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.

There will be no Open Studio on December 6 and December 13 due to workshops.

Anchor Graphics will be closed December 20 - January 4 for the holidays.

New Publishing Projects:

Upcoming Programs:

Small Plate Etching Workshop This Workshop Is Full
December 6, 2008
10am - 4pm

Learn to etch and print small 4" x 5” copper plates during this day-long, hands-on studio workshop at Anchor Graphics. No experience necessary. Enrollment is limited to 15 participants. This workshop is presented in collaboration with the Smart Museum of Art and their exhibition The "Writing" of Modern Life: The Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850–1940. The cost is $25 including all materials. To register call Anchor Graphics at 312-369-6864.

Reduction Linocut Workshop
December 12, 6 - 9pm
December 13 & 14, 10:30am - 5pm

This three-day workshop is designed to give participants an introduction to the color relief printmaking process of reduction linocuts. Reduction linocut is a process of making multi color prints from a single linoleum block by alternately printing a color and then re-carving the block, building up the image one layer at a time. As a result of this workshop, students will create and edition a three-color linoleum block print. No previous printmaking experience needed. The cost of this workshop is $150, all materials included except for paper. BFK and Lenox paper will be available during the workshop for $3 per 22" x 30" sheet. Enrollment will be limited to 8 people. This workshop will be taught by Chicago artist Pete Rangel. Call 312-369-6864 to register, a $25 deposit is required.

Winter Classes Starting
Week of January 12, 2009

The next round of 10-week printmaking classes will be starting the week of January 12, 2009. Classes include photo polymer printmaking, aluminum plate lithography, and etching. For more info click here.

Free High School Class This Class Is Full
Saturdays, 11:00am - 2:00pm
January 17 - March 21, 2009

Students will explore the technical versatility and expressive qualities of hand-printed lithographs. This is a great class for young artists who enjoy drawing and graphic design. Emphasis will be on color registration and creating professional-level editions of prints. Students will create multi-color prints derived from photographic images and hand drawing on pronto plates. Once students gain more understanding of this method we will move onto more ambitious projects using ball grain plates. This class is open to high school students of all skill levels and will be taught by Chicago artist Elke Claus. Attendance at all class sessions is required.

Broad Shoulders and Brotherly Love
January 18 - March 29, 2009
at the Hyde Park Art Center

This group exhibition features an outstanding variety of work selected form Anchor Graphics' residency program and Philagrafika's invitational portfolio collection demonstrating experimental trends in printmaking today. Reception on February 8, 3-5pm. For more info click here.

World War II Propaganda: A Contemporary Perspective
February 4, 2009
6:30 - 7:30pm at Hokin Lecture Hall

Victor Margolin, Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will discuss propaganda from World War II and what it means to todays viewer. The lecture will address the propaganda used by Allied and Axis powers. It will include a range of materials from posters to comics and cartoons. Differences among the propaganda strategies of various countries will be discussed and reference will be made to the relation between the propaganda and the political values it represented. This lecture is part of of our Scraping the Surface lecture series. Lecture will take place at Columbia College Chicago's Hokin Lecture Hall, 623 S. Wabash, room 109. This lecture is free and open to the public.

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.

Now on View

Printstitute Prints Part 2
October 13 - November 30, 2008

The second of a two part exhibit featuring a group portfolio of prints produced at the Printstitute, the printshop at Harold Washington College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago. On view in the Display Case. For more info click here.

Aga Pierwola
Untitled
lithograph
13 1/4" x 9 1/2"
2007