Anchor Graphics

Anchor Graphics @ 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.

Anchor Graphics will be closed August 30 - September 1 for Labor Day.
There will not be Open Studio on August 30.

New Publishing Projects:

Upcoming Programs:

Joel Feldman - Meet the Artist Reception and Lecture
August 27, 2008
5 - 7pm

Joel Feldman will be in the shop August 4 – September 1 creating prints that continue a series of pen and ink drawings he has worked on over the past 2 years. In these images robotic creatures reinvent technology associated with animal husbandry and other aspects of contemporary human intervention in the natural world. Contrasting robotic and organic forms engage in social and political commentary on our relationship with and consumption of the environment. Come meet the artist, learn more about his work and see the prints he has created at this reception and lecture. Lecture will begin at approximately 6pm. Refreshments will be served. This program is free and open to the public.

Fall Printmaking Classes
Start the week of September 8, 2008

Ten week evening classes offered include relief printing, copper plate etching, and stone lithography. Click here for more info .

Fall High School Class
September 13 - November 15, 2008

On Saturday afternoons tarting September 13 Anchor will offer a free in depth drypoint and monoprint class for high school students. Click here for more info.

Amanda Knowles - Meet the Artist Reception and Lecture
September 18, 2008
5 - 7pm

Amanda Knowles will be in the shop September 1 - September 22 creating a series of mixed media prints based on scientific diagrams. Her work bends such imagery away from its intended purpose of explaining the world in terms of reason and logic, instead drawing an emotive response through abstraction. Come meet the artist, learn more about her work and see the prints she will create at this reception and lecture. Lecture will begin at approximately 6pm. Refreshments will be served. This program is free and open to the public.

People's Commonwealth of Printlandia
October 1 - 31, 2008

As part of Chicago Artists Month, Anchor Graphics will be giving away free prints commissioned by Chicago artists as a demonstration of the medium's democratic ideals and ability to engage society. Artworks created will center around issues of personal or public importance selected by the artists. Prints will be available throughout October at Anchor Graphics. A kick off reception will be held from 5-7pm on October 1st.

Poetry Broadsides: Poems on the Wall, Poems that Stare Back at You
October 4, 2008
4:30 - 5:30pm at Hokin Lecture Hall

Print a poem on a single sheet of paper rather than a book, and it becomes something to hold and handle, use and look at rather than only something to read. Visual design interprets and inflects a poem. It changes the poem from an abstract structure of words into a material object. Author and educator James D. Sullivan will talk about broadsides, some of the possibilities for what artists, poets, and readers can do with this medium. He'll be looking at broadsides that use the poetry of, among others, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, and W. S. Merwin. This lecture is presented as part of Anchor Graphics’ Scraping the Surface lecture series and will take place at Hokin Lecture Hall, 623 S. Wabash, Room 109.

Hatch Show Print Lecture
November 7, 2008
6:30 - 7:30pm at Film Row Cinema

Jim Sherraden, Manager of Hatch Show Print, will talk about the history and prints of this Nashville based letterpress founded in 1879. Through hand printed posters for legendary jazz, blues, and country musicians as well as signs for minstrel shows, vaudeville acts, carnivals, and movie theaters, Hatch Show Print has created and preserved over 100 years of Southern culture and American history. This lecture will be presented as part of our Scraping the Surface lecture series in conjunction with a letterpress workshop to be taught by Jim Sherraden at the Center for Book and Paper Arts. The lecture will take place at Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash on the 8th floor.

Global Implications
Southern Graphics Council Conference
March 25-29, 2009

Columbia College Chicago and Anchor Graphics will be hosting the Southern Graphics Council's annual printmaking conference in 2009 featuring 5 days of exhibitions, demonstrations, workshops, lectures and round table discussions exploring the artistic and social currents that can be found in printmaking throughout the world. For more information click here.