Mike Dengler For President!

I conducted some interviews during a rally I hosted for my project "Mike Dengler for President". We used signs t-shirts and sweatshirts that I screen-printed. Here are the two best interviews!

Call for Bling

Looking for a theme to explore with your screenprinting in public places? Loyola is hosting a juried exhibition of work by undergrad artists from all across Chicagoland that's all about the bling. Sounds like it might be time to print up some diamond studded pants and flaunt your cardboard gold chains to the world!

Here's their official invite:
Need to put those grillz, diamond studded shoes, and solid gold eyewear to use again? Undergrads from schools in the Chicago area are invited to submit works, in any medium, to BLING: Student Art Competition.

On the opening night of the gallery, the works will be judged by three local art personalities. The winner will be chosen by the quality of the art, showing the best BLING theme. DEADLINES FOR ENTRIES: FEBRUARY 23rd

BLING: Student Art Competition will run from March 27 - April 17 at The Loyola University Chicago Crown Center Gallery.

For more info, or to enter this intercollegiate competition click HERE.

Welcome to Silkscreen + Social Space!

This blog is a space where you can find resources and suggestions, show and tell us about your site-specific adventures, and share links and artist images for others interested in the topics of printmedia and alternative art audiences. I also highly recommend checking out the resource links and posts from previous classes and other artists in the archives. If you want to post video as well as still images, this can be done through both Blogger and YouTube, which allows you to copy and paste their code into any blog posting. Have fun, and check back soon.

Final: Dumb Audio #1

Clark
Dumb Audio
11x17 bond, 50lb drawing paper for stenciling, green ink
8.5x11 final dimensions
Zine focused on analog/digital works, future of A/V, and applications in contemporary art and music.

Available for purchase at Reckless Records, mailorder from Reckless Records. Photo is from Lifeline Records' Burning Fight pre-show with Converge, Hope Conspiracy, Disnihil, Poison Planet, Indecision, Wait in Vain, and Boiling Over.

Consume!

Consume is an online project created by a design student at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Florida featuring milk carton culture-jamming tutorials, minizines, and printable posters for everybody to enjoy. Thanks to designer and professor Allen Harrison for inspiring and sharing his student's work.

Paper food exchange

Lori Waxman recently told me about an interesting public printmedia project at the Sharjah Biennale: Thai art collective SOI Project created a fruit stand stocked with real fruit and printed paper models of fruit. Visitors to the stand could cut and fold their own paper fruit, which in turn could be exchanged for a piece of real fruit.

Flatstock!

Anyone interested in the world of poster-printing as a creative business venture should know about Flatstock, a major exhibition/sales fair of rock poster art and related creative printing from across the country and abroad. The show, which is presented by the American Poster Institute, takes place at several large music festivals every year. This July Flatstock 17 took over a main artery of the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago with all sorts of gorgeous multi-screen prints. Showgoers could buy by Chicago favorites Jay Ryan, Mat Daly, Alana Bailey, and Dan MacAdam of Crosshair, as well as tons of other printers from across the country. Flatstock 18 and 19 will take place in Seattle, WA and Hamburg, Germany this August and September. Even if you're not interested in poster-making per-se, it's pretty graphically gratifying just to soak up the incredible ways these artists use color, texture, line, pattern, transparent layers, etc. etc. The music was great and all, but I think the astounding display of accessible, affordable, interesting prints was one of the most interesting part of the festival.