Anchor Graphics

Anchor Graphics at Columbia College Chicago is a not-for-profit fine art print shop that brings together, under professional guidance, a diverse community of youth, emerging and established artists, and the public to advance the fine art of printmaking by integrating education with the creation of prints

New Publishing Projects:

McArthur Binion

Sue Coe

Laurie Hogin

Margo Humphrey

Upcoming Programs:

Emory Douglas Lecture
December 1, 2009
6:30 - 7:30 pm

After working in a prison printshop while incarcerated as a teenager and more formally studying commercial art at San Francisco City College, Emory Douglas took on the role of Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, creating the group’s visual style and iconic representations of the Black Power Movement. Through the party’s newspaper The Black Panther, Douglas’s graphic work helped motivate the disenfranchised to action throughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Colette Gaiter has describer him as the “Norman Rockwell of the ghetto” portraying the strength and dignity found among even the most harshly oppressed. This lecture is presented as part of the Scraping the Surface Lecture Series. It is free and open to the public. The lecture will take place at Columbia College Chicago, Ferguson Lecture Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave., Room 101.

Now On View:

Artwork by High School Students

This group exhibition features etchings, lithographs, and linocuts created by high school students participating in Anchor Graphics free Saturday classes. The prints were created over the course of 2009 under the expert tutelage of Chicago artists Elke Clause. This exhibition is on view in The Display Case located next to Anchor Graphics and includes artwork by Ana Bezanilla, Miles Burke, Xeno Coufal, Malcolm "Ike" Edgerton, Rachael Ericson, Harry Kuttner, James Liebenson, Sam Nelson, Agne Tolkaciouaite, Abigail Weiss, and Vivian Weiss.