Producing Culture with Printmaking

This program will be held in-person at the Newberry and livestreamed on Zoom. The online version of this event will be live captioned. Please register below.

How can printing preserve historical tools and narratives?

Artists Amira Hegazy and Vida Sačić will explore how printing can question singular cultural narratives and how their own practices address political and social issues between multiple cultures.

This event is part of programming connected with our free exhibition, Making an Impression: Immigrant Printing in Chicago, running December 12, 2024-March 29, 2025. The exhibition and this program are part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities.

Speakers

Amira Hegazy, a native of Milford, Michigan, grew up in American and Egyptian cultures; experiences navigating between identities, places, and cultures informs much of her work and research methodology. She makes images, objects, books, and texts, and teaches design history and theory at the University of Illinois Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. Her research project at the Design Museum of Chicago, Letters Beyond Form, looks at typography in Chicago's diverse neighborhoods to investigate design legacies and their contemporary echoes. She has exhibited her work throughout the US and internationally.

Vida Sačić, Professor in the Art + Design department at Northeastern Illinois University, is an artist and typographer, who works on long-term projects at Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Wisconsin and Tiporenesansa in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has exhibited in dozens of solo and group exhibitions across the United States and Europe, including at DeVos Art Museum in Michigan and The Center for Book Arts in New York City. She has been Artist-in-Residence at the Penland School of Craft in North Carolina and the Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago.

Cost and Registration

This program is free and open to all. Advance registration required.

Registration opens January 1.

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Past Public Programs

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