press!

If you missed it, tune into Lumpen Radio Wednesday, May 24 at 6 pm for the rebroadcast. Be sure to tune in June 14th at 6 pm for our next episode and visit the Lumpen Radio website to check out earlier episodes!

HALFTONE RADIO SUPERSHOW!

I'm happy to have this programming up and running for Chicago Printers Guild. Each month on Lumpen Radio, we will have a CPG member or collective playing tracks and discussing their print practice live. This first episode is an introduction; I play tracks along with the host, Dud, and we have a good time. Tune in! [ https://lumpenradio.com/shows/halftone-radio-supershow ]

HALFTONE RADIO SUPERSHOW EP:1 Introductions

Join your pal/host Dud Lawson Depression Press the second Wednesday of every month to hear your favorite printmakers from across the city share the music they've been playing in the studio. Tonight's guest: Chicago Printers Guild President Eric Von Haynes / Flatlands Press

Homagetoblkmadonnas Zine Vol 1

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Kee Merriweather’s Homagetoblkmadonnas is an archival practice that mines and collects images of Black mothers, femmes, and women as a source of the spirit of inquiry and hopefully one-day repatriation. HBM stemmed from an earlier project titled the Black Matriarch Archive. Black Matriarch Archive was a digital platform that sought to create an ongoing record commemorating the Black matriarchs of the African diaspora.

Homagetoblkmadonnas Zine Vol 1 is available now (LINK)

Now available at Quimby’s!

HBM Vol.1 on display at House of the Lorde

Detroit Art Book Fair 2022

Another fantastic Detroit Art Book Fair is in the books! I enjoyed tabling with is Press for the first time due to COVID in 3 years! We've collaborated for over a decade. Getting to sling printed matter with my droog felt great.

The Detroit Art Book Fair is an annual event that takes place in Detroit's Eastern Market neighborhood. Each year, the fair brings together dozens of independent publishers, artists, writers, and collectors to present their books, zines, and prints to the public.

Thank you all for the support.

DETROIT ART BOOK FAIR VIII

Flatlands Press Detroit Tour 2022 October

We will be traveling to Detroit this October.

Oct 15, 12pm-6pm Oct 16, 12pm-4pm

The Detroit Art Book Fair is an annual event that takes place in Detroit's Eastern Market neighborhood. Each year, the fair brings together dozens of independent publishers, artists, writers, and collectors to present their books, zines, and prints to the public.

Founded in 2013, the fair eventually moved to Trinosophes, where it remains today
Trinosophes
1464 Gratiot Ave
Detroit USA

Zinemercado at Comfort Station 2022

I had a blast Zinemercado at Comfort Station.

Flatlands Press tabled with @chicagoprintersguild this year, offering Guild members an opportunity to share their work at this RAD venue.

We released LEXICONS by Rubén Aguirre and sold out of all the copies we had on hand. The good news is, that it's still available at Flatlands Press online store (HERE)

Special shout out to Alkebuluan @alkebuluanm of The Black Matriarch Archive, who held down the table with Jack Spector-Bishop and myself. Alkebuluan sold her own work and was featured in this year's Zinemercado zine.

#ZINEmercado2022

LEXICONS

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LEXICONS Rubén Aguirre

LEXICONS is a hardbound book by Rubén Aguirre, designed and published by Flatlands Press and partially funded by the National Museum of Mexican Art. Photographs by Analumaria Lopez, Ruben Cantu, and Michael Tropea. It includes a selection of murals, paintings, and sketches curated by the artist and an interview by Brandon Johnson of Almighty & Insane Books. Additionally, the book comes with a companion zine of exploration sketches and abstracted forms for Ruben’s paintings.

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LUZ: SEEING THE SPACE BETWEEN US

Long-time Pilsen artist Diana Solís is publishing a photo book, Luz: Seeing the Space Between Us, marking her return to photography after 2 decades. New portraits of Solís’ home & community, along with reproductions of her archival photos, will appear in the book which will be published by Flatlands Press and launched on September 24 of this year at the National Museum of Mexican Art. This project was made possible by 3Arts and donors to the 3Arts Project (3AP). In the forward to the book, photography writer and art historian Deanna Ledezma (Ph.D., Art History, UIC) writes, “The bilingual title Luz: Seeing the Space Between Us evokes light (or luz in Spanish) in multiple forms. For Solís, whose practice began with analog photography, the word will always be associated with how a photograph, at its origins, is a record of light emanating onto light-sensitive material. [It] can also be interpreted as a project brought into being by a longing for lightness during the pandemic and a wish to reconnect with communities temporarily disassembled.” In her introduction, Solís says that “these portraits became moments of reemergence for those of us in Pilsen. By coming together with friends and community members in this way, I called on the sensibilities I have developed as a teaching artist working with youth and adults in classroom and community settings since 1979.” Diana Solís is a Mexican-born visual artist, photographer, and educator whose work includes painting, illustration, printmaking, comics, public murals, and installation. She is inspired by Mexican and Chicano culture, memory, cautionary tales, oral and personal histories, queer identities, and narratives. It was the 70’s at Casa Aztlan Solís and as part of Mujeres Latinas en Accion (MLEA) that Solís got her start as an artist and as a teaching artist who is committed to sharing her knowledge and process in collaboration with youth, immigrant families, and adults and supporting them to create art from their perspectives.

To learn more about the book follow @pilsenita on Instagram or go to

www.dianasolísarteypapel.blogspot.com

Community Care Day In Harrison Park

Join volunteers from the Love Fridge Network, Saturday, July 23rd in Harrison Park for a day of community care.

Please join us in the park from 1-4 pm. We will share fresh cold-pressed juices while we discuss updates including opportunities for food rescue and new additions to the network.

If you’ve been wondering how to get involved, or are involved already and want to do more — come to the park and say "Hello". Hear from current volunteers, ask questions, and get your boots on the ground! See y’all there.

Peace