Featuring freshly printed broadsides by printers from the Chicago Printers Guild in collaboration with local poets and writers! Lots of other cool stuff, read below for more info … Hope to see you there!





The sixth annual Printers’ Ball, which this year takes as its theme “Print Loves Digital,” is an annual celebration of literary culture founded by Poetry magazine and other independent Chicago literary organizations. The Printers’ Ball is produced with the Center for Book & Paper Arts and the Student Affairs Offices of Columbia College Chicago.

Sixth Annual Printers’ Ball

The Ludington Building
Columbia College Chicago
1104 South Wabash Avenue
(One block west of Michigan Avenue)

Friday, July 30th from 6 PM to 11 PM

Admission is Free and open to All ages

In addition to featuring thousands of magazines, books, broadsides, and other takeaways available free of charge, the Printers’ Ball will showcase live readings, music, and performances and host letterpress, offset, silk-screening, rubber-stamping, and paper-making demonstrations. Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine, will offer a welcome at the beginning of this year’s festivities.

More info available at PRINTERSBALL.ORG

I sure hope these are right! Trying to get all those articles and declaratives and whatever else is super hard. Please correct me if these sound ridiculously wrong.

From the top:
1. a cup of hot coffee
2. a cup of warm tea
3. a glass of cold milk
4. a glass of cold water

Thanks to everyone for coming out to the Spudnik Press’ 3-year Fundraiser this Saturday! It was so much fun bidding on all the art at the silent auction, listening to the wonderful jazz music and hanging out with friends! There are TONS of events coming up so stay tuned for more updates!
<3 sanya
ps. photos coming soon!

We have been getting stuff together for our move, so I am a bit behind on posting. These next two weeks will be a little weird as things are more and more up in the air around here.

I made this drawing of a train after attending a meeting about ‘Art on Track’ last night.





Spudnik Press was invited to participate in ‘Art on Track’ this year – basically, an event that involves various Chicago artists ‘transforming’ an eight-car CTA train for one evening. This year’s event will occur on Saturday, August 7th, from 5 pm to 10 pm. A group of members (myself included) from Spudnik Press will be showcasing a collaborative print-based exhibition in one of the cars – it should be awesome! We are sharing the car with some other artists, so there will be non-print things as well.

We will also be featuring our mini-print machines, where you can purchase a tiny print for 25 cents or a slightly less tiny print for a dollar. All the prints will be train & transport-themed! Here are some ink drawings that I plan on making into tiny colorful prints… going along with the German lessons hehe.

weiner dogs!  ha ha haaaa….






a piece/slice of cake

regen (’rain’) + schirm (’protect’) = umbrella



kugel (’ball’) + schreiber (’writer’) = ball-point pen





A few random items around the house. We are moving and boxes are on my mind!

Just finished uploading my freshly redesigned website! Yaaay, check it out! –>  sanyaglisic.com

You might need to refresh some pages if your browser has previously stored cache, otherwise it looks all wonky. Ok, off to eat some food, then I’ll be back to post some more Deutsch lessons ;)

Ah! Every once in a while, a good idea just hits me and I have to share! Okay, this is not the greatest mind-blowing idea ever… BUT I’m pretty excited about it. So – I’ve been trying to teach myself the German language on and off for a while (”trying” being a very loose term here, more like “wishing.”) Of course I’ve managed to grasp very little of anything. So it dawned on me today that I should draw some items every day and write their names in German. This will help me learn and it’s a really fun exercise. Of course, a lot of German words are practically the same, like ‘lamp’… I learned that after drawing it. I will get better at this!

So if you want to learn some German with me (hee hee), check back and I’ll be posting the drawings as often as I can. Here’s some night-related items to start.

Tschüss!

It’s almost 3, finally getting around to posting the drawing from earlier today. It is from an old photograph I found, possibly of a nut or candy salesman.