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.

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.

Jaclyn Jacunski is an interdisciplinary artist who exhibits locally and nationally. She earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and has taught at SAIC and Harrington College of Design. Her practice is informed by social and political engagement, examining land, community, and acts of resistance. Jacunski was a BOLT artist-in-residence at the Chicago Artists Coalition and has exhibited at the Institutes of Contemporary Art in Portland and Baltimore. Her work has been featured in the Chicago Tribune and Hyperallergic. She is Co-Director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery and previously served as a director at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Taj Richardson (he/they) is an artist, designer, and curator currently based in Chicago with an interest in rendering and analyzing imaginative spaces through multiple mediums. Influenced by his relationship with escapism and memories, Taj combines analog/traditional methods with digital programs to create intimate moments between people and spaces. Taj is also one of the co-founders and editors of Write That Down!, a seasonal zine based collection of artifacts, art, and stories that captures the current moment in Chicago from a radical, queer, and experimental perspective.

He earned a BFA and a B.Arch from Rhode Island School of Design where he studied architecture and printmaking in 2022, was an Urban Ecology Fellow at Sweet Water Foundation in 2022, and is a curatorial resident at the Chicago Artist Coalition.

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.

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.