A primer on the possibilities of print-based artworks, in this session "Artists & Prints: From Studio to Press to Market," Angee Lennard and Jessica Cochran of Process/Process will introduce participants to common models and resources for the production and dissemination of original limited edition prints by working artists. They will use historical and contemporary examples, including from works from their own output as publishers. Then, they will discuss the role that prints can play in the broader framework of an artists’ practice, both in the context of an artist’s market, but also the more critical contexts of one’s oeuvre. Here they will cite artists working locally and beyond. Finally, there will be plenty of opportunities for questions and answers. This workshop is designed for all artists, regardless of their experience with printmaking or current access to a printshop.

This hybrid workshop is led by Angee Lennard and Jessica Cochran, founders of Process/Process.

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CAC's Professional Development series works to uncover a critical to professional artists outside of making art.

Rooted in our core values of knowledge-sharing and building community, this 90-minute seminar will include 30 minutes of conversation with participants. Bring your experience and your questions to the group!

Participants may attend in person or online via Zoom. Registration is required.

$10 for the general public
$5 for CAC alumni
FREE for current residents (Registration still required via link)

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Process/Process invites artists to make new artworks that adapt the material, aesthetic, and critical possibilities of printmaking. By moving the ideas and processes that drive an artist's practice into the realm of the printed edition, Process/Process enables artists to develop exploratory new works. All projects are close collaborations between the artist, Angee Lennard, printer, and Jessica Cochran, partner.

Upon producing and publishing new editions with artists, Process/Process places them into private and public collections. Works are available for sale on our website, and viewings can be arranged by appointment.

Building on an array of expertise spanning print production and the art market, Process/Process also offers boutique contract printing and art advisory services.

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For twenty years, Jessica Cochran has worked as a curator, administrator, consultant, and educator in the realm of contemporary art. She offers to each collaboration her passion for working generativity, always considering how an artist's work might move meaningfully into print.

After graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cochran began her career at Art Chicago and NEXT, where she helped launch the inaugural CONVERGE Curator's Forum. From 2010-2014 she was curator at the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago, where she organized Social Paper: Hand Papermaking in the Context of Socially Engaged Art among other exhibitions that sought to infuse the program with artists working at the vanguard of contemporary art. In 2020 she founded Haynes Court, a project space which brought to Chicago artists working internationally, and included solo exhibitions by Mary Simpson, Claudia Hart, and Zarouhie Abdalian. Under the auspices of her boutique advisory, Art & Field, Cochran helped corporate and private clients build and manage collections, from acquisitions to new commissions, disposition, and estate planning. Her curatorial work, independent and institutional, has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Contemporary Arts Council, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Craft Research Fund, and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. In 2023, Newcity named her to the "Art 50."

Since 2013, Cochran has taught in the Department of Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in art market studies, curatorial and professional practices, and nonprofit finance. Her writing has appeared most recently in the Art Market Dictionary and the Journal of Artists' Books, and with the Hyde Park Art Center she published a monograph on the work of Deborah Boardman in 2019.

Cochran is concurrently Deputy Director at the Renaissance Society. As part of the leadership team and in collaboration with a small and dedicated staff, her portfolio includes institutional finance, operations, and strategy.

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Angee Lennard is a printmaker, educator, and arts leader with a penchant for collaboration. Her captivation with prints began in 2001 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and it deepened through a transformative internship with Anchor Graphics. There, founder and master printer David Jones introduced her to the realm of collaborative print publishing.

Inspired by printmaking's capacity to foster community, Lennard founded Spudnik Press Cooperative in 2007. This nonprofit community-based printmaking studio began as an experimental volunteer-run studio and grew into a dynamic organization providing pathways for artists to develop and sustain diverse creative practices. With an entrepreneurial spirit, she envisioned and built a high-caliber open access print studio, bolstered with artist residencies, community education, exhibitions, and ever-evolving collaborative projects and public programs. Through this work, she helped shape the contemporary landscape of printmaking in Chicago.

In 2013, she introduced a publishing program to Spudnik Press Cooperative that invited a wide range of nationally-recognized artists, including Edie Fake, Amanda Williams, Faheem Majeed, Edra Soto, and many others, to explore printmaking. This program cultivated her obsession with transforming material, process and craftsmanship into the development of significant contemporary artwork. Such print-based works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Smart Museum of Art, Monique Meloche Gallery, Editions VFO, and more.

Her deep involvement in the arts, spanning organizational leadership, operations, studio management, and print production has led her to a variety of local, regional, and national speaking engagements and consultancy roles with colleges, universities, non-profits, and museums. She has been a lecturer at School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Arts Administration and Policy and the Printmedia departments. She has served as a Marwen Foundation Teaching Fellow, a grant review panelist for the Illinois Arts Council, and Treasurer for the Chicago Printers Guild (CPG).

Lennard is concurrently Co-Director of High Concept Labs, a residency-based organization that promotes experimentation and visibility for the creative process across disciplines through long-format artist residencies.