Chicago Printmakers Collaborative

Come print with us! We’re located in the Lincoln Square neighborhood at 4912 N Western Ave.

Start or end your summer day with a printmaking class, learning new things, exploring your creativity, and meeting neighbors!

‼️MEMBER SPOTLIGHT‼️

Ani Johnson is an emerging printmedia artist, specializing in etching and monotype. Originally from Boston, they now live and work in Chicago after earning a BFA in Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2025. Ani sees much of their work as an ode to printmedia through which they navigate their lived experience and relationship with the spaces in which they exist. In each piece, Ani attempts to embrace the qualities of printmaking that cannot be controlled, these qualities require the anticipation of uncertainty, which they believe encourages the use of intuition. This allows their observational work to access a truer experience of a space. Each piece is a practice of relinquishing control and leaving it up to chance, which, in turn, makes theirs – a practice of acceptance.

Read Ani’s interview on our website: https://chicagoprintmakers.com/ani-johnson/

Visit us during our open gallery hours Weds/Fri 12-5pm or Sun 11am-3pm to see our current show “Monoprint: one of a kind” 🐞

These gorgeous prints use all different types of monoprint & monotype techniques. Visit us to see them in person!

Watercolor Screenprinting was a blast! In this one day workshop, students got inky and learned how to make unique screen prints! 🎨🖌️

Spring cleaning meets nostalgia and adoration for books before the age of the internet… our bookshelf holds such gems!

Photos galore from Deb’s starting days getting the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative started in its first location. From a walkup studio in Ukrainian village, to a shop underneath the Western Brown line, then now to our permanent location at 4912 N Western Ave, some of the CPC fixtures have been with us the whole time! Photos showed Deb and team building their first graining sink, working alongside some cabinets you can find still in our studio now, and the iconic Mayor Daley “Sorry for the Inconvenience” sign.