Eric Von Haynes is an artist, whose work synthesizes old and new printing methods and aesthetics. He founded Flatlands Press, which is focused on design, printing, and self-publishing. Flatlands Press has created art objects and printed ephemera for artists worldwide. One of the core tenets at Flatlands Press is community building and making the invisible visible.
Flatlands’ printed matter can be found in The Center for Books Arts in New York and Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection. Eric is the current President of the Chicago Printers Guild, an Artist in Residence at the Chicago Art Department, and a core organizer with the Love Fridge Network, a mutual aid group grounded in food sovereignty and community care.

Angela Davis Fegan is a native of Chicago’s South Side. She received her BFA in Fine Arts from New York’s Parsons School of Design and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago. Angela has mounted shows at Chicago Artists’ Coalition, the DePaul Art Museum, The Center for Book Arts (NY), the University of Chicago’s Arts Incubator and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, the Hyde Park Art Center, SAIC’s Sullivan Galleries, Columbia’s Glass Curtain Gallery, SPACES (OH) and Co-Prosperity. She has held residencies at Connecticut College, the Hambidge Center (GA), Revolve (NC), Project Row Houses (TX), and Women’s Studio Workshop (NY). Her work has been selected for book covers including The Truth About Dolls by Jamila Woods, Secondhand by Maya Marshall, All Blue So Late by Laura Swearingen-Steadwell, and Super Sad Black Girl by Diamond Sharp. Her lavender menace poster project has been written up by The Offing (LA Review of Books), Hyperallergic, Chicago Magazine, Go Magazine, Pop Sugar, the Chicago Reader, and Newcity.

Melody Vasquez is a printmaker located in Chicago Illinois. She received an MFA in Printmaking from The University of North Texas in Denton. She is the director of Interrobang Projects, an independent print shop in Hermosa where she publishes her own prints and collaborative projects.

Alexiss Villagomez (they/them/elle) is a Queer, Latine artist & educator from Back of The Yards, Chicago. Their visual art focuses on turning digital drawings into screen + relief prints with themes around identity, inner-child, play > and perfection. Outside of art-making, Alexiss is a curator + youth facilitator, guiding youth to explore their identities, skills, and agency through collaboration & youth-led programming. They are passionate about youth leadership and building brave, accessible spaces for BIPOC youth to connect and create through radical and transformative frameworks.

Lisa Glenn Armstrong is a designer, multimedia artist, and facilitator. Her work focuses on themes of time, space, motion, and queering media across the digital/analog divide.

As an extension of her visual work, Lisa performs as part of the electronic music collectives, Chandeliers, FULL BLEED, and Drasii. She also co-produces monthly expanded music programs on KCHUNG LA and Lumpen Radio Chicago.

Rachelle Hill is a Chicago-based artist with an MFA in Printmaking from Northern Illinois University. Rachelle currently works as a teaching artist for the Chicago Park District, developing art programs and the first Park District printshop in West Rogers Park (Green Briar Park).

Rachelle has worked throughout Chicago with youth and adults and is passionate about creating accessible art spaces for all while building community. Her current work explores mapping as a way to investigate identity, creating a dialogue through the use of abstraction to contemplate how home and landscape condition the way we approach the world utilizing printmaking and textile methods.

Your pal Dud Lawson writes copy for a living and makes copies at Depression Press Mfg. & Ink, Inc.

CHema Skandal! is a graphic artist who got his BFA degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. An enthusiast of popular graphics and traditional printing techniques, his work reflects parallel universes and is often inspired by popular culture as well as social issues.

Founder of ZINEmercado, Celulosa Poster Fest, La Pulga Negra Press, S.F.L., Tritón Sound System, El Skelector & other culture projects. Also a member of Instituto Gráfico de Chicago & MANOaMANO collectives.

Nicole Antonopoulos is a front-end developer/designer. With 2+ decades of roaming digital technologies and project landscapes. Beginning with digital animation and illustration and wandering into development and project management and design.

Two Qs are always at the front of the mind: How can the digital become an organic branch of original experiential source and client? How does the digital inform, satisfy, and charm individual end-users enticing them to engage with the project?

Unapologetic fan-grrrl of all things print.